Today, Shadow has honored us with an old recipe passed down to her. I’m looking forward to trying it this weekend…
“At first glance, this poor cookbook looked like trash. “Why in the world did Mom send me this?” I thought. Battered and tattered, missing it’s cover and more than a few pages, truly this book had seen better days. Inside was a note~ “your grandma Haas gave this to me and it has been used till it fell apart.” I barely remember her, a vague image of a smiling woman with short curly hair.”
“I leafed through the stained pages, pulled suddenly back to my childhood by Johnnie Marzetti and 7-up salad. Each recipe
was credited to a lady long gone, from places near my home town. Glimpses through kitchen windows to a simpler time, frugal recipes that hard working moms made their families fo
r dinner. And some of them looked pretty good….” “I used a deep 9×14″ pan, and left some space between the rolls; they spread out a bit while baking. All of the apples that I had chopped wouldn’t fit inside the roll, so i sprinkled them on top. This tastes caramely and rich, a cross between apple pie and southern biscuits.”
Thank you Shadow! (click here to see shadowjewels Etsy shop)
Oh my…thank you for sharing…this story and the recipe. How wonderful! Can't wait to try it. ♥
Yum! I love your post. I am drawn to these locally produced cookbooks and sigh often because their condition is a little too well loved. 🙂 But last year I found one of my own favorites at a thrift store in beautiful condition. I got it to give to one of my sons. Got home and looked at it next to mine and realized – good NIGHT! – mine looked so awful I decided to switch and keep the one I found! My own was so bad by comparison I actually couldn't salvage a thing. It's all about perspective, right? 🙂