Boiled Icing
This is a little more my speed. Maybe I’m a product of my youth, but eating raw eggs just doesn’t do it for me, so the various recipes for icing with raw eggs just don’t sound palatable to me. My...
View ArticleDevils Food Cake
I’m going to have to create a category just for the different Devil’s Food Cake recipes. Would this help anyone? I think I have five now and since it is popular, that number will likely grow. Here...
View ArticleLemon Fluff Pie
This is a lemon meringue pie recipe that might also have some loft in the lemon custard part because beaten egg white is added to the custard. You will need a baked pie shell for this. Since I have...
View ArticleCookbooks
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View ArticleVanilla Drop Cookies
As we are preparing for Thanksgiving here in America, often we bake cookies, cakes and pies. The traditional feast really kicks off the holiday baking and making in my house. On the weekend after...
View ArticleBloody Mary’s
Many years ago, my mother would mix up a batch of Bloody Mary’s to take to Thanksgiving or Super Bowl with friends and family. She could make them the night before so they would be well mixed on the...
View ArticleLittle Swiss Quiches
This is the type of recipe I usually avoid because it takes three note cards to write out the instructions. Even drifting onto the back for a sentence or two can scare me off, haha. If there’s too...
View ArticleItalian Cheesecake
Another recipe that takes more than one card but I think this one is due to the cook’s handwriting more than it being a laborious process. I have never made a cheesecake because I have heard they are...
View ArticleFruit cakes!
Every year on the weekend after Thanksgiving I start to think about my holiday baking, and sometimes I even start it. This year was no exception and the holiday baking for me starts with fruit cake. Of...
View ArticleHot Chocolate Mix (Cathy Spurlock)
The cold is finally here in California and this looks like a nice hot chocolate mix. You could make this up and put it in little jars topped with a cute cloth as a Christmas gift or hostess gift for a...
View ArticleMarbled Cheesecake
This cheesecake recipe sort of defeats the purpose of making cheesecake, in that it is made with low fat or light ingredients! However, if you love cheesecake but can’t eat or don’t want to eat the...
View ArticleTexas Sheet Cake
I’m interested in making this because it sounds really delicious. The cake is baked in a large rectangle pan and the icing/topping is put on while the cake is hot, so it must melt into the cake....
View ArticleButter icing
I love, love, love buttercream icing. Some are better than others so I try all kinds. This one looks like a nice, simple chocolate buttercream that would be a good workhorse icing. Butter Icing 3/4...
View ArticleBlackberry Wine Cake
I realize this is entitled Blackberry Wine Cake but every time I look at the handwriting, I see “Whine” haha. However that may be due to me having a five-year-old. :-) I can’t say that I have tried...
View ArticleMary’s Nut Rolls
A slip of paper about the size of a bookmarker serves as the medium for this recipe for nut rolls. I am guessing that once you make the dough, you roll it in some way, maybe like a cinnamon roll?...
View ArticleSturbridge Village Teacakes
Sturbridge Village, or Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) is a place that makes me wish I lived in the East. The Village is a living history site, stopped in the years between 1790-1840. They have...
View ArticleNut rolls, revisited
Just sorting through recipe cards, I came across another card for Nut Rolls. The various cards all appear to be in the same handwriting, so perhaps the lady liked them, lost the recipe/wrote it out...
View ArticleNeiman Marcus Cake
There was a time when all my friends were trading around recipes for Neiman Marcus Cake, Mrs Field’s Cookies, Nordstrom’s cake, etc. Of course these all come with the basic story that someone went...
View ArticleWhat do you think?
I love the new look of the site! To celebrate, I’ll be bringing you a really exciting discovery – a handwritten girl’s trade school cookbook from the 1920s or 30s. It’s in terrible condition but I just...
View ArticleMenus
As teased recently, I am working on scanning a handwritten book from a girl’s trade school class, dated May 1921. The girl’s name was Irene B. and she had beautiful penmanship. We don’t put much...
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