Who doesn’t love peanut butter cookies? Well, lots of people, ha ha, but here is a nice recipe for the lunchbox standard all the same. Peanut Butter Cookies 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup granulated sugar 3/4 c shortening 2 eggs 2 cups flour 1 cup peanut butter 2 scant tsp soda or 1 tsp … Continue reading
I don’t recall ever having these, but they sound sweet and somehow refreshing, reminiscent of the lemonade cookies I posted the other day. In all my baking over the past few years, I have always trended toward chocolate or oatmeal treats, and hearing from my baking colleagues they seem to do the same. But, maybe … Continue reading
I love some of the old terminology that we just don’t often use today. Everyone kind of knows what “scant” means. It’s something our parents and grandparents say, and so by its use in context, we know that it means “slightly less than…” or “not quite an adequate amount.” A scant cup? What is that? … Continue reading
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
Let’s start of the work week with an old favorite, shall we? Just start up the deep fat fryer and make a batch of old fashioned doughnuts. Make sure the coffee is brewed hot, because there isn’t much in this world that goes better with coffee than a fresh doughnut. My mouth is watering as … Continue reading
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