Just baked cookies!
I made Christmas cookies this week to give as gifts for my co-workers. Of course I wanted to use Aunt Lillian’s recipes. The best ones from her cook book for Christmas were her Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, which I’ve already blogged about and a new one I tried. These were her… Continue reading
On a recent morning I decided to tackle another staple – pancakes from scratch. I found loads of recipes in my vintage cookbooks, but decided on one from my very funky The New England Yankee Cook Book, by Imogene Wolcott from 1939. Continue reading
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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
It’s almost Christmas and Dan and I have NOT succumbed to the shopping frenzy. But that’s really not new this year for us – we have never indulged in the Christmas shopping frenzy that has taken over America. We have always exchanged a few Christmas gifts depending on our economic status of the time, which usually isn’t much since I work in the non-profit world!
And last night as… Continue reading | 1 Comment
I know Christmas is just around the corner because the slow trickle of junk mail in the form of the Christmas catalog is coming in the mail. Slow because since we don’t use catalogs, we don’t receive many. But the average household receives many a Christmas catalog each day which accumulate and then are thrown in the trash.
A few years in a row I purchased Christmas floral gifts… Continue reading
