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Betty Robbins, Searcy AR, Chicken Cookin' Queen, Still perfect cook!

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How long since you have seen one of these?

Pineapple upside down cake!!  Isn't it beautiful!  And one of our Searcy AR Chicken Cookin' Queens from 1972 make it yesterday, July 20 2024, and brought it to me!  The mystery is whether they are still as popular as they were so many years ago!  I was absolutely amazed at the beauty!!

Here's the queen back in 1972.

Betty Robbins Searcy AR cooking queen upside down cake

And here's the blog that I did just a few days ago with her as a finalist.

                      https://activerain.com/droplet/J9st

She still reigns supremely!  Thank you, Queen Betty!!

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Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

My late uncle Doyle Graham was a chef at Harding's cafeteria and he was fond of making pinapple upside down cake. It was popular with Harding students.

He also made fruit cakes at Christmas. He would ask me to send dried apricots from California. We had trees and would take a batch for drying.

Jul 21, 2024 08:34 AM
Barbara S. Duncan

So how long since you have had one, Don?  I really do not remember seeing one in SO many years!!  Perhaps we are relatives?  My maiden name was Graham.

Jul 21, 2024 08:37 AM
Will Hamm
Hamm Homes - Aurora, CO
"Where There's a Will, There's a Way!"

Hello and I wish I had some pineapples in the house to make one of these, it looks so good. 

Jul 21, 2024 09:11 AM
GilbertRealtor BillSalvatore
Arizona Elite Properties - Chandler, AZ
Realtor - 602-999-0952 / em: golfArizona@cox.net

Great information. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your week!

Bill Salvatore, Realtor- Arizona Elite Properties

Jul 21, 2024 09:33 AM
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

Unfortunately I don't have much information about the Graham side of my family. 

I have gone back quite a ways for Thompson though.

This is my great grandfather, Jack,  and my grandfather, John Monroe, and my great grandmother, Ella.

Jul 21, 2024 12:20 PM
Barbara S. Duncan

I love that picture, Don.  Grahams or Thompsons?

Jul 21, 2024 12:36 PM
Myrl Jeffcoat
Sacramento, CA
Greater Sacramento Realtor - Retired

It's been awhile since I baked a Pineapple Upside Down cake.  I think I need to bake one up.

Jul 21, 2024 03:53 PM
Barbara S. Duncan

Go for it, Myrl!!

Jul 21, 2024 04:03 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Retired Home Stager/Redesign

Hi Barbara- Two of my favorites my mother used to make were my birthday cake and a pineapple upside down cake!!! I loved it!!!!

Jul 21, 2024 06:03 PM
Barbara S. Duncan

They were made a lot back then.  But are they now??

Jul 22, 2024 04:39 AM
Don Thompson
Donthomp Associates - Sunnyvale, CA

My great grandfather, Jack Graham,  and my grandfather, John Monroe Graham, and my great grandmother, Ella Graham.

Jul 21, 2024 06:04 PM
Barbara S. Duncan

We probably connect somewhere way back then.  Mine were in Georgia.

Jul 22, 2024 04:41 AM
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