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This week, I thought I’d try something fairly easy, so I found Lillian’s recipe for Molasses Cookies. They seemed fairly easy, and I’ve certainly made molasses cookies before. As with all her recipes, though, research was required as there was nothing more than the bare ingredients listed and one tantalizing hint on what to do. […]

Sour Cream – Stick your finger in a tub of it and take a lick and your first thought would not be “Hey, let’s put this in a cake to cook with it!” I still don’t know the answer as to why we began cooking with this odd ingredient, other than to say our British […]

What I will never know about Aunt Lillian’s cook book is, how many of these hand written recipes did she try or even use on a regular basis? Like many of us, she probably had good intentions and either copied recipes from her mother, another relative, or a friend, or from another cookbook with every […]

Daunting. That’s all I’m going to say. If you’re at all like me, the thought of making a steamed Victorian pudding sends shivers up your spine. You’ve heard about them, and they sound mysterious, dark, and difficult. What on earth would you steam the pudding in? For how long? Why? Luckily, I’d slightly mastered the […]