Vintage Dessert Recipes: Timeless and Memorable Old-Fashioned Sweet Recipes from Our Grandmothers (Lost Recipes Vintage Cookbooks)

Love the desserts and sweets your Grandma used to make when you were a child? Longed for that special treat Mom used to make? Look no further! This collection of authentic vintage dessert recipes will bring you back in time with our favorite old-fashioned desserts!

In this cookbook, we've collected an assortment of 80 vintage dessert recipes ranging from as far back as the 1800s all the way up to the 1970s. Some are wholesome comfort foods, like the potato doughnuts and the upside-down pineapple cake, and others are kitschy and eclectic, like the Green Angel Lime Cake and the Orange Raisin Gems, while others are still made by hand even today, like the Never Fail Devil Food Cake and the fudge squares.

With this collection, we wanted to tweak your memory and your senses a little, and hopefully bring to mind some things you know and love from your childhood.

Inside, you will also find useful information on vintage baking, temperature conversions, and lots of tips and ideas on how to preserve family recipes.

This cookbook with pictures will show you the way our great-grandmothers, grandmothers, and mothers used to bake desserts for their loved ones.

The recipes included here are from our family recipe boxes handwritten on cards and that have been passed down from one generation to the next. The dishes are heartwarming and made every time with lots of love! Dessert recipes from our lost recipes collection include pies, cakes, cupcakes, custards, puddings, pastries, cookies, squares, doughnuts, sweet loaves, and muffins.

Inside, you'll find 80 delicious retro recipes including:

  • Peanut Butter Tandy Cake
  • Burnt Caramel Pie
  • Fudge Squares
  • Chess Pie
  • Date and Nut Squares
  • Cherry-Peach Pandowdy
  • Jam Roly Poly with Custard
  • Vintage Plum Pudding
  • Strawberry Kisses
  • My Mom's Vintage Rhubarb Pie
  • Flapper Pie
  • Old-Fashioned Plum Pudding
  • Pineapple Cheesecake Squares
  • Banana Rum Fruit Bread
  • Lazy Daisy Cake
  • Magic Caramel Pudding
  • Divinity Cookies
  • Pineapple Upside-Down Cake
  • Lemony Cupcakes
  • Amish Applesauce Cake
  • Lemon Chess Pie with Sweet Berry Sauce
  • Steamed Chocolate Pudding
  • Raspberry Custard Kuchen
  • Cheesy Strawberry Shortcakes
  • Jefferson Davis Pie
  • WWII Carrot Cookies
  • Whole Wheat Bran Muffins
  • Old-Fashioned Apple Loaf


Each recipe comes with a beautiful black and white image, a short description of its origins, the number of servings, the step-by-step preparation instructions, and the cooking and preparation times.

Come down memory lane and prepare delicious vintage dessert recipes your family members or friends will discover for the first time, or spark pure joy from the wholesome flavors of their childhood!

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Published Nov 5, 2019

188 pages

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