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1946-1962 Cake #4

The Wacky Cake In the 1940' and 50's, at home demonstration meetings were very common. Well manicured agents(teachers) would travel...

Gooey Butter Cake This cake is the signature cake of St Louis, though many believe that it did not originate there. Many German...

Huguenot Torte This is a quintessential Southern coastal dessert. Many families from South Carolina thought that this torte was brought...

Woohoo, we have entered a new era in the cookbook! I have reached post war times when women were portrayed as the homemaker, even though...

Mrs Harvey's White Fruitcake During WWII many women would send the troops letters and food. One woman, who won a recipe contest in Tampa...

Brooklyn Blackout Cake Ebinger's Bakery was located in Brooklyn in the mid 1900's. The bakery was located right next to the Brooklyn Navy...

Edith Warner's Chocolate Loaf Cake Edith Warner moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 1922. Around the age of 30, she became a caretaker of...

Miss Sadie's Spice Meringue Cake In the 1930's, cooks figured out a way to reserve a few whites from their eggs to create a meringue....

Leah Chase's Butter Cake Leah Chase is a famous chef in New Orleans; she owns the restaurant called Dooky Chase. She grew up in the...

Cold Oven Pound Cake At the turn of the 20th century, gas ovens grew in popularity. In order to save money, people did not light the oven...