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Flashback Favorite Recipes
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We’re continuing our magical trip back in time with Retro Recipe Favorites – Part 2.
Close your eyes once more and step deeper into the kitchens of the past, where comforting aromas and cherished flavors still linger. Recipes tell a story; they carry the spirit of generations before us while offering warmth, nourishment, and joy to our tables today. In this episode, Gloria shares some beloved flashback recipes from gloriagoodtaste.com, celebrating the creativity, resourcefulness, and delicious traditions of American home cooking.
These dishes nourish the body, spark memories for the mind, and bring pure delight to the spirit. Join us for another wonderful journey through time and taste!
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1900s – Crispy Coconut Lazy Daisy Cake
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About the Recipe: This easy-to-make cake is topped with a delicious boiled crisp coconut topping. The vanilla flavored cake has a fluffy texture that would be perfect to serve with a fresh fruit sauce or fruit compote.
History about the Recipe:
The Lazy Daisy Cake originated in the early 1900s and was published in 1914 in the Chicago Sunday Tribune as a recipe submission from a woman in Waterloo, Iowa. The phrase “lazy daisy” came about in the turn of the century poetry and referenced the “fresh, carefree feeling of June.”
Cake baking was becoming easier with simple recipes using the gas oven.
The recipe was also published and circulated in an advertisement for Snowdrift shortening. It reappeared in the 1930’s and 1940’s as a “convenience cake” to bake
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Crispy Coconut Lazy Daisy Cake
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1937 – Double Decker Bob’s Big Boy Cheeseburger
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About the Recipe: This inspired recipe recreates the first double decker burger sold in the U.S. It layers 3 slices of bun, mayonnaise, lettuce, cheese, 2 thin burgers, and yummy special sauce. The McDonalds’s Big Mac wasn’t marketed until three decades later. The recipe is easy to make and really tastes delicious. Close your eyes; put on some rock music, and enjoy the fun of the 50s, 60s, and 70s
How Burgers and Cheeseburgers Become an American Classic:
Like all good legends and stories, no one is actually sure how burgers jumped from the plate to a bun in the 19th century. What we do know is that the burger-on-a-bun had a big audience at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.
Then the first White Castle restaurant opened in Kansas in 1921.
Then Bob Wian, a 21-year-old young man from Indiana, sold his car for $300; moved to California, and started a lunch counter “The Pantry,” where he experimented with different hamburgers. In 1937, members of Glendale High School Orchestra, who were frequent customers, asked Bob to cook up something a little different. For a joke, Bob designed a burger that looked like a ridiculous tower layering thin burgers and three slices of bun. They loved it and it became his signature burger with special sauce on top. There was no stopping its popularity and Bob’s Big Boy Burgers spread across the United States. Who would think a silly joke would blossom into a big restaurant business, but that was the inspiration for other national hamburger chains founded in the boom years 1948, 1954, and 1969.
Enjoy the Story……….Burgers Can Change One’s Life
Customer’s personal experience of eating burgers at a Big Boy Restaurant.
https://dantoombs.com/2014/12/22/how-to-make-bobs-big-boy-double-cheeseburger/;
Now You Know the Rest of the Story
For More Information See Inspired Recipe Big Boy Burger Link:
https://www.keyingredient.com/recipes/7759084/big-boy-burger/
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1946–1950 – America’s Chop Suey
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About the Recipe: The updated recipe has a mild taste but add more peppers if you enjoy a spicy kick. When processed canned foods became available, Chinese vegetables were added and even crunchy Chow Mein noodles were served. This recipe lets you enjoy a flashback trip when America first started learning to serve Chinese food for dinner. The recipe’s flavor is mild but delicious. You can always increase the amount of meat used and add spicy chili oil if desired.
A Depression Favorite Recipe 1933 – American Style- Chop Suey
It was the world of 1933…. there wasn’t time for people to sit down and weep when things went wrong. It was everyone’s job to keep the family out of debt, maintaining the balance between money earned and money spent. Depression dinners were designed with what was available, and cooks learned to be inventive.
One recipe surfaced to offer a world of dreams – a trip to the other side of the world –A copy of this recipe was printed in the A&P supermarket ads offering Chop Suey – American Style. It was a recipe which most cooks made and even designed their way. The first recipe used only onions and celery, but when canned Chinese vegetables and Chinese crunchy noodles in the late 1940’s was introduced, many home cooks added them to the original recipe.
pdf for Copy of Recipe – America’s Chop Suey from 1946 – 1950
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1950s – Super Pot Roast
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About the Recipe: This was one of the most popular recipes and was so easy to prepare since it used the new dry onion soup mix. As expected, cooks added some water, mushroom soup, wine, or even tomatoes to the basic recipe. If preparing this recipe today, you might want to use a slow cooker or Dutch Oven pot. A note of caution: If you use the aluminum foil wrap, make sure to seal it securely.
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Super Pot Roast
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1960s -Yankee Noodle Cabbage Slaw
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About the Recipe: This is a recipe that everyone loves. The Napa cabbage stays crispy in tangy vinegar and oil dressing, and almonds, sesame seeds and bits of pasta add a surprise crunch. If you marinate the salad, the noodles will soften slightly. For added flavor, add those juicy oranges and colorful peppers. Serve it with your favorite summer supper.
Inspired by: Bonnie Clark, who served this at a gourmet dinner party, and Karen Adler and Judith Fertig’s recipe in the book: “Red, White, and Que”
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Yankee Noodle Cabbage Slaw
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1960s – Tunnel of Fudge Cake
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About the Recipe: This recipe from Pillsbury’s 17th Bake-Off Contest in 1966 develops a fudgy tunnel filling inside as it bakes. It took the nation by storm, created a demand for Bundt cake pans, and brought “magic” to the dessert table.
‘AND SO THE STORY GOES…,. You can imagine how excited I was to be a finalist at the 25th Pillsbury Bake-Off contest. That morning, a beautiful breakfast was being served before we cooked. Energized finalists and company guests filled the room. Introducing ourselves around the table, I discovered that Ella Helfrich from Bake-Off 17, the creator of the Tunnel of Fudge Cake, was sitting right across from me. She humbly shared her own thrilling experience and added that the recipe was not selected as the Best of the Bake-Off. She was really a person just like us who loved to “create” in her kitchen. I was awed by her words as she told me how happy she was that Pillsbury invited her to attend this Bake-Off as a guest. It was almost like she didn’t realize that her recipe changed the culinary world. Pillsbury received more than 200,000 requests for the pan she used, and H. David Dalquist’s company went into overtime production. Today, more than 50 million Bundt pans have been sold around the world.
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Tunnel of Fudge Cake
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1970s – Watergate Salad
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About the Recipe: Most sites say something like this: “Kraft introduced a recipe in 1975 with its new pistachio-flavor pudding mix and someone called it Watergate salad and then people called Kraft for the Watergate salad recipe and that’s how it happened.”
Thus its name, Watergate Salad — a direct link back to the 1972 bungled burglary and wiretap at the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office complex in Washington DC. Two investigative journalists traced the cover-up right to the President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon.
pdf for Copy of Recipe – Watergate Salad
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1970s – Creamsicle Carrot Cake
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About the Recipe: This orange creamsicle carrot cake is the kind of dessert that surprises people in the best way. It blends the moist texture of classic carrot cake with the bright citrus flavor of fresh oranges with a smooth sweetness of vanilla. It brings back those happy nostalgic memories of those classic creamsicles that were the rage years ago. Enjoy it for a refreshing summer gathering or easy company dessert.
pdf for Copy of Recipe – 1970s – Creamsicle Carrot Cake
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