The recipe I posted today was just too tempting, and since I have some time on my hands lately, I decided to try out the Chocolate Walnut Dollars. Okay, here we go! First I creamed the shortening and sugar, then added the egg and finally the rest of the ingredients. Before I added the nuts … Continue reading
Back in the day when ink came in a fountain pen, this kind of paper was not your best friend. The ink tends to find the fibers in the paper and bleed along them. If the surface of the paper was damaged in any way the words blurred as the ink saturated the inner fibers. … Continue reading
This paper just says to me “Grandma, can I write too?” I can remember looking at greeting cards that had been sent to me and wondering about the cursive handwriting. Later on, when I was learning to write, I scribbled in curlicues and loops, trying to mimic the handwriting on those cards. Thankfully, … Continue reading
These days when you eat out and the restaurant offers bread pudding, it is always the raisin and cinnamon kind, which I despise. However, when I was a kid, the greatest treat my mother could make for us was chocolate bread pudding. I don’t know what it was about this that made it so wonderful…probably … Continue reading
This will make you a chocolate-y cake with some creamy and smooth icing. A note on the icing. XXXX sugar is now known as confectioners sugar or icing sugar. It is sugar crushed superfine with about 3% cornstarch to prevent clumping. Secondly, this icing isn’t cooked, so beware of the fact that you are using … Continue reading
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