Reader Requests Page

Hello Cooking & Baking Fans!  I am hoping that the power of the internet can bring us together to help each other out with our cooking mysteries!  I have added the page Reader Requests so that questions can be posted, and hopefully someone out there will know the answer.  Here are a few of the many … Continue reading

New Page for Holiday Recipes!

I just wanted to add a quick post announcing a whole page here on Gram’s Recipe Box dedicated to vintage and heirloom holiday recipes! I am excited about this because there are certain foods that to me announce the arrival of the winter holidays and populate the plates during the many family get togethers and … Continue reading

Tomatoe Cocktail

When I think of a cocktail, I think of an alcoholic drink, but a cocktail can also be a combination of fruits and/or vegetables, pureed, chopped up, or otherwise combined. Fruit cocktail is a combination of chopped fruits in a syrup. The recipe above is for a tomatoe [sic] cocktail, probably along the lines of … Continue reading

Hey we were in a magazine!

I was invited to share a recipe in OC Family magazine, a magazine dedicated to parenting in Orange County, CA. After much thought I decided on the brownie recipe from my Grammie Hennie, featured here back in June 2010. I’m delighted to share with you now a pdf of the page from the May 2011 … Continue reading

Shopping List

This one isn’t a recipe, but rather is a shopping list. Yes, it was written on the back of a recipe, but we will get to that later. What I like is that this lists out a variety of items and their costs. The list is from a time when 10 pounds of sugar cost … Continue reading