Secret Recipes
GRIDDLECAKES AND SYRUP, LIKE PANCAKE HOUSE – BY GLORIA PITZER As seen in… The Original 200 Plus Secret Recipes (Secret Recipes, St. Clair, MI; June 1977, p. 32). INGREDIENTS: 2 eggs 2½ cups buttermilk 3 TB oil ½ tsp salt ½ tsp vanilla ½ tsp baking soda 3 TB pancake syrup (*see homemade version below) […]
TEXAS FRUITCAKE BY GLORIA PITZER As seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – The Best of the Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 279)… [A rewrite of her famous, self-published cookbook, Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).]* Legend has it that Puddin’ Hill has the best-darn fruitcake […]
SATURDAY BREAD DOUGH & WEST VIRGINIA BREAD Both, by Gloria Pitzer [*As seen in… Eating Out At Home Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; Sep. 1981, 12th Printing, p. 24).] Grandma and the five girls were up at 4 AM to begin the baking each Saturday. Here is her bread recipe in her own words […]
KENTUCKY BISCUITS By Gloria Pitzer […as she prepared on ABC’s “Home” show – February 1988] INGREDIENTS: 1 – 1½ cup(s) Bisquick 1 rounded tablespoon sour cream ¼ cup club soda ½ tsp sugar INSTRUCTIONS: Mix [everything] together, until a smooth dough forms. Dip your hand into just enough more Bisquick, so you can knead the […]
BETSY ROSS’ CUSTARDY CORNBREAD (from the bi-centennial days) By Gloria Pitzer (1976) INGREDIENTS: ¾ cup white cornmeal ¼ cup flour 2 TB sugar ½ tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder 1 2/3 cups milk 1 egg, beaten 2 TB butter INSTRUCTIONS: [Pre-heat oven to 400°F.] Sift the first five ingredients, as listed, together [and set […]
Happy Monday to one and all! As always, #TGIM – because Mondays are my #52Chances a year to share my memories of my mom with all of you! This week, I’d like to revisit “the beginning” – when Mom started her “cottage industry”, “family enterprise”, “dining room table operation”. It was about 47 years ago, […]
Happy Monday AND happy summer! I hope all the dads out there had an awesome, memory-making Father’s Day with their kids yesterday! As always, #TGIM – I always look forward to Mondays because they are my #52Chances a year to share these memories of my mom with all of you! Summer officially arrived over the […]
Hi everybody! Happy Monday to one and all! As always, #TGIM because I continually look forward to Mondays as they are my #52Chances a year, in which I have to share memories of my mom! Over the past few months of having been under “stay home, stay safe” orders for the Covid-19 pandemic, many people […]
#TGIM! Happy Monday AND happy June to one and all! As always, I look forward to Mondays because they are my #52Chances per year, in which I have to share Memories of My Mom! Last week, I shared Mom’s experiences and memories from the first time she appeared on the Phil Donahue Show, in July […]
Memorial Day is upon us, and in the midst of a global pandemic. Thus, I can’t find it in me to say, “Happy Monday” as I usually do in my blog openings. This is a day for respectful solace, set aside to remember and honor all of our veterans who have died, serving in our […]