Recipes
Old Fashioned Hard Candy
I love hard candy, and it seems that most of my friends and family do too. The flavorings available for this candy range from cinnamon and wintergreen, to grape and cherry, to coffee and horehound – but I have found that the most popular flavors I make are cinnamon and sour grape (this one requires…
Read MoreMamaw’s Fresh Strawberry Pie
I saw some big ripe strawberries at the grocery today. I got a small box and ate them at lunch. I’m considering going back for more tomorrow, and making a strawberry pie; because nothing is better when strawberries are in season than Mamaw’s fresh strawberry pie. I keep meaning to try to make it with…
Read MoreFruit Pizza
This fruit pizza is basically a giant sugar cookie in a tart pan that is iced in a philly cream cheese topping with bananas, blueberries and strawberries. To start I always use a sugar cookie recipe with granular, instead of powered, sugar for this. Of course, I should also mention that I make my fruit pizza…
Read MoreGrama’s 2-Hour Rolls
Blogging about my scrapbook pages for elementary school is making me a bit sentimental. So, It’s time to share the recipe for my grama’s 2-hour rolls. My grama’s rolls are famous everywhere she goes. Even when she makes double batches, they always run out. The secret to these rolls is not to over handle them,…
Read MoreMeat Kabobs
It’s summer, and summer is time for grilling…. Mostly because using the oven heats up my kitchen, and increases the cost of the A/C. I’m not a big fan of crunchy veggies, so instead of adding veggies to my kabobs, the ones I make are strictly meat. I start with cubed roast (stew meat) and…
Read MoreCherry Delight
The annual church picnic is tomorrow. I’m on the list for dessert, so I’m planning to make some Cherry Delight. It is a quick, easy dessert that goes over well at cook-outs and pot-lucks. Ingredients 1 angel food cake 8 oz.. cream cheese 3 T powdered sugar 2 pkg dream whip (can be replaced with cool…
Read MoreEasy Dump Cake
Today’s recipe of the day is one of my favorites, though I don’t make it near enough. My husband actually makes this more often than I do. It works quite well in a dutch oven, and so he often makes it when he goes to the Booneville Antique Gas and Steam Engine Show. Ingredients 2…
Read MoreNever Fail Pie Dough
This is the pie dough recipe I use. I find that it is much flakier if you are willing to use real lard instead of Crisco. You can purchase lard in buckets and sticks at most large groceries. Don’t be concerned if you use your own lard and it has a bacony smell, this bakes…
Read MoreZucchini Bread
My husband and I have a garden, but this is our first year to grow zucchini. It’s not quite ready yet, but I wanted to try my zucchini bread recipe before we started getting a bunch ready in the garden. Fortunately, I was able to find some nice fresh ones at the store to test…
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