Ozark Wild Huckleberry Pie and Hot Water Pie Crust (Ford Treasury)

Ozark Wild Huckleberry Pie and Hot Water Pie Crust (Ford Treasury)

You all know I’m a sucker for old cookbooks, and The New Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes from Famous Restaurants (Amazon link) is up there in favorites for me, not just for the recipes and locations most likely long forgotten, but the book is filled 

Pinkston’s Health Loaf

Pinkston’s Health Loaf

There are many “health loaf” bread recipes out there. Most have a combination of flours and some have nuts, seeds, and other ingredients to boost nutritional values. There is one original one, though, at least from what I can gather from a bread recipe box 

Danish Pastry Dough

Danish Pastry Dough

Danish pastries are laminated pastries – multi-layered – and are usually filled with sweet fruit or cream cheese pastries. This recipe is from a 1958 booklet “Breads and Sandwiches” and is nicely flavored with lemon, vanilla, and a little mace. The original recipe called for 

Chocolate Marshmallow Roll

Chocolate Marshmallow Roll

This beautiful recipe comes from the 1950 mini cookbook, Here Are the Cakes America Loves – Royal Cakes made with Royal Cream of Tartar Baking Powder. The cake consists of a chocolate jelly roll cake, and filled with a marshmallow filling. There is a variation 

Sweet Tomatoes with Cream and Sugar

Sweet Tomatoes with Cream and Sugar

I found a recipe for Cherry Tomatoes in Cream in The Southern Junior League Cookbook, a compilation of Southern recipes collected during the 60s and 70s which I shared on the Pastry Sampler blog. I was flipping through the cookbook (a recent used book find) and