June 09, 2009
Publication Date: June 2009
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Welcome
Hi,I hope this ezine finds you well and happily making old-time desserts for backyard picnics and family get-togethers. Here in Peterborough, summer seems slow in arriving, so we've only eaten outside once or twice. So far, temperatures have been below average for June, and we seem to be receiving more rain than normal. It's great weather to work outside in, though, but we need more sun to make things grow and ripen.
My thanks to everyone for your thank-you notes and wonderful comments about Grandma McIlmoyle's Little Dessert Book. You are all very welcome indeed. I'm so pleased you enjoyed reading it, and I hope you tried some of Grandma's old recipes. I'll continue to offer the ebook in future newsletters for new subscribers and for those who failed to download it the first time. And since I'm not selling this ebook, feel free to send a copy to your friends.
May I ask wee favor of you before I sign off? The "Party Line Fun" section on my site features a page where you can upload your favorite family dessert recipe, one that's been passed down in your family. My site visitors and I would love it if you would share your family dessert recipe and perhaps a nostalgic photo. It's easy to do, and you'll have your own webpage to share with your friends and family.
Thank you for visiting.
Till next time,
Don
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Grandma McIlmoyle's Little Dessert Book (depicted above) features 23 old-fashioned dessert recipes that Grandma collected in a little notebook and wrote in her own handwriting. She began her little recipe book while homesteading on the Alberta prairie in the early 1900s.
You'll not only view the recipes as Grandma wrote them in her little book, but I have also included a transcript of the recipes for easier reading. It's my little tribute to Grandma and her recipes, and the ebook is yours for the downloading.
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Website Updates
Welcome to this month's updates:There are new dessert recipes that have been added since the last newsletter, so have fun poking around the site.
Have you visited the "Party Line Fun" page yet?
There, you'll discover vintage dessert recipes and interesting tidbits of nostalgia. You can even create your very own web pages and add comments. So grab a coffee and spend some time.
Add your family's favorite old-time dessert recipe as a tribute to your Mom or Grandma. Everyone would love to see it.
Visit the Party Line Fun page.
Sometimes, visitors arrive at my site looking for recipes for cakes, pastries, pies, and cookies, and they don't realize that there's a wide variety of such recipes from different countries in the International Dessert Recipes category. Spend time poking through its pages, and you'll find some real gems.
Visit the International Dessert Recipes page.
Also, the holiday categories contain many wonderful cake, pie, and cookie recipes that can be adapted for use throughout the year.
Visit the Holiday Dessert Recipes page.
Do you like strawberry pie? The strawberries will be ripe for picking soon, and here's a good page to bookmark.
Visit the Strawberry Pie Recipes page.
And More New Pages To Come
See the next edition of this newsletter for additional new recipe pages.Old Fashioned Recipe
This month features two old-fashioned cookie recipes that call for molasses. Molasses cookies were often made in the old days as molasses was used as a main sweetener in the kitchen. Grandma purchased it by the barrel for cooking and baking throughout the year.These old-fashioned cookie recipes are taken from one of Mom's recipe scrapbooks.
Never Fail Molasses Cookie Recipe
1/2 cup shortening, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs beaten, 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup molasses, 3 cups flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon cloves, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 3/4 cup seedless raisons.Method: Beat shortening and sugar to a cream. Add eggs and milk, then sifted dry ingredients and the raisins, which have been dredged in some of the flour. Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet, about one inch apart. Bake in a moderately hot oven (375°F) about 18 minutes. Four dozen medium-sized cookies.
Molasses Cookies Without Eggs
One cup lard, 2 cups molasses, 1 teaspoon soda, 1 dessertspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon cloves, 1 teaspoon spice, pinch of salt, flour enough to roll.Enjoy!
More Old-Fashioned Dessert Recipes
You will find more old-fashioned recipes published in past issues of the Easy Dessert Recipes Ezine.Here, you can access Old Fashioned Recipes from past issues.
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