Everyone loves oatmeal raisin cookies, and I found this recipe, clipped from a newspaper, and stuck in the ‘Cookies’ pages of my Searchlight Cookbook, printed in about 1940. It is interesting to note that some of the ingredients and methods are a bit different.  I never heard of soaking the raisins in hot water and [...]

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My adventure with sourdough started a few months ago when I received two different starters from Nosey Parker, the tangy Humboldt County and the more buttery Columbia River strain.
As a child, my interest with cooking started with baking, mostly cookies and cakes. For some reason – perhaps because I don’t remember anyone in my family [...]

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I correspond with several of my old friends from high school, and I mentioned to one of them that I have not been able to manage a good, flaky pie crust. She sent me this recipe, and I’ll post it here for all of you who are not pie crust mavens. Thanks Bonnie!

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