Eagle Brand Recipe Fragment
A mysterious handwritten Eagle Brand recipe fragment with crackers, chocolate chips and nuts—and only part of the original directions still intact.
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Apple Butter Made Vermont Way
An old newspaper clipping shares a Vermont-style apple butter recipe made with fresh apples, cider, dark brown sugar, and warm spices. Slowly cooked until thick and rich, it's a traditional preserve made for filling jars.
Lincoln’s Birthday Cake
A 1969 newspaper recipe for a gingerbread cake roll filled with pineapple whipped cream and made in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
Krumkager (Krumkaker)
A handwritten recipe for traditional Krumkager flavored with cardamom and baked in a stovetop iron, complete with a practical note about the butter.
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.
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.
Butter Milk Soup & Lemon Soup
A typewritten page preserves two separate sweet soup recipes. Buttermilk Soup combines oatmeal, raisins, and lemon peel in a creamy, tangy base, while Lemon Soup features tapioca, raisins, and fresh lemon. Both are enriched with egg yolks and sugar, creating comforting dishes that could be enjoyed as light meals or desserts.
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.
C&H Applesauce Cake
A C&H Sugar applesauce cake made with brown sugar, raisins, walnuts, and warm spices.
Lemon Meringue Pie
A classic lemon meringue pie with a tart lemon filling, fluffy golden meringue, and a baked pastry crust.
Norwegian Pie
Apple pie made with a simple batter that creates its own crust.
Jell-O Pastel Dessert
A colorful Jell-O and Dream Whip dessert that can be molded, served in a pie shell, or frozen, with an easy fruit variation.
Libby’s Pumpkin Cups
All the creamy, spiced goodness of pumpkin pie without the crust. These individual Libby's pumpkin custards can be enjoyed warm or chilled, with your favorite garnish.
Libby’s Pumpkin Pie
A classic Libby’s pumpkin pie made with solid pack pumpkin, warm spices, and evaporated milk or light cream.
M&M’s Easy Party Cookies
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.
Philly 3-Step Cheesecake Bars
Easy Philadelphia Cream Cheese cheesecake bars with a graham cracker crust and a rich, creamy filling in just three simple steps
Philly Marble Brownies
Easy chocolate brownies dressed up with a creamy Philadelphia Cream Cheese swirl and chocolate chips.
Philly No-Bake Cheesecake
A Philadelphia Cream Cheese recipe for an easy no-bake cheesecake with a graham cracker crust.
Stokely Choco-Moist Cake
Chocolate cake made with Stokely fruit cocktail and topped with chocolate pieces and nuts.
Vanilla Crunchies
Dainty vanilla cookies with a touch of nutmeg, rolled in granulated sugar and baked until lightly browned.