Secret Recipes
Thank God it’s Monday, again. I always look forward to every Monday. They’re my 52 Chances a year, in which I get to share Memories of My Mom with you. Therefore, have a happy Monday. #TheRecipeDetective #DogDaysOfSummer #PureMichigan Happy August! It’s the middle of summer, now, and it’s still considered The Dog Days of Summer, […]
INTRODUCTION In the 1960s and 1970s, Mom designed a few different editorial columns, satirically geared toward working homemakers like herself (or those who just want to laugh at life), mailing out samples to over 300 newspapers. Within a year, she was steadily writing two different columns (“No Laughing Matter” and “Minding the Hearth”) for 60 […]
Thank God it’s Monday, again. I always look forward to every Monday. They’re my 52 Chances a year, in which I get to share Memories of My Mom with you. Therefore, have a happy Monday. #TheRecipeDetective #TheDogDaysOfSummer We’re quickly approaching the middle of summer, now. This week, we continue to endure The Dog Days of […]
FLOWERED JOHN’S SONS – SPUMONI By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – Best Of The Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 253). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).] INGREDIENTS: 1 pint each: vanilla, chocolate, pistachio and strawberry ice creams […]
Thank God it’s Monday. I look forward to every Monday. They’re my 52 Chances a year, in which I get to share Memories of My Mom with you. Therefore, happy Monday AND happy July. #TheRecipeDetective #TheDogDaysOfSummer Michigan’s cold, wet winter and spring is long gone, for now. The Dog Days of Summer are about to […]
BASKET & RIBBONS – STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM By Gloria Pitzer As seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – The Best of the Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 252). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).] INGREDIENTS: 3 egg yolks 14-ounce can, sweetened, condensed […]
As always, happy Monday to everyone and #TGIM! I constantly await Mondays, with anticipation, for they are my #52Chances a year to share MEMORIES OF MY MOM with all of you! Two weeks in and the “dog days of summer” (which refers to the hottest and most humid time of the year in the Northern […]