Baking a Memory: The Madeleine, a Cakey Cookie

by Melody Kettle

I wasn't In Search of Lost Time, but I was  looking for something new.  I was in my kitchen - enjoying my afternoon antioxidants - when I recalled Grandma's Madeleine pans. But where were they?  I knew I saw them somewhere?  

Voila! In the deepest depths of my baking cabinet, below the flour sifter, under the full sheet, half sheet, pound, angel food, and cupcake pans, and even beneath a dozen glass pie plates, lay my Grandmother's unused Madeleine pans. Determined to bake a memory, I emptied my cabinet. 

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Sharing The Classics : The Original Quaker Oats Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

by Melody Kettle

Cookie PornWhy reinvent the wheel when a classic is one of the best ways to warm up a cold, wet winter day? There are about as many Oatmeal Cookie Recipes out there as there are oats in a tube of Quaker Oats, but it's the original that everyone remembers from childhood.

Enjoy the recipe below, and please share!

Ingredients 
  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) plus 6 tablespoons butter, softened
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Royal Icing ~ The Stuff That Makes Holiday Cookies Look So Good

by Melody Kettle

Royal Icing is that sweet colorful piped icing that dries hard and makes sugar cookies look so good.

The original recipe called for egg whites and powdered (confectioners) sugar, however with so many cases of crazy illnesses being attributed to raw eggs using meringue powder is the best way to go. Meringue Powder can sometimes be found in grocery stores during "cookie baking season" and its almost always in foodie oriented stores such as Willi ams Sonoma and Whole Foods. Craft stores with a cake decorating section often sell meringue powder as well.

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Grandma's Recipe Box is Back

by Melody Kettle

Earlier in the year, I took a stack of my Grandma's old recipes home and began blogging about them. I soon finsihed the stack, returned them to Grandma, and didn't bring any more home.
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