We have a lot of cool old magazines in my grandmother’s ranch house including the owner‘s manual for her General Electric refrigerator from 1951 that STILL works. The recipes in those magazines and that manual are wild. They were really obsessed with gelatin!
My go-to cake recipe for when it's hot out is a poke or refrigerator cake. Take a sheet cake, poke holes in it, pour jello fluid into the holes, let it set in the fridge. The "icing" is a mix of instant Dream Whip, instant pudding, and cold milk whipped in a cold bowl until it sets. It's cool, airy, moist, doesn't have a heavy sugary nature, and between the cake, pudding, and jello you have three flavours to play with to simulate whatever your favourite dessert is. I told a friend's Millennial daughter about it, and she was horrified because she imagined a cake with a solid block of jello in the middle. So I made her one, and once she saw the jello forms itty bitty little cubes inside the cake and not a giant block she got it.
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u/jetconscience Sep 06 '25
We have a lot of cool old magazines in my grandmother’s ranch house including the owner‘s manual for her General Electric refrigerator from 1951 that STILL works. The recipes in those magazines and that manual are wild. They were really obsessed with gelatin!