Tea Towels and Chess Pie
Here are the wonderful tea towels I received from Denise in the Tea Towel Swap. I adore the cow one especially and I think Thursday is my new favorite day!
Check out all the amazing tea towels here.
Denise also sent two recipes I can't wait to try. One is for Chess Pie (which I have never made) and another for an Apple Cake which sounds like the perfect dessert on one of these brisk Autumn days. I love old-fashioned desserts. Things like banana pudding, coconut cake, homemade chocolate pudding and berry cobbler. I love the older recipes for them...the kind of recipes you can find in old community cookbooks. The recipes aren't quite as sweet as some recipes can be today. Also, they use many types of sweeteners and not just granulated sugar which gives them extra pizzazz. I collect old community cookbooks and have more than I could ever cook from but I love reading them as others would read a novel...I can't get enough of recipes like "Mrs. Wilson's Snowflake Cookies" or "Mrs. Smith's Triple Marble Chocolate Fudge". I especially like it if there is a little something about where the recipe came from or who likes it. Somehow the fact that Mr. Smith loved that Triple Marble Chocolate Fudge makes me even more eager to try it. Yep, I can't get enough of those old fashioned desserts. Thanks for the wonderful swap Denise and thanks also to you Jackie for putting the whole thing together it was delightful!
Ha! I know what you mean! I have the most ancient junior leauge dessert cookbook from Jackson, Mississippi. Apparently, "Harold used to come in the drugstore so often for a slice of the coconut cake that they eventually named it 'Harold's Coconut Cake'". Somehow, it makes it that much tastier!
Posted by: rebekka | October 17, 2006 at 12:56 PM
I love old recipes too! I'm so glad you got such great towels from the swap - love the cow!!
Posted by: Jackie | October 17, 2006 at 02:56 PM
Yeah Lauren I can't believe you got your swap already. I am so glad you liked it. The recipes are both family ones tried and true and delicious. The only change I make is to cut the oil down in the Fresh Apple Cake recipe. The Chess pie recipe must be at least 65 years old.
I also collect the old church and womens club type cookbooks.
Small world huh!
Posted by: edssak | October 17, 2006 at 06:11 PM
Chess pie is so good. I'm a little jealous. And I love it when a recipe comes with a story - so much more charming than "I cut this out of a magazine."
Posted by: Sarah | October 18, 2006 at 09:22 AM
I love those old recipes! But I haven`t found that many of them... Do you have any suggestion where I should look? :-)
Posted by: Vintage Wine | October 23, 2006 at 06:59 AM