By Melissa Norris | Dessert , Recipes
This old-fashioned molasses cookie recipe is the perfect holiday cookie, especially if you’re after down-home simple recipes that Great-Grandma would have baked. You can almost hear the harness and bells jingling as you pull these from the oven. They have just the right amount of spice paired perfectly with the molasses. I’ve used all […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Healthy Snacks , Recipes
Old fashioned popcorn balls, specifically molasses popcorn balls are the perfect winter and holiday treat. In the winter months, the pioneers would spend more time indoors, near their fire. Snacks would include things like fresh fruit from their cellar, or fresh popped popcorn, for a fun evening treat.The pioneers were never wasteful and leftover popcorn […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Dessert , Recipes , Vintage
Learn how to make a pumpkin roll from scratch with this recipe straight from Grandma’s kitchen and made with fresh pumpkin puree. This is an easy pumpkin roll recipe with cream cheese filling that brings you the marriage of a cheese cake with pumpkin spice… aka, the best thing you’ve ever had. No joke! My […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Recipes
Vinegar pie is about as old-fashioned as you can get, it hails from the pioneer days and early settlers when they wanted a sweet treat and no fruit or other pie filling makings were available. This also has a relative shorter baking time than compared to apple pies, making it easier for a homestead cook […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Recipes
An old-fashioned blueberry pudding recipe with a rosewater sauce straight from Almanzo’s Ma’s kitchen and the Little House Cookbook. Are you loving this series as much as I am? When early pioneers found fresh fruit, they collected and used as much as they could. Waste not, want not was their mantra. In the Mid-West, blueberries […]
Read MoreBy Heather Harris | Dessert , Recipes
A fried donut recipe, no yeast, and about as old-fashioned homemade donut recipe as you can get when it hails from the Little House Cookbook. This is our second recipe in our Cooking Like Ma Ingall’s series! Back in the early pioneer days, there was no Dunkin Donuts, or Krispy Kreme to grab a snack […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Dessert , Recipes
Mini cherry pies in a muffin tin, because nothing says summer like cherry pie. Something about it reminds me of fireworks and the 4th of July (or Canada Day for my fellow Canucks;) Cherry pie was the first pie I ever made from scratch. I made it with store-bought sweet cherries and a basic pie […]
Read MoreBy Melissa Norris | Breakfast , Dessert , Recipes
This easy blueberry cake recipe comes straight from Grandma’s kitchen. Michelle made a small adaptation from the original version, because this version only uses a natural sweetener, made straight from her homestead. From scratch cakes baked in cast iron, with a generations old recipe, and blueberries and maple syrup straight from the homestead makes this […]
Read MoreBy Andrea Sabean | Dessert , Recipes , Vintage
How to make pudding from scratch is something almost every cook knew how to whip up before convenience processed food and those little boxes of powdered stuff became known as pudding. While many a cook today still knows, and does, make a cooked stove top pudding from scratch, not nearly as many people know how […]
Read MoreBy Anastasia Sakawsky | Bread , Dessert , Recipes
This Plum bun recipe is from 1910 and hails from the kitchen of Baba. This 100-year-plus recipe is rich in both flavor and it’s history. You can’t get much more simple or delicious than a sugared plum prune wrapped in fluffy from scratch dinner roll dough and baked to golden brown perfection. I come from […]
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