TIP OF THE DAY: Creative Icebox Cakes & Homemade Chocolate Wafers Recipes

[1] The original ice box cake was made by Nabisco. Wafers and whipped cream were assembled and then frozen, to make cutting easy. After the taller cake became popular, the original version was named Refrigerator Roll (photo courtesy Nabisco). [2] The cake evolved into the classic Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafer Ice Box Cake, a tall…
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Classic & Creative Recipes For National Lemon Meringue Pie Day

Updated August 2026 August 15th is National Lemon Meringue Pie Day, celebrating one of America’s favorite pies. It’s a lemon custard single crust pie topped with fluffy meringue, made from egg whites and sugar. Below: > America’s favorite pies. > The history of lemon meringue pie. > The recipe for Lemon Meringue Pie and variations.…
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RECIPES: Healthy Potato Salad Reveries

The summers of our youth meant that on the three holiday weekends—Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day—Mom was going to put out a major spread. You could have held a wedding reception with the diversity and quantity of food she set out. Aside from the fruit pies and trays of brownies, what we most…
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