Pineapple Upside Down Cake (Mable Haas)

Good ol Mable Haas had quite a few treats in her cookbook. I have seen lots of vintage recipes for pineapple upside down cake. It must have been “the thing” for quite some time. It doesn’t sound good to me, but I know lots of people like it. The way this recipe reads is probably … Continue reading

Deanno’s Cranberry Salad

Here is a recipe that has been used. The paper is spotted with spills and splashes, and several swipes from a dish rag used to wipe up whatever it was that spilled. I think I might have had something like this at some point, but the jello salad thing seems to have passed out of … Continue reading

Hot Fruit

Okay, this could be one of those desserts that is insanely good or really odd and awful. The presence of quantro has it leaning toward the good side. I also think it might be good to use fresh pineapple when possible, and it might also be good with fresh peaches.

1-2-3 Pastry

No tedious sifting, friends, just dip a dry (did you hear that? DRY!) nested measuring cup into the bag of flour. What’s that? You need several cups of flour and would like to use something other than a dry nested measuring cup? I don’t know…Betty, what say you? Betty? Are you there? First question, who … Continue reading

Delightful Apple Cake

The Apple Cake recipe sounded so good (and so easy) that I decided I’d give it a try! We cut and peeled 2 large Fuji apples, then I chopped them fine in the mini Cuisinart, yielding 4 cups. The recipe is ridiculously easy once you get through the tedious process of chopping the apples. If … Continue reading