Chocolate Chip Cookies

Who doesn’t like chocolate chip cookies? They are my go-to when I bake in the winter for our soldiers via Operation Baking GALS. Of course you can make substitutions – white chocolate chips, M&Ms, add nuts, etc. Take it and make it your own! This is not the original Toll House recipe. It appears to … Continue reading

Black & White Pudding

This recipe calls for scalded milk. I did a little reading about scalded milk, and it’s possible that it won’t be necessary using modern milk. Scalding milk “in the old days” was the process of heating milk to about 180 to kill harmful bacteria, and to destroy the enzymes in milk that would prevent it … Continue reading

Mystery Recipe

This one is only a mystery because the top of the paper has worn off over time, if there was a name there at all. Gram certainly loved to cut up these slips of paper, probably advertisements, to use as scratch pads. I finally figured out that these ones that have the big blue writing … Continue reading

Just remember you saw it here first

So as I was browsing a certain major news outlet’s website – one that sorta sounds like See Ben Ben – I saw that they are starting up a new food blog. One featuring heirloom recipes. They are even asking their readers to submit a scan of their granny’s apple pie recipe card, the more … Continue reading

Cornstarch Pudding

Here’s a pudding recipe that sounds a little bland to me, but it could be good. It’s also worth noting that it’s gluten free. Cornstarch Pudding 2 cups milk 6 tsp cornstarch 3 tbsp sugar salt vanilla Cook all together When done stir in two slightly beaten egg yolks