Month: February 2021

All-Fat Salt Pork Sweet Cake From 1906

All-Fat Salt Pork Sweet Cake From 1906

Another version of a pork cake using salt pork, this one coming from Baxter’s Practical Up-to-date Receipt Book for Bakers by Richard Baxter. This recipe calls for currants, “all-fat” salt pork chopped fine, and molasses. The salt pork is dissolved in boiling water before the 

Moonshine: The Dessert

Moonshine: The Dessert

Moonshine – you know, that clear, strong, distilled spirit with a high alcohol content generally made from backyard stills. Just reading the word conjures up images from prohibition times, backwoods stills, and cases of unlabeled bottles being carted around in beds of pick up trucks. 

A Tale of Broken Themes, and a Thanks to Internet Archive

A Tale of Broken Themes, and a Thanks to Internet Archive

It was brought to my attention that a reader couldn’t access the site. So, upon checking and trying to figure it out it looks like an old theme had broken the site. As in, quite literally and the very helpful techs through my host provider couldn’t even fix it. So, I had to do a complete take down and reinstall. I couldn’t even do a back up since the site was inaccessible, so my site was erased.

The good thing – that the entire site was saved on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to last February. So, all those previous posts I just have to retrieve (by hand, what a pain) and post again.

It looks like all my posts I had used a post name for the permalinks so if I just set the dates today as I repost then I shouldn’t break any links for those trying to find the same recipe that was saved on a blog or on Pinterest. Backlinks are a wonderful think and a total pain at the same time. So, to be extra cautious, I’m reposting the posts with the original date.

Thanks for reading! And look for whatever recipe you saved and cannot find now to come up soon.