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Back of the Box Recipes
I get lots of requests for recipes like this: "the cake from the back of the Soft as
Silk cake flour box in the 1970s", or the brownies recipe that was on the Hershey's
cocoa can in 1955", etc., etc.
It seems that I have sort of a reputation for being able to find these, but, for me,
they're no different from the other recipes that I find for people. I know of no
website that has a database of past recipes from the backs of bags and boxes and cans.
Product websites, such as the Hershey's website and the Soft as Silk flour website
don't have archives of old recipes from their packages, and most people seem to have
found writing to the companies to be futile. Also, when people put a recipe on the
Internet, they don't say "I got this recipe from the Hershey's cocoa can in 1960."
There are a some websites, such as these, that specialize in brand name recipes:
Back of the Box
and
Favorite Brand-Name Recipes
However, these sites don't have archives of recipes that were on certain product packages
in years past, they appear to have only recent ones. Try them if the recipe you want is
fairly recent.
To find a brand-name recipe on my site, type the brand name in the search box above and
click on the search button.
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