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Holiday Spoon Rolls

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With the holidays in full swing I wanted to share the dinner rolls that I have been making for family events lately. They are an amalgamation of my grandma’s classic yeast spoon roll and the Southern Living dinner rolls I found online. I also add some whole wheat...

Grandma Swan’s Fool Proof Pie Crust

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I have not baked a pie from scratch in more than ten years but it is national pie day today and I have vowed to try some of my grandmother’s recipes that I have recently digitized for the family. So I find myself working on her famous homemade pie crust today. I...

My First Cookbook Conservation Completed

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It’s finally finished! The cookbook is all scanned, annotated and ready to go. It’s a big file but with public sharing on Dropbox I will have no problems getting it passed around to all the family. I had a few problems with getting the indexes just the way I wanted...

My First Cookbook Conservation, Part II

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My First Cookbook Conservation, Part II (read part I here) So now that I had re-discovered this treasure trove of good food and family history it was time to decide how to give it life again. First I decided it needed to retain its original look, so just retyping all...

My First Cookbook Conservation, Part I

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My First Cookbook Conservation, Part I This project began when I was cleaning out a closet and came across a plastic bag full of scraps of paper and one faded composition notebook that I inherited years ago after my Grandmother Swan’s death. The rag tag...