I first had a dump cake at a work potluck. I had never heard of it before and looking back I find that wierd. This recipe is definitely something that if my mother had known about it would have made for her three children. It was a low effort but high reward recipe and those … Continue reading The History of Dump Cake
Unlike some of the recipes I write histories about, this is a dessert that my mother did make quite a bit in mine and my siblings early childhood. That really is not surprising as my mother grew up in the sixties and seventies so this would have been a very familiar and easy recipe to … Continue reading The History of Pineapple Upside Down Cake
This is the continuing saga of me trying to figure out the popularity of gelatin recipes from the 1920s to the 1970s. Each month, I randomly pick a recipe from a jar filled with the good, the bad and the savory gelatin recipes to see which ones were worth it and which ones should stay … Continue reading The Gelatin Diaries: Orange-Pineapple Bavarian Cream
