The Joy of Cooking Lamb Cake – The Eight Days of Lamb Cakes

by RetroRuth | Apr 7, 2012 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts, Lamb Cakes & Frostings

It’s Day #7, and here is the seventh lamb cake! The recipe for this cute little guy was sent to me by Laura, who writes:   I am writing on behalf of my mother Susan who read about your Lamb Cake issues. She wants you to know that she uses the recipe from...

Lady Baltimore Lambie Cake – The Eight Days of Lamb Cakes

by RetroRuth | Apr 6, 2012 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts, Lamb Cakes & Frostings

Are you sick of lamb cakes yet? Well, you’d better hang in there because we have two more days to go! This is yet another recipe from Martha K.!  I am telling you, she sent me some awesome stuff! This is a Lady Baltimore version of the Lambie Cake, and I chose...

Cranberry Mayonnaise Cake And Porcupine Meatballs – A Mid-Century Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Nov 30, 2011 | Beef, Best & Worst, Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts, Main Dishes, The BEST

Are you exhausted from Thanksgiving, Readers?? I know I am! S,o here is a classic Mid-Century feast from our archives. This post originally ran on March 24, 2010, but features an amazing Cranberry Mayonnaise Cake that Tom and I loved and ate right down to the last...

Sauerkraut Chocolate Cake And Tower Kitchen Recipe Cookbooks

by RetroRuth | Nov 16, 2011 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts

So, you have to tell me the truth. Does this piece of cake: Look like it has sauerkraut in it? Does it? Well, it DOES because this week we have  Sauerkraut Chocolate Cake from Recipes from the Tower Kitchen! Since 1933, when Tower Kitchen opened atop the Free...

Apple Cider Upside-Down Cake–A Mid-Century Recipe Test

by RetroRuth | Oct 12, 2011 | Best & Worst, Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts, The BEST

Okay, okay. I know. Apple cider AND desserts two weeks in a row. It’s unheard of here on the Mid-Century Menu, where everything is supposed to be scary all the time. But, it’s Apple Month, so I couldn’t help myself!  I was so disappointed with the lack of...