Grandma-Based Food History
My dear friend, and fellow Midwesterner, Joanna reached out to me a few weeks ago with a stash of Italian cookie recipes from her grandmother Lucy & her grandmother’s friend, Philimena (who went by Minnie, but with such a doozy of name like that, I …
These lightly spiced Italian-American cookies are festive & ready to party. They are delicious fresh after frosting, or letting age a day and dunking in coffee. This recipe came to me from my friend Joanna, who found this recipe in a stash from her grandmother, …
Easy to follow recipe for the classic Scottish fruitcake. Tastes delicious fresh from the oven, or after the traditional aging for a week.
This mid-century cookie recipe was overheard by my eavesdropping great-grandmother, Mabel Studt. She would often listen in on neighbor’s conversations over the party line telephone, hushing up her grandkids so she could hear the hot gossip from the next farm over. And also, get some …