Remembering Moms in the Cook's Corner Kitchen
A nostalgia-filled column by Linda Cicero recalls women who shaped family meals through hearty dishes and regional sweets. It highlights Welsh cookies, comfort foods, and frugal cooking from lean eras, with tips on clabber dairy and simple, lasting recipes.
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Scranton
Karen Backus
Lee Coleman’s Mother’s Stuffed Cabbage Recipe
A reader’s query yields Barbara Waiters’ stuffed cabbage adapted by Lee Coleman of Coral Gables. The recipe uses lean ground beef rice egg onion carrot and cabbage leaves rolled and simmered in tomato sauce with brown sugar lemon juice vinegar and aromatics serving six with detailed steps and approximate nutrition.
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Barbara Waiters
Lee Coleman
Coral Gables
First Prize Macaroni and Cheese Recreation
A rich baked macaroni and cheese recipe uses 8 ounces elbow pasta and a blend of Cheddar Swiss and mozzarella with cream cheese and butter. The sauce thickens with flour and milk, folded with onion and parsley, then baked 30 to 35 minutes at 375 degrees to yield 12 servings.
Lemon Sponge Pie Recipe Shared From Reader in Ohio
Readers submit memories and a dated 1917 lemon sponge pie recipe. Fort Lauderdale collector James R. Scull copied the grandmother’s handwritten directions. The note recalls a favorite dessert from Pettrina Jones and Hallandale Beach memories.
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Ohio
James R. Scull
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Pettrina Jones
Hallandale Beach
Scalloped Pineapple Recipe Passed Through Generations
A Southern scalloped pineapple dish linked to Georgie Nichols and Deborah Dawson traces through Lettye Vennell’s family from 1944 to the late 1960s. The bake uses bread cubes, eggs, evaporated milk, pineapple with juice, and a buttered dish baked at 350 for about an hour yielding eight servings with notable calorie and fat details.
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Georgie Nichols
Deborah Dawson
Lettye Vennell
Mrs Rex Frozen Fruit Salad Recipe Shared From Florida Reader
Anne Robin of Plantation Florida shares the 1940s salad her mother made on a wood stove. The recipe mixes cream cheese mayo cream lemon juice fruit cocktail banana cherries nuts sugar and whipped cream then freezes in a leaf pan for about three hours yielding a rich dessert style salad with detailed nutrition per serving.
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Anne Robin
Plantation
Fla
Rex
Pennsylvania
Little Washington
Robin
Gingerbread Cake Recipe from Biscayne Miracle Mile
Willie Mae Murphy shares a cafeteria recipe from her mother for gingerbread cake. Mix eggs sugar oil molasses and buttermilk then fold in dry ingredients and bake in a 9 by 13 inch pan at 325 degrees for 1 hour yielding 24 servings with per serving nutrition noted.
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Willie Mae Murphy
Biscayne
Lazy Daisy Cake Recipe From 1990 Reader Notes
A reader recalls Lazy Daisy cake a one bowl nut and coconut topped dessert. The basic batter uses eggs vanilla sugar flour baking powder and salt with warm milk and butter, baked 25 minutes then topped under a hot broiler for browning. Makes 8 servings with 327 calories per serving.
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Jane Anderson
Joyce Langley
Miami
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