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Category Archives: Desserts
Mrs. Lanier’s Buttermilk Sheet Cake
On a yellowed scrap of paper torn from a sheet of the thin and inexpensive stationery you could buy in pads at the five and dime when I was a boy is a recipe written down for Jerri by Mrs. … Continue reading
Posted in Cookies and cakes, Desserts
Tagged baking, buttermilk, chocolate, frosting, icing
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Hot Fudge Sauce
My mother loved to try new things she saw at the Co-op grocery or A & P, so it is very likely that I had my first taste of commercial hot fudge in 1948. That’s when Smucker’s introduced chocolate fudge … Continue reading
Custard Pie
Our chicken coop was home to at least a couple dozen hens and a rooster year round. Hens need plenty of daylight to lay reliably, so egg producers today have bright artificial lighting that makes the hens think it is … Continue reading
Bread Pudding with Maple Caramel Sauce
Stale bread may not sound very appetizing to you, but it is the main ingredient in one of the tastiest desserts you will ever eat. And it is so easy to make that people have been baking bread pudding for … Continue reading
Muriel’s Peanut Brittle
Driving the church van, I got to know some wonderful people who rode to worship on Sunday mornings. Hazel Olson was one, who gave me the cookie cutter that I used this week to make my grandmother’s date cookies. If … Continue reading
Mrs. Oblander’s Date Pudding
We first had this date pudding at my oldest brother-in-law’s home in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. His mother-in-law, Mrs. Oblander, was visiting and impressed us all with this dessert one day. Here is her date pudding recipe, which Jerri copied on … Continue reading
Jerri’s Cranberry Crumb Coffee Cake
Jerri found this recipe many years ago when we were living in Kentucky. It has just the right amount of sweetness to balance the tartness of the cranberries. It’s great for breakfast or dessert and is the perfect addition to … Continue reading
Cranberry Apple Pie
Quaking bogs can be treacherous places. When my father introduced me to my first quaking bog, I followed instructions carefully and returned from that expedition without any good stories except that I made the bog bounce up and down by … Continue reading
Madge Prewitt’s Apple Cake
Madge Prewitt died at the age of 90 on Wednesday, June 3, 2009 in Corbin, KY. Her obituary tells us that she was a member of the First Baptist Church and had been a hostess at the Holiday Inn Restaurant, … Continue reading
Etta’s Easy Cobbler
In 1949 my parents bought 76 acres about 4 miles north of Hayward. The land was a quarter mile west of the Namekagon River. They could have bought 80 acres on the river for the same price, but my mother … Continue reading
Posted in Desserts, Fruits
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