Marshlands Inn gingersnaps are crispy thin and beautifully spiced Carting kids back and forth from university was a big part of mom and dad’s life for many years. They often delivered us to university in the fall and almost always came to pick us up at the end of the school […]

When I was little my grandmother had a candy tin tucked in a cupboard in her dining room, a very regal-looking red and gold crown-shaped candy tin with a fancy top. We lived just one street away from my grandmother (Nonie as we called her) and passed her house on […]

 Molasses hermit cookies, a delicious chewy ginger molasses cookie. I have conflicting memories of visits to the dentist when I was little. As much as I adored our dentist and in spite of his little treasure chest of goodies, what kid enjoys the dentist?   But across the street […]

 If you want your kids to start baking give them this recipe. This recipe for Jelly Slices is one of the first cookies I ever made on my own and for good reason —they’re so easy. My mom clipped the recipe out of an old American Home magazine back in […]