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Easy Thumbprint Cookies

This recipe pulls together quickly, and is a true pantry recipe, using items you should have on hand most times. Ans no eggs either! For the jam, I suggest a seedless, and thick one for best results. It's a nice rich cookie, that are more like shortbread, yet soft to bite into. A real mini… Continue reading Easy Thumbprint Cookies

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Vintage Recipes: Beach Boy Bread

From 1959, when a tin of pineapple was still an exotic item to cook with. And back when you still found it in the tiny 8 ounce cans. The recipe can read confusing because it says "prepared biscuit mix". It just means to use commercially made biscuit mix, such as Bisquick or Jiffy. I went… Continue reading Vintage Recipes: Beach Boy Bread

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Vintage Recipes: Pumpkin Pie

I have my go-to pumpkin pie recipe that never fails me, but I am always willing to try new recipes out, or in this case...a vintage "new" recipe. This one dates back to 1927, and was made by PET milk (which is still made nearly a 100 years later). Being 1927, the Great Depression was… Continue reading Vintage Recipes: Pumpkin Pie

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Vintage Baking: Apple-Raisin Coffee Cake

From a publication in 1955, brought by Gold Medal flour comes this quick coffee cake, that pulls together in a snap. It's a lovely texture. Soft and the raisins add to it. Now then, the recipe calls for apples then doesn't actually call for the, in the ingredients. Oops. Using apples we had grown this… Continue reading Vintage Baking: Apple-Raisin Coffee Cake

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Zojirushi Bread Machine: Raisin Bread

When I am shopping and I see raisin bread on the shelf, I have this moment of wish fullness every time. I want a loaf of raisin bread that tastes amazing. That isn't dry. Or a dessert in disguise. But the bread never tastes how I wish it did. It's often so very dry and… Continue reading Zojirushi Bread Machine: Raisin Bread