Secret RecipesRecipes developed & tested by Gloria Pitzer, the Recipe Detective™
Orange Judas By Gloria Pitzer, The Great Imitator’s Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, Marysville, MI; Oct. 1999, p. 31 Ingredients: 2 C club soda 1/2 C light Cool Whip 1/2 C orange Tang powder 1/2 C dry creamer powder 8-10 ice cubes, smashed Instructions: Blend briefly, until it’s smooth and frothy. Makes 3 heavenly drinks! NOTE: Other versions […]
THE BIG MATCH ATTACH – This is the double-decked, at-home-hamburger recipe that promises you will shock the socks off everyone who tries your improvisation of the famous “Golden Arch’s” very own “Big Mac”. All you need for one ‘Big Match’ is: 2 all beef patties, “Special Sauce”, lettuce, cheese, onions, pickles & 2 sesame seed […]
FAMOUS NAMELESS CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES – with Turtle Sundae Cookies alternative My original version had a dozen ingredients. Look at how I shortened it! Still, the results are identical! An interesting note on the popularity of these cookies… A few years ago, [around 1980], I received a letter from Dr. Joyce Brothers, in which this […]
Recess Peanut Butter Cups By Gloria Pitzer, from Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret Recipes, St. Clair, MI; May 1982) The development of this recipe grew from a request made by a local group of parents whose children followed the Feingold diet to arrest hyperactivity. It became one of my most popular recipes across the […]
Butter Pie Crust, Like Baker’s Square By Gloria Pitzer INGREDIENTS: 1 stick butter (NOT margarine) 1 TB sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1 C all purpose flour INSTRUCTIONS: Prepare a 10-inch Pyrex pie plate by spraying it in Pam. (Pyrex plates work best with this very rich recipe.) If you don’t have Pam, […]
Big Bucket in the Sky! Fried Chicken THIS RECIPE was created on-the-spot when I discovered that my usual ingredients and…most familiar utensils were not ready…to use on The Donahue Show (… July 7, 1981) …I had to adlib the experience, calling upon every possible thing I could remember about good cooking. It was luck! And […]
This make-alike version of Long John Silver’s popular fast food product appears on page 111 in “Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – The Best of the Recipe Detective” [published by Balboa Press (January 2018, 1st Printing) – a rewrite by Laura Emerich, of “Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook” (self-published by Gloria Pitzer’s Secret Recipes, May 1983; 3rd Printing)], asking […]
Gloreos – The Oreo-Style Sandwich Cookies When the Washington (DC) Post once interviewed the Nabisco people to ask how they felt about a Michigan housewife, claiming she could imitate their famous chocolate sandwich cookie at home, they were very insistent that it was impossible! Well, I felt if Hydroxy could come close, so could I […]
A1-Style Steak Sauce – by Gloria Pitzer INGREDIENTS: 1/2 cup Dark Molasses 2 Green Onions (chopped) 3 TB Kosher Salt (coarse) 3 TB Dry Mustard 1 tsp Paprika 1/4 tsp Cayenne 1 clove Garlic (crushed — or, 1 tsp Garlic Powder) 1 Anchovy Filet (chopped — or, 1 TB Anchovy Paste) 6 TB Tamarind (Fresh […]
Sanders-Style Hot Fudge Sauce (Recipe No. 1) By Gloria Pitzer, from Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret Recipes, St. Clair, MI; May 1982) [aka: Recipe #1] Ingredients: 14 oz. Eagle Brand Milk (can) 14 oz. Karo Syrup (light) 12 oz. Nestles Milk Chocolate Chips (not the semi-sweet) 1/4 lbs. Butter Instructions: Combine ingredients in top […]