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Genealogy

Merry Pepparkakor Christmas!

December 22, 2010
Pepparkakor or Ginger Thins

Well Christmas is right around the corner and this is my last Christmas cookie post for 2010. I am sort of happy that the cookie baking is over but I sure did have fun this year. This is the first Christmas I’ve enjoyed sans construction or surgery since 2005. And it’s been a long 5 [...]

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Who doesn’t like Chocolate Pudding?

June 30, 2009
Chocolate Pudding

History of Jell-O;  In 1845, industrialist Peter Cooper (who built the first American steam-powered locomotive, the Tom Thumb), obtained a patent (US Patent 4084) for powdered gelatin. Forty years later the patent was sold to a LeRoy, New York-based carpenter and cough syrup manufacturer, Pearle B. Wait. In 1897, Pearl and his wife, May, developed [...]

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My Big, Fat Chocolate Chip Cookies

March 13, 2009
Chocolate Chip Cookies

I had to do it! I had to make Tyler’s Big Fat Chocolate Chip Cookies. It’s so nice out lately and Chocolate Chip Cookies just seemed to fit my mood and our gorgeous sunny weather. I did make 1 substitution only because J. is on a diet. I used Splenda Sugar Blend in place of [...]

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Friend, Financier or Friand

July 4, 2008
Cherry Almond Friand

When I first came across a recipe for Friands, I was hoping beyond hope that it had some Swedish history. I do genealogy and I do connect to Nils Larsson Frand/Friend (1630-1686), one of the first Swedish settlers into New Sweden, located in PA, NJ and MD. Being most of my ancestors were English, finding [...]

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Grama and the Fried Dandelions

May 18, 2008
Fried Dandelions

I have fond memories of my Great Grandparents. When I was very young, maybe 4 years old, my G-Grandparents managed and lived in a large apartment building in Detroit. I remember going into the apartment basement with Papa Fred and watching, fascinated, as he shoveled coal into the huge furnace. Once when I was in [...]

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