Nov 20, 2009 | Dessert, Food
Bobbie’s Chess Pie Mother used to make this when we were children. I always loved this. By the way, the name supposedly is an adaptation of what ladies in the old south used to call “Just Pie.” Ingredients 1 stick of butter- melted 2 cups of sugar 2...
Jul 11, 2009 | Dessert, Food
Fig Preserves This fig tree is in our back yard. We cut it all the way down to the ground once, and it came back even bigger than ever. Each summer around late June, we begin racing the birds to get the figs. They get some, and we get some. [Click here for larger...
Jul 8, 2009 | Dessert, Food
Mother made this up from a bunch of apples we brought up on our visit to Tennessee. It’s delicious. I’m not much on making desserts, but this one is so good, I thought I’d share it. Mother got this recipe from a cookbook published by First United...
Jun 27, 2009 | Dessert, Food
Fig Preserves Again We did another 10 pints of figs last night. I’m getting pretty good at this. I didn’t make nearly as big a mess as I did the first night. That makes 17 pints in 2 nights, and we still have a couple of dozen left over from last year....
Jun 26, 2009 | Dessert, Food
Fig Preserves We have a fig tree in our back yard. It begins “coming in” around late June each year. A few years ago, while I was home visiting Mother, Sherry took a notion to make fig preserves. Between the Joy of Cooking and several phone calls back to...
