LAURA LEE ALICE
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Living in the South, almost every evening meal is topped off by some kind of dessert. If you had cake, it's was
usually served with homemade pickles in a fancy little dish. When we had homecoming at my mom's church,
there were always a lot of cakes and just as many dishes of pickles, all homemade and sitting next to
the baker's cake. Christmas meant we would have a fruitcake that my mom had made. Yes, I said fruitcake,
and it was fabulous! I have her recipe but I have never been able to duplicate it. Even my husband said her
fruitcake was the best. It was baked in a large tube pan with a removable bottom and usually weighed close
to 10 pounds. She used grape juice as the liquid, never liquor or wine.
Desserts
Cakes & Pastries
Pies
Unique Desserts
Cookies
Recipes are like stories; they can change from person to person. Everyone has their idea of how a recipe should be, even
though it may have changed from the original. We will never know the true author of the original recipe, regardless of
what some may say. That's why I go back and look through the oldest cookbooks that I can find. Sometimes it's not the
recipe in the books that I find, but the tiny pieces of handwritten recipes and newspaper articles that are stuck within
the pages. That's where the real story is, finding those simple Southern recipes. -Mac