Desserts Of Times Past (healthier, Ice cream cake, homemade, butter)

[TabulaRasa]

Chocolate cake made with mayo is still on the Hellman's label. I've never made it, but it makes sense...it's mostly just eggs and oil, and you just use it in place of the oil and eggs you'd use in cake-making, anyway. A little vinegar, which is in most red velvet recipes I've used, anyway, because the little bit of acid punches up the chocolate flavor. I bet it's very moist. I suppose the one downside would be just the inclusion of processed stuff, but you could do it with homemade mayo, too.

[jasper12]

My Great Grandmother used to pour off the juice from canned fruit, and put it in a jar behind the stove. And add dried fruit to that. A few weeks later, it was like raisins that had stewed in pure alcohol. She would put that on top of bread pudding with whipped cream. I think I was woozy after having a few delicious bites.

[Fancy-Schmancy]

Pavlova = Yummy.

Esp. with berries and whipped cream.

Trifle...with sherry.

Lady Baltimore Cake. I still have a recipe but my dh is gluten-free and I really don't need the calories!

[rural chick]

Desserts of past time wehich you don't see much:

date pudding (cake like) with hard sauce
Brown Betty
Grunts/Slumps
Buckles
Pandowdy
Vinegar Pie

[Cliffie]

Originally Posted by CheyDee

Yes!!!! Gosh, I haven't had that since I left NY.

Another thing I don't see anymore... bananas foster.

Well, as you know it doesn't travel well. In our take-out culture, Bananas Foster may be doomed.

[Cliffie]

When's the last time anyone ate a slice of Shoo-Fly Pie?

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Cliffie

I'm just wondering -- does anyone still actually eat zabaglione? It always sounded gross to me.

When I think of desserts and growing up I think meringue pies (which we don't see as often anymore) the same with mincemeat. Pineapple upside down cake was more popular 50 plus years ago. Oh and because mom wasn't much of a cook and a worse baker, she often served jellow with canned fruit cocktail in it. Oh, and how about spice cake, that was one as well.

[PennyLane2]

Sock It To Me Cake was the rage at one time.

I don't think I've ever had zabaglione, but it looks like a stirred custard with fruit, which I absolutely love.

[Cliffie]

My experience of zabaglione is that it's an egg strirred into hot wine until it congeals. Guh!

[Fancy-Schmancy]

Zabaglione Recipe | Simply Recipes

It's good...but I like it better if someone else makes it!