Mini White Fruitcakes

One thing I love is a good fruitcake – yeah, I know many don’t. But that is something to consider – have you ever had a good one? One that isn’t sickening sweet nor full of weird citron or candied fruit? A white fruitcake is a great introduction to something you might have missed. It [...]

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More Candy Recipes

I posted this one over on our TrailCooking blog, as Mint Cakes are a tasty hiking snack:
Kendal Mint Cakes

Ingredients:
1 pound granulated sugar (450g)
5 fluid ounces dairy milk  (150 ml)
1 tsp pure peppermint essence/flavoring
Directions:
Spray a 8″ x 8″ baking pan with cooking spray. Line with parchment paper, then spray the paper as well.
Put the sugar and [...]

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Hamantaschen

This was a recipe I found in the search to replicate the cookies my mom and I made as I was growing up. I have seen many versions but overall this seems the closest to what she used. As for the filling there are the traditional prune or poppy seed fillings but my mom left [...]

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Making Jam

Last weekend I helped out my friend Teresa and showed her how to make jam. We did two batches then I sent her home with my gear to have more fun! She did a nice blog on it with plenty of photos – and it was fun “teaching’.
~Sarah

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Modern Pickles

Well are they modern or are they a throw back? One of my favorite memories of canning with my mom was pickles. We would do bread and butter pickles every summer, hitting up this one farmers stand outside of Longview, Washington (an actual farmers stand, back in the days before all you found was trucked [...]

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Oatmeal Fruit Bars

I am still working on the recipe for the bars – they were great tasting…but not quite where I wanted them to be (the bars were too damp, too much fruit in the mix). Still, the best part of the bars was cracking open a jar of Orange Cranberry Jam that my friend Catzia had [...]

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Cat Makes

Cat Makes – you ask – what is that? It is my good friend Cat’s website for her crafty-ness!
Cat is quite the talented jam maker and as well she makes tasty mustard’s and more.
A lovely photo she took of the ingredients used in her Lemon Sage Wine Mustard:

You can see her wares in her shops [...]

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Simple Vanilla Syrup

My friend Catzia sent me a neat link to Craftzine’s Simple Vanilla Syrup recipe.
It is just as easy as making a simple syrup, with the bennie of vanilla flavor added in. Do you love vanilla lattes? Well here you go!
Simple syrup is easy to make and very inexpensive so get crafting in the kitchen [...]

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