Secret RecipesRecipes developed & tested by Gloria Pitzer, the Recipe Detective™
Beautiful Biscuits – Better than KFC’s By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in her Spring 1997 “Free Recipes” sheet. 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]