Peek-A-Boo Squares

I remember these being baked in the oven on Brentwood Drive. They're really delicious when made with cherry pie filling!

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Ingredients for Peek-A-Boo Squares: Butter, Sugar, Eggs, Flour, Pie Filling & Vanilla Flavoring. ( Note: When Memere made these she actually used margarine. 1 Tub would be one small tub- part of a 2 tub package of margarine.
For a printable PDF file of this recipe right mouse click HERE.

Peanut Butter Bonbons

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Ingredients for Peanut Butter Bonbons: Peanut Butter, Butter or Margarine, Confectioner's Sugar, Crispy Rice Cereal, Butterscotch Pieces & Semi-Sweet Chocolate Pieces.
For a PDF printable version of this recipe click HERE.

American Chop Suey

On Wednesdays Memere's young family enjoyed this dish on a weekly basis. Having a few standard meals made life a bit simpler for such a large family.

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Ingredients for Memere's American Chop Suey: Hamburger, Onion, Green Pepper, Elbow Macaroni, Tomato Sauce, Chopped Tomatoes & Tomato Paste.
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Italian Anise Drop Cookies

This Anise Cookie Recipe is from a small spiral notebook that was found with Memere's cookbooks.

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Ingredients for Italian Anise Drop Cookies: Eggs, Spry, Sugar, Anise Flavoring, Flour & Baking powder.
For a PDF printable copy click HERE.

Memere's Home Style Macaroni & Cheese

This is the Mac & Cheese that Memere put on the table every Friday night when the children were growing. Most often it was served with ketchup & ?Grape Jelly? Yup, Grape Jelly!

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Ingredients for Memere's Macaroni & Cheese: Cracker Barrel Cheese, Elbow Macaroni, Milk, Salt & Pepper.

Campbell's Budget-Friendly Meals

With the quick pace of the holiday season upon us, here's a gift for you & your family. Campbell's has a Free 30 page PDF cookbook full of "Budget-Friendly" & QUICK recipes. It's only a click away. Find it HERE.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wine as a Mild Marinade Part 2

Part 2: Wine as a mild marinade

Wine as a Mild Merinade is yet another of Memere's recipes cut from her favorite local newspaper.

Right mouse click on the Sun-Sentinel logo for a suprise no-fail recipe from their food editor. I have tried this recipe & love it!

Wine as a Mild Marinade Part 1

Wine as a Mild Merinade is yet another of Memere's recipes cut from her favorite local newspaper.

Right mouse click on the Sun-Sentinel logo above for more of their proven recipes.

Turtle Cheesecake

Turtle Cheesecake from an unknown source...
Ingredients: Chocolater Wafer Crumbs, Sugar, Butter, Cream Cheese, Eggs, Sour Cream, Vanilla, Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, SMucker's Caramel Topping & Chopped Pecans.

Right mouse click on the Smucker's jar to navigate to more great recipes using their products.

Make Your Own Inexpensive Candy & Cookie Coating

To go along with Memere's extensive cookie recipes I found this recipe for chocolate coating at Happy Bird's Crafting Haven on the internet. It's a good time to post it before the Christmas season.

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You might like to visit Happy Birds Crafting Haven to see many more Christmas ideas.

Lucarelli's Pignoli Cookies

This is another clipping from Memere's favorite newspaper! Memere must have thought these were special, she took the time to staple the picture to the recipe. :-)
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Ingredients for Lucarelli's Pignoli Cookies: Almond Paste, Sugar, Egg Whites, Orange Extract & Pignoli (pine) nuts.

Right mouse click on the SunSentinel Logo to naviagate to a great Butternut squash soup recipe & other great recipes! YUM!

Pork Pie Tourtiere PDF

Below is a helpful PRINTER-READY version of Memere's Pork Pie recipe. :-)
This document will print a 3" x 5" recipe card.

Memere's Pork Pie - Tourtiere Recipe.
Just right mouse click on the highlighted words above & choose how you would like to open the link.
If you do not have a PDF reader you will need to get one to open this file.
Get Adobe's PDF reader HERE.

French Pork Pie Tourtiere Filling

This is the second side to the recipe card for Pork Pie.
Tomorrow's post will be a PDF version of both the Pie Crust & Filling.


Ingredients for Pork Pie - Tourtiere Filling: Ground Pork Butt, Salt, Pepper, Water, Thyme, Cloves, Cinnamon, Onions, & Potatoes.

Egg Pastry Pie Crust for Pork Pie

Memere's most memorable holiday & winter recipes were her Turkey Stuffing, Pork Pies & Gorton. Here is her OUTSTANDING flakey pie crust recipe. Using her ingredients use standard pie crust methods to produce the perfect crust for her Tourtiere.


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Ingredients for Egg Pastry Pie Crust: Shortening, Flour, Salt, Egg & Milk or Water.

Memere's Blue Spiral Recipe Cards

The next group of recipes are found in this great old Spiral wire-in-dex. It is full of Memere's favorite recipes. It not only has all the original hand written recipes but also includes recipes that Memere clipped & taped into the Index Card Notebook. An old rubber band kept all her special recipes secure. Here's a photo of the Blue Spiral Recipe Card Notebook.

Memere's Potato & Pork Stuffing (2)

Here is a helpful PRINTER-READY version of Memere's Stuffing recipe. :-)
This document will print a 3" x 5" recipe card.

Memere's Famous French Potato & Pork Stuffing
Just right mouse click on the highlighted words above & choose how you would like to open the link. Once the recipe is printed just cut it out & fold it in half.
This is a Gluten-Free recipe so it is safe for those with Ciliac Disease.
If you do not have a PDF reader you will need to get one to open this file.
Get Adobe's PDF reader HERE.

Memere's Potato & Pork Stuffing

Memere's Famous French - Potato & Pork Turkey Stuffing

As children, on Thanksgiving, we could not wait for the STUFFING!!! This is the meat & Potato Stuffing that graced our table. Any stuffing that would not fit inside the turkey was served in bowls as a light lunch while we waited for the main course.

Enjoy All!

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Ingredients for Memere's Potato & Pork stuffing: Ground Pork, Potatoes, Onion & Celery.

OH! I almost forgot... This is a Gluten-Free recipe so is safe for those with Ciliac Disease.

Christmas Sugar Cookies

This sugar cookie recipe was clipped from Memere's local newspaper. The Sugar cookies were featured almost yearly on Memere's cookie & candy tray list. Check out the link to the SunSentinel for more great recipe ideas!

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Ingredients for the Christmas Sugar Cookies recipe: Butter, Sugar, Egg, Heavy Cream, Vanilla, Flour, Baking Powder, Salt, Confectioners Sugar & Food Coloring.

Right mouse click on the SunSentinel Logo above to navigate to their great recipes!

White Fudge

White Fudge Ingredients: Sugar, Flour, Cream of Tatar, Salt, Evaporated Milk, Vanilla, Butter, Nuts & One Jar Fluff.

Peanut Butter & Chocolate Truffle Cookies

Peanut Butter & Chocolate Truffle Cookies Ingredients: Peanut Butter Morsels, Semi Sweet Chocolate Morsels, Confectioner's Sugar, Finely Chopped Peanuts, Flour, Butter & Vanilla

Toffee Logs (Cookies)

Toffee Logs Ingredients: Flour, Light Brown Sugar, Butter, Maple Extract, Egg, Heath Bar- Candy Bars & Semi Sweet Chocolate Squares.

Triple Layer Chocolate Mint Brownies

Who could resist these Triple Layer Chocolate Mint Brownies? There are three yummy layers all in one bite! The base is a rich chocolate brownie, followed be a minty frosting & topped with a thin layer of chocolate. These are definitely Memere approved.




Ingredients for Triple Layer Chocolate Mint Brownies: Eggs, Sugar, Flour, Cocoa, Butter, Vanilla, Peppermint, Unsweetened Chocolate, Milk & Green Food Coloring.

Sour Dough Bread

This recipe was definitely listed under Company's Coming. Even though Memere could not eat bread containing gluten, she still enjoyed making this old fashion Sour Dough Bread

Sour Dough Bread Ingredients: Flour, Sugar, Salt, Yeast, Milk, Margarine & Starter.