Retro Recipes

No-bake Lemon Coconut Slice

February 26, 2012

Easy no-bake zingy Lemon Coconut Squares. Super quick, sweet and easy to whip up in a pinch.

Lumberjack Cake

February 4, 2012

Lumberjack Cake, although sounding like the domain of mustachioed flannel-wearing men, is actually and old-fashioned apple and date cake with caramelised coconut topping.

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Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies

August 21, 2011

Chocolate Brownies with walnuts recipe, by Katharine Hepburn. An easy traditional American recipe dating from 1975.

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Ginger Fudge Cake

February 26, 2011

Old fashioned Ginger Fudge Cake recipe. A dense cake with a decadent caramel fudge sauce topping.

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Homemade Mint Patties

November 17, 2010

How to make your own mint patties: mint fondant covered in chocolate.

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Retro Caramel Chocolate Cake

October 24, 2010

Caramel Chocolate cake recipe from the rare retro Nyamutin Farm Cookbook

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Retro: Beautiful Butterfly Birthday Cake

February 3, 2010

This butterfly cake comes from the out-of-print Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book, circa 1980. How many of you were made cakes from this book when you were a kid?

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