
Category Archives: Portland


Peanut Brittle

Olive Cheese Ball

Oatmeal Macaroons
The spelling “cocoanut” was common until around the 1930s.

Nutty Egg Sandwich and Spam Surprise Bun
From a 1967 book of recipes from an Oregon bakery.

Molded Vegie Salad
Have you ever had a taco salad and thought, “What this needs is Jell-o?”

Molasses Cookies
What’d allspice ever do to you?

Mayonnaise Cake
For the ketchup-in-chocolate-cake crowd, there’s a mayonnaise cake.

Mac and Cheese
Another classic!

Mabel’s Mince Meat
It’s a rare mince that still has meat in it, these days.

Patience
Patience candy is a pre-WWII sort of caramel.

Pickles
The recipe got written down on my 7th birthday.