This was in Grandma’s cookbook in the breakfast section. It’s lighter and smoother than cornbread – a great alternative for a morning treat. Ingredients 1 cup cornmeal 1/2 cup soy milk 1 1/4 cup flour 2 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1/2 cup vegetable shortening (or Earth balance) 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1…
Category: Grandma Donna’s recipe
Kourabiethes – Greek Shortbread
A delicate, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread for any occasion – but I have decided to categorize this as a “holiday” recipe because they are reminiscent of grandma’s whipped shortbread, the powdered sugar, of course, brings snow to mind, and they are simply divine with the use of a clementine where the recipe calls for an orange. I…
Foundation Cookies
I have been very curious about this recipe since I first saw it in Grandma’s cookbook. It took me a minute to figure out what she meant by “foundation” in the title and then realized that these are a sort of “base” cookie recipe to which many different variations can be added. They are a…
Ginger Cookies
Is it really Christmas without a gingerbread cookie? While these aren’t actually gingerbread – the molasses and ginger will hit the same spot and their soft chewiness will bring a little extra holiday comfort. These won’t last long in our house. Ingredients 1 cup granulated sugar (+ ½ cup for rolling) ¾ cup Earth balance…
Darlene’s Fruitcake
Darlene was a good friend of Grandma Donna. Of my grandma’s few fruit cake recipes, I chose to try this one first because it required the fewest ingredients and had the shortest baking time. I like that’s it’s lighter and less fussy than traditional fruit cake, something I would enjoy for breakfast with a cup…
Fruited Holiday Nog Bread
I thought it might be fun to try a recipe with holiday nog as an ingredient because I always loved eggnog growing up. Although my family currently consumes eggs, we’re very picky about the source of the eggs and real eggnog would source its eggs from concentrated factory farms, which doesn’t fit with our ethos….
Butter Tarts
These butter tarts, along with whipped shortbread, are my family’s two most beloved Christmas recipes. There are two major factions of butter tart lovers out there – the type who love raisins and/or nuts in their butter tarts and those who hate them. We’re clearly in the raisins and nuts camp. My mom also sometimes…
Sugar Cookies
These are another Christmas staple in our family – I’ve thrown many cookie decorating parties among friends and am now happy to continue the tradition with my kids. This batch is a special edition from my dino-loving 3-year-olds. Ingredients 1/2 cup Earth balance 2/3 cup granulated sugar 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla 1 3/4 –…
Donna’s Brownie Squares
These squares are a perfect and irresistible marriage of shortbread and brownie. I don’t actually remember having these growing up, which is surprising because you’d think Grandma Donna made these often if she named them after herself. Grandma’s recipe calls for a possible addition of frosting on top but that seemed too indulgent for my…
Dilly of a Bread
When I first saw this recipe in my grandmother’s collection, I wasn’t sure if I had ever tried this bread before. But as soon as I started beating the wet ingredients and the smell of the dill and onion hit me, the memories of my grandmother’s house came rushing forward. I remembered waking up in…
Grandma Donna's Cookbook 