Category Back Of The Box

Recipes and cooking tips collected from product packages, box inserts, labels, and other bits of food packaging saved in Aunt Bertha’s Recipe Box.

How To Unmold Gelatine

A Knox Gelatine insert explaining the proper way to unmold molded gelatine, along with a bit of company history.

Classic baked pinto beans with molasses, brown sugar, mustard and bacon or salt pork, carefully saved from the original package.

Duncan Hines Double Chocolate Nuggets are easy cake-mix cookies packed with semisweet chocolate pieces and an optional pecan on top.

Crisco’s Glazed Apple Pie combines a cinnamon-spiced apple filling with a double crust and a sweet orange glaze.

A rich Devil’s Food Pound Cake made with Duncan Hines cake mix, chocolate pudding, and Crisco Oil, finished with a simple chocolate glaze.

Crisco’s basic four-ingredient pastry makes one 9-inch pie crust, with directions for baking it with or without a filling.

Crisco’s Best Cherry Pie fills a double crust with red sour cherries, cherry juice, butter, and a hint of almond.

C&H Sugar’s basic buttercream frosting is simple, versatile, and easily flavored with milk, fruit juice, coffee, or another liquid.

A C&H Sugar applesauce cake made with brown sugar, raisins, walnuts, and warm spices.

A classic lemon meringue pie with a tart lemon filling, fluffy golden meringue, and a baked pastry crust.

A colorful Jell-O and Dream Whip dessert that can be molded, served in a pie shell, or frozen, with an easy fruit variation.

Pumpkin pie filling baked in custard cups and served warm or chilled.

A classic Libby’s pumpkin pie made with solid pack pumpkin, warm spices, and evaporated milk or light cream.

A colorful 1960s M&M’s cookie recipe made with shortening and plenty of M&M’s, with extra candies pressed on top before baking.

Easy Philadelphia Cream Cheese cheesecake bars with a graham cracker crust and a rich, creamy filling in just three simple steps

Easy chocolate brownies dressed up with a creamy Philadelphia Cream Cheese swirl and chocolate chips.

A Philadelphia Cream Cheese recipe for an easy no-bake cheesecake with a graham cracker crust.

Chocolate cake made with Stokely fruit cocktail and topped with chocolate pieces and nuts.

Dainty vanilla cookies with a touch of nutmeg, rolled in granulated sugar and baked until lightly browned.

A colorful Royal lime gelatin dessert made with cream cheese, pineapple, and mandarin oranges, then chilled in a loaf mold.

Chilled seafood gelatin mold made with tuna, shrimp, and vegetables in a creamy base.