{"id":1519,"date":"2013-05-22T15:17:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:27:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T21:27:02","slug":"250-cookbooks-simply-from-scratch-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"250 Cookbooks: Simply from Scratch Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cookbook #33:<\/strong> Simply from Scratch Recipes.<\/em> Pillsbury Kitchens, The Pillsbury Company, USA, 1977.<\/p>\n

\"Simply<\/a>This cookbook is from Pillsbury, the same company that produced the Bake-Off<\/em> cookbooks\/booklets (my entry for cookbook #4 discusses the bake-off concept<\/a>). My mother was fond of these booklets. I actually have two copies of this small one: my own, and my mother’s. It’s entered twice in my database of 250 cookbooks, so I will cover it twice in this blog. I’ll start with hers.<\/p>\n

My mother’s copy is about as beat up as my own \u2013 it’s been used a lot! This booklet does have great recipes. As I page through her copy, I recognize both my sister’s and my mother’s handwriting on many of the recipes.<\/p>\n

Simply From Scratch<\/em> has recipes for yeast and quick breads, pies and cakes, and cookies. My mother marked mostly cookie recipes: Candy Bar Squares, Touch-of-Lemon Sugar Cookies, Peanut Streusel Banana Bars, Salted Peanut Cookies, Crackly Topped Ginger Cookies, and Lemon-Go-Lightly Cookies. On “Blueberry Muffins”, she wrote “Delicious” and “Patty” in parentheses. That’s because I’m sure I told her to try this recipe, it’s one of my favorites. She tried and liked two of my other favorites: Cinnamon-Raisin English Muffins and Potato-Chive Rolls. My sister liked the Applescotch Crisp.<\/p>\n

Both my sister and my mother liked “Rocky Road Fudge Bars”. My sister wrote “Excellent” and my mother wrote “delicious – very rich”. Rocky Road Fudge Bars, why is that so familiar? I didn’t mark this recipe in my copy of the cookbook. So, I checked my “cookie” document, and found the recipe there with this note to myself: “I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve made these, but the recipe was carried through several versions of my recipe collection, so I added them to this document.” Probably I got the recipe from my mother, not realizing it was in Simply From Scratch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m going to try these cookies! We are having company to help us eat a rich dessert. I’m sure they will be excellent made exactly as written.
\n\"Rocky<\/a>Rocky Road Fudge Bars<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Bar:<\/p>\n