The recipe in Mennonite Community Cookbook that I find most entertaining is Grandmother’s Ginger Nuts. This book designates the recipe as “very old”, presumably from the late nineteenth century. This recipe was submitted independently by two different women. The first was Grandmother’s Ginger Nuts, the other Ginger Balls. I shudder to think what internet……
Ingredient: baking soda
Apple Pudding Bread (Wisconsin, 1989, adapted)
Apple Pudding Bread is a spiced dessert bread recipe from Ascension Lutheran’s 1989 community cookbook. The recipe’s author was a longtime member and mother of three. She was an avid bridge player and teacher and her husband served in various lay leadership positions at the church. In the recipe description she brags that Apple……
Airy Light Casserole Bread (Oklahoma, 1970s)
Airy Light Casserole Bread is a simple yeast bread that resembles focaccia, but with much less work. The recipe comes to me by way of Adventures in Food, a community cookbook compiled by my parents’ Oklahoma congregation in the late 1970s. I’ve never been particularly good with yeast breads, but was intrigued by the unusual……
Tomato Soup Cake (Oklahoma, 1970s)
This bizarre spice cake recipe has a minor cult following online, a trend that Campbell’s has embraced wholeheartedly. Campbell’s takes credit for inventing the recipe in the late 1920s and making continuous tweaks and updates to “evolve the recipe with trends in the culinary world”. I personally have no nostalgia for this cake. Condensed soup……