"A decade-by-decade collection of wild, wacky, and wonderful recipes from the 20th century"--Back cover. Travel back on a delicious decade-by-decade jaunt as Hollis shows you how to bake vintage forgotten greats. From Chocolate potato cake to Avocado pie, he has collected these recipes from antique cookbooks from the 1900s to the 1980s. Some are spectacular failures-- and others are disastrously strange. Others are delightful blasts from the past...

Lucille Howard is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur Truluv, she has begun to teach baking classes, sharing the secrets to her delicious classic Southern yellow cake, the perfect pinwheel cookies, and other sweet essentials. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. Iris doesn't know how to bake but she needs to...

"A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from the 20th century"--

When bakery owner Hannah Swensen stumbles upon a dead body floating in the new health club's jacuzzi with a plate of her cream puffs--purchased by her boyfriend--decorating the crime scene, she suddenly has a lot on her plate.

Nancy's failure to pay attention gets her into trouble when she bakes cupcakes for the school bake sale.

"How does a cake bake? What's the difference between baking soda and baking powder? And why is it so important to measure the different ingredients in a recipe?"--|cProvided by publisher.

By order of the Duke, Walter the Baker must invent a tasty roll through which the rising sun can shine three times.

Amelia Bedelia inadvertently enters a baking contest and goes from being a smart cookie to a fortune cookie.

Max makes an earthworm cake for Grandma's birthday and helps Ruby with an angel surprise cake. At the store, the grocer can't read all of the shopping list, until Max solves the problem by drawing pics