I suppose it did me little good to schedule all those posts while we were away on vacation, just to come back home and not post anything for over a week! Sometimes I think it takes as much time to recover from vacation as it does to go on one! Anyway, I play to be posting new content again soon, but for today I thought I would share this post from the archives, originally dated 10/23/19, so it's been awhile! I hope you enjoy it, and I'll chat with you again soon!
It's no surprise to me that regardless of the fact that there were dividers for a number of different food groups, that it was overflowing with recipes for sweets. My mom LOVED to bake, and it was the one thing she did right up to the end of her life that still seemed to bring her a lot of joy. Though glaucoma had robbed of her much of her sight, she could still see well enough to bake things, though admittedly at times the measurements were, shall we say, a tad off. In her later years she stuck to recipes that she had made so many times she knew them by heart (mostly), and on a few occasions she had me take one of the cards from this very box and write it out in VERY large print on several sheets of paper so she could read it.
Of course in the picture at the top she is not quite old enough to be doing much in the kitchen, I think she once told me that this was her first grade school picture. But in going through some old family pictures recently, I laughed at how many there are of my mom in the kitchen, like the one below. My dad raved about my mom's cooking, and she loved cooking for him, so I'm really not surprised. Several of the recipes in this box I know she's had since the 70's because I remember her making them. But I think some of them may be even older than that. Looking at her familiar script is comforting, in an odd sort of way. A little piece of her that I still have with me.
❈ Apple Cobbler
7 to 8 large (9 cups) tart cooking apples, peeled, cored, sliced 1/4-inch
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup butter, melted
Ice cream, if desired
Heat oven to 350°F. and place sliced apples in ungreased 13x9-inch baking dish.
Combine 3/4 cup sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon in bowl; sprinkle over apples.
Combine remaining cinnamon, flour, sugar, eggs, baking powder and salt in bowl; mix until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over apples. Pour melted butter over topping. Bake 45-55 minutes or until lightly browned and apples are tender. Serve warm with ice cream, if desired.
Do you have a collection of recipe cards written out in your grandmother or mother's familiar hand? And isn't it lovely to have such treasures? What is one recipe from your childhood that you remember someone in your family making and do you still make it today? For me it my mom's chocolate pie, which I make every Thanksgiving and Christmas, so I'll be sharing that recipe here with you soon! Until then, leave your memories (and recipes), in the comments!
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