I recently received two requests for a recipe for a much loved “dumpling” many of my readers remember from their Nana’s (grandmother) kitchen; farina dumplings. […]
Month: August 2020
Homemade Fresh Pork Sausage
When I was a child in the ’60’s and ’70’s in The Coal Region, many of our daily food items were obtained from the back […]
Nana’s Creamy Succotash
As far back as I can remember, I loved lima beans; large or small, fresh, frozen, canned, or dried. A real treat to me, frozen […]
Mini Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
For those not familiar with this Coalcracker/PA Dutch treat, a whoopie pie is made with two soft cake-like cookies with a fluffy filling sandwiched in […]
Apie Cake (aka AP, Apea, Apee, Apies, or Apeas Cake)
Apie cake (and it’s various spellings) is a Pennsylvania thing; more specifically, a Pennsylvania Dutch thing — even more specifically, a mid- and south-eastern Pennsylvania […]
Old-fashioned Bavarian-style Soft Pretzels
Soft pretzels and I go way back; as far back as my earliest childhood memories. I grew up in Schuylkill County in the southern tip […]