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Desserts and Sweets Recipes

Southern Comfcakes (with honey cream cheese frosting)

02/04/201301/24/2017 Kristina Ackerman 4 Comments booze, cake, cake mix, cream cheese, cupcakes, experiments

What do you do with all that leftover SoCo? Bake some tasty cakes!

Desserts and Sweets Recipes

Le Dense French Muffin

01/25/201301/24/2017 Kristina Ackerman 3 Comments experiments, failure, muffins

I received a distress tweet the other day about a failed muffin recipe. Read about my attempt to diagnose the problem (and get the recipe to try for yourself).

Your Share 1943: The Seven Basic Food Groups

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Your Share 1943: Wartime Nutrition

11/11/201201/24/2017 Kristina Ackerman 1 Comment experiments, meat, vintage cooking, weird, wtf, Your Share 1943

“Your Share” is a wartime cookbook, with curious tips and horrible recipes designed to stretch food and “points” in a time when everything was rationed by the government.

Cheese-Stuffed Hamburger Roll from MEAT COOK BOOK

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MEAT COOK BOOK 1967: Cheese-Stuffed Hamburger Roll

08/15/201201/24/2017 Kristina Ackerman 1 Comment experiments, MEAT COOK BOOK, wtf

It’s like a cheeseburger… in a roll! So familiar, yet so cosmopolitan.

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Threat level Vegemite

06/19/201206/12/2013 Kristina Ackerman 4 Comments experiments

Knuckle Salad investigates Vegemite. Top secret results enclosed.

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MEAT COOK BOOK 1967: Wiener Winks

04/09/201201/24/2017 Kristina Ackerman 9 Comments experiments, MEAT COOK BOOK, wtf

Did the American home cook of the 1960s really have it as bad as it seems? I’m going to find out by cooking from Better Homes & Gardens MEAT COOK BOOK.