We Don’t Make it like THAT Anymore— The changing form of Mrs. Schrader’s Frosting In 1935, Mrs. Schrader lived a couple of doors down from the girlhood home of my wife’s mother in Urbana, Illinois. Mrs. Schrader had a well-deserved reputation as a marvelous cook, and was glad to share her recipes—And so it was that Grandmother Salome acquired this recipe, used continuously by her descendants for the past 85 years. ‘Mrs. Schrader’s Frosting’ is a rich, boiled chocolate frosting that congeals with a shiny finish. Here is the earliest known typed recipe card, probably typed in the 1930’s or 1940’s: When I got out the recipe to make frosting for my wife’s birthday cake, I began to get out the double boiler. “What are you doing?” asked my wife. “It says we have to melt the chocolate over hot water,” I replied. “Doesn’t that mean we need to use a double boiler?” “No, no, no,” she said. “We don’t do it like THAT anymore.” So I took notes on how we DO do i...