Cakes and Aprons

Pairing Vintage Recipes with Vintage Aprons

"CATCH -A -VALENTINE" Cake!

Ingredients ½ cup shortening 2 ½ cups sifted cake flour 3 ½ tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1 ¼ cups sugar 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 tsp....

Rosalyn Carter's Peanut Butter Pie

First Lady Rosalynn Carter and President Jimmy Carter have lunch on the White House patio, August 4, 1977. This recipe was published in...

1950's Mississippi Mud Cake

Decadent and chocolatey Mississippi Mud Cake This recipe was given to my grandmother by her neighbor, Jane Saunders. Jane was said to...

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Passion Makes Perfect

I started Cakes and Aprons with the goal of offering readers a glimpse into the culture around celebrations between the 1900's and 1980's. The cakes of a specific time period and the aprons worn, gives us much insight to what the culture was at the time.

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