Secret RecipesRecipes developed & tested by Gloria Pitzer, the Recipe Detective™
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 […]
Self-Rising Flour (By the Cupful) By Gloria Pitzer, one of her original “200” recipes (1972) Sift together: 1 cup all-purpose flour, 1/4 tsp salt and 3/4 tsp baking powder. Alternate version #1 (as seen with “Banana Bread, Like The Grand Hotel’s“): 1 ¾ cup all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda and 1 […]
BANANA BREAD – Like The Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island (MI) Developed by Laura Pitzer (Emerich), 1979; published by Gloria Pitzer in her cookbook, Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret Recipes, St. Clair, MI; 1982, p. 238) On the lavish, luncheon, smorgasbord tables of the Grand Hotel, where we were staying during the filming of “Somewhere […]
Archer Teacher Fish & Chips, plus Onion Rings option By Gloria Pitzer, first published in The Secret Restaurant Recipes Book (National Homemaker’s Newsletter, Pearl Beach, MI; Jan. 1977, p. 1) Arthur Treacher was once Merv Griffin’s right-hand-man. A dignified and accomplished actor that we best remember from the 1930s & 1940s. Ingredients: 3 cups boxed […]
Applebee’s-Style Oriental Dressing By Gloria Pitzer, from her “Oriental Chicken Salad, Like Applebee’s” recipe found in her self-published cookbook, The Great Imitator’s Cookbook (Secret Recipes, St. Clair, MI; Oct. 1999, p. 3) Ingredients: 8-oz bottle Paul Newman’s Vinegar & Oil Dressing 14-oz can Eagle Brand Milk 1/3 cup water 1/3 cup white vinegar Instructions: Put […]
Coney-Style Hot Dog Sauce By Gloria Pitzer, from her “Free Recipes & Ordering Information” sheets Ingredients: 2 lbs. ground beef 4 TB oil 2 envelopes onion soup mix 0.4-oz. envelope ranch dressing mix 2 cups hot, black coffee 6-oz. can tomato paste 1 TB each: chili & cumin powders Instructions: Brown beef in oil, using […]
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 […]