Quick and easy, pudding tops my list for dessert on hurried nights or a simple lunchbox treat—even our oldest loves to make pudding. Our American puddings are a wonderful thing if the layer cake you were turning out of the pan to cool slipped out of your grasp and broke on the cooling rack. Trifles a ...
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Cinnamon and Spice Breakfast Cookies Recipe
I've mentioned about a million times how we (mostly me) make muffins or scones or some other breakfast-y foods most mornings — especially during the school year. Oatmeal, hot bran cereal, Cream of Wheat, or things we call "Hug in a Bowl" and "Bowl Wheat," are my go-to fill-ins. Rather than fall i ...
Maida Heatter: Her Life & Cookbooks
In my cookbook collection, my vintage Maida Heatter cookbooks don't stick out when you view them from the spine. Cookbooks by Maida Heatter aren't cutesy or gimmicky. You won't find glossy images of picture-perfect impossible goodies expertly situated on an endless assortment of beautiful china and ...
Lovely Lemon Bundt Cake Recipe
A Bundt cake, like a pound cake, is such a friendly, homey thing. Lemon appears in so many recipes during the spring, but I think that blip of brightness works especially well in the winter. It's the only spot of sunshine in my kitchen today. This cake gets a double hit from lemon in the form of ...
Plain and Simple Amish Cookbooks
We moved to Amish country in August 2020, in an 1837-built home right on the edge of downtown (half a block away from a pizza place and an ice cream parlor, so that's pretty much perfect). Amish horse and buggies trot past our home every day in our small Pennsylvania town and, since Amish teens date ...