This cake is commonly known as a ” Depression Era” cake. These cakes are also known as “war cakes” and the popularity of recipes date […]
Sweet Things
Cook Along with A Coalcracker In The Kitchen – Wet Bottom Shoo Fly Pie
Welcome to “Cook Along With A Coalcracker In The Kitchen”. This is the first in a (planned) series of posts that will help guide you […]
Pennsylvania Dutch Funny Cake
A spoonful of sugar We Pennsylvania Dutch like our sweets, and oooey gooey takes the prize every time in my Coalcracker Kitchen! When thinking of […]
Dry Bottom Shoo Fly Pie
As popular as Shoo Fly Pie is in the Coal Region and Pennsylvania Dutch country, say, “Shoo Fly Pie” and the majority of people seem […]
Pennsylvania Dutch Wet-Bottom Shoofly Pie I
If you ask any tourist to Pennsylvania Dutch country what food they most associate with the area, chances are high they will answer, “Shoofly Pie!” […]
Spanish Bar Cake
Every Friday evening during my childhood days in The Coal Region, my parents and I loaded up into the Buick and headed to “the next […]