Secret Recipes
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 […]
Happy Monday to everyone! I hope all the dads out there had an awesome, memory-making Father’s Day with their kids yesterday! Yesterday was a bitter sweet day for me, as it was my parents’ anniversary, as well as Father’s Day. I’m so happy that they’re together again and yet I miss them, both, so much! […]
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. […]
Happy Monday everyone! ONCE UPON A TIME… Whenever Mom was asked “how it all began”, she found it hard to pinpoint that one moment. Over the years, she had mentioned numerous times that, as a pre-teen, she was inspired to be a writer after watching a 1946 Warner Brothers Picture about the Bronte sisters, called […]
Radio was a solid cornerstone in the building of the success of Mom’s Secret RecipesTM business. Many of the people Mom worked with in that industry said she had a great “radio voice”. While, Mom had appeared on some pretty famous television talk shows, over the years, to discuss and demonstrate her fantastic make-alike recipes […]
I can’t find it in me, today, to say, “Happy Monday!” as I usually do in my blog openings. Today is Memorial Day – a solace day, not a happy one. I do hope that families are getting to spend the extra long holiday weekend together though! But, before I get into my blog subject, […]
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 […]
Happy Monday everyone! Welcome to Mondays & Memories of My Mom by Laura (Pitzer) Emerich. This is a weekly blog series that I began 8 months ago to honor the legacy of my mom, Gloria Pitzer, aka: the famous Recipe DetectiveTM and founder of Secret RecipesTM. My mom investigated the alleged mysteries and furtive formulas […]