The Damsel in Dis Dress
Posted in baking, guest post on Monday, May 24th, 2010 01:38 pm GMT -6
The Damsel is pleased to share this fabulously talented cook with you. These pretzels are definitely Grandma-approved. Good morning to everyone! I am Jamie Cooks It Up! and am happy to be guest posting today! I run a food blog full of family friendly recipes. Most of the recipe’s are made from scratch with a [...]
Posted in baking on Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 11:48 am GMT -6
The Damsel loves presents. She recently received a box from Ann Clark Ltd., which is a cookie-cutter-making-company in Vermont. Awww! What’s cuter than a bunch of springtime-shaped cookie cutters? Making rolled sugar cookies is way old school. The Damsel has been meaning to do a post about them for a long time. She’s put it [...]
Posted in Substitutions, baking on Monday, March 15th, 2010 12:59 pm GMT -6
How many times have you skipped a recipe because it called for cake flour instead of all-purpose flour? How many times have you looked for cake flour at the market and either couldn’t find it, or cringed at the price? Could it be true that it’s really THIS EASY to make your own cake flour? [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, baking on Monday, March 1st, 2010 03:17 pm GMT -6
The Damsel is a little annoyed at granola bars. They’re posers. They act like healthy food, but under that seeming innocence, calories lurk. Plenty of the ones you buy at the market are really candy bars, if you really want to be honest with yourself. These granola bars are not guaranteed to be low-cal, but [...]
Posted in baking, cooking on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 09:40 pm GMT -6
It’s frustrating when you want to make cookies and your brown sugar is hard as rock. It’s enough to kill the whole cookie-making mood. Don’t worry. All is not lost. It’s not necessary to pack up the kids and head for the nearest market for a fresh bag. (If the Damsel had to do that, [...]
Posted in baking on Friday, December 11th, 2009 06:02 pm GMT -6
The Damsel can’t think of a more old school dessert than shortbread. This recipe is so simple, so basic. It’s easy to picture Great-grandma making this often, and not having to refer a printed recipe, either. You’ll see why the Damsel says that. So what is shortbread? It’s sort of a cookie, although it can [...]
Posted in baking on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 07:44 pm GMT -6
Okay, class, Thanksgiving is nearly upon us. There’s a whole continuum on how to do this, from extreme old school (go shoot a turkey, pluck it, roast it over an open fire) to packing up the family and going out to Marie Callendar’s for dinner. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle. The Damsel [...]
Posted in baking on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 07:37 pm GMT -6
I asked the Damsel if she would like to know how we make homemade doughnuts on Halloween. It’s been a tradition in our family since Grandma Lola started making them and giving them out over 40 years ago. Sounded like a blog post, and so here it is. Grandma Whittaker’s Spudnuts 1 qt. Milk scalded [...]
Posted in baking on Friday, October 30th, 2009 08:13 pm GMT -6
Tomorrow or the next day, your local market may put their leftover pumpkins on clearance, and you can pick one up for dirt cheap. But why would you want to do that? After all, Halloween will be pretty much over. You could make your own pumpkin puree! Yes you can! You can use pumpkin puree [...]
Posted in baking on Saturday, August 8th, 2009 06:43 pm GMT -6
The Damsel received a request for a post about making banana bread, and since it came from her cutie patootie newlywed niece, she could not refuse. Besides, this recipe uses a couple of things Old School classmates should now have on hand. dun dun dun . . . Remember the bananas in the freezer? Yeah, [...]
