Delicious Soft Raisin Cookies
Soft raisin cookies made with brown sugar, warm spices, nuts, and raisins simmered until tender. A simple handwritten recipe with a homey feel.
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Apple Sauce Cake
A handwritten recipe for Apple Sauce Cake made with applesauce, warm spices and chopped fruit, with no baking directions written down — it was a given the cook would know the rest.
Apple Sauce Cookies
A typed recipe for spiced Apple Sauce Cookies made with applesauce, raisins, and chopped nuts, yielding about six dozen cookies.
Glazed Apple Pie
Crisco’s Glazed Apple Pie combines a cinnamon-spiced apple filling with a double crust and a sweet orange glaze.
Norwegian Pie
Apple pie made with a simple batter that creates its own crust.
Molasses Cookies
A typed recipe for soft and spiced molasses cookies made with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves.
Pumpkin Pie
A typed recipe for Pumpkin Pie—warm spices, brown sugar, creamy pumpkin filling, and one very good reason to save room for dessert.
Cressa’s Spice Cookies
A handwritten 1970 recipe for Cressa’s Spice Cookies—with molasses, warm spices, Cressa’s own shortcut, and one rule: “Do not over bake.”
Cinnamon Supper Cake
A handwritten recipe for Cinnamon Supper Cake—warm cake, melted butter, and a snowy cinnamon-sugar topping make a pretty convincing case for dessert tonight.