Ever Ready Frosting and Chocolate Sauce
A chocolate frosting made with Nestlé’s Ever Ready cocoa mix that can easily be thinned into chocolate sauce.
The Collection
At Aunt Bertha’s Recipe Box, you’ll find handwritten recipes, typed pages, clippings and back-of-the-box finds saved through the years. Shared as originally written, they reflect the ingredients and methods of their time. Enjoy them with a smile and a sense of nostalgia.
Vera’s Date Cake
A simple date and nut cake made with shortening and vanilla, with directions for baking as a cake or cupcakes.
Ella’s Drop Sugar Cookies
Tender drop sugar cookies flattened with a sugar-dipped glass and baked until done.
Elise’s Molasses Cookies
Molasses cookies made with coffee and spices, shaped into balls and pressed with sugar before baking.
Sweet Cucumber Pickles
Sliced cucumber pickles preserved with cider vinegar, sugar, mustard seed, mixed spices and onion.
Cressa’s Cherry Winks
Cornflake-coated cookies filled with pecans, dates and maraschino cherries from a handwritten 1970 recipe.
Walnuts Treats
An old-fashioned layered bar with a brown sugar crust and a chewy walnut-coconut topping.
Cranberry Fruit Nut Bread
A classic cranberry quick bread with chopped nuts and bright orange flavor, baked until golden brown.
Cherry Crunch
An easy cherry dessert topped with a buttery cake mix crumble and baked until golden brown.
Aunt Olga’s Fruit Cake
A substantial fruitcake packed with raisins, dates, figs, citron and nuts, with an intriguing old-fashioned addition of a “small glass of jelly.”
Sot Suppe (Norwegian Fruit Soup)
A cold Norwegian fruit soup filled with apricots, raisins, prunes, and tapioca, preserved here as the closest version I’ve found to the Sot Suppe my grandfather made.
Radiant Mix Old Fashioned Dark Cake (5 lb)
A rich, dark old-fashioned fruitcake packed with raisins, dates, nuts, and candied fruit, with a family tradition of keeping it moist with currant wine.
Casserole of Ham
A classic ham and pea casserole with cheese, bread crumbs, pimentos, and a mushroom soup topping.
Butter Milk Soup & Lemon Soup
Two sweet soup recipes on one old recipe sheet: Butter Milk Soup with oatmeal and raisins, and Lemon Soup with tapioca, raisins, and fresh lemon.
Marinated Broiled Halibut Steaks
Broiled halibut steaks marinated in a distinctive sauce made with instant coffee, lemon, butter, and seasonings.
Apple Sauce Cookies
Spiced Apple Sauce Cookies made with applesauce, raisins, and chopped nuts, yielding about six dozen cookies.
Apple Butter
A simple Apple Butter recipe flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice.
Alice’s Apple Nut Bread
An easy Apple Nut Bread made with freshly grated apple and chopped nuts.
Double Chocolate Nuggets
Duncan Hines Double Chocolate Nuggets are easy cake-mix cookies packed with semisweet chocolate pieces and an optional pecan on top.
Glazed Apple Pie
Crisco’s Glazed Apple Pie combines a cinnamon-spiced apple filling with a double crust and a sweet orange glaze.
Devil’s Food Pound Cake
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 Single Crust
Crisco’s basic four-ingredient pastry makes one 9-inch pie crust, with directions for baking it with or without a filling.
Best Cherry Pie
Crisco’s Best Cherry Pie fills a double crust with red sour cherries, cherry juice, butter, and a hint of almond.
Basic Buttercream Frosting
C&H Sugar’s basic buttercream frosting is simple, versatile, and easily flavored with milk, fruit juice, coffee, or another liquid.