When I started this project my mom sent me a stack of her old recipe cards. Some of those cards were given to her or written for her by her mother shortly after she got married. My mom got married very young and she admits she had a lot to learn in a very short…
Lemon Pound Cake
Can Lemon Pound Cake be an addiction? Merelyn had been in a habit of stopping at Starbucks on her way to work to grab a coffee. Usually having skipped breakfast, she would almost always grab a piece of their Lemon Pound Cake with her morning Chai. Before long, I’m pretty sure she was stopping for the…
Grandma’s Peanut Butter Cookies
Among the stack of recipes my grandmother sent me was her Peanut Butter Cookie recipe. This year when Merelyn and I decided to do something nice for our neighbors, we pulled out a handful of cookie recipes from the family recipe folder and made several batches to hand out. They turned out great and we…
Grandma Killen’s Peanut Butter Fudge
I have pretty vague memories of my grandma Killen, but I feel like I am lucky to have any memories at all. Most people I have met never got to meet their great-grandparents and I was lucky enough to have nearly all of them around as a kid. I have very fuzzy memories of holiday…