Last week I started sharing from a Flint, Michigan cookbook from 1951. The cookbook was from the Oak Park Methodist Church and is called Favorite Recipes. This week you get cakes – 37 pages of cakes! Some recipe titles: Prune Cake Salad Dressing Cake with Cocoa Good Sour Milk Cake Gum Drop Cake (kind of…
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Dessertarata
Who doesn’t love dessert? Here’s an entire cookbook filled with desserts from around the world. The title “Dessertarata” is a play on the famous Desiderata prose poem by Max Ehrman. The poem is at the front of the book. This cookbook is from the New Apostolic Church Youth, St. Louis District 1982. It is softcover,…
Kitchen Kompanion from Lansing Christian Reformed Church 1963
The Kitchen Kompanion cookbook from the Lansing Christian Reformed Church is falling apart. Literally, the previous owner taped the cover back onto the cookbook. They also wrote favorite recipes on the cover: p. 55 Zucchini Cass. p. 69 S. Potatoes p. 38 Fudge Pbutter This spiral bound, locally produced cookbook is a delight. Actually, I…
Carrot Cake with Pineapple and Coconut
One of my favorite things about running this blog is when people request recipes from the My Great Recipes collection. Sebrina wrote: Please please send me the carrot cake receipe with the pineapple & coconut. My card stuck to another cards and I pullrd the words off. Let me know if I need to purchase…
Strawberry Refrigerator Cake
Nothing like a yummy cake, right? Here’s a recipe for a strawberry cake from the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company in the mid-1950s. Just make sure you’ve got an Angel Food Cake in the house first.