Retro Desserts?

[Matterhorn Fan]

Does anyone here have this cookbook?

Link. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688164447/103-9373188-5216640)

There's also titles like "Retro Breakfast," "Retro Baking," "Retro Pies," "Retro Barbeque," and "Retro Happy Hour."

[flippyshark]

No, but I am hoping you will get a copy and try a few of them out, perhaps on the local bellhop or former shuttle guide population. I'll even help out with the sifting. (As a kid, I always loved the little sifter device and the shucka-chucka sound it made as I pulled the handle back and forth. Whee!)

[Matterhorn Fan]

Modern flour does not usually need sifting.

[CoasterMatt]

Modern flour be damned! I need sifting!

[Matterhorn Fan]

Well, I won't be baking for CoasterMatt . . .

[CoasterMatt]

All of the cookbooks my mom had when I was growing up were from the 1950s/60s - so my cooking seems kind of retro anyway...

I'm making some margarita ole bars today - lemon bars with a little kick...

[flippyshark]

I opened some of the sample pages from this book on Amazon, and there was some text there about cake making, encouraging triple sifting. I don't know if that is supposed to improve the quality of the cake, or if they just want to make the experience as retro as possible.

[Matterhorn Fan]

My guess is that they want to make the experience retro. I don't know that I'll buy the book--a lot of the reviews say there's mistakes in the recipes.

I make alterations to most recipes, but they ought to at least work as they're written.

[Prudence]

If you want retro recipes, just pick up an old Betty Crocker cookbook. I have my grandmother's!

[Prudence]

But I don't sift. My grandmother's probably very disappointed in me. Of course, she'd be disappointed that I can't measure ingredients by sight.

[CoasterMatt]

My mom gets mad at me when I look at the measuring lines...

[Matterhorn Fan]

Ha. My mom used to comment that the recipe would come out bad because I didn't look at the lines.