Peanut Butter Eggs, Made

Not too long ago, I posted three recipes for peanut butter eggs, and at the time I thought they sounded pretty easy. So, this past weekend I decided to try one of them! Here we go. Here’s the ingredient list: 1 lb box xxx sugar 3/4 c melted butter or oleo pinch of salt 1/2 … Continue reading

Sweet Bread

This is the type of recipe that makes young people roll their eyes and say “duh” because they don’t realize cooking terminology has changed over the years. What they – and many people actually – don’t realize is that ovens didn’t always have a thermostat or different heat settings. In the early days of baking, a … Continue reading

Verne’s Cottage Cheese Filling

I teased you recently about a filling for Verne’s Basic Dough and here it is. This filling contains a neutral flavored cheese, sweetened and then with coconut and raisins. To me, that does not sound like something I want to eat, but that’s probably because I don’t like coconut. You could probably omit that easily. … Continue reading

Poppy Seed Roll Cake Dough

There in the corner, where it says “from the kitchen of…” is one of the wonderful aspects of these old recipe cards I love. People traded recipes after they had tried a sampling of someone’s cooking. In this example, we assume that F. Kotch had these roll/cakes at some sort of gathering, maybe even a … Continue reading