Recipes

  • My grandmother’s gingerbread recipe.

    My paternal grandparents were Hugh and Bertha Karrick of Salt Lick, Kentucky, and while thumbing through an old Homemaker’s cookbook, I found my grandmother’s recipe for gingerbread and decided I should try to make it with my own granddaughter, Elliott. She is four years old and loves to mix stuff up in the kitchen, recipe… Continue reading

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  • Hog Killin’ Weather

    A few years ago, as I was looking at digitized copies of the Owingsville Outlook, I happened upon this interesting tidbit in which the writer states, “Hog-killing, Thanksgiving and Christmas to look forward to before the blue days of winter come on.” It struck me that “hog-killing” seemed a celebratory event, one on par with… Continue reading

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  • Old Recipes

    Just in time for Thanksgiving, here are some old recipes that might be of interest.  Sorry if some of them seem incomplete, but this is how they are recorded in the old cookbooks from which I’m getting them.  I guess it was a given that everybody would know what to do next.  I’ll try to… Continue reading

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  • Mrs. Charles Darnell’s Orange Cake Recipe

    Might be a good dessert for the holidays.  I haven’t tried this recipe and have copied it just like it is written in Jane Kincaid’s cookbook.Orange CakeJuice of one large orange.1/2 cup white sugar put in juice, dissolve this mixture and let stand while mixing and baking.1/2 cup butter or crisco (scant)1 cup white sugar2… Continue reading

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