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My Mother (RIP) usually baked on Sundays. What are some of your favorite desserts you remember your Mom used to make?
My Mom made:
1. Pineapple Upside Down Cake with real Whipped Cream
2. Raisin Squares (similar to a raisin pie made on a 13 by 9 pan)
3. Apple Pie
4. Pineapple Squares (shortbread crust, crushed pineapple filling, meringue and shredded coconut topping)
5. Brownies
6. Cottage Pudding (a 1 egg yellow cake, served with warm brown sugar vanilla sauce)
I wish I had her pineapple square recipe! I make pineapple upside down cake for special occasions. Feeling nostalgic.
Sounds like your mom was a good baker. If you ever find the pineapple square recipe please post it. My mom is an out of the box baker for most things but she makes great pine nut cookies at Christmas.
Not actually a recipe but this is what I got from Mom as far as dessert:
1 box of Melody Chocolate wafers cookies
1 bottle of milk
1 glass big enough to stack cookies
1 spoon long enough to dig to bottom of glass
Stack cookies in glass as full as possible. Pour milk in glass to cover. Let cookies sit in milk for 5 minutes or so. Drink milk. Take spoon and eat cookie pudding. Yum! I'm still carrying some of those calories I'm sure!
Congo Squares
Fluffy White Marshmallow Icing
Cranberry Jello Salad
My Mother has late stage dementia (FTD) now and no one can find the recipes. I have tried several online for the fluffy icing but nothing comes close to the one she made :-( It is the only icing I will eat.
My mother didn't bake, except at Christmas for 3 years, she made Christmas cookies, the kind made with cookie cutters into santas and bells and reindeer, and decorated with colored icing and sprinkles. They weren't for us, though. She gave them as gifts or put them out for guests. They tasted awful, anyway, so not much if a loss.
At Christmas, she also made these awful cookies that were melted butterscotch chips mixed with those deep fried canned Chinese noodles.
She did make a cake for my birthday every year. She insisted on frosting it with boiled icing, which I hated. Every year I requested a different icing, but she said that was the best one, so that was what I would get.
Nraleighmom, try looking for a recipe for boiled icing. It's like light fluffy marshmallow. It's a very old recipe. Sorry, I don't have the recipe, I hate marshmallows and meringue and egg whites, so I never got the recipe for it. Not to mention that recipe has a negative emotional load.
I bake often, definately over-compensating for being baked goods deficient as a child.
She did make lovely boozy Christmas cakes and all kinds of Christmas cookies but other than that (and the jello - which was a rare treat even then) and a few bundt type coffee cakes she would take to friends' places or serve to visitors primarily, I don't really recall 'desserts' being the highlight of my life in our household.
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