Lost Recipes

Graham Cracker Cake Recipe 
My grandmother got a recipe for Graham Cracker Cake from a newspaper in Minneapolis some 40 to 50 years ago. I never met her, nor did I ever have the cake,...

Chocolate Cake With Icing Baked In 
My Mom used to make a chocolate cake that when she would take it out of the oven, it already had icing on it. It was so moist, and it was something you ...

Calumet Crullers 
I am looking for a recipe for cruller donuts that appeared on the Calumet® Baking Powder can years ago. I would really appreciate it if someone could supply ...

Old Fashioned Bread Pudding 
Hi, My name is Deborah and I live in Western Australia, but lived in the UK until the age of 8. My dad used to make a bread pudding for dessert sometimes ...

Reba McEntire's Peanut Butter Cookies 
This recipe was from one of Reba McEntire's first cookbooks. I think it was from the 70's. It was thrown out by mistake. Any help would be appreciated....

Doughnuts In Boiling Water 
Hello, I'm looking for a pretty old recipe for doughnuts that involved dropping them into boiling water rather than the usual oil or lard. I believe it ...

Cherry Jubilee 
Grandmother's Cherry Jubilee dessert recipe had a graham cracker crust spread in a large rectangular shaped Pyrex® dish. The main ingredients, to the best ...

German Eikranz Cookies 
I lost my grandmother's recipe for making these cookies. It's an old German cookie, but I'm not exactly sure how you spell it. It's either Eikranz, or ...

Pfeffernusse Cookies 
I am looking for a Pfeffernusse cookie recipe my mother used to make when I was a kid. She always mixed it in a big kettle on the stove by hand with a ...

Cherry Junk 
Cherry Junk is a lot like cherries jubilee. It was made with a graham cracker crust, and the cream filling was made with the powder form of Dream Whip®...

Caramel Layer Cake 
Hello. My name is Page and I live in FL. I was raised in Huntsville (HSV), AL and am a true southern girl. My grandmother used to make a caramel cake that ...

Prune Soup (Pluma Moos) 
It had prunes, raisins, cream, sugar, and cinnamon. It required gentle cooking and was served cold. I am currently not a member of this site. I just found ...

Apple Pandowdy 
The apple pandowdy I remember had apples on the bottom with a caramel sauce and a drop biscuit dough on top. Its recipe was in an old Purity Flour Cookbook ...

Magic Cookie Bars 
About 35 years ago, I had a bar cookie recipe that came from Grandma® Molasses. It came before what is now known as Magic cookie bars. It had a beginning ...

Refrigerator Cookies 
Does anyone have an old refrigerator cookie recipe on 3x5 cards given out by the Detroit Edison Co. in Detroit, MI, possibly from the late fifties? I would ...

German Marble Pound Cake 
This German marble pound cake recipe was given to me by a friend many years ago. Some of the ingredients that I can remember were: one-half pound butter,...

Pecan Tassies 
Pecan Tassies are like small pecan pies but with cream cheese, and if anyone can find a pecan tassie recipe please put it on the website. I am sure other ...

Flummery Recipe 
As a child, I recall that my mother used to make a dessert she called flummery. It consisted of jelly and carnation evaporated milk. I would love to make ...

Fudge Icing 
I need a chocolate cake icing that would crack like fudge once it cooled on the cake. Does anyone have a fudge icing recipe like this? It is unusual and ...

Looking For Sugar Free Hard Tack Candy Recipe 
My uncle loved the homemade hard tack candy I make for the holidays, but just recently he became a diabetic and wanted to know if I could make it sugar ...

Shoo Fly Pie Recipe 
The shoo fly pie was known for having lots of chocolate and whipping cream and its graham cracker crust. It had many different items in the pie, but I ...

Mince Pie With Hard Sauce 
I would like to make a mince pie with hard sauce for dessert, and I need the recipe for hard sauce. Does anyone have a good, old-fashioned hard sauce recipe?...

The Wonder Cake From A Manhattan Bakery 30 Years Ago 
The "Wonder Cake" as it was known, was a dry pound cake with solid chunks of chocolate baked inside which formed a chocolate swirl. When I was a college ...

Rice, Pineapple and Maraschino Cherry Dessert/Salad 
Looking for a dessert/salad made with rice, crushed pineapple, maraschino cherries, cream cheese, and I think unflavored gelatine and whipped cream. I ...

Triple Layer Jello Dessert 
I'm looking for a triple-layer Jello dessert recipe. I used to make it back in the mid-90s during the holidays. My Dad used to love it; he has since passed ...

Old-Fashioned Jam Tarts 
Please... I am looking for an old-fashioned jam tart recipe (not the kind with flaky pastry), but with pastry that's normally rolled into a plate with ...

Applesauce Cake With A Thick Crust 
I am looking for an applesauce cake recipe my Nana used to make. She made her applesauce cake in an 8x8 inch square pan. It had a thick crust on the bottom ...

Wassail 
I am looking for a Wassail recipe that uses tea, apple cider, pineapple juice, apricot nectar, orange juice, cinnamon sticks, and possibly another ingredient ...

Sweet Butter Roll 
I'm looking for a sweet butter roll recipe. It was made with flour, sugar, nutmeg, and milk baked in the oven. It tasted sweet, and it was delicious when ...

Cornflake Patties 
I'm looking for a recipe for Cornflake Patties. They are made of cornflakes, peanut butter, and I'm not sure, but I think corn syrup. I had these delicious ...

Chocolate Chip Cookies Grandma Style 
I would like a recipe for these chocolate chip cookies. My Grandma used to make these when I was little, and they were always crispy on the outside. I ...

Candy Orange Slice Cake 
Hi, I am trying to find a cake recipe that included: candy orange slices, pecans, coconut, dates, and butter. This is a very rich and heavy cake. We baked ...

Date Nut Candy 
My aunt who raised me from the time I was 3 years old would make a special candy for us kids. All I know is she called it Date Nut Candy. We would stand ...

Boiled Walnut Frosting 
Boiled walnut frosting was a prized cake frosting recipe that my husband's grandmother used to put on her yellow cake. No one in the family can get the ...

Date Nut Candy 
This date nut candy recipe called for the ingredients to be boiled with dates and nuts to a certain temperature on the candy thermometer and then poured ...

Gingerbread Men 
A recipe for a piece of ginger bread shaped into the shape of a man or animal. Gingerbread cookies are a lot of fun to decorate with coloured icing and ...

Chocolate Macaroon Kisses 
I am looking for a German recipe for this unique cookie: It is a chocolate cookie, similar consistency when baked as a brownie. The cookie on the outside ...

Marshmallow Mountain Dessert 
Hi this is Teresa from Conneticut. I have been desperately looking for a recipe my mother made every year at Thanksgiving, it was so tasty and made the ...

Coconut Pineapple Snowballs 
This "coconut pineapple snowball" dessert resembled a Hostess® Sno Ball®. It was made with coconut, pineapple, vanilla wafers, and some sort of whipped ...

See's Date Nut Candy 
My mother and grandmother always loved See's date nut candy but never could get the recipe and now See's has stopped making that candy, and I never got ...

Orange-Cranberry Muffins 
The orange-cranberry muffins are extremely moist, orange muffins; huge with the burst of cranberry. I know I used orange juice and lots of eggs. Other ...

Crown Jewel Dessert 
My mother made this Crown Jewel Dessert for all church gatherings, especially the social clubs. I know it had several kinds of jello cut into cubes, and ...

Fat Balls 
My Aunt used to make us "Fat Balls"; they were like donut holes, and they were delicious.

Can you help find an old-fashioned fat balls recipe for me?...

Pinto Bean Pie 
I am trying to find a pinto bean pie recipe. You make it with pinto beans, and it tastes like a pecan pie. I know you use sugar, eggs, and butter, but ...

Gloves Cookie Recipe 
I've been looking for a cookie recipe called "gloves" or "wands." It is a dough that you make into a knot and deep fry. I'm sure the recipe is out there....

Cottage Cheese Pie 
In the 1950s my mother made a topless pie from drained cottage cheese, and egg, vanilla, etc. (not cheese cake). I am trying to locate this pie recipe ...

Syrup-like Chocolate Icing 
I have been trying to find a recipe for chocolate icing that is cooked on the stove, and you punch holes in the cake and pour the icing over it. The ...

Gorilla's Banana Cake 
I am searching for a cake recipe called Gorilla's Banana Cake. I think I found it in a small magazine like Home Cooking years ago. It was very moist and ...

Coconut Crunch Chocolate Cake  Not rated yet
I'm looking for a coconut crunch chocolate cake recipe from Fry's Cocoa from the 1950s. It's a very dark cake. Its topping was prepared in the bottom of ...

Blanc et Noir Recipe  Not rated yet
I have only ever had the dessert once in my life, but it was extremely memorable. The way the rice chocolate flavors seemed to melt almost seductively ...

Jelly Nougat Recipe  Not rated yet
We made this jelly nougat in junior school. I can't seem to locate the recipe for it. I know we dusted the pan with cornstarch to set the white fruit gum ...

University Cake  Not rated yet
My grandma used to make university cake which had sour milk, spices, brown sugar, and I believe shortening in it. It was a delicious spice cake. Does anyone ...

Fried Icing Sugar Cookie  Not rated yet
All I can remember (from 30 years ago) is a dough that was rolled out and cut by a glass to form a circle shape. In the middle of this circle, a cut was ...

Homemade Ice Cream With No Eggs  Not rated yet
This ice cream was from 45 years ago. all I can remember is that there were NO eggs, NO cooking. I do remember putting whipping cream in, and pure vanilla,...

Wassail With Cream And Apples  Not rated yet
I had some AWESOME Wassail that had cream and sliced apples and what seemed like a caramelized sauce in it. Delicious! Any ideas? It was made in a BIG ...

Kaffee Kuchen  Not rated yet
This delicious cake was made by my grandfather, a baker from northern Germany in the Frisian Islands in the North Sea. The cake had caramelized chopped ...

Dark Fruitcake Without Citron, Candied Fruit, Or Bourbon  Not rated yet
Hi, I use to have a recipe for a dark spicy fruitcake made with cherries, pineapple, dates, raisins, etc., but no citron, candied fruit, or bourbon. I ...

Unknown Yellow Cake  Not rated yet
Back in the 1950s my mother got a recipe from Three Rivers, Canada for a yellow cake that had a sweet crackled topping that was baked with the cake on ...

Fruitcake  Not rated yet
At least 20 years ago, I found a recipe in Yankee Magazine for a fruitcake made with Brazil nuts, dates, apricots, and very little flour. I believe it ...

Snowballs  Not rated yet
A couple of years ago I made a Snowballs recipe that was similar to puppy chow. It was made with Cocoa Puffs® cereal. I don't think it had chocolate in ...

Nairin Squares  Not rated yet
Nairin squares are something like Nanaimo Bars, only the bottom is made with soda crackers and eggs and cocoa, and not baked. Horne's Custard Powder and ...

French Apple Gateau  Not rated yet
I am looking for a French Apple Gateau recipe. This delicious dessert has many thin-sliced apples and spices between 2 crusts, and it's made in a springform ...

Fravioli (Fried Ravioli-Like Pastry With Sweet Cheese Filling)  Not rated yet
Frank From New Jersey is looking for a special recipe. As a child I remember my Italian grandmother making a special dessert. It was a fried pastry filled ...

Eikrantz  Not rated yet
Eikrantz is a crescent shaped cookie made with the yolks of hard-boiled eggs and then dipped in beaten egg whites and rolled in cinnamon-sugar and chopped ...

Lumberman's or Lumberjack's Delight  Not rated yet
Lumberman's Delight, or Lumberjack's Delight was a dessert that tasted like whipped butter and sugar. It had a graham cracker crust, was light and fluffy,...

Chocolate Snowballs  Not rated yet
Chocolate snowballs were a family old-time favorite & mom cannot find the recipe. These are a chocolate cookie dough which is chilled and then rolled into ...

Rich Coconut Pie  Not rated yet
My mother-in-law made the best coconut pie ever! It had lots of half and half and butter and was very, very rich. I have searched for this pie recipe ...

Chocolate Sugar Cookies  Not rated yet
Chocolate sugar cookies are the best kind of cookies, and I'd like to get the recipe. I've tried to make them, and they always come out wrong, and I love ...

Lemon Ice Box Pie  Not rated yet
I am looking for an old recipe for Lemon Ice Box pie. My husband's aunt used to make this for him as a child. It was very delicious and we'd love to have ...

Angel Food Pie  Not rated yet
Mom always made an angel food pie recipe with pure whipping cream, and I think vanilla and sugar. She whipped it up until it was a thick white mound of ...

Steamed Applesauce Cake  Not rated yet
I am looking for a steamed applesauce cake recipe. This delicious applesauce cake is steamed on top of the stove in a huge pot. Does anyone have this steamed ...

Chocolate Covered Apricot Cookie Balls  Not rated yet
If anyone has a recipe for chocolate covered apricot cookie balls, it would be appreciated. I'd love to get a copy of this tasty dessert recipe. Thanks,...

White Pudding (Sweet)  Not rated yet
My Great Grandmother made a white stiff pudding that was served under cherries. I believe she baked in small glass cups, and after they were cooled, she ...

Date Nut Refrigerated Bar Cookie  Not rated yet
I am looking for a refrigerated bar cookie recipe that was made with cherries or dates and nuts. I used to work in a German Bakery, and it was the only ...

Top Hatter Cookie  Not rated yet
As a child my Mother baked a cookie called "Top Hatters." It looked like the cookie had three layers, two of them were white and one layer was molasses ...

Smooth Fruit Chocolate Cake  Not rated yet
I once tasted a fruitcake which tasted of fruit, but I could see no fruits in it; it also had a strong flavour of chocolate, was moist, and melted in your ...

Triple Layer Cookie  Not rated yet
It's a three-layer cookie that was a family recipe. The recipe was probably from the 1950s, and we believe that it came from The Ladies' Home Journal. The ...

Canascione  Not rated yet
I am looking for a canascione recipe. This is a small half-moon Italian pastry. The crust is made up of flour, milk, oil, and eggs. The filling is grated ...

Pineapple Dream or Cream Pie Recipe?  Not rated yet
I only made it once and could never find what happened to that recipe. It was on a label, and everyone went crazy over the pie. I have tried the Eagle ...

Caravan Cookies Recipe  Not rated yet
Does anyone have a recipe for caravan cookies? My understanding is these cookies were similar to tea cake cookies but may have had molasses sugar in them....

Sweet Cinnamon Pickles  Not rated yet
Someone once made homemade pickles with those little red hot cinnamon candies, and I think cinnamon sticks. They said it took several days to make, but ...

Cottage Cheese/Gelatin Pineapple/Lemon Graham/Butter Crust Pie  Not rated yet
I recall a pie that was a family favorite that my mother used to make when I was in early grade school in the early 1950's. She would form a Graham Cracker/...

Senator McCarthy's Sour Cream Chocolate Cake  Not rated yet
My Mother-in-law during her married life made a cake every day. Most of the time it was chocolate. She made the most delicious sour cream chocolate cake ...

Strawberry Roll Dessert Pie  Not rated yet
My husband's mother and grandmother used to make a baked strawberry pie. It was a rectangular rolled pastry crust, strawberries placed down the center,...

Looking For An Old Candy Recipe  Not rated yet
Hello. My mom used to make a candy for my dad it was a lot like penuche candy, but that was not it. I remember there was milk, molasses, a little butter,...

Strawberry Dough Cake  Not rated yet
A strawberry dough cake is a sort of pound cake on a sheet pan; butter, flour, sugar, and then you place fresh strawberries on the top, and when it bakes ...

Large Brownie and Coconut Kisses  Not rated yet
These are like a large brownie kiss with coconut in the middle, and they are wonderful. The lady who makes these for my husband will not give out the brownie ...

Serbian Torte Recipe With 10 Eggs  Not rated yet
I'm trying to help an older friend who lost all her old cookbooks and old family recipes in a fire. She especially would like a Serbian torte recipe from ...

Sweet Potato Cake  Not rated yet
I'm looking for a sweet potato cake recipe from the South Mississippi area. Some of its ingredients are... mashed, hot sweet potatoes, buttermilk, cocoa,...

Cranberry Sauce Or Relish  Not rated yet
This recipe was my mother-in-law's, and she is now gone. I remember it as cooking the cranberries and setting them aside. It takes 1 apple, 2 oranges (1 ...

Strawberry Oatmeal Bread  Not rated yet
I found a strawberry oatmeal bread recipe on the back of an oatmeal box years ago.....lost it as one does; if anyone has it I would be so very happy to ...

Orange & Nut Cake  Not rated yet
This orange cake was made in an aluminum dish pan when I was a kid. It had nuts and stuff in it, and you made it a month before Thanksgiving and soaked ...

Raisin Cobbler  Not rated yet
Grandma used to soak her raisins then prepare a pudding, custard type. She started making pies, but as the family grew, and the requests for it grew, she ...

Applesauce Spice Cake  Not rated yet
I am looking for an old applesauce spice cake recipe. It was my Grandmother's (born 1910-ish). It had soured milk in it, and you sprinkled powdered sugar ...