Thank You: Vintage Recipes

Yes, thank you so much, this is exactly the page I first stumbled upon.

I lost so many recipes in that fire that I doubt I'll ever remember the names of the majority of them, let alone any ingredients. And I think the biggest loss wasn't just the recipes themselves, but that many were handed down to me in other people's handwriting and those people have now passed on. It seemed that elderly ladies at my church and family members enjoyed my cooking and recipe collecting as much as I did.

However, there are two recipes that I do remember the names of and some of the ingredients that I would like to find again. The main reasons I want the recipes again isn't just that they are good, but personal memories I have connected to the recipes.

1. Cranberry Almond Coffee Cake

Remembered Ingredients:
1 can whole berry cranberry sauce
Slivered Almonds
Sour Cream
Eggs
Sugar
Flour
Powdered Sugar

I got that recipe while helping my home economics teacher clean out her filing cabinets. She had used the recipe in her class a few years prior to me taking the class. A classmate and myself helped her clean out her cabinets at the end of the semester and she told us to throw away all of the recipes and just leave her file folders in the cabinet. I asked if I could keep 1 copy of each recipe I found and the teacher agreed, so I got the recipe and made it at Christmas a few weeks later. It was a hit with my family and several relatives asked me for a copy of the recipe, but I never got around to giving them a copy because I was diagnosed with cancer a month later and well, mailing copies of a recipe seemed to slip my mind and over time I forgot which family members wanted it, and then it got burned.

2. Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake

*This one was found on the back of a jar of BAMA Mayonnaise somewhere between 1992 and 1996*

Remembered Ingredients:
1 Box chocolate cake mix with pudding in the mix
Mayonnaise
Eggs

The recipe said to dust the layers with powdered sugar, but I opted to put a semi sweet or dark chocolate icing on mine instead and then decorated it with mallow pumpkins and took it to my church's fall festival. I didn't take a crumb back home. This is the cake that led to a lot of compliments from people that weren't my family, and led to me getting recipes from older ladies of the church. After I took that cake, all I had to do was compliment another ladies cake, pie, casserole, or whatever and the next week she'd bring me a copy of the recipe in her own handwriting.