FRUIT COCKTAIL FRUITCAKE By Gloria Pitzer (from her Dec. 2002 Christmas Card) Mondays & Memories of My Mom – Homemade Holidays
Day: September 18, 2021
Pineapple Upside Down Cake

PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… The Best of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; February 1990, 11th Printing, p. 97) INGREDIENTS: 3 cans (8-oz. each) sliced pineapple, in juice 1 C. packed, light brown sugar 1/3 C. butter or margarine, melted and cooled 7 red Maraschino […]
Hopeless Pecan Tarts

HOPELESS PECAN TARTS By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… The Original 200 Plus Secret Recipes© Book (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; June 1997, p. 14) FILLING – INGREDIENTS: Homemade (or store-bought) pie crust dough ½ C. butter 1/3 C. dark corn syrup 1 C. powdered sugar 1 C. chopped pecans 1 C. chopped peanuts 4 […]
Iacocca Cake – Beer Fudge Spice Cake

IACOCCA CAKE [aka: Beer Fudge Spice Cake] By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – The Best of the Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 210). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).] From my ‘Ask Your Neighbor’ recipe journal, I […]