Category: Recipes From The Books
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In Discovering Magics, Leo’s Pies is a safe place for Mara from the first day she sets foot in Riverton. She wins a free pie with the tip of using lemon on the apples to keep them from turning dark. Leo uses a simple recipe and simple tools. I find that a mixer helps make…
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I didn’t know what a scone was until I was an adult. And even then, I recognized it as a British version of our biscuit. The first one I tried was dry and tasteless. It was decades before I learned the truth. Scones are versatile. Some are sweet, some savory. They originated in Scotland with…
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Fritters have been around in some form for centuries. The Ancient Romans and Greeks fried small cakes in oil, and we are still doing it. They may be sweet or savory made from a variety of flours or corn meal. In the southern U. S., if you can batter and fry it, we will try…
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In my recipe box there is a stained slip of paper with nothing more than a faded penciled list of ingredients. At the top, in my mother’s handwriting it says, Good Brownies. There are no instructions. Mama always said, “they’re not that hard.” And they aren’t. But I will provide instructions. This is a small batch…