Some Truly Grisly Vintage Recipes!

Here are some recipes our mothers, or grandmothers, or great-grandmothers might have made, or thought about making.  Oh dear!

  My mother told me when she was in her teens, she once made a kind of sandwich cake that was iced with a cream cheese "frosting" she tinted pink for Valentine's Day.  There were boys at the party, but they wouldn't go near the pink "cake" - so the girls didn't either!