Family Recipes
This is another delicious variety of biscuits. They make a good snack all on their own or with a meal. Try with some maple butter or honey butter. The recipe comes from Laura Ingalls Wilder Cookbook. SWEET POTATO BISCUITS 1
Read moreBiscuits are such a great comfort food, so it is great to have a variety of recipes. The cornmeal adds a little more flavor while still being light and fluffy. These go well with other comfort foods, such as stews
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This is like a cornbread cake. It is very sweet and delicious. There are many variations of johnnycake, most are more like a pancake. Whatever it should be called, you won’t be sorry to make this. It is so quick
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This recipe is on the first page of my “strawberry” journal that I kept my best recipes in. The front and back of the journal was covered with beautiful, red strawberries. I think it was while living in Utah that
Read moreGrant loves blueberry muffins and these are the best recipe I have found. Muffins are always delicious with a streusel topping but it is not necessary. The recipe comes from a fabulous cookbook my family gave me as a gift,
Read moreThis really is the very best pumpkin bread recipe I have ever come across. When I worked in a restaurant called Percy’s in Spokane, they served bread along with entrees. In autumn, pumpkin bread was one offering. That was the
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My recipe is written on an index card and must be about thirty years old. It may even be from my early baking years as a youth. I do not remember where the recipe came from. What I do remember
Read moreThis is your everyday biscuit, meaning make them every day. You will not get tired of these biscuits. They are so easy yet so delicious and comforting. It takes me ten minutes to whip them up and have them in
Read moreGrant describes buttermilk bread as fluffy and delicious. You can make a meal out of this bread when it is hot out of the oven. Sometimes, all of us have stood around and eaten it hot and fresh with butter
Read moreNow that Tyana lives in a higher elevation, she needs this recipe that came from Utah. It is from a very good cookbook called Utah State Fare. This makes a sweet corn bread similar to my other recipe but a
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This is a wonderful quick bread. It is a great use for strawberries that are left over to the next day or two. During strawberry season we love to eat fresh strawberries with cream and sugar. But the next day
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There are plenty of banana bread recipes out there, but not all are really great. Here are two really good recipes. The first recipe is my favorite I have been making a few years. It comes from a great cookbook
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Biscuits usually have some kind of fat cut into the flour, such as butter or shortening. These are super simple because there is no need for that step, as cream provides enough fat to make them flaky. Regular biscuits take
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We all like this cornbread very much. We like a sweet cornbread. Southern style cornbread has less flour and sugar. I used to have a different favorite cornbread recipe but that was in Utah at an elevation of 5,000 feet.
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I highly recommend this bread. It is so amazingly simple and fast, yet so delicious! This only takes five to ten minutes to prepare and is ready in under two hours. Roasted garlic ( use plenty!) and sharp cheddar cheese
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This was Tyana’s first yeast bread that she made. She made it to go with beef stew that she was learning to make. It is simple but delicious and goes well with comfort food. kingarthurflour.com
Read moreThis is a delicious bread. Half can be made into rolls. It makes good French toast. I do not like to knead the dough in my stand mixer because I don’t think it kneads it well. It is better to
Read moreThese are some of our favorite rolls. They are especially good with water leftover from cooking the potatoes and homemade mashed potatoes. If I do not have homemade mashed potatoes, I use instant along with plain water. Still good but
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I finally made cinnamon rolls! I always want to but haven’t tried in years. Whenever I have made cinnamon rolls in the past I have always been disappointed. I mean, they are yummy, but I knew I could do better.
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