These are some of the cookies that Stirling and I made yesterday.
These are my father's world famous popcorn balls. It's really not Christmas without these popcorn balls...last year they forgot to put some in the box they sent us in Ukraine and I cannot express how disappointed I felt. I almost cried. Really! Dad uses a recipe that my grandmother (his mom) always used. Grandma Lena always said that it is an Amish recipe (my grandmother's family were all Amish and we still have Amish relatives all over Ohio, Michigan and other areas). The recipe can be found in
The Household Searchlight Recipe Book, by The Household Magazine, 1931, 1937 and 1939, copyright by Arthur Capper. :-) Here is the first paragraph from the foreward:
The Household Searchlight is a service station conducted for the readers of The Household Magazine. In this seven-room house lives a family of specialists whose entire time is spent in working out the problems of homemaking common to every woman who finds herself responsible for the management of a home and the care of children." Grandma Lena was an excellent cook - I well remember her caramels, fudge, fried cornmeal mush, homemade butter and bread, fried chicken and a host of other really good holiday and farm foods. My sister, Julie has Grandma's original cookbook, but she found a copy in a used bookstore and gifted my mother with it.
Mom
Grammy (great-grandma, my mother) with Stirling
Stirling a
nd Mandy
These are my father's world famous popcorn balls. It's really not Christmas without these popcorn balls...last year they forgot to put some in the box they sent us in Ukraine and I cannot express how disappointed I felt. I almost cried. Really! Dad uses a recipe that my grandmother (his mom) always used. Grandma Lena always said that it is an Amish recipe (my grandmother's family were all Amish and we still have Amish relatives all over Ohio, Michigan and other areas). The recipe can be found in The Household Searchlight Recipe Book, by The Household Magazine, 1931, 1937 and 1939, copyright by Arthur Capper. :-) Here is the first paragraph from the foreward: The Household Searchlight is a service station conducted for the readers of The Household Magazine. In this seven-room house lives a family of specialists whose entire time is spent in working out the problems of homemaking common to every woman who finds herself responsible for the management of a home and the care of children." Grandma Lena was an excellent cook - I well remember her caramels, fudge, fried cornmeal mush, homemade butter and bread, fried chicken and a host of other really good holiday and farm foods. My sister, Julie has Grandma's original cookbook, but she found a copy in a used bookstore and gifted my mother with it. 
Mom 
Grammy (great-grandma, my mother) with Stirling 
Stirling a
nd Mandy
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