Old-fashioned baked goods: 4 recipes that should have never gone out of style

Far away on a distant sea lies the Island of Old-Fashioned Baked Goods.

There, slices of applesauce cake play in the tall green grass. Charlotte russes dance in the dappled sunlight. Coconut cream pies huddle with date-nut bread to gossip about pineapple upside-down cake.

But despite the appearances, all is not happy on the island. The pleasant, hopeful veneer hides an undercurrent of sorrow.