I have my go-to pumpkin pie recipe that never fails me, but I am always willing to try new recipes out, or in this case...a vintage "new" recipe. This one dates back to 1927, and was made by PET milk (which is still made nearly a 100 years later). Being 1927, the Great Depression was… Continue reading Vintage Recipes: Pumpkin Pie
Tag: Baking
Vintage Baking: Apple-Raisin Coffee Cake
From a publication in 1955, brought by Gold Medal flour comes this quick coffee cake, that pulls together in a snap. It's a lovely texture. Soft and the raisins add to it. Now then, the recipe calls for apples then doesn't actually call for the, in the ingredients. Oops. Using apples we had grown this… Continue reading Vintage Baking: Apple-Raisin Coffee Cake
Zojirushi Bread Machine: Raisin Bread
When I am shopping and I see raisin bread on the shelf, I have this moment of wish fullness every time. I want a loaf of raisin bread that tastes amazing. That isn't dry. Or a dessert in disguise. But the bread never tastes how I wish it did. It's often so very dry and… Continue reading Zojirushi Bread Machine: Raisin Bread
Vintage Baking: Lemon Cake Pudding
I came across this vintage recipe from 1955, from when people still made desserts from scratch, with no processed items to "speed" it up. No pudding mixes here. It's a simple dessert, a chemistry experiment if you will. Lemon Cake Pudding Ingredients: ¼ cup all-purpose flour 1 cup granulated sugar ¼ tsp fine sea salt… Continue reading Vintage Baking: Lemon Cake Pudding
Hidden Jam Muffins
I was looking at old recipes and came across this one, dated from 1961. PET was a brand of milk back then, and is still in business, but now only makes canned evaporated milk. Back then dry milk was much more of a thing in recipes. Fresh milk wasn't ultra pasteurized then, and had a… Continue reading Hidden Jam Muffins