Secret RecipesRecipes developed & tested by Gloria Pitzer, the Recipe Detective™
PAN PIZZA CRUST By Gloria Pitzer This easy pizza crust recipe is from one of Mom’s “free recipes and ordering information” sheets, given out in the late 1980s, and has only 3 ingredients – just stir & spread! A similar version to it can be found on page 54 of Mom’s self-published cookbook, The Best […]
Beautiful Biscuits – Better than KFC’s By Gloria Pitzer Ingredients: 2/3 cup real buttermilk 1/3 cup real mayonnaise 2 1/2 cups Bisquick, plus a little extra Pam spray Melted butter (enough to brush 8 biscuit tops twice) Instructions: In a 1 1/2-qt mixing bowl, with an electric hand mixer on medium-speed, beat together the first […]
BIG BUCKET IN THE SKY! CHICKEN By Gloria Pitzer As seen in Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – The Best of the Recipe Detective ( Balboa Press, January 2018; 1st Printing, p. 88) THE FRIED CHICKEN RECIPE that first called attention to my recipes nationally – through the ‘National Enquirer’, ‘Money Magazine’, ‘Catholic Digest’, ‘The Christian […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
MILD SALSA, INSPIRED BY CHI CHI’S – By Gloria Pitzer, The Best of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; Feb. 1990, p. 45) Ingredients: 4 medium tomatoes, unpeeled & chopped 3 medium onions, chopped fine 2 fresh banana peppers, chopped 2 TB oil ½ cup lime juice ½ cup V-8 juice […]
Orange Brutus By Gloria Pitzer – part of her “Original 200” recipes collection. This particular version can be seen in her last cookbook, Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – The Best of the Recipe Detective (Balboa Press, Jan. 2018)…as always, asking only for proper credit if you care to share it! Remember, Brutus is the fella who ‘did […]