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KitchenScraps – A Homemade Christmas by Constance Guidotti

by Matilda ButlerDecember 24, 2009
KitchenScraps – A Homemade Christmas by Constance Guidotti

KitchenScraps: Join Constance Guidotti as she looks back at a way of life connected to the land and to family in Cupertino, California, in the years when prune and apricot trees rather than Silicon Valley tech companies and McMansions dominated the landscape. As her gift, Constance invites you to try her grandmother’s heirloom recipe for Grated Apple Pie.

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KitchenScraps: Christmas Memories 1949 by Barbara Bottini

by Matilda ButlerDecember 17, 2009
KitchenScraps: Christmas Memories 1949 by Barbara Bottini

KitchenScrap: Barbara Bottini tells a special childhood Christmas memory in her memoir vignette. She shares her mother’s Christmas Plum Pudding and Hard Sauce recipes, a tradition that Barbara and her sister keep alive.

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KitchenScraps – Remembering Gingerbread Characters by Rhonda Esakov

by Matilda ButlerDecember 10, 2009
KitchenScraps – Remembering Gingerbread Characters by Rhonda Esakov

KitchenScraps for Christmas – Rhonda Esakov recalls in vivid detail Christmas parties that began with the launch of her book and the eventual and painful end to the annual celebrations. Join her as this year she bravely restarts her Gingerbread Character baking and finds ways to recall the good memories associated with them.

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KitchenScraps – We Eat a Lot of Butter on Thanksgiving by Patricia McEwin Smith

by Matilda ButlerNovember 18, 2009
KitchenScraps – We Eat a Lot of Butter on Thanksgiving by Patricia McEwin Smith

KitchenScraps – Patricia McEwin Smith shares both her well-remembered Thanksgiving preparation story and her mother’s treasured recipe for Turkey Dressing. She takes you back to the time when butterball turkey meant you had added the butter yourself.

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KitchenScraps: Cardamom Memories by Katherine DeGrow

by Matilda ButlerOctober 15, 2009
KitchenScraps: Cardamom Memories by Katherine DeGrow

KitchenScraps: Katherine DeGrow shares the childhood memory of baking cardamom bread and the adult experience of finding family in Finland and seeing her grandfather’s now abandoned bakery. Be sure to try her braided cardamom bread recipe.

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KitchenScraps – Mom’s Upstairs One-Egg Cake by Bettyann Schmidt

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 10, 2009
KitchenScraps – Mom’s Upstairs One-Egg Cake by Bettyann Schmidt

KitchenScrap: BettyAnn Schmidt shares family memories and her mother’s recipe for burnt-sugar icing. Go back in time to the 1940s with her.

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KitchenScraps – Pepper Hash and Life by Tracy Kauffman Wood

by Matilda ButlerAugust 27, 2009
KitchenScraps – Pepper Hash and Life by Tracy Kauffman Wood

Tracy Kauffman Wood’s KitchenScrap memoir shares her grandmother’s Pepper Hash recipe, born of The Depression, developed to help support her family. A charming story lovingly told.

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