Secret Recipes
PECAN PIE, LIKE BIG BOY’s By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – The Best of the Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 239). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).] Big Boy restaurants have several good pies – this was […]
PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN COFFEECAKE By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Eating Out at Home (National Home News, St. Clair, MI; September 1978) INGREDIENTS: 1 (20-oz) can pineapple chunks, in heavy syrup ¼ cup + 3 TB melted butter or margarine ½ cup brown sugar, packed 1 ½ cups sifted flour ½ cup granulated sugar 2 ¼ […]
GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH – College Dorm-Style By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – The Best of the Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 187). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).] Butter both sides of 2 slices of bread. Slip […]
CREAM SOUP BASE – BASIC RECIPE By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – The Best of the Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 117). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).] INGREDIENTS: 1 ½ cups milk ½ cup flour 2 […]
CORNED BRIEF By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – The Best of the Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 185). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).] INGREDIENTS: 4- to 5-lb, well-trimmed, corned beef 2 cloves garlic 1 onion, the […]
LINDY’S STRAWBERRY PIE By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… The Original 200 Plus Secret Recipes© Book (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; June 1997, p. 20) A favorite New York restaurant… INGREDIENTS: 1 cup sugar 3 TB cornstarch 10-oz 7-Up or lemon-lime soda 2 TB strawberry Jell-O powder 1-qt whole strawberries, hulled One 9-inch, baked pie […]
Thank God Its Monday and, as such, #HappyMonday to everyone! I personally look forward to all Mondays because they’re my 52 Chances a year, in which I get to share Memories of My Mom with you! #TheRecipeDetective #BeKindToHumankindWeek This is the last full week of August, which observes (among other things)… National Be Kind to […]
Thank God Its Monday again. As such, #HappyMonday to one and all! I personally look forward to every Monday because they’re my 52 Chances a year, in which I get to share Memories of My Mom with you! #TheRecipeDetective #NationalRadioDay Saturday will be National Radio Day! Thus, let me tell you again about how radio […]
#HappyMonday to one and all! I personally look forward to every Monday because they’re my 52 Chances a year, in which I get to share Memories of My Mom with you! #TheRecipeDetective Summer is officially past the half-way mark, now. It’s on its way out so that fall can come in for a quick blaze […]
#HappyMonday Happy Monday and happy August! As always, I say, Thank God Its Monday because Mondays are my 52 Chances a year, for sharing Memories of My Mom with all of you! #TheRecipeDetective #HappinessHappensMonth August is, among other things, Happiness Happens Month and, to kick it off, as the first week of August, it’s “National […]