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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...

Brown Derby Grapefruit Cake The Brown Derby restaurant was one of the most popular restaurants in Hollywood in the 1920's. Famous actors...

New York Cheesecake Cream cheese came about because a dairy farmer from upstate New York was trying to replicate the creamy French...

La Fonda Pudding Cake Fred Harvey was a British restaurateur who saw a golden opportunity to improve the food in the southwest by...

Frances Virginia Hot Milk Sponge Cake with Lemon Filling Tearooms were places where women could dine without men and it helped usher in...

George Washington Carver's Peanut Cake The soil of the South was exhausted from the over planting of cotton. George Washington Carver was...

Pineapple Upside Down Cake The following is an excerpt directly from the book: History of the Pineapple Upside Down Cake: In 1925 the...

The Blitz Torte This cake was popular in the 1920's in cities with large German populations, such as Milwaukee and Brooklyn. In German...

Black Walnut Cake Walnuts grow in fertile limestone soil in areas such as Pennsylvania, Kentucky, the Carolina's, and other Midwest...

Appalachian Apple Stack Cake Originating in the Appalachian mountain areas of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Kentucky; this cake has two...

1917 Applesauce Cake I have entered a new time period in this history of cake book; a time of a lot of hardship and economic turbulence....