No One Makes These Old-School Desserts Anymore

Gelatin salads were popular in the '70s, including this pie; a cheese pie crust with a lemon Jell-O, tomato sauce, and vegetable center topped with tuna salad.

The tomato soup spice cake came about in the '20s or '30s, and it combines spice cake mix with water, eggs, a can of tomato soup, and cream cheese frosting.

The average fudge recipe uses sugar, salt, milk, butter, and other flavors, but this recipe adds one block of Velveeta alongside cocoa powder to make it extra creamy.

Potato candy is thought to have roots in the Great Depression. It’s a candied log that consists of just potatoes, peanut butter, and powdered sugar.

These cookies are made with baking ammonia, which was the de facto leavening agent prior to baking soda but is now hard to find. The treats are crispy and thin.