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Fairy Food Cake: Vintage Recipe Project

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The Vintage Recipe Project: Fairy Food Cake     Fairy Food Cake with Creme Fraiche and Orange Curd Whipped Topping     Based on the name and the directions to make a Fairy Food Cake I assumed it was just an old fashioned name for an angel food cake. But after baking and tasting a Fairy Food [...]

The Vintage Recipe Project: Lemon Sponge Pie

Lemons, Pie Crust, Flour and Butter Note to self CAREFULLY check vintage recipe ingredients before making.  More on this in a minute. There are a couple of really fun aspects of recreating vintage recipes  for the Vintage Recipe Project.  I enjoy collecting these old cook books. I enjoy reading how the recipe themselves are written. Each recipe is pared [...]

Vintage Recipe Project: Strawberry Sponge Pie

Vintage Recipe: Strawberry Sponge Pie  The Vintage Recipe Project One of the reasons I started the Vintage Recipe Project was because I longed for my own family recipes handed down from generation to generation. Sadly my mother and grandmother never handed any recipes down to me and the ones I remember my Nanny cooking were [...]

Vintage Recipe Project: Zserbo Szelet A Hungarian Dessert

Tweet In one of the vintage recipe binders I own I found a lovely piece of parchment paper with a recipe written on it. The name of the recipe was not written in English ( and I doubt there is an English translation for it because I never came across one.)   Sad as it makes [...]

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