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Category Archive for 'Desserts, Cakes, Cookies, Cobblers and Pies'

This is absolutely the best date nut bread recipe I’ve ever tried.  It comes from the Tasha Tudor Cookbook.
Ingredients:
1 cup dates, chopped
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup boiling water
1/4 cup soft butter
1 egg, well beaten
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 3/4 cups unbleached flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup English walnuts, chopped
Grease well, onw 4 1/2 X 9-inch loaf pan or [...]

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Yes, oh yes, this was the epitome of fancy desserts back in the 60’s . My Mother made it frequently after she mastered it. We thought she was the Cat’s Meow or something like that. LOL!
Its not hard to make! Its amazing to look at and back when we were so easily entertained we [...]

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When I was a child my Mother made several delicious cakes.
One was called a Golden Lemon Chiffon cake. Chiffon cakes are light and fluffy like an angle food cake but they are rich tasting like a regular cake. So, it should be no surprise that methods of preparing both kinds of cakes are used [...]

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