Tag: great grandmother

  • Bibliophilia: Sanders’ Reader

    Bibliophilia: Sanders’ Reader

      My grandmother gave me this book, and today as I was contemplating the subject for my next post on the love of books, it stuck out at me. Particularly so when I re-read her note on it, describing where it came from and what it had been used for. I used to collect antique…

  • Vintage Kitchen: Pumpkin Pie

    Vintage Kitchen: Pumpkin Pie

    I do love pumpkin pie. I always look forward to the fall, when I can make it, and tuck into it with all the delicious whipped cream… ok, these days I often skip that part, for reasons. But I rarely make it out of season, even though there is no real reason not to –…

  • Cooking with Cast Iron

    I’ve been cooking with cast iron all my life, as my mother and grandmother, and great-grandmother before me all did. I know they did, I learned to cook in their kitchens by watching them, and then cooking at home. Now that I’m grown up, Dad and I have amassed quite the collection here on the…