100+ classic cake recipes: The ultimate vintage collection
If you’re looking for a vintage-style dessert for a special occasion, check out our collection of more than 100 classic cake recipes to suit all tastes!
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A brief history of avocados (or ‘alligator pears’) & 14 vintage avocado recipes
What’s the history of avocados – and where did these funny-looking things come from? Get the amazing avocado’s story here, and find out about their earlier name.
12 vintage elderflower and elderberry recipes
Here, get old-fashioned elderberry recipes for wine, elderberry jam & jelly, cobbler, pie and more delicious vintage-style treats!
How to make real old-fashioned homemade jam & jelly
Now is the season when fruit is abundant, cheap and in the best condition for making jams, preserves and jellies. Preserves mean fruit that is cooked with sugar, equal weight, and left whole or nearly so.
20 traditional homemade mincemeat recipes, including old-fashioned mince pies
Here are 20 classic mincemeat recipes (used to make the holiday favorite, mince pie) – as remembered through the decades by chefs, cookbook authors, in newspapers and family cookbooks.
20 real old-fashioned Southern fruitcake recipes: Traditional Plantation-style desserts from the old South
If you have been looking for the perfect authentic old-fashioned fruitcake, this is for you! Get 20 traditional Southern fruitcake recipes – from Plantation Fruit Cake and beyond – right here.
Hot chocolate: 15 classic cocoa recipes
Raise your glass for some warm and wonderful classic hot chocolate recipes from across the years! Try cocoa mixtures with a variety of flavors and even some international flair.
12 real old-fashioned sweet potato pie recipes
All of these sweet potato pie recipes come from the early part of the 20th century — from 1915 until 1922 — and should give you some ideas for ways to spice up a sweet potato pie of your own!
How to make real classic strawberry shortcake
These two classic strawberry shortcake recipes come from the early 20th century, when fresh strawberries were often saved for special desserts like these.
5 vintage fritter recipes: Apple, banana, pineapple, corn & egg
5 vintage fritter recipes Fritter batter: Classic recipe 2 eggs 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons melted butter 1/2 cup cold water 1 teaspoon sugar
10 ways to make old-fashioned waffles (1939)
Here are 10 great recipes old-fashioned waffles – including chocolate waffles, sour cream waffles, Southern waffles, coffee waffles, gingerbread waffles and more delicious variations.
15 delicious old-fashioned lemon dessert recipes
Here’s a look back through time at some great old-fashioned ways to use lemons in desserts!
30 fun & fruity non-alcoholic drink recipes (1919)
Booze-free beverages were all the rage after prohibition kicked in, so from a huge collection of suggestions published in 1919, we found these 30 fruity non-alcoholic drink recipes that would still work well today.
Three from-scratch traditional pound cake recipes (1920)
The traditional pound cake recipe got its name from the measurements of some ingredients used in the recipe — a pound of butter, a pound of sugar and a pound of flour. More than a century ago, the recipe changed to something a little lighter, but no less delicious!
41 fantastic & classic sweet potato recipes
Whether you’re looking for basic sweet potato recipes or need some ideas for Thanksgiving side dishes, these 41 classic sweet potato recipes cover the gamut, from main dishes to desserts!
How to make mashed potato cake: Old-fashioned caramel, chocolate & spice cake recipes
For decades, cakes using plain mashed potatoes as a main ingredient were very popular — probably in part because a mashed potato cake stayed moist longer than traditional all-flour cakes.
Marshmallow fudge cake & Chocolate marshmallow cake recipes
Campfire marshmallow fudge cake (1925) 2 tablespoons butter 2 cups sugar 4 squares bitter chocolate, melted 2 eggs 2 cups cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2
A collection of classic Christmas candy & chocolate recipes from the early 1900s
What would Christmas be to the children — or even the grownups — without some of the special candies and good things appropriate to the holiday season?
