Pumpkin Chiffon Pie

B B's Brownies

When I first learned to cook... (more than 50 years ago!) my mother wrote out a recipe for Brownies on the back inside cover of her cookbook "All About Home Baking" copyright 1933. On the inside cover, she wrote, "To Barbara with loving memories, Mother. August 4, 1974. The one recipe for brownies contained in the book is not the one she wrote on the back. It begins: 1.Utensils 2.Ingredients 3.Light oven 4.Grease pan 5.Start I even wrote the specific utensils in the corner. Ahhh... I love these memories. The brownies are very light, and fudge-like, and the best I have ever had. I could not find a recipe like it here.

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Aunt Isabel's Bishop's Cake

This is a very old recipe, that my Aunt Isabel (born 1900) used to make every year at Christmas. She made it for as long as I can remember. I was told it was a Methodist tradition. It is a dense, somewhat dry fruitcake, with chocolate bits in it. It is supposed to be sliced very thin.

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Burritos... Simple, Plain, Easy

Michael is the daily cook and makes a lot of plain and simple foods. When he cooks "Mexican", this is the first part he serves. Tonight we only had burritos, I had two, of course. I like mine best without any meat. Michael likes his with whatever leftover meat that is in the refrigerator.

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Mother's Apple Crunch

The three other Apple Crunch recipes are somewhat similar, but this is our family version. We don't use brown sugar, there is no crust (as in the apple crumb pies), and we mix it a little differently. This also had it's beginnings in a church cookbook. We serve it warm (hot) from the oven, with either ice cream on top, or a lot of milk.

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