E. Tallant of Fayettesville, N.C., was seeking a recipe for Cowboy Crumb Cake that she had seen in a thick green book used by the Lenape High School in New Jersey. It was fabulous, she wrote. Bruce ...

Cowboy Cake is an example of American baking deliciousness born of hard times. When cowboys moved out West, they didn't bring hens with them. Instead of eggs, they "made do by cooking down raisins ...