As I was looking through Aunt Lillian’s cookbook, it struck me that Aunt Lillian’s recipe for waffles might be a fun and simple recipe to make – certainly all the ingredients are on hand at any time in our kitchen.
Dan and I have a special fondness for waffles having made them since we started dating using a vintage waffle iron that belonged to his Aunt Faye. That is… Continue reading | 2 Comments
The two recipes I used
There are lots of cookie recipes in Aunt Lilly’s recipe book, so I thought I’d try a tried and true one – oatmeal cookies. Everyone loves oatmeal cookies and I figured I’d find lots of recipes to help me with Aunt Lillian’s spare ingredient list. Not… Continue reading | 2 Comments
The cookies with Aunt Lilly's recipe
This blog was going to be about the molasses cookies I made last week. Great cookies made from Aunt Lilly’s recipe. And as I was adding the photos I realized, whoops! I have already blogged about Aunt Lilly’s Molasses Cookie recipe in my second… Continue reading | 4 Comments
Photo by Lady Disdain
One valuable lesson I’ve learned from this experiment in cooking Great Aunt Lillian’s recipe’s is NEVER, and I repeat, NEVER, think you will make one of these recipes on the first try to take to a big gathering such as Thanksgiving or Christmas. As I think back… Continue reading
I’ve been pretty lax of late with writing a post – mainly because I’ve been so busy! But over Thanksgiving I made two of Aunt Lillian’s recipes that are perfect for either Thanksgiving or Christmas. For this post I’ll focus on Mince Meat Pie.
Like a lot of you I’d grown up hearing about Mince Meat Pie, but I’d never tried it even though its about as American as… Continue reading | 9 Comments
My friend Amy told me about a new book entitled Fannie’s Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer’s 1896 Cookbook by Chris Kimball, the host of America’s Test Kitchen and the editor of Cook’s Magazine. Yippee, I thought! A book about Fannie Farmer and a cook who spent two years (!) recreating Fannie’s twelve-course Christmas… Continue reading | 1 Comment
Maybe this recipe wasn't written down correctly?
What I will never know about Aunt Lillian’s cook book is, how many of these hand written recipes did she try or even use on a regular basis? Like many of us, she probably had good intentions and either copied recipes… Continue reading | 4 Comments
Sour Cream – Stick your finger in a tub of it and take a lick and your first thought would not be “Hey, let’s put this in a cake to cook with it!” I still don’t know the answer as to why we began cooking with this odd ingredient, other than to say our British ancestors used soured cream – i.e. cream that has naturally soured – to bake their… Continue reading | 2 Comments
Getting ready for the big event!
Daunting. That’s all I’m going to say. If you’re at all like me the thought of making a steamed Victorian pudding sends shivers up your spine. You’ve heard about them and they sound mysterious, dark, and difficult. What on earth would you steam the… Continue reading | 5 Comments
Muffins have been around in our food culture for a long time. The word muffin first appears in print in the 18th century and appears as a recipe by the mid-18th century. I found two different descriptions of where the word came from. One source claimed it was an old French term which when applied to bread means soft. The other… Continue reading
