recipes – Ruth E. Hendricks

Grandmother’s Recipe Box

My paternal grandmother, Mary Alta Hendricks’ recipe box. No fewer than five recipes for rolls. Lots of baking cakes. There are Crisp Pickle Chips, a few prize winners clipped from a newspaper one from 1950. I’ve posted some before but I like to touch and read them, find her friends’ names in pencil- Lucille Roberts, Ruth Kiest, Vesta.

Four years ago I posted about my friend Kristin’s husband Rick baking bread and showed her recipe box with a poem in the lid.

Today I’m sharing more of the contents as my friend Vincie suggested recipe cards after a post a couple of months asking if you still use cookbooks

*The faster they boil the nicer they are*

I plan to bake the Orange Cake.

February 15, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, cooking, family, grandmother, handwritten recipes, kitchen, photography, postaday, Recipe box, recipe cards, recipes, yeast rolls 20 Comments

Baccala

The other morning I was in the Strip District and saw this salted and dried cod. Then I remembered my friend Donna said I could use her photo of her holding a piece which she used to make the Baccala fish for Christmas.

Here’s one recipe roasted with potatoes

Here’s a site with Baccala recipes one with battered fried pieces to one with tomatoes and capers and onions.

Mark Kurlansky wrote a book about Cod

My friend Donna holding the salted and dried cod which she’d soak to prepare the Baccala for Christmas Eve

Cod: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

“Kurlansky shapes his story around the Basque fisherfolk who, beginning in the Middle Ages, developed the technique of drying and salting cod, and began pushing further and further into the North Atlantic in their search for ever-more abundant fisheries” Kitchen Arts and Letters

January 23, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Baccala, Christmas Fish, COD, Mark Kurlansky, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, recipes, Strip District 14 Comments

Elmer Newkirk Changed His Mind

Five fewer guests could enjoy his concoction-

Perhaps larger portions for the fifteen?

I found the little slip of paper with this recipe in some of my mother’s recipes.

I don’t recall my mother ever making any potato salad

Do you have recipes on little slips of paper? Sometimes they are stuffed in a cookbook.

I don’t know who Elmer Newkirk is but he must have typed out his recipe snd shared it. Have you ever heard of putting a peeled apple in potato salad?

January 5, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Elmer Newkirk, family, kitchen, photography, postaday, potato salad, recipes 9 Comments

1900’s Menus and Recipes

The first is a Class Banquet menu from my Grandmother’s 1906 Yearbook and the second menu and all the recipes from an old cookbook I dusted off. Its date was 1913.

Longbranch Crackers were 2 boxes for a quarter

March 13, 2024 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: food, macaroons, menus, photography, piccalilli, postaday, recipes, Rockford Illinois, Throwback Thursday, vintage 11 Comments

Makovnjaca /Poppy Seeds

Poppy seed cake/sweet bread. This delicious one photographed now is from Bread Club in Zagreb.

Here’s a Croatian recipe (in English) for Makovnjaca.

In 2011 I posted about Povitica. A loaf that reveals a swirl of poppy seed filling or walnuts when sliced and is found in many different countries. I can’t distinguish the two names except the one we ate with tea was moist and flavorful.

Do you like poppy seeds?

January 6, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: bakery, Bread Club, Croatia, dessert, food, Makovnjaca, photography, poppy seed, poppy seed bread, poppy seed cake, postaday, povitica, recipes, travel, Zagreb 5 Comments

Apple Season

Audrey of Minnesota Prairie Roots wrote a blog post featuring a favorite apple orchard and right now my sister is in Okanogsn Washington visiting our brother and she’s watching the workers bring the bins and pick the apples in the neighboring orchard.

Audrey’s query- do you have a favorite apple orchard? reminded me of one of my favorite photographs which I happened to take in an Ohio Apple Orchard

My DIL is walking between the trees with Anna and Michael. Jack was at home napping. She’s expecting Maura in November. (2008)

I hadn’t started blogging then but since then I’ve posted a lot of apples here’s a link to the tag apple of old blog posts. And even a second page of posts tagged apple you c add non see Cider making and my SIL making an apple pie. There are photos of the orchards in Washington state. And there’s a tag of apples as well with lots of apple cooking

Maura Laura Charlie snd Anna
**Lynd Farm** in Pataskala Ohio

September 1, 2022September 1, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: apple, apple orchard, apple season, apples, blogging, Columbus OH, family, grandchildren, Minnesota Prairie Roots, orchard, photography, postaday, recipes 13 Comments

Have You Eaten a Pickled Egg?

This jar of Jalapeño eggs was spotted in Zanesville, Ohio when I stopped to use the restroom at the gas station on the way back to Pittsburgh. I bet these eggs are hot! They were right next to the jars of pickled beets. They got me thinking about pickled eggs I found an article in Mental Floss why bars sell pickled eggs which I really didn’t know much about. I also learned there are recipes in case you want to pickle some hard boiled eggs- here’s a recipe for pink pickled eggs from The Guardian

Have time to read a more detailed recipe? Click here Pickled Eggs and Pork Scratchings recipe by Madalene Bonvini-Hamel; Chef, Photographer and Founder of The British Larder – The British Larder

But if it’s the Jalapeño Eggs you want to taste and you can’t find a jar like I did, these take just seven days to make.

July 6, 2022 by Ruth Categories: food, PhotographyTags: bar food, family, food, Jalapeño Eggs, ohio, photography, pickled eggs, postaday, recipes, travel, Zanesville 12 Comments

Two Longtime Friends Cook Modern Comfort Food Guest Blog

Watercolor by Joanne -Applesauce Cake with Bourbon Raisins baked by Colleen

Joanne writes from Florida:

So …. one day last month I was on the phone catching up with my friend Colleen who lives in Nova Scotia. As we were talking about her new cookbook purchase, Ina Garten’s “Modern Comfort Food“, my doorbell rang and a package was delivered. I opened it while talking and it was a copy of the same book! What are the odds? My dear friend Ruth had sent it as a surprise. Colleen and I decided we would each pick some recipes to try out and share our results. Here are the photos of our month-long project. Fun and nice way to keep in touch. Overall we both agree that Ina Garten’s recipes are easy to prepare and almost always turn out looking exactly like her descriptions and photos.

We’re looking forward to trying out another cookbook author soon.”

Colleen cooked:

Warm Spinach and Artichoke Dip

Spaghetti Squash with Arrabbiata Sauce

Seared Salmon with Spicy Red Pepper Aioli

Applesauce Cake with Bourbon Raisins

Joanne cooked:

Brussels Sprouts Pizza Carbonara

Fresh Zucchini with Lemon and Mint

Roasted Sausages, Peppers and Onions

Tuscan Baked Apples

Colleen has been featured on the blog with quilts, cookbooks and a mug rug she made me

Joanne has been featured with Tea Bag Art and recently the zucchini as cucumber confused produce sign

November 23, 2020November 24, 2020 by Ruth Categories: Baking, Cooking and Eating, foodTags: baking, Barefoot Contessa, comfort food, cookbook, cooking, eating, friendship, kitchen, Modern Comfort Food, Pandemic Project, photography, postaday, recipes 11 Comments

St. Joseph at St. Michael in St. Augustine

St. Joseph Feast Day March 19

You might remember another St. Joseph Feast Day post Carmela baked all of these breads

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NPR story about zeppoles (pastry) – Providence Rhode Island at LaSalle Bakery

and click to read a collection of St. Joseph Day recipes at the New York Times

March 20, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: bakery, baking, bread, church, Italian pastry, photography, postaday, recipes, religious statue, St. Augustine FL, St. Joseph, St. Joseph Feast Day, zeppole 9 Comments

Notice -“Booming Stats” on Abandoned Blog Today

Five years ago I tried to create a recipe blog from my grandmother’s wooden recipe box and my mother’s recipe cards. I’d forgotten all about it until today when I got a notice from WordPress. Try this link to the blog A friend wrote she had trouble

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Throwback Recipes Blog

I didn’t stick with this blog for very long.

There were SIX followers. Throwback seemed as if the recipes weren’t really relevant nowadays.

It stopped seeming like such a cool idea.

But today I got a notice “Your stats are BOOMING!” On the Throwback Recipes blog. Rhubarb Cake recipe and the home page

And 65 hits (that’s booming after zero) are from El Salvador, 2 are from United States and 1 from Australia. And in just ONE hour.

So thought I would share about my abandoned blog that got rediscovered today.

Did you ever start a blog and abandon it?

It’s always nice to receive those notices from WordPress.

Here is the Chocolate Pound Cake recipe my mother made

July 27, 2016July 28, 2016 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, blogging, Chocolate Pound Cake, cooking, eating, family, food, grandmother, kitchen, memories, mother, recipes, Rhubarb Cake Recipe, throwback recipes 20 Comments

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