Secret Recipes
5-Alarm-Style Taco Sauce By Gloria Pitzer; as seen in Gloria Pitzer’s Secret Fast Food Recipes (Secret Recipes, St. Clair, MI; March 1985, p. 16) Ingredients: 14-oz. can stewed tomatoes 6-oz. can tomato paste 8-oz. can tomato sauce 1/2 cup bottled Italian dressing 1 TB chili powder 1/2 TB cumin powder 1/4 tsp Tabasco sauce (or […]
Hooters-Style Wings By Gloria Pitzer, from The Great Imitator’s Cookbook (Secret Recipes, St. Clair, MI; Oct. 1999, p. 56) Ingredients: chicken wings butter, melted bottled hot sauce flour* oil Instructions: Cut Wings at joint, leaving boney tip intact. Moisten in equal parts of melted butter and bottled hot sauce. Coat moistened pieces in flour. Fry […]
Glad Lobster Cheese Biscuits By Gloria Pitzer, revised from her self-published cookbook, Make Alike Recipes (Secret Recipes, St. Clair, MI; Oct. 1991, p. 6) Ingredients: 1 cup milk 2 tsp. sugar (or sugar substitute equivalent) 1/3 cup mayonnaise (Hellman’s preferred) 2 1/4 cups self-rising flour 1/4 cup (4 oz.) shredded cheddar cheese Instructions: Combine first […]
Hello, all! Happy Monday and welcome to Mondays & Memories of My Mom. I’m Laura Emerich and I write these blogs in relation to my memories of my mom, Gloria Pitzer, the ORIGINAL Secret RecipesTM detective. I started this tribute, in September of last year, to honor Mom’s legacy – besides being Mom, lover of […]