Category: recipes

  • Grandma Godfrey’s Lemon Pie

    Grandma Godfrey’s Lemon Pie

    My grandmother made great pie.  Our family’s favorite was her Lemon Meringue.  One summer we went to visit my older brother at the school he was attending near Denver, Colorado.  He requested that we bring him one of grandma’s lemon pies.  So we did, it was my job to protect this pie from Farmington, UT…

  • Mom’s Knot Rolls

    Mom’s Knot Rolls

    Mom’s Knot Rolls 8-10 cups flour, divided 2 tbsp instant yeast 1/3 cup sugar 4 tsp salt ¾ cup powdered milk 2 ½ cups hot water ½ cup oil 4 eggs, slightly beaten Put dough hook on mixer.  In large mixing bowl, mix together 4 cups flour, yeast,(SAF yeast), sugar, salt and powdered milk.  Pour…

  • Carrot Cookies with Orange Frosting

    Carrot Cookies with Orange Frosting

     “Carrot cookies?” my sweet husband said in that, “okay my wife is nuts” tone. I promise they are good. The sweet flavors from sugar and carrots make a yummy combination. You don’t even realize your eating carrots. Carrot Cookies 1 cup cooked mashed carrots1 cup shortening1 cup sugar1/2 tsp. lemon or orange flavor2 1/2 cups…

  • Grandma’s Banana Bread

    Grandma’s Banana Bread

    Grandma almost always had banana bread in her freezer when I was growing up. I thought she just really liked banana bread. Now I know why – no one wants to eat a brown banana. No matter how many bananas I buy, I almost always have a couple that don’t get eaten.

  • Marble Cake

    Marble Cake

    As a young mother it was, and still is, tradition to make a special dessert for Sunday dinner one of our favorites was cake, in particular any kind of chocolate cake.  One day I decided to try making a marble cake and it soon became my son Robert’s favorite and after over baking it one…