About this episode

The episode explores a unique dessert recipe from a vast archive of family recipes in Nebraska.

In a storefront in Kearney, Nebraska, Morris Press Cookbooks Store houses a massive "Google of family recipes," chronicling nearly a century of American home-style cuisine. To test the archive, producer Jerome Campbell attempts to “bake his way back home” by testing an unusual make-do dessert recipe: A pinto-bean-based cake.

Topics covered

• family recipes
• American cuisine
• baking
• desserts
• cooking

Keywords

• family recipes
• cooking
• baking
• pinto beans
• dessert

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Morris Press Cookbooks Store

Products: pinto-bean-based cake

Places: Kearney, Nebraska

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