Desserts
Mamaw’s Apple Pie
It’s been chilly out for the last couple weeks, which by itself is quite lovely. The leaves are starting to change, and I can make pumpkin flavored anything without people looking at me weird. The one bad thing about this time of year is that even though it can get quite cold in the house,…
Read MoreAmazingly Easy Devil’s Food Cake
I’ve been trying to make an effort recently to make some of the recipes I’ve been pinning to my recipes to try pinboard. That way I can either move them to my recipes tried and loved pinboard for keeps, or remove them. The other night, I decided to try a recipe for making a boxed…
Read MoreNo-Bake Pumpkin Pie
I recently came into the possession of a copy of Cuisine Magazine that was published in November 1979 – thanks Aunt Anna. This recipe for no-bake pumpkin pie was advertized in it, and looks like it would be pretty good. Ingredients: 1 (9-inch) graham cracker pie crust 1 envelope Knox unflavored gelatine 1 teaspoon ground…
Read MoreQuick Lemon Crispies
This recipe for a lemon cookie is great dipped in dark chocolate, or served by itself. And, because the recipe uses pudding mix for flavoring, you can easily make other flavors. If you make them small like the recipe calls for, you will get 4 dozen, but I usually end up with a little less…
Read MoreOatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is the recipe for the “healthy” cookies I made for my sister Kayla’s bridal shower. Everyone seemed to like them well enough. Even with the cake, chocolate chunk cookies, and sugar cookies, I didn’t have many left. Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened 1 cup sugar 1 cup packed brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon…
Read MoreHoney Bun Coffee Cake
This recipe for honey bun coffee cake is a favorite sweet breakfast food at our Home Ec meetings. Ingredients: 1 box yellow cake mix 4 eggs 1 cup sour cream 3/4 cup vegetable oil 3 teaspoons cinnamon 1 cup brown sugar 3 cups powdered sugar 1/2 cup milk Instructions: Grease and flour a 9×13 pan…
Read MoreOld Time Recipes
We recently received a large collection of books from my Uncle Scott. Most of those books were agriculture yearbooks. There were books from the earliy 1900s all the way up to the 1990s. Now those books are actually for my husband, but I found 1 book that was calling my name. It was a copy…
Read MoreTempering Chocolate
Tempering chocolate is taking real chocolate, such as eating chocolate and preparing it for use. There is no need to temper chocolate if you will be using it for baking, but in cases where you will be using it as a decorative garnish, or as a coating, it is highly recommended that you temper your…
Read MoreWhat kind of Chocolate?
I’m always getting questions about the types of chocolate I use in my baking and finding myself telling people that they should try a different type of chocolate for theirs. This is the sort of thing that you’d learn at one of these short term bakery courses in delhi and that is why so many…
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