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Find lost recipes. Perhaps you can recall a wonderful dessert dish that your mother or grandmother once made, and you would like to enjoy it again, but you've been unable to find the recipe.

Now, you can again enjoy that delicious dessert and relive the memory simply by submitting your recipe request here.

I can help you find lost recipes by sharing your request with hundreds of my site visitors from around the world.

But first, you will need to do two things:

1. Use Recipe Search to see whether the recipe you are requesting is already published elsewhere on this website.

2. Look at the Dessert Recipe Requests made by other site visitors. Someone might have requested the very dessert recipe you are searching for, and perhaps it is already published below.

While you are looking, if it turns out that you have a recipe someone else wants, please submit it in a comment, and the person who made the request will be notified.

Still can't find it?...

Welcome To My Lost Recipe Finder

Share your request for a dessert recipe in the Recipe Finder below. Another visitor might have the exact recipe you want. Only submit ONE request at a time, though. You are welcome to return later and submit additional requests, but they must be for vintage dessert dishes only.

Here's A Few Guidelines To Follow

The more information you can give about the dessert, the more chance that someone will respond. A request needs to contain enough information to help someone identify the recipe and make them interested enough to respond to you.

Offer more than just, "need old chocolate cookie recipe" if you want your request published. After all, you can't expect someone to spend valuable time responding to you when you won't take the time to write a friendly request. Over-brief requests won't be published!

Just pretend you are writing a friendly letter. Perhaps tell a little about the dessert, who made it, a fond memory associated with it, why you would like a copy of the recipe, and so on.

You are actually creating your own Web page where you can receive visitors' comments and give your responses, so make your page polite, friendly, and attractive to the reader.

Please Note: Submission/Comment must be your own words. We can NOT accept copyrighted recipes taken from published sources or from another Web site. Also, Submissions/Comments containing links and/or promotions will be refused.

Finally, when someone responds with the recipe, please remember to comment back and thank them. It's the polite thing to do.

Now, let's build your web page.

Here's How

1. Enter a suitable Web page title (the dessert name). This will help people to find your page when they search for it.

2. Share your old-time recipe request (up to 10,000 characters). It's your page to share what you want, but add enough information to make someone want to reply to your request.

3. Upload an interesting photo and be sure to "Add Picture Caption" giving it a name or description.

Click the question marks below for additional help.

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Dessert Recipe Requests

Do you have a copy of the dessert recipe someone else has requested? Please share it! Simply add it to the "comments," and you'll make a fellow dessert lover very happy.

Click below to see the dessert recipes requested by other visitors and the comments they received...

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 ...

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
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Candy Orange Slice Cake
Hi, I am trying to find a cake recipe that included:

candy orange slices
pecans
coconut
dates
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 ...

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.

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.

Can you help find a 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 ...

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 ...

Old-Fashioned Jam Tarts Not rated yet
Please... I am looking for an old-fashioned jam tart recipe (not the flaky pastry), but with pastry normally rolled into a plate with strips across.

...

Applesauce Cake With A Thick Crust Not rated yet
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 ...

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
...

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 ...

Wassail Not rated yet
I am looking for a Wassail recipe that uses tea, apple cider, pineapple juice, apricot nectar, orange juice, cinnamon sticks, and possibly another ingredient ...

Chocolate Chip Cookies Grandma Style Not rated yet
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 ...

Boiled Walnut Frosting Not rated yet
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 ...

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 ...

Chocolate Macaroon Kisses Not rated yet
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 Not rated yet
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 ...

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).
• Had soured milk in it
• Sprinkled powdered sugar ...

Lost Recipes Finder FAQ

When Will My Request/Comment Be Published?

Most submissions are reviewed and published within 24 hours although some might take a little longer.

Why Was My Request/Comment NOT Published?

Requests that are "too brief" or Comments that contain "copyrighted recipes" taken from other Web sites or published cookbooks will NOT be published.

Why Was My Email Address/Street Address/Link Not Published?

Street and email addresses are not published for privacy protection and to prevent spam bots from harvesting them. Readers can reply to you using comments. Links promoting other sites are not permitted.

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