Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Welcome back to Sunday Morning and The Old Cookbook Show! Today we dive into another nostalgic treasure from Prince Edward Island Home Recipes, a WWII-era Canadian wartime cookbook filled with both practical and surprisingly aspirational baking recipes. This week’s feature: a classic Beachberg Pudding—also known in some circles as a “sauce and cake” dessert.
This vintage pudding cake recipe uses pantry staples like flour, brown sugar, corn syrup, raisins, and milk, topped with a rich, bubbling brown sugar sauce that forms during baking. It’s a self-saucing cake with roots in old-fashioned frugality—but with flavour that’s anything but plain. No eggs, no spices, and yet... it tastes just like a warm, cozy spice cake. This dessert was popular during the war and made a major comeback in the 1970s across Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—sometimes even in boxed cake mix form!
Join us as we explore the history of PEI wartime cooking, old-fashioned dessert techniques, and the nostalgic magic of saucy baked puddings. And yes—there’s even a side story about a still-operating woolen mill from the book’s advertisements!
BEACHBURG PUDDING Recipe:
1 tb. butter
¼ c. sugar
¼ c. corn syrup
1 c. flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
½ c. milk.
½ c. raisins
½ tsp. vanilla
Sauce :
1/3 c. brown sugar
1½ c. boiling water
1/3 c. corn syrup
1 tbsp. butter
Cream the butter, add the sugar, syrup and cream.
Sift and measure flour and sift again with the dry ingredients.
Add the sifted dry ingredients alternately with the milk.
Add the raisins and vanilla and pour the batter into a greased baking dish.
Combine the brown sugar, syrup, boiling water and butter, and pour this sauce over the top of the batter. Bake in moderate oven - 350 deg. F. - 30 to 40 minutes. Five to six servings.
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Welcome back to Sunday Morning and The Old Cookbook Show! Today we dive into another nostalgic treasure from Prince Edward Island Home Recipes, a WWII-era Canadian wartime cookbook filled with both practical and surprisingly aspirational baking recipes. This week’s feature: a classic Beachberg Pudding—also known in some circles as a “sauce and cake” dessert.
This vintage pudding cake recipe uses pantry staples like flour, brown sugar, corn syrup, raisins, and milk, topped with a rich, bubbling brown sugar sauce that forms during baking. It’s a self-saucing cake with roots in old-fashioned frugality—but with flavour that’s anything but plain. No eggs, no spices, and yet... it tastes just like a warm, cozy spice cake. This dessert was popular during the war and made a major comeback in the 1970s across Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—sometimes even in boxed cake mix form!
Join us as we explore the history of PEI wartime cooking, old-fashioned dessert techniques, and the nostalgic magic of saucy baked puddings. And yes—there’s even a side story about a still-operating woolen mill from the book’s advertisements!
BEACHBURG PUDDING Recipe:
1 tb. butter
¼ c. sugar
¼ c. corn syrup
1 c. flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
½ c. milk.
½ c. raisins
½ tsp. vanilla
Sauce :
1/3 c. brown sugar
1½ c. boiling water
1/3 c. corn syrup
1 tbsp. butter
Cream the butter, add the sugar, syrup and cream.
Sift and measure flour and sift again with the dry ingredients.
Add the sifted dry ingredients alternately with the milk.
Add the raisins and vanilla and pour the batter into a greased baking dish.
Combine the brown sugar, syrup, boiling water and butter, and pour this sauce over the top of the batter. Bake in moderate oven - 350 deg. F. - 30 to 40 minutes. Five to six servings.
2025 Give Hope Wings Fundraiser Page:
https://ca-p2p.engagingnetworks.app/31190/ghw2025/180784/glens-hangar
More info about Hope Air: hopeair.ca
hopeair.ca/impact-report-2024
Our Fundraiser flight will be making stops in June 2025:
Thursday June 5: Gore Bay (CYZE) - Launch Event
Friday June 6 - Saturday June 7: Sault Ste. Marie (CYAM) - Hope Air Day
Sunday June 8 Marathon (CYSP) - Lunch
Sunday June 8 Sioux Lookout (CYXL)
Monday June 9 Red Lake (CYRL) - Reception Event
Tues June 10 - Wed June 11 Winnipeg (CYWG) - Patient and Partner Event
More dates to be announced
Here is the link to our Apron: searchandrescuedenim.com/products/s-r-x-glen-friends-chef-apron?country=IO&variant=50865649877152
searchandrescuedenim.com/GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING
Discount code to be used at checkout: GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING
Buy us a cup of tea: ko-fi.com/glenandfriendscooking
Help us out with a PayPal donation: paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=T4FPGUQABAUTE
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This channel is nothing without you our viewers! Thanks for watching the Old Cookbook Show and our Historical Cooking.
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