Secret Recipes
6/29/19 DEAR MEDIA FAMILY, MANY HEARTFELT THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT! On behalf of, Gloria Pitzer, ‘The Secret Recipe Detective’ #MediaFriends It is as much a thrill for me, today, to hear somebody… request that ‘Gloria, The Secret Recipe Detective’ try to duplicate a recipe, as it was for me […]
I Keep the Munchies Away by Writing By Mike Royko [Detroit Free Press, The Feature Page; MONDAY, DEC. 10, 1973] IF YOU spend any time in this corner, you have noticed lately that I have been writing a lot about food, restaurants and eating. It always happens when I go on a strict diet. I […]
HOPELESS TWINKLES – an Imitation of Hostess Twinkies By Gloria Pitzer (Feb. 1976, among Gloria’s “Original 200” recipes) Filling Ingredients: ¼ pound (1/2 cup) butter or margarine, ½ cup Crisco or homogenized solid shortening, 1 cup granulated sugar, ¾ cup Pet or Carnation evaporated milk 1 tablespoon vanilla Filling Instructions: In a large mixing bowl, […]
Happy Monday AND happy “Please Take My Children to Work Day”! Yes, Virginia! There is such a thing! Before my mom was the Recipe DetectiveTM, before she authored all those newsletters and cookbooks, Mom penned and syndicated various “hot topic” and “homemaker” satirical-styled editorials/columns, as well as a series of cartoon panels! One of her […]
Disneyland/World-Style Fudge By Gloria Pitzer (1996-1997 “Free Sample Recipes” sheet) Ingredients: 1/4 cup milk 1/4-lb. butter 1/3 cup Hershey’s Cocoa powder 1-lb. powdered sugar Instructions: Place ingredients, in order as listed, in a 1 1/2-quart Pyrex bowl, but do NOT stir. Put the bowl, as is, in a 350°F oven for 25 minutes. Remove from […]
Happy Monday to everyone! I hope all the dads out there had an awesome, memory-making Father’s Day with their kids yesterday! Yesterday was a bitter sweet day for me, as it was my parents’ anniversary, as well as Father’s Day. I’m so happy that they’re together again and yet I miss them, both, so much! […]
Aunt Hazel’s Hot Dog & Bacon BBQ [From Gloria Pitzer’s 2002-2004 free recipes, media promotion sheet.] Ingredients: 1-pound Ball Park franks, each frank sliced in quarters 1-pound bacon, sliced in half 1 small box of round, wood toothpicks 1 cup each: ketchup and sugar Instructions: Cut each of the franks into 4 pieces of equal […]
SHARE-A-LEASE CHEESECAKE By Gloria Pitzer [This recipe was part of Gloria’s original 200 recipes collection, from the early 1970s, and has been printed in many of her self published cookbooks; the first one being The Secret Restaurant Recipes Book (National Homemaker’s Newsletter, Pearl Beach, MI; Jan. 1977, p. 32), which is no longer in print, and the […]
WEDNESDAY’S FROSTED DRINK By Gloria Pitzer [This recipe was originally printed in Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook(Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, p. 329)] Ingredients: 1 cup milk ½ cup Nestlé’s quick chocolate drink powder 3 cups slightly soft vanilla ice cream Instructions: Put ingredients in blender, using on/off agitation and blending until smooth. […]
Happy Monday everyone! ONCE UPON A TIME… Whenever Mom was asked “how it all began”, she found it hard to pinpoint that one moment. Over the years, she had mentioned numerous times that, as a pre-teen, she was inspired to be a writer after watching a 1946 Warner Brothers Picture about the Bronte sisters, called […]