Toast is one of life’s great comfort foods. Any amateur can make it. Put bread in toasting device, push button, wait, remove and slather with something. But it’s also trendy: In recent years, toast ...

Our featured recipe this week for Prayer Bars appears in the 1962 Duluth News Tribune Cookbook on the same page as an ad for the latest in toasters. "The G.E. Automatic Toaster ... a wonderful toaster ...