Rediscover the smells and tastes of your ancestors’ kitchen.
Barry’s Forgotten Recipes is about sharing cookbooks and recipes of our ancestors. From generation to generation, family and friends came together for the main meal of the day and for conversation. Renew the powerful memories of smell, taste, and sharing food. Remember the traditions that linked generations.
Recipes in this sampling represent over 50 cookbooks from 1832 to 1928 and are represented exactly as they were presented in in the original cookbook. No correction has been made for grammar, spelling, or punctuation. The recipes are provided for your enjoyment. If you choose to try any recipes, you do so at your own risk without guarantee of satisfaction.
Search suggestions: Barry’s Forgotten Recipes are organized by category. When you click on a category, you will be presented with recipes. There are three ways to view the recipes:
- Click on the listing below and you will be taken to the recipe.
- Scroll and page through recipes in the desired category.
- In the search box, enter key ingredient (Example: lobster or oatmeal) or type of dish (Example: casserole or turnovers) for which you are looking and click search. You will be presented with list of options.
Category Recipes
- Recipe: A Large Pound Cake
- Recipe: A small Angle Cake
- Recipe: Almond Cake
- Recipe: Almond Frosting
- Recipe: Almond Spong Cake
- Recipe: Apple Cake
- Recipe: Apple Cake
- Recipe: Apple Sauce Cake (without Butter, Eggs, or Milk)
- Recipe: Banana Cake
- Recipe: Bavarian Cheese Cake
- Recipe: Black Cake or Plum Cake
- Recipe: Boiled Frosting
- Recipe: Boiled Icing
- Recipe: Brides Cake
- Recipe: Bride’s Cake
- Recipe: Brown Sugar Boiled Icing
- Recipe: Butter Cream Icing
- Recipe: Buttermilk Cake
- Recipe: California Prune Cake
- Recipe: Caramel Cake
- Recipe: Carmel Icing
- Recipe: Cheese Cake
- Recipe: Chesnut Cakes
- Recipe: Chocolate Butter Cake
- Recipe: Chocolate Butter Icing
- Recipe: Chocolate Cake
- Recipe: Chocolate Cake
- Recipe: Chocolate Cake or Devil’s Food Cake
- Recipe: Chocolate Cake, No. 1
- Recipe: Chocolate Frosting
- Recipe: Chocolate Icing
- Recipe: Chocolate Layer Cake
- Recipe: Chocolate Layer Cake
- Recipe: Chocolate Marble Cake
- Recipe: Chocolate Nut Cake
- Recipe: Chocolate Water Icing
- Recipe: Christmas Cakes
- Recipe: Cider Cake
- Recipe: Cinnamon Cake
- Recipe: Cinnamon Cake
- Recipe: Cocoa Frosting
- Recipe: Cocoanut Pound Cake
- Recipe: Coffee Cake
- Recipe: Coffee Icing
- Recipe: Cold Water Sponge Cake
- Recipe: Corn Starch Cake
- Recipe: Cream Cake
- Recipe: Date Cake
- Recipe: Delicate Cake
- Recipe: Devil’s Food
- Recipe: Election Cake
- Recipe: English Pound Cake
- Recipe: Feather Cake
- Recipe: Fondant
- Recipe: Fondant Icing
- Recipe: For Icing Pastry
- Recipe: Franklin Cake
- Recipe: French Almond Cake
- Recipe: Frosting without Eggs
- Recipe: Fruit Cake
- Recipe: Fruit Cake (Superior)
- Recipe: Fruit Cake by Measure ( Excellent)
- Recipe: Fudge Cake
- Recipe: Ginger Cake
- Recipe: Ginger Plum Cake
- Recipe: Gingerbread
- Recipe: Gold Cake
- Recipe: Greek Cakes
- Recipe: Harrison Cake
- Recipe: Hickory Nut or Walnut Cake
- Recipe: Hot Water Sponge Cake
- Recipe: Huckleberry Cake
- Recipe: Hungarian Spice Cakes
- Recipe: Ice Cream Cake
- Recipe: Indian Pound Cake
- Recipe: Jelly Cake
- Recipe: Jewish Purim Cakes
- Recipe: Johnny Cake
- Recipe: Lady Baltimore Cake
- Recipe: Lady Cake
- Recipe: Lemon Snow
- Recipe: Lemon Sponge Cake
- Recipe: Marmalade Cake
- Recipe: Miss Farmer’s Chocolate Nougat Cake
- Recipe: Molasses Fruit Cake
- Recipe: Moravian Spice Cake
- Recipe: Mrs. Roger’s Chocolate Cake
- Recipe: Nut Cake
- Recipe: Nut Honey Cake
- Recipe: Nut Layer Cake
- Recipe: Nut Spice Cake
- Recipe: Old-Fashioned Pork Cake
- Recipe: Old-Fashoned Sponge Cake
- Recipe: One Egg Cake
- Recipe: One Egg Loaf Cake
- Recipe: Orange Cake
- Recipe: Orange Icing
- Recipe: Orange Water Icing
- Recipe: Ornamental Icing
- Recipe: Peach Cake
- Recipe: Plain Chocolate Icing
- Recipe: Plain Fondant
- Recipe: Plain Fruit Cake
- Recipe: Plain Icing
- Recipe: Plain Layer Cake
- Recipe: Plain Pound Cake
- Recipe: Plain Sponge Cake
- Recipe: Plain Water Icing
- Recipe: Potato Flour Sponge Cake
- Recipe: Potato Johnny Cake
- Recipe: Pound Cake
- Recipe: Queen Cake
- Recipe: Rasin Spice Cake
- Recipe: Roll Jelly Cake
- Recipe: Scotch Queen Cake
- Recipe: Small Pound Cake
- Recipe: Snow Cake (Delicious)
- Recipe: Soft Ginger Cake
- Recipe: Sour Milk Chocolate Cake
- Recipe: Spanish Chocolate Cake
- Recipe: Speed Cake
- Recipe: Spice Cake
- Recipe: Spiced Oatmeal Fruit Cakes
- Recipe: Sponge Cake
- Recipe: Sponge Cake
- Recipe: Sponge Cake
- Recipe: Sponge Cake-One Egg
- Recipe: Sponge Cake-Three Eggs
- Recipe: Sponge Cake-Two Eggs
- Recipe: Sugar Icing
- Recipe: Swedish Honey Cakes
- Recipe: Swedish Tearing
- Recipe: Sweet Strawberry Cake
- Recipe: Swiss Crumb Cake
- Recipe: Uncooked Fondant
- Recipe: Vanilla Icing
- Recipe: Velvet Sponge Cake
- Recipe: War Cake
- Recipe: Wartime Fruit Cake
- Recipe: Washington Cakeecipe: Wedding Cake
- Recipe: Wheatless, Eggless, Butterless, Milkless, Sugarless Cake
- Recipe: White Cake
- Recipe: White Cake
- Recipe: White Fruite Cake
- Recipe: White Icing
- Recipe: Whitefruit Cake