Category Archives: doing it wrong

I don’t get mincemeat. According to the Internet it was originally a way of preserving meat. In my limited experience, it is not my thing.

I love the idea of caramel pie but just looking at that recipe makes my teeth hurt.

I’m not much for meringue either and the few times I’ve tried it I wasn’t successful. I don’t like recipes that challenge my self-esteem.

According to the Internet, Montgomery Ward was founded in 1872 and went bankrupt in 2000. The brand was acquired by another company and you can still buy stuff from them online including freezer chests. But none as fine as this one.

I love the storage period for sandwiches. Have you ever thrown a sandwich in the freezer?

I am always looking for new ways to make zucchini and I’ve never tried this one. I’ll probably use butter but half that much. Next summer.

That little folded over flap…

This recipe looks very familiar. I’m pretty sure my mom made a version of this and I recall being a fan.

I picked this page just because obviously it was well loved. I have so many questions. What’s a slow oven? Is that “3 T cocoa” on the applesauce cake recipe? I love the term “spout pan” — that must be a bundt style cake pan. I think she gave me her spout pan.

Don’t you love that ingredient list?

I’m pretty sure this is one of the first recipes Priscilla gave me. She used to make these a lot and they were among my favorites. I remember one time we showed up at Christmas with a tin and my sister perked up, “Priscilla cookies?”

I love this Kitchen Scrap Book. Priscilla gave me a scrap book sort-of like this and I’ve been hit or miss with it. I should see if I have any FoodDay recipes I can add.

I don’t think I’ve ever made this recipe but I did make pineapple upside down cake for us one. As I recall, it came out better than expected.

This is a very restrained sample of the persimmon recipes in the Priscilla vault.

I have many FoodDay recipes in my file as well. The Oregonian food section was the best. I have recipes I never made but I respect those Oregonian food ladies so much I’ve hung onto them. I’ll get to them eventually.

Check out these Fred Meyer handouts.

This one overlaps. Looks like Priscilla typed up some of these recipes for her recipe notebook.

This is the famous Priscilla persimmon cookie recipe — this is the recipe card she made for me shortly after we got married.

I have the ingredients out in the kitchen. Time got away from me so I haven’t even started yet. This isn’t much of a test recipe since I’ve made these before — in fact, earlier this year. Someone brought us persimmons from California.

I love this note. Poor Bob. He got married at just the right age.

I had hoped to do more intensive test recipe cooking but a number of things have conspired to diminish my enthusiasm for this project so I’m not sure how things will go for the rest of the month.

There is a very particular Thanksgiving recipe I want to make and I haven’t been able to find it. I’ll do one more dig through what I have here before I ask my sister-in-law if she has it.

This recipe looks worth a try although I don’t know about the raisins and cinnamon.

I scanned it because of the quotes around time.

What do you think that’s all about?