Ashley Schoenith’s The Heirloomed Kitchen: Made-from-Scratch Recipes to Gather Around for Generations takes us back to our grandmother’s kitchen with enticing aromas and made-from-scratch meals cooked with love.
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Calling all cookbook enthusiasts, I’m sharing a wonderful cookbook
full of Southern-inspired recipes!
Ashley Schoenith’s The Heirloomed Kitchen is a carefully curated cookbook with nostalgic-style photography that beautifully presents the food while also showcasing heirloom cookware, serving vessels and utensils, and the gracious gentility of Southern hospitality. The recipes are slow-paced and packed with family memories taken from those splattered, handwritten recipe cards passed down from mother to child to grandchild.
The 100 plus recipes, along with elegant photography, bring you to the table for family meals with breakfasts, appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes, sides, desserts, special holiday gatherings, and, of course, classic drinks for the cocktail hour.
You’ll find Southern favorite recipes like Fried Green Tomatoes, Roadside Hot-Boiled Peanuts,
Southern-Style Deviled Eggs, Classic Southern White Gravy and Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits,
Old-Fashioned Southern Pralines, Low-Country Boil and
St. George Island Shrimp and Grits, to name a few.
I loved these Vintage Glass-Stamped Cookies. . .they make me want to poke around
in a thrift store or antique mall for a vintage glass with an interesting bottom
to make impressions and stamp out sugar cookies!
There is plenty to tempt my taste buds in this cookbook
including Lemon and Sour Cream Pound Cake. . . .
Brie, Sausage, & Sage Casserole
Autumn Pear Crisp
Bourbon and Brown Sugar Pecan Ice Cream
as well as Hummingbird Cake.
Other recipes that caught my eye were Sunday Pot Roast with Gravy, Bourbon Bread Pudding,
Pie Crust Cinnamon Rolls, Sweet Corn and Cheese Grits, and Cast-Iron Rosemary Bread.
I consider my grandmother’s well-worn cast iron skillet
a treasured heirloom, while its value is only sentimental.
While her fried chicken can not be replicated, we still use her skillet
40 years later, for everything except fried chicken. ;)
When a recipe is more than just a recipe:
“I’d like to challenge you to make time this year to visit family members who have inspired you in the kitchen, whomever they may be. Bring them blank recipe cards and ask them to hand write a few of their signature recipes that you’ve enjoyed together so you can add them to your collection. Make time with them in the kitchen to make these favorite recipes step-by-step together and learn the nuances of the process itself. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked someone, especially my older relatives, for a recipe, and I’ve been given the same answer, ‘Well, I don’t have an actual recipe. A little of this, a dash of that…’ Often they can’t provide the specifics on how much of something is needed because they’ve made it so many times, and perfected it over the years. They know the desired outcome, but the consistency of the dough should be or how to make it come together without a second thought. It’s a learned skill that’s been perfected over the years and one you should appreciate and learn. That is why it is often hard to re-create Grandma’s famous cookies or Mom’s pot roast. You can follow a recipe to perfection, but if you haven’t learned the techniques, consistencies, and subtle tips for mastering it, then the art will be lost and it will never be exactly the same again. I learned more from the scribbled notes on some of these old recipe cards that I do from the entire text of the recipe itself. ‘Make sure the water is ice cold,’ or ‘Do not over mix.’ The magic is in the process.”
— Ashley Schoenith, The Heirloomed Kitchen
This cookbook would make a great gift for a new cook or young bride
as it includes standard kitchen conversions in dry and liquid measures,
as well as basics such as how to flour a cake pan,
separate an egg, make a roux, and clean a cast iron skillet.
Gibbs Smith Publisher has provided me a copy of The Heirloomed Kitchen to give away to one reader.
For a chance to win a copy, leave a comment and tell me a favorite or treasured recipe
that was passed along or handed down to you from a family member, neighbor or friend.
This giveaway is open to those living in the continental U.S.through midnight January 18th.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
Congratulations to Janice C.
“My hope with this cookbook, and with all I do, is to pull from the past, to learn as much as I can, and to continue the story on for the next generation. If we don’t make time to spend together with our mother or grandmother in the kitchen learning the tried-and-true family recipes we grew up on, then they’ll be all but forgotten for future generations.”
— Ashley Schoenith, The Heirloomed Kitchen
The Heirloomed Kitchen is available for pre-order and releases January 23, 2024.
Thank you to Gibbs Smith Publisher for providing a copy of The Heirloomed Kitchen for my review and giveaway.
Ashley Schoenith is a self-proclaimed old soul on a mission to keep family recipes and heirlooms around for future generations. From a young age, she always had an affinity for history, made-from-scratch cooking, a love of craftsmanship, a fondness for vintage details, and an obsession with preserving things from the past. Schoenith is a designer and entrepreneur of the brand Heirloomed, mom to Wyatt, Sawyer, and Waylon and wife to Shane. She was born and raised in the South as an eighth-generation Floridian who now resides in Atlanta, GA.
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This looks like the most perfect cookbook! I adore family recipe cookbooks! One of my favorite recipes that has been passed down in my family is my Mama’s 12 layer old fashioned chocolate cake and Mema’s chicken pastry! Delicious
I have my mother’s chocolate sheet cake recipe. My friends call it “THE cake” and ask me to bring it to most of our get-togethers. This cookbook sounds delightful and I’d love to win it. Thanks!
I don’t have my mother’s praline recipe. I’d love to try the one in this beautiful cookbook. I love using my mother’s Lecruset baking dishes and my grandmother’s cast iron skillets.
My favorite family recipe is for Lemon Bisque -the only thing my mother could make! Daddy had to do the cooking. I loved his cinnamon pinwheels and scrambled eggs and bacon for Sunday dinner. I miss those Sundays.
Many years ago a dear friend shared her apple cake recipe. We always thought it was complicated until she shared it, The “complicated” step is peeling and coring the apples otherwise it takes 5 minutes to put together this yummy snack.
I have many favorite recipes from my grandmother, an excellent cook. A pinch of this, a dash of that, a dollop of this, a splash of that. Thank heavens my mother had the good sense to follow her through the kitchen with measuring spoons and measuring cups. I loved her chicken and dumplings. And her chicken and rice soup.
Really, anything she made …
What a lovely cookbook and what fun they must have had creating it! My thoughts and aromas go back to the kitchen seeing my mom and dad prepare sausage, mushroom, apple and cornbread dressing with giblet gravy to accompany the turkey. No recipe but I’ve made it for my family for years and it gives me great joy when the kids call for help to make it for their wives and families. They’re always so proud when they receive comments like, “we’ve never tasted anything like this!” and their proud reply, “that’s how we grew up!”
This brings back memories of a special woman and dear friend in my life. She was born in the 1870’s and lived about two blocks away. When she baked sugar cookies in her wood fed cook stove,she always put a pecan on top. The best part is she baked enough to share with its. I still use her favorite recipe.
Looks like a great Cookbook. I love old and new recipes.
Isn’t it nice to see a recipe on the old 3”x5” index card, instead of on your iPad? I recently used my mother’s recipe for escalloped tomatoes for my Christmas dinner – typed on an old tattered card. Besides being a delicious side dish, this little card brings me so much love and memories of my mom. Wish I could attach a pic of the card! Thank you for offering this cookbook to a lucky reader of your blog.
What a beautiful cookbook! There is something very special about a “handed down” recipe. I am one of six children, and my mother cooked pretty simply. However, her signature dish for special occasions was chocolate fondue. It is yummy and rich! She served it with different fruits and pound cake, from a silver chafing dish which had been a 25th Anniversary gift to my dad and her. I now have that chafing dish and enjoy serving chocolate fondue for special occasions as she did.
What a treat it would be to win that lovely cookbook. Thank you, Mary, for continuing to provide such beautiful content for your readers.
My grandmother’s oatmeal cookie recipe a family favorite. If an empty oatmeal box was available she would store the cookies in it was waxed paper on top. Sweet memories of a precious lady!
This cookbook sounds like a special treasure!! I remember Mama making me stand by her at the stove while she was making her Coconut Cream Pie that we had at every Easter. She said, “it’s not enough to have the recipe, you have to feel how to make it”. She handed me the spoon and had me stir the ingredients on the stove until the cream was just right. I kept wanting to stop, and her answer was “ not yet”. When it was finally ready, I had the feel for when it was perfect. On this special day, I was not a young girl and I had watched Mama make this pie for years. I was quite sure I didn’t need this lesson. I am so thankful for that day, and how Mama took the time to teach me. You see, she died the next year . I can see me pulling out this cookbook and picking out some of the special recipes and standing at the stove with my grandchildren. There are memories to be made!!!
What a wonderful book and I would love to win! Looks like wonderful recipes! Thank you for the chance!!
What a great idea for a cookbook! Real food by real people 😁. It looks lovely! One of my sisters and nieces collected favorite recipes from the family and made everyone a cookbook years ago, family pictures and all, and I am always going back to it to find family favorites.
Mary, Heirloom recipes fill my recipe box without specific measurements on many of them. I treasure them and still use them. My mother and grandmother were excellent southern cooks. I can’t replicate the chicken and dumplings to my dismay. They were nice thin dumplings which were delicious. I remember those glasses from the pic above and other dishes came out of Crystal Oats. I still have a few coasters. This looks like a wonderful book as our old recipes need to continue to be made. Most are just a little slower process but they are so tasty! Nothing beats a homemade biscuit versus a frozen biscuit. I’m so happy someone put their heirloom recipes in book form. Clara❤️
What perfect timing for a new cookbook – when the rush of the holiday season is over and I’m ready to try new recipes. I have many cooks that have inspired my love of family and food. I wear the apron that my grandmother wore when she made biscuits and dumplings. I followed my Aunt Meldra – who is now 101 – around the kitchen and tried to learn tips from her. I wrote down every step of my mom’s stuffing that is our family favorite! Now I’m trying to create new memories with my granddaughters. This looks like a perfect cookbook to do that! Thank you for the opportunity.
The cookbook sounds amazing. When my mother in law passed away, my husband found her old cast iron skillets. After some elbow grease, they look wonderful and I use them quite a bit, especially for an old cornbread recipe I have. I love reading cookbooks and this one especially sounds like it captures a warm, homey feeling.
Years ago I purchased a recipe booklet compiled by a company that made vanilla. It may have cost me fifty cents, plus postage. In it I found the recipe my grandmother may have used to make soft sugar cookies. If it’s not the exact recipe, it’s pretty darn close. My siblings agree that the cookies taste like our grandma’s! My (adult) son counts the receipt of these as a special gift, lol!
I love my great grandmother’s pound cake recipe!
Mary, this cookbook looks perfect for those of us who treasure recipes handed down. My mother was a fabulous baker and all-around excellent cook. I have all of her recipe books with the side scribbling, recipes on envelopes, recipe clippings from the newspaper. I treasure her recipes for red velvet and hummingbird cakes. I watched her as I was growing up and learned techniques for white gravy and how to make a Southern biscuit that was perfectly flaky.
Stay warm ❤️
Good morning mary! We are not new to the south, but new to spending this winter in South Carolina and seriously considering moving. My own northern handwritten cookbook that I put together a few years ago is one filled with handwritten holiday recipes and those I’ve gathered myself from family and friends. Like the author has written, my mother did not cook from recipes but as told to her by her Irish mother and polish mother in law. Those that I got her to write out are a treasure. She did not like to cook, but this first daughter of hers does! I’ve brought 2 low country cookbooks with me that I have collected over 20 years of visiting this beautiful area. But my first endeavors have been yummy shrimp and grits! I would love to learn more!
It’s so special to have family recipes. My grandmother was famous in our small town for making beautiful wedding cakes and doll cakes. She would even hand make the dolls tops while her skirt was the cake. I was lucky enough to get her special pans. She was featured in a book entitled, All This is Louisiana. I also have my mom’s copies of River Road recipe books with her notes in the columns. She was a gourmet cook without even knowing it! I really treasure the recipes that they handed down. When I make something that was their specialty and see their handwriting and tips, I feel like they are right there with me smiling and happy that I am trying something that they had made for years,
I would love to receive this family recipe cookbook and keep that tradition of sharing.
I read cookbooks like novels. I treasure my grandmother’s cookbooks and old, old spice cans of hers that I keep on display.
What a wonderful way to begin my morning with seeing this beautifully illustrated book! I treasure my dad’s recipe for yellow birthday cake with buttercream frosting. I treasure my mom’s recipes for spaghetti sauce and meatballs passed down through many generations.
Bourbon and Brown Sugar Pecan Ice Cream?? Yes, please!! This looks like a great cookbook Mary, full of treasured recipes and tips. My mother was a wonderful cook, and she passed me her love of entertaining. Family recipes are full of so many memories, very special indeed…
Jenna
Love treasured recipes! I have two I use every year… Moms cutout Christmas cookies, we’ve been having cookie night ever since our kids were little. Our grands and great grandkids love it….The other recipe is Cinnamon Rolls from my husband’s grandmother, they are delicious. She uses mashed potatoes in them. You always have such Great posts! Thank you, Robin
So many memories when I see the old recipe cards. My favorite is the spirals ( at least that’s what we called them). It was my introduction to cooking as a child, my Nana taught me how to make them while also giving me some life long advice.
This book sounds like a dream. I have my Mother’s cookbook and recipe cards. I enjoy seeing her handwriting and feel she is with me when I make her meals. The pictures in this cookbook look amazing.
I have collected cookbooks since I was in high school. This one will be added to my collection. My favorite recipe that was given to me by a co-worker’s mother is my treasured pizzelle recipe. It is not only a family favorite, but it is also a yearly holiday request from friends.
One of my favorite meals ever is my aunt Tess’s pierogies. But I don’t have the recipe. I asked her one time to give me the recipe and she couldn’t really write anything down. It was a ‘little of this and a little of that’. I gave up on the thought of ever making them. I know I could never replicate what she did. It took her hours and even a few days to make them all. But they will always be a wonderful, memory of her.
Both my husband and I love old cookbooks. I have one of Mom’s and enjoy reading her notes, something I do with my cookbooks now. Our daughter is an old soul and collects cookbooks, the older the better. Our daughter-in-law, from Ukraine, is a really good cook and I always feel honored when she asks me to share one of my recipes. She used to call her grandmother back in Ukraine to ask for a favorite recipe and would become frustrated when her answer would be “a handful” of this or a “little” of that. She appreciates handwritten recipes which makes me think when I’m gone, the heirlooms she and my daughter will preserve are the Christmas tree ornaments and my recipe collections.
Ladies treasuring the kitchen knowledge shared for decades. Love it!!
What a wonderful name for the cookbook. I’m sure many of us will find a few “family recipes” within the book as our parents and grandparents passed many of their recipes out at family or neighborhood gatherings. My favorite family hand down is cheesecake. Always a crowd pleaser and most requested “to bring” item for the past 20 years.
WOW! What a wonderful giveaway!! My sis and I got together this Christmas and made the Italian fried cookies my mother/aunts used to make…we have made them before but it had been a long while ago…so, since we are both getting on in years, we decided we would give it another whirl. It was a success and a bonus, we spent an entire day together…had cookies everywhere along with powdered sugar! Good luck to all that enter!
I love the photographs in this book. My dad was from Alabama. His family moved to Ohio after he graduated in the early 40s. Thanks for sharing.
There are so many wonderful dishes that our grandmother made without even using recipes. We all make these dishes, but they don’t ever taste as good as hers did. Her fried okra, vegetable beef soup, chocolate chip cookies, mustard greens, and navy beans were the best. This cookbook looks wonderful and it is amazing that the author was able to collect these recipes to share. Thanks so much.
This cookbook looks like a treasure. Thanks for sharing it. Two of my favorite passed down recipes are my college roommates mother’s Snickerdoodle Cookies and my grandmothers Squash Fritters.
This cookbook looks beautiful and brings back of alot of memories from my Grandmother’s teeny, tiny kitchen and the wonderful food that came out of it. Neither my grandmother nor my mother wrote down many recipes, my mom used to tell me “you have to look at it”. Many years later, I cherish everything they taught and showed me and use that knowledge to entice my own grown children back with a good home cooked meal.
I recently got my aunt’s family sugar cookie recipe. Perfect heirloom recipe!
My grandmother made cinnamon rolls during the holidays and it was a family production. We continued the tradition for several years after her passing, but it was not the same without her. Just one of the many memories centered around her southern cooking style, even though she was from California.
A wonderful cook book to enjoy southern recipes. My mom wasn’t a good cook, however my grandmother was on my dad’s side. She was from Mississippi and definitely cooked up southern food. Unfortunately I did not get any of her recipes Happy weekend Mary.
One of the best ways to get some of the best tried and true recipes I think is from the ‘church’ ladies cookbooks! My Mom and my Mother in Law always contributed to their respective organizations with some of their favorite family recipes, as did most of the other ladies. A great way to try out different cultures and hand me down of family favorites!
It is hard to choose one recipe from my mom, she passed suddenly when I was 18. My sisters and all the nieces and nephews clamor for anything that was her recipe, recently for a large family gathering of 38 I made her date nut filled cookies. They are the best and time consuming. I made 4 dozen for this party! Big hit and each bite is a memory in its self!
I have two favorite recipes that I have added my signature touches to that get a lot of requests. One is my go to Carrot Cake and the other is a Tomato Soup recipe that my sister in law and I have actually been working on marketing. I love how Ashley uses heirloom recipes on old recipe cards and portrays that in her cookbook. I have two old recipe file boxes full of such recipes – one is my own and one is my mothers. They are a part of history that I treasure. Even though I have compiled many of them in a family cookbook and could toss them I cannot get myself to do so and The Heirloom Kitchen is a testimony to why I hold them dear to my heart. It would be an honor to add this vintage heirloom inspired cookbook with its lovely photographs and stories to my collection.
My favorite family recipe is my grandmother’s ginger snap cookies. She always had a batch waiting for us when we visited her on her farm in Idaho. But the recipe my sisters and I laugh about the most is the one we found after my mother passed away titled “A Trio of Whipped Roots”. None of us have been brave enough to try it!
I make a carrot cake that I received the recipe from a friend from work. I added my own touch and now everyone wants me to bring my carrot cake to whatever event is happening.
What a great idea dedicating this month to generations before us! I love perusing old cookbooks, and having this one would be the icing on the cake! My most treasured recipe is my mom and grandmother’s egg drop dumplings. When I make them, I always think of them! Thank you.
What a beautiful cookbook. We lost our Mom during covid, her grandchildren have asked us for Grandma and Grandpa’s recipes for wheat bread, pound cake, caramels, and so many more… This is inspiring. 2024…..a tribute to our Mom is going to happen. Thank you.
Bev
Memories…light the corners of my mind…. Recipes ARE memories for me and those that are handwritten on a notecard are pictured memories. It warms my heart to take out a stained recipe card and gather the ingredients to bring to life a memory and share with my family the taste that my grandmother brought to the table 50 years ago. My favorite recipe is hard to say because I have been blessed with so many recipes from family and friends but on this cold winter morning I have started a pot of vegetable soup that I make using my grandmother’s recipe. Thanks for this giveaway!
I am just salivating. I still have my mom’s notebook of recipes and my husband’s card file of recipes. I love them. The recipes are just wonderful and bring back wonderful memories. I also have my mom’s recipe book with notes in all the margins. I have her favorite wooden spoon, but it is cracked now and I plan to put it in a shadow box with her award winning fudge recipe with the newspaper article. You have made me smile this morning! Thanks.
What a beautiful cookbook!! My treasured recipe is my mom’s zucchini bread recipe. Thank you for allowing us the chance to win a copy of this cookbook. I’m definitely going to buy it, if I don’t win it, of course, LOL!
I am a recent transplant from North to South but adore Southern traditional cooking. My Mother always said she was a plain but good cook. Always a child of the depression nothing ever went to waste and I think her goulash from Sundays roast and home made cornbeef hash made in her big black cast iron pan were two of her past down recipes I still make along with fresh cream corn and limabean succotash , pea soup from a left over ham bone and N E syyle clam chowder ,just a few of the recipes she passed on to me. Those old recipe cards are treasures. Love the idea behind this cookbook.
Some years ago, my mother and I collected family recipes from our extended family and put them all together in a cookbook and created copies, one for each family involved, so over 50 families (several generations). I use it every year, especially during the holidays when my parents request old favorites. This year was my first time making the dressing, as my mother isn’t able to cook now. My dad pronounced it excellent for a first try, high praise indeed, especially since I don’t eat it and don’t know how it is supposed to taste. I hope whoever wins this cookbook enjoys the stories behind the recipes as much as the recipes themselves.
I have two very old recipes given and taught to me by my Mother-In-Law about 40 years ago. One is for buttermilk sugar cookies, which I’ve mentioned in a previous comment. The other is for chicken and dumplings (that are rolled and simmered in the broth). Both recipes require techniques that take much practice to perfect, and were relayed to me in conversations. The cookie dough is a very soft dough that is rolled and cut into shapes. Her verbal instructions included how thick to roll the dough and to keep the dough chilled, working with it in small amounts at a time. As for the rolled dumplings, well when she said roll them very thin, she meant “paper thin”! A few batches went down the garbage disposal before I got the hang of it!!! My own mother was an excellent cook, particularly with pies. I still have a few of those recipes in her handwriting that are pure treasures to me. Mother also educated me on some basic how-to tricks, such as basic white sauce and lump free gravy. I continue using their special recipes to this day, and have fond memories each and every time.
Love this concept of baking and cooking from scratch We have lost the beauty of gifting and loving our families and friend with homemade food. My mom a good cook hardly ever cooked with a recipe. So it’s difficult to remake much from my childhood. Except her deviled eggs. I knew what was in them , but not measurements. I’ve taste tested till I think this is right My husband’s Italian family just the opposite. We have a couple generations of recipes passed down. Our now adult kids love this and want those traditions for their new families. When the visit I’ve spent the week before making all heir favs.
I loooove favorite family recipes that are handed down through the generations – so this book speaks to me!
One of our favorite recipes handed down from my grandmother to my mother and on to me is Rhubarb custard pie made with my grandmother’s special pie crust recipe – delicious!
I treasure my mother-in-law’s Cold Coffee Cake recipe!
You had me at Bourbon and Brown Sugar Pecan Ice Cream…what a gorgeous book! I think mama’s snickerdoodle cookies are just the thing to go with the ice cream!
I only had one living grandmother and all of her recipes are very precious; however, most of them were never written down. We did have directions for making her cornbread dressing and it is definitely a keeper.
Over 50 years ago, I received a recipe for zucchini bread from a co-worker and I have been making it ever since.
This book and post with the photos gives me what I have learned is a glimmer – a micro-moment of mindshift in a positive way! Don’t include me in the drawing, but good luck to all your readers. We do have recipes passed onto us from our mom, the most famous one being her “f’n rolls”, lol, which she cut loose and called in her 8th decade, after making the very time-consuming, yeast and potato based cinnamon rolls with butter icing for all of us 9 kids, many times. I love seeing handwritten recipes being memorialized on dish towels, boards, etc now, and I always gravitate to regional cookbooks at estate sales, especially local church congregational ones. More glimmers, especially when you have the one from the church you grew up in! This one looks like a gem.
ps – let us know if you make that lemon and sour cream pound cake. looks yummy!
This cookbook would make a wonderful gift, Mary. My daughter recently asked me to write down some of my favorite recipes. I have several that I’ve made over and over again, and my ice cream pie with peanut butter crust is one. Thank you for sharing this beautiful book. I’m off to see what kind of glasses I have…oooh I found my little butter/jam server that has a wonderful impression, and a crystal jelly jar! ❤️
I love reading about these cherished recipes. Unfortunately for me I was born later and my mother died young so many of her cherished recipes are lost to me. But I do have her poppyseed cookie recipe and for that I’m grateful. I wish I had my grandmothers sloppy Joe recipe though. It was somehow made with canned vegetable soup. If anyone knows of it I’d love to have it. I hope someday my children will cherish these same recipes. Thanks Mary!
I’m just looking at the pictures, and my mouth is watering. I cherish my grandfather’s rump roast recipe cooked on a wood-fired stove. I cherish my mom’s pie crust recipe, noodle recipe, celery salad, and many more “hand me downs.” I have Mom’s Home Economics cookbook from 1935….a treasure!!
Heirloom indeed, thank you for peaking our interest with the photos and descriptions! One of my cherished recipes is my Granny’s Cornbread that can be baked either in a cast iron skillet or a loaf pan. She was a native Floridian growing up in Madison and even after working all day in the field there was always a hot meal on the table every evening. Delicious and filling, made with whatever she had available. Treasured memories!
I have been subscribed for many years and would love this book. My favorite recipe is brownie melt-aways from my older sister.
What a treasury of cherished recipes you offer…. an heirloom to new generations.
My bestest is a kugel recipe my husband’s Grandma Dora gave to me. She
made it so many times for family gatherings. We would often stop at her home
to visit and we three would sit around the kitchen table (her coffee was to die for)
and she beamed as she served her “children” her baked legacy of love, much to
our expressed delight. What a memory. I have made it with my Grandchildren in
her honor. Thank you, Mary, for sharing this very desirable collection.
My favorite recipe of all time is my mother’s sugar cookie recipe with her famous buttercream frosting. Everyone LOVES them and it’s my most requested cookie at family gatherings❤️
This cookbook sounds like a real treasure! I especially want to try the lemon and sour cream pound cake. Not only do the recipes sound delicious but the photographs of the typed (on old fashion typewriters) recipes bring back so many memories for me! A family recipe that is treasured by my sisters and I is our mother’s pound cake recipe and it’s hard to make without her exact pan! I am definitely a southern cook that was born to southern cooks for many generations!
I have a recipe for Broccoli and Rice Casserole that was given to me by a friend. She brought the casserole to my daughter’s baptism over forty years ago and it has become a family must have for
holidays and special occasions. The card looks worn and old and my daughter says it is time to frame it. It looks like a wonderful cookbook.
This book looks beautiful and reminds me of the simple but beautiful baked and cooked items my mother made. I can’t wait to read through this book, even if I don’t make any of the recipes :) I’m searching for glasses to make those wonderful looking “glass stamped cookies”. Thanks for sharing this book offering.
What a beautiful cookbook! My favorite piece of the photos was the author (I assume) holding the old recipe cards. That makes the book so personal. My mother in-law’s recipe for “Unbaked Cookies is a favorite passed-down recipe. Hers calls for coconut which a friend at Wed night church supper had never heard of using. I just assumed all unbaked cookie recipes used coconut. Thank you for the opportunity to win a copy of this personal treasury!
My grand mother was a fabulous cook. I especially remember her graham cracker cake with a light frosting/glaze. I have wonderful memories of Sunday dinner at Grandma’s.
I love the pictures, especially the old recipe cards. And the Vintage Glass-Stamped Cookies are so adorable and would be so easy to do! I just never thought of it and she did. Great idea.
I love this! My mother’s recipes are treasured legacies of the wonderful southern dishes she served at her table. We lost her to Alzheimer’s long before she passed. My son to this day, talks about her fried chicken. One of her most sought after dishes at family get togethers or “dinner on the grounds” at church or family reunions was her chicken and dumplings.
My grandmother was an east Texas southern cook who made both biscuits and cornbread every day. My favorite and treasured recipe is for her tea cakes.
I love this! Growing up my mom always made a meatloaf with a sweet ketchup and bbq like sauce on it. I still have the recipe and it’s just comfort food! I think I’m going to make that tonight!
Mary, what a beautiful book. I love cookbooks and this looks like a very special one. I have my mom’s recipe box. The old 3×5 index cards in the green metal box, all hand written except for recipes torn from magazines. It’s a treasure to me and I hope someday for my children. My most requested recipe from my mom is her chicken and dressing. “Make only using a big fat hen”!!!
Thank you for sharing!
Just reading about the recipes had my mouth watering!!!
My mom’s roast with carrots and gravy is my favorite. After she passed I looked up at heaven the first time I tried to make her gravy and said I needed her help. I had never made it right. From that day on, I could make her gravy!! She is always with me. xoxo
What a beautiful true southern cookbook. My mother’s “love language” was cooking, and the sweetest memories I have are those that involve food. We didn’t have many restaurants in our town, or the money to eat out, so mother cooked 3 meals, 365 days a year. I have so many favorites, but one that comes to mind is the homemade (of course-no boxed cake mixes ever) white layered chocolate frosted cake. It was my favorite as a child, and became the favorite of her grandchildren too.
Looks like a great cook book. Recipes passed down through families are the best! They come with stories and memories. Monnie had an amazing cook book library, but some of his favorite dishes were ones from his parents, aunts, etc. My favorite is his Split Pea Soup recipe and of course his Aunt Nevada’s No Knead Bread recipe.
What a lovely cookbook! I treasure my grandmother’s recipe for Welsh shortbread. It’s made with lard!!
I already saw several recipes I want to try! I don’t come from a family of cooks so don’t have any family recipes.
I am so happy you brought this cookbook to light. Like others, I treasure my grandmothers and mothers recipes. One quick look through the book and it brings back so many wonderful memories. Thank you!
Just reading the comments made me wish for a book of all the recipes that the readers talked about. My mom made wonderful cinnamon rolls and pies. We have never been able to re-create her touch when making the dough and pie dough. Would love to have the heirloom cookbook.
It looks gorgeous, my stomach was rumbling reading this!
My favorite recipe handed down from my Mom was a Marichino Cherry Cake with nuts. She originally made it for my birthday when I was a young child and I loved it. She continued to make it for me, each, birthday until my late 60’s (she was in her early 90’s at the time). I miss her making it for me. I’ve made it a few times, but it never tastes like Mom’s!
What a beautiful cookbook! It brings back many memories of both of my grandmothers and the wonderful recipes and meals they used to prepare for our family. I have many recipes they shared with me, especially when I was a new bride. However, my favorite one would probably have to be my grandmother’s recipe for Cornbread dressing! She made it on many occasions, but definitely every Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. ♥️ Thank you for the opportunity to participate in the giveaway.
Comment transferred over from wrong post: I would like to please enter for the ‘Heirloomed Cookbook’ – and since I’m not sure how to enter – I hope I’m in the right place. Not to be a sad comment – but when my dad passed away, my sister took everything from the estate (as I live out-of-town) although it was the wishes of my mom that I was to have her cookbook and black cast iron skillet – but it didn’t happen. Not to go into all the negative things about the estate – but I have a family and cook/my sister doesn’t. I really miss the cake my mom made (from scratch) and wanted to know the recipe for what my mom called a ‘burnt sugar cake’ – and have been looking for a similar recipe for years – to what I can recall as a cake with a very thin layer of frosting (not thick or fluffy but almost a thin coating/glaze?) – it was so good!! If I don’t qualify for this contest, I will purchase the cookbook because I love the idea of showing the things our mom(s) used in the book!! I recently saw a book cover showing a measuring spoon – EXACTLY like the one my mom used – it was so nice to see since they don’t sell them now. So many good memories and I think this book is going to make a lot of people smile when they read it!! Thank you so much. Southern Army brat grown up!! Ha. Linda O.
What a delightful cookbook. I would give anything to have my grandmother’s devil food cake recipe.
Maybe one will be in here
i am very fortunate to have recipes passed down through the family. Index cards hand written and faded with time and cardboard cutouts from bygone packaging.
I need a real kitchen though to make most of what’s there, but maybe one day I’ll make it.
Great post! This post inspires me to do something similar with my grandmothers recipes. I have her wooden recipe box filled with her recipes.