Cherry Pie

This pie recipe is written on a bank deposit slip. It’s a little hard to decipher and it looks as though Gram wrote it in a hurry. I’m not clear on the process but could probably figure it out after a few tries. My guess is that “p juice” might be pineapple juice. The recipe … Continue reading

Angel Pie

Maybe I chose this recipe because I call my daughter Angel Pie. I don’t know, but it sounds delicious and I will have to find an excuse to make it one of these days. This is reminiscent of pavlova, which my friend who spent a year in Australia introduced to me. She makes the best pavlova! … Continue reading

Ida’s Chocolate Sauce

Here we have a second recipe for chocolate sauce. Where the first recipe was pretty much a “throw it together and use it” sauce, this one requires a little bit of time for cooking. It sounds delicious and I love Gram’s notes to herself. They are visual an easy to reconcile. I have no idea … Continue reading

Caramel Sauce

I don’t recall if we ever had this caramel sauce on ice cream when we visited Gram. The one very special dessert I do remember at her house was spent with my cousins George and Margie, my mother, sister, Gram and Grandpa. We had blueberries and cream and George found a little worm in his … Continue reading

Chocolate Syrup

I absolutely love this “recipe card” because it’s so Gram. She was frugal and I have seen numerous examples of her reusing paper to jot down recipes, ideas, or notes. She was the original “green” housewife, lol. This particular recipe is on the corner of an envelope – and on the back was part of … Continue reading