BISCUITS FOR BREAKFAST – OR ANYTIME
Bread and biscuit making are so satisfying. These sourdough biscuits require a bit of planning, but they’re worth it. This is my go-to recipe when I need to feed Sadie…
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Recipes
As Mama would say, “The pots are always jingling at our house.” I do enjoy cooking, mainly because my husband and I enjoy eating good meals. But I must tell you, I like trying out new recipes. In my stories, I always have a character or two who know how to make their pots jingle like Mama’s. So I’m frequently trying out new recipes that Hattie or Lilah or Lita would serve at their tables. You can find those recipes here along with those from our family table. Some of these are so good they’ll make you slap your grandma (but not too hard).
A TASTE OF SPRINGTIME
This is one of my favorite Easter desserts. The berries make it tasty and pink, and the lemon curd makes it sunshine yellow. Who wouldn’t enjoy biting into springtime? PINK…
PUMPKIN CARAMEL PECAN CAKE
Autumn is my favorite season of the year–all the warm colors, smells, and tastes that come from foods, especially desserts, that I associate with the Fall season. This is a…
Fruit Kuchen
In my research for writing SEARCHING FOR THE SONG, I found so many good pastry and dessert recipes from Austria and Germany. Fruit Kuchen is one of those. Kuchen is…
Oatmeal Chewies
One of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2021 was to try twenty new cookies this year. I do need a bite of something to go with my afternoon tea. This…
Naan’s in the Skillet
I never met a bread I didn’t like – crusty, soft, chewy, yeasty, flat, or a fluffy biscuit—I welcome them all to my plate, especially if they bring a pat…
MAMA’S POUND CAKE – SPICED UP WITH EGGNOG FOR CHRISTMAS
2 sticks butter 1/2 cup Crisco 2 3/4 cups sugar 3 1/3 cups plain flour ( I use White Lily.) 5 eggs, room temperature 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon flavoring…
Grancie’s Iced Pumpkin Cookies
Grancie’s Iced Pumpkin Cookies This morsel of goodness is a soft and moist cookie that begs for a cup of tea on a fall afternoon. Or really any time.…
Coconut-Lemon Cake
Keep this yummy cake refrigerated, and the longer it stays in the frig, the better it is. The problem is that it doesn’t seem to last very long.
Cold Christmas Cake
Lita, the cook in CHRISTMAS AT GREY SAGE, was of Hopi Indian descent. This was an ancestral recipe for Christmas cake. Lucky for us, we don’t have to do what the Indians did – make the cake with more primitive ingredients, wrap it in leaves, and cool it in the icy creek water. They were lucky if the bears didn’t get it. But this more modern version is closer to candy than cake, and oh so good!
Native American Fry Bread
Now about this recipe – first of all, I never met a bread I didn’t like, and what could be better than fried bread? I must have gained three pounds trying out recipes until I had THE one. At our house, I’m still making this recipe. It’s great with a bowl of hot soup or stew. And my husband always saves a piece or two for his honey and peanut butter to finish off his meal. WARNING: This is addictive.