Quince Jelly
Make this stunning rose-colored quince jelly scented with a hint of lemon.
Quince: Another of America’s Forgotten Fruits
The delicate, yet heady fragrance of the quince is said to be reminiscent of lemon, pineapple, flowers, and apple.
Quince Tarte Tatin
Tarte Tatin should ideally be eaten warm, or room temperature, the same day it’s made.
Quince Clafoutis
This light, rich, creamy, pudding-like dessert is a French classic.
Poached Quince with Vanilla and Cinnamon
Poached quince is delicious over your afternoon ice cream or a slice of pound cake topped with whipped cream.
Membrillo (Quince Paste)
Membrillo is a popular Spanish paste made from quince and served with Manchego cheese.
New Year’s Food Traditions: For Luck and Prosperity
Probably no other holiday in America is more deeply entrenched in food tradition and superstition than New Year’s. While the first recorded festivities celebrating the arrival of the new year date back 4,000 years to ancient Babylon, it was Julius Caesar who originally established January 1 as the first day of the year, with the […]
Pork Roast with Sauerkraut and Kielbasa
This is the traditional New Year’s Day entree originated in central Pennsylvania where it’s usually served with mashed potatoes and applesauce.
Southern-Style Collard Greens
In the South we prefer to cook collards low and slow in a stockpot in bacon drippings with sweet onions, chopped ham and garlic.
Hoppin’ John
Hoppin’ John is so much more than just for New Year’s Eve.
Eggnog Pound Cake
A festive twist on traditional pound cake, this deliciously moist Eggnog Pound Cake takes your favorite Christmas drink and turns it into a heavenly dessert!
Grandma Etchieson’s Buttermilk Cornbread
This recipe is for old-fashioned country-style cornbread, made without flour or sugar. Delicious!
Creamy Chocolate Fudge
This super easy Creamy Chocolate Fudge takes just minutes to make and is a seriously delicious, lusciously creamy, no-fail fudge!
Chocolate Fudge Recipe
For those folks who feel scratch-made is best, here is a wonderful chocolate fudge recipe for you.
Nestlé Toll House Chocolate Fudge
Sometimes the simplest recipes yield the richest results.
Classic Southern Eggnog
Classic Southern Eggnog from The Country Mouse Inn in Landrum, South Carolina.
Fruitcake: Holiday Tradition or Joke?
“The worst Christmas gift is fruitcake,” cracked Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. “There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other, year after year.” We all hear the infamous fruitcake jokes year after year: “Why does fruitcake make the perfect gift? Because the U.S. Postal Service […]
Chef Monte’s Old-South Fruitcake
In this recipe eliminates the candied fruits in favor of dried fruits.
Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies
What would Christmas in America be without cookies? There would be no snack for Santa, no visions of sugar plums for the children and no edible decorations for the tree. Christmas it seems was, above all other holidays, invented with cookies in mind. While Christmas cookies have been around since Medieval Europe, it was the […]
Sugar Cookies
These sugar cookies are the perfect starting place for a holiday cookie decorating party.
Spritz Cookies
Spritz cookies come from the German word Spritzen which means to squirt referring to the way these cookies are pushed through a cookie press to create beautiful shapes.
Christmas Citrus Squares
These delicious, fancy Christmas cookies are an elegant addition to any holiday gathering.
Jello Pastel Cookies
An easy and delicious Christmas cookie you can make using your favorite Jell-O flavor, or fusion of flavors.
Chocolate Covered Snow Peaks
After drying, these meringues get dipped in dark chocolate for a dramatic finish.
Candy Cane Cookies
These Candy cane cookies are made with twists of green and red cookie dough flavored with fresh lemon juice.
Big Batch Kris Kringle Cookies
These rich and buttery Kris Kringle Cookies are made with white chocolate chips, sweet dried cranberries and toasted pecans for the absolute best Christmas cookies found anywhere.
Chocolate Bliss Macadamia Cookies
These decadent chewy chocolate drop cookies studded with white chocolate chunks and crunchy macadamia nuts in every bite.
Stained Glass Stars
Stained Glass Cookies are a Christmas classic. Sugar cookies are cut out in the shape os stars and filled with crushed Life Savers. As the cookies bake, the candy melts, creating a stained glass effect.
Swedish Christmas Cookies
Swedish cookies are called sandkaker or sandbakelse actually originated in Norway. Recipes for these Scandinavian Christmas treats have been passed down from generation to generation.
Paradise Macaroons
These macaroons are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.
Cinnamon Stars
These gluten free Christmas cookies are a staple in German markets!
Hanukkah Cookie
Cream cheese adds richness to these delicious Hanukkah cookies.
Grapette: America’s Once Favorite Grape Soda Makes a Comeback
Whether you call it pop, soda, soda pop, or coke (a generic term), the soft drink industry in this country is huge–more than 50,000-gallons-per-American-per-year huge! By the late nineteenth century, bottled soda had come of age in America with over five hundred bottling plants producing some 260 million bottles of soda a year. In 1888, […]
Will Twinkies Be Lost Forever?
As some of you may already know, Hostess Brands, Inc., the company who makes Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Sno Balls, and other popular baked goods, filed for bankruptcy protection on January 11 of this year. Finally on Friday, November 16, after striking workers refused to return to work, company officials decided to seek the court’s permission […]
Ultimate Deep-Fried Twinkie
Deep-Fried Twinkies are a fun food found at just about every county and state fair in America.
Homemade Twinkies
You might even like these little filled cakes better than the popular commercial brand. This would make a great supervised project for the kids.
Mary Anne’s Twinkie Cake
No, it’s not a cake that tastes like a Twinkie. It’s a cake made out of Twinkies! If it sounds perfectly sinful, it’s because it is.
Patriotic Twinkie Pie
The only thing more patriotic than making this is sharing it with your fellow Americans.
Twinkie-Misu
You might want to bust out the good china for this one. Tastes great on paper plates too.
The American Thanksgiving
For most people, the mention of Thanksgiving brings to mind visions of roasted turkey filled with stuffing, pumpkin pie, family get-togethers, football, and young schoolchildren acting out stories of the Pilgrims sharing the first feast with native Indians . But was that day of feasting at Plymouth really the first Thanksgiving in this country? Let’s […]
Sorghum Candy with Peanuts
This recipe for retro Sorgham Candy with Peanuts comes from the Brimley Estate in McKinney, Texas and date back to 1987.
Peanut Brittle with Sorghum
This Peanut brittle is a delicious treat, perfect for the holidays or anytime you need to satify your sweet tooth.
Sorghum Syrup: Sweet Elixir of the South
In the early seventeenth century, sweet sorghum was introduced into America as an alternative to sugar cane in the upper South and Midwest. First brought here by African slaves, sorghum cane thrived in hot, arid conditions and was soon grown by farmers in the Carolinas and as far west as Texas and far north as […]
Julia and Jacques’s Deconstructed Turkey With Corn Bread Stuffing and Gravy
Preparing your Thanksgiving turkey in this manner is, without a doubt, a time consuming project, but will worth the effort.
Classic Pumpkin Pie
This classic recipe has been on LIBBY’S® Pumpkin labels since 1950.
Corn Casserole
This no-fail corn casserole recipe is so easy and versatile.
Grapette BBQ Sauce
Grapette BBQ sauce was made in-house and used exclusively at the famous Shack barbeque near the capital in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas.
Purple Cow Smoothie
So simple and easy and yet so delicious. You’ve got to try it.
PB&J: Every American Kid’s Favorite Sandwich
The peanut is thought to have originated in Brazil and Central America, making its way to Africa by means of Spanish explorers and traders. When African slaves were brought to United States, the peanut arrived with them. In fact, the name "goober," as they are called in the southern states, comes directly from the African […]
Shoofly Pie
This recipe is a twist on the authentic American Shoofly pie that comes to us from the Pennsylvania Amish, Mennonites, and Pennsylvania Dutch; we shall be grateful to them forever.
