Chicken
Other Meats
Roast Lamb in Wine
Florence’s French Pork Pie
Hawaiian Pork Chops with Honey Bananas
Picnic Ham Loaf
Pork Tenderloin in Sour Cream
Hank’s Rabbit Pie
Lottie’s Polish Sausage with Sauce
Clara’s Creamed Veal with Biscuits
Herman’s Secret-Touch Veal Paprika
Veal Schnitzel
Cakes and Pies
Boiled Cake
Frosted Penuche Cake
Frying Pan Cake
Graham Cracker Cake with Mocha Frosting
Poppy Seed Cake with Buttercream Frosting
Simple Loaf Cake with Strawberry Sauce
Banana Pie with Orange Crust
Cream Cheese Piecrust with Strawberries
Elderberry Pie
Key Lime Pie
Nana’s Lemon Shortbread Pie
Bars and Cookies
Dottie’s Date-Nut Bars
Dream Bars
Easter Gumdrop Bars
Grant’s Peanut-Covered Squares
Lemon Sour Bars
Malted Butterscotch Bars
Brown Sugar Refrigerator Cookies
Cream Cheese Cookies
Mitzi’s Golden Pumpkin Cookies
Orange Rock Cookies
Ted’s Coconut Kisses
Miscellaneous
Deviled Eggs
Dill Pickle
Homemade Noodles
Parsley Sandwich Sauce
Potato Refrigerator Rolls
Sweet Raisin Stuffing
Cranberry Cordial
Frank’s Mead
Ward’s Coffee Liqueur
Sweet Miscellaneous
Almond Soup
Chocolate Tapioca Pudding
Chocolate Torte
Doughnuts (Paczkis)
Fig Puffs with Wine Sauce
Rice and Nut Loaf
Tropical Delight Salad
Quince Honey Jam
Sweet Quince Preserves
Final Thoughts
A Better Way to Present a Fish
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
MY THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE:
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Richard Hunt and his wife, Linder Hunt, for her expertise with the recipes. | |
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Jack Heffron, for the short time that I worked with you. | |
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Scott Schwimmer, my attorney, who loves me even when I do not listen. | |
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Jen Gates, my literary agent, whose great advice is only a phone call away. | |
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Jill Parsons Stearns for having great friends in the right places. | |
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David Powers—I could not have done it without you. Amazing you could make sense of my rambling; your talent makes a great story. Thanks also to your wife, Elizabeth, and your children for letting me have your extra time for our project. | |
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My family and friends, always in my thoughts. | |
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Most important, my clients who encountered chatty earthbound spirits with fond memories of food—we can all enjoy the fruits of those reminiscences! |
—Mary Ann Winkowski
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I REMEMBER is how proud I was when I wrote a “story” about a truck when I was about six years old, and how excited my parents were to read all ten words of it. My parents, Kay and Ken, were supportive of my efforts then and have never stopped being supportive of me—even when I switched my major from journalism to creative writing, and later when I took a job as a coffee-shop barista after leaving college, so I’d have enough spare time to write. Thanks for everything, Mom and Dad.
My wife, Elizabeth, has always been just as supportive, never batting an eye when we made the “five-year plan” after getting married, where she would work full-time and I would write, before we both settled down and got real jobs. Without her and without those five years, I know I would never have been able to keep writing at the forefront of my life, and without her now, fifteen years
