Category: Stories

Getting ready for the Christmas Eve Buffet
December 22, 2010
The first recipe of a few family favorites. Christmas Eve can’t be a success without these. Recipes for cocktail meatballs and honey BBQ sauce.
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On the 12th (and final) day of Christmas treats…
December 18, 2010
Mom’s first microwave and peanut brittle.
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On the tenth day…make Christmas Fudge
December 16, 2010
Another favorite family recipe.
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On the second day…Grandma’s Fruit Cake
December 5, 2010
Another family holiday tradition: orange slice cake recipe
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Clothesline Taffy
December 2, 2010
Old time Christmas candy recipe.
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Church and community cookbooks…
November 29, 2010
Black Bean Soup Recipe
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More uses for green tomatoes—old time relishes
November 13, 2010
Recipes from the archives for green tomatoes.
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First freeze! AAUUGGHH!
November 9, 2010
I think I jinxed it with yesterday’s post.
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Grandma’s Pea Salad
August 21, 2010
I decided that for the sake of this blog, that I would start referring to my two grandmothers as Grandma (for my paternal grandmother) and Grandmother (for my maternal grandmother). Granted, we called them both “Grandma” but my mom’s mother would always sign letters and birthday cards as “Grandmother.” She was a former school teacher…
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Great-Grandma’s Sour Cream Cocoa Cake
August 20, 2010
I love old recipes. One really needs to have some baking and cooking experience before trying many of them. I have read family recipes that state, “Add a handful of flour” or “Mix in shortening the size of an egg.” These recipes are definitely not for the novice baker. Since I have been fixating on…
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