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Grandma's Never Run Out of Cookies or Hugs

 

Recipes and memories of the good old days.

Recipe books filled with heirlooms from Grandma's kitchen.

These special books can be purchased here.

Remember - Grandma's never run out of hugs or cookies.

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Our Old Family Recipe for Golden Butterscotch Bread Pudding 

Golden Butterscotch Bread Pudding
3 cups milk
2 well beaten eggs
3 tbsp butter
2 cups stale bread (broken into small pieces)
1/2 cup raisins
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
Scald milk and add remaining ingredients. Pour into well greased 1 1/2 quart casserole and dot with bits of butter and sprinkle with extra brown sugar and nutmeg. Bake at 350' oven for about 1 hour or until a knife comes out clean when you test it.

Great Grandma Recipe Books 

Grandma's Favorites: Over 350 Best-Loved Recipes Handed Down through the Generations - From Sunday Pot Roast to Oatmeal Cookies (Taste of Home)

I love the Taste of Home cookbooks and magazines! Grandma's Favorites is filled with wonderful recipes. They are "real" recipes....ones that are not hard to make and can be made often. The recipes were submitted by real people who tell about their recipe.

Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 05/22/2008)
List Price: $24.95

Preserves and Canning: Secrets Your Grandma Never Taught You (Quick & Easy) (Quick & Easy (Silverback))

Release Date: 07/10/2005

Amazon Price: $8.95 (as of 05/22/2008)
List Price: $8.95

From Grandma's Kitchen (Gooseberry Patch) (Gooseberry Patch)

Grandma's kitchen is full of wonderful memories of hearty meals, yummy breads, delicious desserts...our book captures the tastiest recipes that have been passed down through the years. Try family favorites like blueberry breakfast cake, country biscuits & eggs, baked potato soup, best beef brisket, stuffed cabbage rolls, vanilla drop cookies, golden bread pudding and more. The cheery art inside will even remind you of Grandma's apron! Filled with quick & easy ideas for making memories with loved ones, this book is one to treasure.

Amazon Price: $16.95 (as of 05/22/2008)
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Grandma's Wartime Baking Book: World War II and the Way We Baked

Amazon Price: (as of 05/22/2008)
List Price: $24.95

Old Style Cookbooks 

Traditional Country Cooking

Traditional Country Cooking

Price: $7.98

Brings the simple rustic cooking of rural Europe and America to today's modern kitchens.

Wooden Spoon Book Of Old Family Recipes

Wooden Spoon Book Of Old Family Recipes

Price: $9.60

New! Moore. Lost art of traditional American cookery revived in 150+ meat-&-potatoes, comfort-food recipes. 194 pgs. Paper

Boston Cooking School Cookbook

Boston Cooking School Cookbook

Price: $10.36

Reprint of Mrs. D.A. Lincoln's 1884 classic, one of the most influential cookbooks ever, with intro by Jan Longone.

Recipes from Grandmothers 

At Grandmother's Table

At Grandmother's Table

Price: $13.96

Now in paper! In this deluxe gift book, more than 50 women share their grandmothers' touching life stories and favorite family recipes. The contribu... more »

Secret To Tender Pie

Secret To Tender Pie

Price: $14.36

New! Treasure trove of great family recipes & heartwarming anecdotes from real-life grandmothers across the U.S. Photos. 176 pgs. Hard

Eat! Enjoy!

Eat! Enjoy!

Price: $10.46

When it comes to the recipes of our grandmothers and ancestors, Americans have an enormous appetite. The latest in a successful series of contest coo... more »

500 Treasured Country Recipes

500 Treasured Country Recipes

Price: $15.16

In this chock-full-of-recipes cookbook, Martha shares her family and friends' favorite tried-and-true country-cooking recipes. These are the simple d... more »

Yesterday's Bread: 100 Creative Recipes

Yesterday's Bread: 100 Creative Recipes

Price: $5.98

Crafty cooks, grandmothers, and frugal homemakers have always known that throwing out bread is a sin. Now everyone can create something nourishing out... more »

A Grandmother's Cookie Jar 

My mother (my grandchildren's great- grandmother) had a cookie jar exactly like this one. It was always full of homemade cookies!!

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1/2 Gallon Penny or Candy Jar with Cover (69857RAH)

Amazon Price: $35.73 (as of 05/22/2008)
List Price: $44.00

Old Recipe Books 

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Delux Muffins 

personal favorite

Delux Muffins

4 cups brown sugar
2 cups cooking oil
4 eggs (beaten lightly)
4 tsblespoons molasses (blackstrap)
4 cups buttermilk
3 cups bran
51/2 cups white flour
4 teaspoon baking powder
4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups raisins (or 1 cup dates; 1 cup currents; 1 cup raisins)

Mix together in order of ingredient list.
Line muffin tins with cupcake papers and fill 3/4's full with muffin dough.

Bake in 425' oven for 15 to 20 minutes.

This recipe keeps well mixed and covered in the fridge for 2 to 3 weeks. Bake fresh muffins whenever you want.

Enjoy!

Homemade Green Toamto Mincemeat 

Green Tomato Mincemeat from Grandma and Grampa's kitchen

My husband and I grew our own tomatoes and always had an abundance of green tomatoes still on the vines at seasons end. We never let them go to waste.

Try using this delicious recipe the next time you make tarts, pie, squares or cookies.

Green Tomato Mincemeat

10 cups chopped green tomatoes - drain the liquid off
Cover with cold water, bring to boiling point.
Turn off the heat.
Let stand for 1/2 hour. Drain and repeat once more.

Add: 6 cups brown sugar
4 cups raisins
2 cups misc. peel & Citron (used for fruitcake)
2/3 cup cider vinigar
1/2 cup butter
4 teaspoon salt, 1 tsp. nutmeg, 1 tsp cloves, 2 tsp. cinnamon

Boil gently until the mixture thickens. Stir every now and then so it does not burn.

Add 2/3 cup pure grape juice.

Boil 2 minutes.

You can either seal in hot sterilized jars. Or cool and freeze in cartons.

Granny's Mincemeat Cookie Recipe 

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Keep this favorite Mincemeat Cookie Recipe on your fridge ready for everytime you want to make these cookies!

A cookie recipe in memory of Granny

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Price: 3.99

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Granny's cookie Recipe Mug

These cookies are a perfect match with your favorite hot drink!

In memory of Granny - her cookie recipe

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Price: 15.99

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Green Tomato Mincemeat Cookies 

A Family Recipe - 'My Mom's'

Mincemeat Cookies -- pre-heat oven to 400' F

1 cup of green tomato mincemeat
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp dry instant coffee
1 cup shortening
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs

Mix together shortening, sugar and eggs. Add mincemeat. Add dry ingredients. Grease a cookie sheet and drop teaspoon full for each cookie on the pan. - Bake about 10 to 15 minutes.

NEW Love Blooms In A Grandmother's Heart 

This item will be released on November 15, 2007

Precious Moments A Garden Of Love Blooms In A Grandmother's Heart

Grandmothers know that just the right amount of sunshine, love and attention will nourish both the flowers and the soul. As this caring grandmother tends to her beautifully blooming plants, she takes care to be gentle and not to crowd her prized blossoms. For in the heart of a grandmother grows a garden of love which is open for all to share.

Release Date: 11/15/2007

Amazon Price: $40.00 (as of 05/22/2008)

Old Fashioned 

Old Fashioned Recipes
Welcome to The Old Fashioned Kitchen, where we share recipes, cooking tips and memories of the kitchen.

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Rusks (Skorpa) - the Recipe and the Memory 

Rusk or Skorpa (Swedish Toast)
Skorpa is a traditional Scandinavian coffee (kaffe) time treat.

My Grandmother Peterson's kitchen was well known for it's sweet aroma of skorpa' and fresh brewed coffee. My grandmother's hospitality was even warmer than her cozy kitchen with a beautiful wood cook stove and big round table. At 3pm sharp it was kaffe time at the Peterson's and anyone was welcome. I loved being there at 3 because you never knew who would drop by and my grandmother always kept little cakes for just such an occasion and always there was skorpa in the warming oven on the big stove. Skorpa was wonderful for dunking into hot cocoa! Her cake tins never became empty and the warming oven was never without skorpa staying dry and toasted. How did she manage that? Then one day it dawned on me - "love kept them full!"

I have made this recipe many times:

Rusks (you can make half a recipe if you want - but you'll be sorry )

4 cups Milk
2 Tblsp yeast
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs - beaten lightly
1 1/2 cup melted butter or margarine
13 cups of white (unbleached) flour
2 tsp. salt
2 tsp ground cardamom

With the new yeasts these days - follow the instructions on the package. And add accordingly.
Heat the milk until just lukewarm. Add all liquid ingredients.
Add 3 cups of four and beat until smooth - beat in sugar, salt and cardamom.
Mix in the rest of the flour as per regular bread instructions.
And follow your regular bread making method. Bake in loaf pans as per standard bread recipes.
When done remove from pan and let cool until the next day.

Slice all the loaves into finger size rectangles. Place rectangle pieces of bread on cookie sheets and put in oven at very low temperature 170' to 200'. The rusks must toast and dry all the way through each piece. This may take 2 or 3 hours. Better yet at the end of about 2 hours or so - turn the oven off and leave them in the oven for a few more hours.
Perfect for dunking' into hot cocoa or fresh brewed coffee.

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beachbum_gabby

looks like a very delicious Butterscotch Bread Pudding. Thanks GramaBarb. 5*

Posted May 14, 2008

LeslieBrenner

Yum!!!!

Posted April 20, 2008

Irenemaria

Oh Barb! Since I am Swedish I can tell you that the skorpa are made just like that today too! My Mom made them too. Sometimes she made little buns and cut them in halves with a fork (!) and dried them in her wood oven. Memories - 5 stars for you!

Posted March 17, 2008

chefkeem

You're the best, Barbara! 5*s! Thanks for your kind comments on my new profile page.
-Chef Keem

Posted March 17, 2008

rms

This one is getting rolled onto my Totally Tomato lens! Great recipes.

Posted January 17, 2008

 
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