Crab Cakes

Here is a recipe for crab cakes that is lacking any instruction. To clarify, the crab meat should be cooked. You might want to use an Italian style salad dressing because of the spices usually in that type of dressing.  No other recipe I have looked at called for baking powder, so I am not … Continue reading

Sour Milk layer Cake (Mrs Brooke Ritter)

At the end of the little booklet several of the pages were tucked in because they must have previously fallen out or been accidentally torn out. This is one that came from the back, but might have been closer to the front. Not sure. If you try this recipe, common sense tells us to combine … Continue reading

Chocolate Cake and Creamy Chocolate Frosting

This will make you a chocolate-y cake with some creamy and smooth icing. A note on the icing. XXXX sugar is now known as confectioners sugar or icing sugar. It is sugar crushed superfine with about 3% cornstarch to prevent clumping. Secondly, this icing isn’t cooked, so beware of the fact that you are using … Continue reading

Cream Pie

Unfortunately this recipe doesn’t have a name to identify what kind of pie this is, but the pudding filling makes it a cream pie of some kind with a meringue topping.  My best guess on the crust is that it calls for graham crackers. I will put some common sense directions in italics. Cream Pie … Continue reading

Quince Honey

At first I thought this was for something called Quince Haney, but upon research I found a great newspaper clipping for Quince Honey that is almost identical to this one. I have never tried a quince myself, so I could not tell you if this is sweet or what. The quince is supposed to be … Continue reading