by Laura Frantz | Nov 21, 2020 | Home, My Kentucky Kitchen, Recipes, Thanksgiving, Uncategorized
Strawberry Pretzel Salad Happy almost Thanksgiving! If I could I’d love to learn what’s on your holiday menu this year, both Thanksgiving & Christmas. Here at our house we bring out the best china and glassware and heirloom silverware and set the table...
by Laura Frantz | Apr 8, 2020 | Home, Inspiration, Memoir, My Kentucky Kitchen, Recipes
My Kentucky kitchen has become My Quarantine Kitchen instead! Some of you have asked for my bread recipe and I’m pleased to share. It’s been a favorite of ours for many years, especially now when we’re at home so much. The recipe is said to be from...
by Laura Frantz | Dec 1, 2019 | christmas, My Kentucky Kitchen, Recipes, Uncategorized
I’ve eaten a lot of sugar cookies in my lifetime and these are, hands down, my favorite. I’ve been baking these for over 25 years now and this is the tried and true recipe. I don’t frost them as prettily as these shown here. Honestly, we eat them too...
by Laura Frantz | Nov 24, 2019 | Home, Inspiration, Memoir, My Kentucky Kitchen, Recipes, Uncategorized
I have rich memories of Kentucky Thanksgivings at my granny’s house. She’d cook for days beforehand, hardly taking her apron off till she went to bed. One magical happening was going onto the back porch and opening what she called the back closet. There,...
by Laura Frantz | Sep 29, 2019 | My Kentucky Kitchen, Recipes, Uncategorized
Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened 2/3 cup light brown sugar, packed 1/3 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup canned pumpkin 2 cups all-purpose flour 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon baking powder ½-1 cup chopped...
by Laura Frantz | Aug 1, 2019 | Garden, Home, My Kentucky Kitchen, Recipes, Uncategorized
This quick bread is so rich and dense it tastes more like old-fashioned pound cake to me. I especially like the instructions to stir peaches in with a wooden spoon:) Though banana bread has long been a favorite, my husband prefers this every time…BATTER: 3 cups...
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