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Heinz Carnival Cream (aka Ketchup Ice Cream) – A Mid-Century Recipe Test

Heinz Carnival Cream (aka Ketchup Ice Cream) – A Mid-Century Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Jan 15, 2014 | Desserts

Ever wondered what to do when you only have a cup of cream, a blob of ketchup in the bottle and three eggs? Personally, I would just make scrambled eggs and have a cup of coffee, but it turns out that with those ingredients you can also make a quick dessert! This is...

Mott’s Baba – Mid-Century Recipe Guest Test Sunday

by Erica | Jan 12, 2014 | Cake & Cupcakes, Guest Bloggers

Buzz and I both like babka, which is a traditional Jewish dessert from eastern Europe with cinnamon or chocolate braided throughout a sweet bread-cake. There’s another related dessert called baba, which is essentially the same cake but with fruit or chocolate...

Dessert Pancakes – Mid-Century Recipe Guest Test Sunday

by Erica | Dec 29, 2013 | Desserts, Guest Bloggers

Sometimes you get a recipe that you know will be doomed to failure. And then there are recipes like Dessert Pancakes, which shouldn’t be bad… but then you try making it… Dessert Pancakes Author: Libby’s Ingredients 8 small thin pancakes 2...
No-Bake Festive Fruit Cake, 1953 – The Five Days of Vintage Fruit Cake

No-Bake Festive Fruit Cake, 1953 – The Five Days of Vintage Fruit Cake

by RetroRuth | Dec 23, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday

This is it! The final day of The Five Days of Fruit Cake! And that is pretty funny, because we are ending this on a non-cake note. Unless you consider an icebox cake a cake. No-Bake Festive Fruit Cake Author: California Raisin Board, 1953 Ingredients 1/2 cup PET...
Ever-So-Easy Fruit Cake, 1972 – The Five Days of Vintage Fruit Cake

Ever-So-Easy Fruit Cake, 1972 – The Five Days of Vintage Fruit Cake

by RetroRuth | Dec 22, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday

It’s Day Four of The Five Days of Fruit Cake, and today we have a fruit cake made of sweetened condensed milk and corn flakes. Which is a little crazy. Ever-So-Easy Fruit Cake Author: Borden, 1972 Ingredients 3 eggs, slightly beaten 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1...
M-m-m Good Fruit Cake With Condensed Tomato Soup, 1951 – The Five Days of Fruit Cake

M-m-m Good Fruit Cake With Condensed Tomato Soup, 1951 – The Five Days of Fruit Cake

by RetroRuth | Dec 21, 2013 | Cake & Cupcakes, Christmas, Desserts, Holiday

Welcome to the third day of The Five Days of Fruit Cake! Today we have a fruit cake that I think everyone is just going to love. Wait…you guys love condensed tomato soup in your fruit cakes, right? Well, if you do, then the M-m-m Good Fruit Cake might be for you!...
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