Heavenly Rice Pudding Recipe

Rice Pudding Recipe

A delicious pudding made from rice and evaporated milk, whipped until stiffened and flavored with fruit. The recipe likely came from a Carnation milk recipe booklet or newspaper clipping. There’s something intriguing about the illustration of the author – it looks as though she even has a beauty mark. How striking! Heavenly Rice Pudding1/2 cup [...]

Rhoda’s Sour Milk Doughnuts Recipe

Sour Milk Doughnuts Recipe

Doughnuts are my weakness. I remember my mother’s plump, nutmeg scented buttermilk cake doughnuts. Depending on how she rolled and cut them, some would turn out almost ball shaped. I can almost taste them now and I’m ashamed to say, I’ve never made them myself (an issue I must correct!). This recipe features sour milk [...]

Etta’s Tapioca Pudding Recipe

Old Fashioned Tapioca Recipe

Tapioca pudding was my enemy as a child. I thought it was the most disgusting thing. I didn’t like the texture and I certainly didn’t like those little fish-eye looking tapioca pearls. Well, my tune has changed over the years and somewhere along the way I fell in love with tapioca pudding. On some days, [...]

Silva’s Pancake Recipe

Old Fashioned Pancake Recipe

I love that this recipe was written on a piece of notebook paper from the First National Bank of Muskogee, Oklahoma. It’s an added bit of history to give provenance to the recipe. At first, I was uncertain what this recipe was for and didn’t comprehend the title. I thought it said ‘paw’ cakes … [...]