From the tin box
The Recipe Box
Every card Rose kept, typed out and sorted the way she'd have done it herself. The original tin sat on the shelf above her flour bin for close to sixty years, holding cards on feed store receipts and index cards from the drug store on Main. What's here is the whole box, pulled onto the counter so the family can cook out of it whenever they like.
Meals
Breakfast
0 recipes
Lunch
0 recipes
Supper
0 recipes
Soups & Stews
0 recipes
Sides & Vegetables
1 recipe
Baking
Breads & Rolls
1 recipe
Pies & Cobblers
1 recipe
Cakes
2 recipes
Cookies & Bars
2 recipes
Puddings & Custards
2 recipes
Pantry
Every recipe in the box
All 10 of them, in one place.
7 Up Sheet Cake
A tender yellow cake made with a can of 7 Up and topped with a hot pineapple coconut frosting poured over while the cake is still warm.
Church-Supper Cream Cheese Bars
Grandma Rose's cream cheese bars. A yellow cake mix crust pressed flat, with a soft cream cheese and powdered sugar filling poured over the top.
Cinnamon Walnut Zucchini Bread
A pair of tender zucchini loaves spiced with cinnamon and studded with nuts. Two 9x5 pans out of one bowl, from Rose's tin box.
Corn Flake Pantry Potatoes
A church-basement classic. Hash browns baked with cream of chicken soup, sour cream, Velveeta, and a crushed corn flake topping.
Icebox Peanut Butter Pie
A soft peanut butter and powdered sugar crumble under a vanilla cream pudding, baked in a pie shell. A Rose original from the tin box.
Layered Lemon Icebox Dessert
A four-layer lemon icebox dessert on a pecan shortbread crust, with cream cheese, lemon pudding, and Cool Whip. A summer staple from Rose's tin box.
No-Churn Mocha Ice Cream
A no-churn mocha ice cream made in a double boiler with marshmallows, semi-sweet chocolate, strong coffee, whipping cream, and egg yolks.
Old-Fashioned Cocoa Brownies
Grandma Rose's one-bowl cocoa brownies. Made with oil instead of butter and stirred by hand with a metal spoon. About half an hour from start to finish.
Piña Colada Cake
A poke cake soaked with sweetened condensed milk and cream of coconut, topped with a pecan-and-coconut Cool Whip. From a handwritten card in Grandma Rose's collection.
Pineapple Coconut Cake Frosting
A cooked frosting of eggs, sugar, butter, crushed pineapple, and coconut. Poured hot over the 7 Up cake straight out of the oven.