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2012 Lamb Cake Gallery – Reader Submissions
I hope everyone had a fantastic Easter this year. It’s always one of my favorite holidays, and not just for the baskets of candy and the cakes shaped like animals. Well…I have to admit that those things are a big part of it. Anyway, because I always hate saying...
Happy Easter From Mid-Century Menu – Send Me Your Lamb Cake Pictures For A Chance To Win A Vintage Cookbook!
I hope everyone out there is having a fantastic Easter! I have been getting tons of comments and emails about all of the wonderful lamb cake successes going on right now, and let me tell you that it makes me very happy! This is also a reminder to send me pictures of...
Best Lamb Cake – Nun’s Golden Butter Cake With Fluffy Frosting
If you are looking for a lovely lamb cake with a soft, light texture and a great crumb, then I suggest this cake! This recipe came from a 1968 issue of Mail Box News from Maid of Scandinavia, and it is excellent. Look at how delicious this looks! The cake is moist...
Best Easter Lamb Cake – Pope Family Lamb Cake With Creamy Whipped Frosting
This lamb cake is very, very good. It has a caramel and butter flavor and is dense but moist. It also has a great pound cake texture! This recipe was sent in by Natalie Pope, and it has been made successfully by the Pope Family for many, many years. And we can see...
Best Easter Lamb Cake – Renalde Lamb Cake With Vintage Birthday Cake Frosting
If you are looking for a light, bouncy lamb cake with a good texture that pairs well with coconut, this is the cake for you! This recipe comes from Martha K. She was a total sweetheart and sent the lamb cake recipe that was originally included with the vintage Renalde...
Easter Lamb Cake Magic – 10 Tips For The Perfect Retro Easter Lamb Cake
It’s Lamb Cake time again!!! I know everyone thinks that Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, but I think Easter might be my favorite time for sweets. I do love those lamb cakes! So, from now until Easter I am going to be posting some excellent tested...
Barbecue Bean Mold – A Mid-Century Gelatin Test
Let’s see a show of hands: Who out there likes canned baked beans? I have to admit that I do enjoy baked beans, even of the canned variety. And I can understand adding a few ingredients to a can of baked beans to perk up the flavor, which is very common in mid-century...
Potato Chip Cookies – A Vintage Recipe Test
Hooray for cookies! This week we are making a little recipe I found in a community cookbook from 1970 called, “Cooking in Circles.” Tom is a big fan of cookies, even more so than pie and much more so than cake. He also loves potato chips, so when I saw this recipe for...
Deviled String Beans and Tuna – A Mid-Century Recipe Re-Run
This week I dug into the archive specifically looking for a recipe that looked like it was going to be terrible, but ended up tasting good. I found it in Deviled String Beans and Tuna, Tom’s Pick from our “Sing A Tune To Tuna” contest. This post originally ran in...
Interview About Mid-Century Menu on Collector’s Weekly
Just a head’s up for anyone interested in listening to me yammer on and on about vintage cooking: There is a rather lengthy interview with me on Collector’s Weekly right now where I talk about the preservative powers of gelatin, torturing Tom and what it’s like eating...
Banana Doughnuts – A Mid-Century Recipe Re-Run
Hello all!!! I am super-hungry for doughnuts this week, so I thought I would dig into the archives and pull out this great gem for some homemade banana doughnuts. This post originally ran in March of 2011, and it was so good I have made these several times since. Just...
Tuna Pizza – A Retro Recipe Re-Run
Hey there! Let’s see a show of hands for everyone who likes tuna pizza! Come on, don’t be shy. Anyone? Anyone at all? Nobody??? Hmmm…well anyway, this week I was thinking about this recipe and laughing to myself, so I decided it would be a good idea to break this...