Who Invented Pineapple Upside Down Cake?
Yield: 4 Servings Ingredients 1 none Instructions Truth is-it’s been with us so long, nobody seems to know how it got here. It’s all-American – a classic dessert, but food experts and historians only could guess the origins of Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Everyone had something to say, of course. Nearly all recalled their mothers’ or grandmothers’ recipes. No two were alike, except they evoked fond memories. Pineapple Upside Down Cake is like that – symbolic of earlier days and simpler times. “…It wasn’t fancy, but it was gooey and good, and we served it with lots of whipped cream…” “…I remember my mother cooked it on top of the stove…” ” For our family, it was a company dessert baked in the oven with pineapple, maraschino cherries and pecans…” “… I remember my mother always cooked it in a heavy, cast iron skillet…” Guess Again. Experts have their guesses about its date of origin: “I think that dish appeared in the 1920’s,” said one. “The 1940’s – maybe the 30’s,” said ano
