This category feature recipes that have been passed down through generations of a family, with stories and anecdotes about the family members who made them.
Traditional Apple Rolls Recipe: Passed Down for Generations An old family “recipe”. Apple rolls! My Mom entered it in a name brand flour contest in the ‘70’s. She got 3rd place. Her main problem was, nothing had ever been measured, just copied from generation to generation. Ingredients: 3 pie crusts (I use butter instead of…
Depression-Era Water Pie with a Twist Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups water 1 9” pie crust (store-bought or homemade) 1 cup sugar (white or brown, I used brown today) 1/4 cup flour 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (or other flavoring, I used 1 tablespoon for extra flavor) 5 tablespoons butter, cut into pats Chopped pecans (optional, my…
Biscuit Bread (or Pone Bread) Ingredients: 2 cups self-rising flour 1 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon bacon grease Instructions: Preheat oven to 450°F. Once the oven is preheated, put the bacon grease in your cast iron skillet and stick it in the oven for 7 minutes to get it good and hot. Mix together the…
Peach Cobbler in Cast Iron Skillet I don’t have a ‘REAL’ recipe. My Mom always made this & I learned from her. I have been making this for about 40 yrs. and it is sooo good! Hope you like it as well as I do! Enjoy! Ingredients: 1 stick of butter 4 cans (15.25 oz…
moist Meatloaf Recipe I didn’t like meatloaf growing up. Now that I get to control the spices and keep it moist I love making meatloaf. Esp meatloaf sandwiches the next day! Ingredients: Ground beef 1 piece of white bread Milk Ritz crackers (broken up) or bread crumbs 1 egg Olive oil Salt Pepper Garlic…
Homemade Dinner Rolls (Yeast Rolls) I tried my hand at homemade dinner rolls (yeast rolls) last night for the first time. They turned out so pretty and tasted yummy! This Ky girl is finally getting the hang of making breads. Next up is sourdough I think, if I ever figure out the starter. Yeast Rolls…
Making Moist Cornbread with Mayonnaise: A Family Recipe Aunt’s Cornbread When I was growing up, I spent many summers at my aunt’s visiting my cousin. They lived on the very top of a mountain with horses, chickens, hogs, etc. It was like a little slice of heaven on that mountain as a kid. One of…
Peanut Butter Roll🎄 Ingredients: 2 sticks margarine, melted 2 teaspoons vanilla 3 tablespoons milk Confectioner’s sugar (4-5 lbs for mixing and rolling out each roll) Peanut butter (18 oz approx.) Instructions: Melt margarine. Add vanilla. Begin adding powdered sugar. Add milk. Continue to add confectioner’s sugar until dough is ready to be rolled. Use confectioner’s…
No-Fail Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Strawberry Rhubarb Pie recipe I swear……G’ma Hull’s stove bakes the most beautiful pies! Strawberry rhubarb pie completely from scratch, baked in an 83 year old Chambers Stove that belonged to my paternal grandmother. I inherited it in 1992 when she passed away – she had told me and my dad that…
Classic Bologna Salad Recipe: A Taste of Childhood this salad gets it’s charm/nostalgia from the way it’s prepared – send all the ingredients through a food grinder. If you have one that clamps to your countertop my Meemaw would pinch your cheek and smile. Ingredients 1 lg pkg Oscar Meyer B-O-L-O-G-N-A! 2 Whole dill pickles…
