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 →