Author: Margaret

  • Flat Bread

    Flat Bread

      We are carb junkies in our family.   The only thing that we like better than hot bread from the oven is Cinnamon rolls.   I promised the bread that went with fresh raspberry jam.  So here it is. 5 – 6 cups flour1 cup whole wheat flour 2 cups hot water (110-115 degrees)1/3 cup sugar2…

  • Graveyard Cake

    Graveyard Cake

      For many year my husband and I have been gathering recipes that we liked from magazines, newspapers, friends and anywhere else we could find them.  We would make some quickly and others got put in a file for later.  After the file got out of control we put them in a binder after sorting…

  • Family Treasure

    Family Treasure

    Some time ago my mother-in-law gave me a couple of doilies that she had found amongst some old thing of my husbands paternal grandmothers. We don’t know if she made them or not but we don’t have a lot of things that belong to her so that makes them a “Treasure”. We were sorting out…

  • Harvest Time

    Harvest Time

    This is a great time of year.  The colors, sounds, feel and especially the smells of autumn.  For the last couple of weeks we have been smelling our grapes.  Two years ago we planted 3 concord grape  plants.  They seem to like where they are planted because they have grown great.  We actually were able…

  • Fresh Bread and Jam

    Fresh Bread and Jam

    We have  a smallish yard in a nice subdivision.  A number of years ago my husband built garden boxes in between our house and the neighbors.  We tried vegetables and they were great but decided that we wanted to grow raspberries and blackberries/marionberries.  We had grown raspberries before but the others were new for us. …