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Mondays & Memories of My Mom – Super Sunday Feast Bowl

Happy 5th Monday (2021) and happy February to everyone! I always look forward to Mondays because they are my #52Chances each year, in which I get to share Memories of My Mom with all of you! #TheRecipeDetective #SuperBowlSunday There weren’t many things that stumped my mom more than understanding my dad’s love of football. Thus, […]

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Beautiful Biscuits, Better than KFC’s

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 […]

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Share-a-Lease Cheesecake

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 […]

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Mondays & Memories of My Mom – Hi, Neighbor!

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 […]

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Recess Peanut Butter Cups, a Make-Alike Version of Reeses

Recess Peanut Butter Cups By Gloria Pitzer, from Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret Recipes, St. Clair, MI; May 1982, p. 294). The development of this recipe grew from a request made by a local group of parents whose children followed the Feingold diet to arrest hyperactivity. It became one of my most popular recipes […]

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Butter Pie Crust, Like Baker’s Square

Butter Pie Crust, Like Baker’s Square By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Secret Recipes Newsletter (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; July-Aug. 1991, Issue #151; p. 7) INGREDIENTS: 1 stick butter (NOT margarine) 1 TB sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1 C all purpose flour INSTRUCTIONS: Prepare a 10-inch Pyrex pie plate […]

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