Modern twists on retro appetizers and Welsh griddle cookies
A reader asks for updated appetizers with classics like cheese balls rolled in cranberries and pecans plus goat cheese pesto crescents, spinach balls with corn bread stuffing and pine nuts. Also shared is a Welsh griddle cake recipe with currants, lard-free options, and freezing tips, plus a cheddar blue cheese ball and spinach ball variations.
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Sandi A
Scranton
Thomas
Favorite cookie recipes from Modesto cooks shared
Collection of home baked cookie recipes from Sue Lorenz Jim Smallwood and Joann Ewert. Recipes use oil vanilla brown sugar oats coconut walnuts and almond flavors with standard steps to mix bake and cool in 350 degree ovens. Includes notes on ribbon placings and family traditions.
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Sue Lorenz
Modesto
Calif
Jim Smallwood
Santa Cruz County
Annamaria Wikoff
Oakdale
Barbara Wikoff
Barbara
Steve
Denice L. Ditzler
Choco Marshmallow Cookies From Oma and Modesto Bakes
A mixed set of cookie recipes from Oakdale and Modesto contributors. The first yields chocolate marshmallow treats baked at 350 degrees then topped with frosting after a brief second bake. The second adapts a Betty Crocker base with peanut butter and chocolate chips baked into round cookies.
Modesto cooks share family cookie and pastry recipes
A collection from Modesto Calif residents recounts old family cookies and bars. Denice L Ditzler Ann Wesley and Juanita Kaufman describe crusts batters and frostings for cookies. notes include almond frosting variations and jam filled centers.
Prohibition reshaped California wine industry and ghost wineries
The article traces Prohibition’s impact from loopholes allowing up to 200 gallons of fruit juice yearly to the collapse of most CA wineries, the rise of ghost sites like Regusci, and the revival of quality wine only after repeal. It notes declines from about 700 to 40 wineries, early wartime shifts to grape selling, and the return of table wine in the late 1960s.
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Napa
Jim Regusci
Milk” Company
Napa Valley
San Francisco
Jim Bundschu
lach-Bundschu Winery
Sonoma County
California
Fredrikson
Alcoholics Anonymous
Pinney
Chateau de Basement
Portugal
Jerez
Spain
Robert Mondavi
Regusci
Occidental Grigsby
Calif
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Kendall
Fla
Linda Cicero
Icicero
Miam
Oudeceiabienenes
Glenda L. Hyde
Betty Crocker
Juanita Kaufman
Modesto Junior College
Downey High School
Ann Wesley
Groveland
Gundlach-Bundschu
Bundschu
Renais