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Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Whipped Cream

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 23:35:02 +0000

Homemade Strawberry Shortcake with Vanilla Whipped Cream is a classic fresh strawberry treat with sweet, short biscuits for shortcake, sweetened sliced strawberries and fresh vanilla whipped cream After moving from our hometown of Mobile, AL in 1985, we lived in Central Florida for 33 years before moving to our current home in the Smoky Mountains...

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Gingerbread Magic Cookie Bars

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:49:43 +0000

Gingerbread Magic Cookie Bars is a variation of the original Magic Cookie Bars. Gingersnap cookies and orange juice form a crust that’s reminiscent of gingerbread cake. The layers of coconut, white chocolate, cinnamon chips, and toffee chips add a delightful spin to the classic recipe. My introduction to Magic Cookie Bars occurred during the 1960s. ...

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Vintage Raisin Cookies

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 15:56:30 +0000

Vintage Raisin Cookies are adapted from an circa 1940’s recipe appearing in the Akron Beacon Journal. They’re soft, buttery, and laden with plumped raisins and cinnamon and brown sugar. A friend sent me a scanned image of a recipe for Raisin Cookies in an article written by Betty Harvey, Home Economics Editor of the Akron...

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Apple Dapple Cake

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:00:28 +0000

Apple Dapple Cake is an old hand-me-down recipe that’s been in my files for decades. It’s fresh apples and chopped pecans held together with just the right amount of a cinnamon and vanilla batter. The hot cake is glazed with a fresh, easy-to-make caramel glaze. Some of the glaze gets absorbed by the hot cake...

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No Bake Peanut Butter and Crackers Pie

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 22:27:04 +0000

A long time favorite snack for me is peanut butter and Ritz crackers. Peanut butter is good with any sort of crackers, but I favor Ritz. It seemed right natural to combine the two in a no bake pie. For a real peanut-butter-and-crackery flavor to come through in this No Bake Peanut Butter and Crackers...

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Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 17:28:22 +0000

Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake is a traditional Southern pound cake with added flavor from pecans. Pound cakes are best know for their dense texture. I love all things pound cake and this Southern Pecan Buttermilk Pound Cake is no exception. I wish I could recall the first time I tasted a pound cake. I...

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Dutch Apple Pie

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 03 May 2017 00:22:38 +0000

In anticipation of a visit from my daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren, I bought a bag of little gala apples I thought the kids might enjoy eating. Well, they ate two. The remainder of the bag of apples, coupled with the fact that I was having my church Life Group over for dinner that night, for...

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Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:00:45 +0000

Jenny, a Syrup and Biscuits Facebook friend, recently posted a comment asking if anyone had a good Lemon Pound Cake recipe. Marie responded by posting this recipe for what she called Lemon Lover’s Pound Cake. My husband is nuts for anything lemon so this sounded like it would be right up his alley. This...

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Apple and Plum Oatmeal Crumble

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 19:48:46 +0000

Fitting for breakfast, brunch, snack or dessert, Apple and Plum Oatmeal Crumble is a recipe you’ll want to reference time and time again. It’s a utility recipe that’s ready to step in for any type of fruit or berry you have on hand. For fruit that’s not very flavorful, cooking the fruit is my preference over...

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Williamsburg Inn Pecan Bars

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 16:06:30 +0000

We’re not unlike most of you in that we have favorite vacation spots that we can visit repeatedly and never of tire of the location and the sites. One of those places for us is Colonial Williamsburg. American history is a favorite topic and that’s what Colonial Williamsburg is all about. It’s a living museum....

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Key Lime Pie

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 21:00:57 +0000

Key Lime Pie is an iconic Florida dessert made from Key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk, egg yolks, lime zest in a graham cracker crust. When you think of the central part of Florida and southward, especially if you have a sweet tooth, an image of Key Lime Pie probably swirls around in your head....

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Green Tomato Skillet Cake

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 11 May 2016 19:55:33 +0000

Strong rain and winds ripped through recently. I’m always chomping at the bits to get out in the yard and survey the damage after a big rain storm. We’ve got many big trees and those hard-headed limbs don’t always drop in a well-suited location. They don’t care about the most gaw-jus plant in your garden...

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Carrot Cake

Jackie Garvin — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:52:12 +0000

Carrot Cake is one of my husband’s favorite desserts along with Classic Southern Pecan Pie. I frequently make this grand cake for special occasions. Recently, my six-year-old grandson, Jackson, got an introduction to Carrot Cake at my house. When he found out I was making a Carrot Cake, his response was the same as mine...

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Coconut Sheet Cake

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 00:52:32 +0000

Our dear friend, Thea Greer, is taking her daughter and several family members on a mission trip to Zambia, Africa this summer in order to build a preschool. She and her family are hosting a barbecue dinner at our church for a fundraising event to underwrite the trip. We’re blessed to support this worthwhile mission....

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Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:31:29 +0000

Our family has an Aunt Bea that all we love. She passed away recently and she’s certainly missed. I introduced you to Aunt Bea when I shared her Classic Pecan Pie recipe. Cream Cheese Pound Cake is another Aunt Bea recipe. She made a Butternut Frosting for it but I like the cake best when...

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Southern Cast Iron Giveaway and More!

Jackie Garvin — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:11:43 +0000

The giveaway contest is closed but you can still enjoy the beautiful photos and the recipe for Coconut Pecan Pie Wedges shared by Hoffman Media. Hoffman Media publishes many well-loved magazines. Taste of the South is beautiful and filled with recipes that pay homage to our Southern heritage and lifestyle. They’ve included a few...

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1-2-3-4 Cake with Coconut Sour Cream Filling

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:07:12 +0000

One of the first cakes Granny taught me to make was a butter cake with coconut sour cream filling. Her local grocery stores, The Piggly Wiggly and the IGA, had both started carrying frozen coconut which was an ingredient needed for this filling. She and her friends were all a-twitter about this cake recipe. Well,...

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Strawberry Fool

Jackie Garvin — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:36:48 +0000

Recipes with a unique sounding name, always grab my attention. And no one is better than the English at capturing unique names for their traditional foods. They gave us Bubble and Squeak and Bangers and Mash. It should come as no surprise that Strawberry Fool is a traditional English dessert that dates back to...

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I Can See Clearly Now (recipe: Mixed Berry Cobbler)

Jackie Garvin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:40:14 +0000

In the wee hours of the morning on May 15, 1990, an event took place that forever changed our family. I gave birth to a baby. Not just any baby. A boy baby. This boy baby would join his two sisters to complete our sweet little family. We couldn’t have been happier. We knew we...

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Being Neighborly (recipe: Friendship Cake)

Jackie Garvin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:15:55 +0000

It seemed to me that my Granny, Virginia Phillips, was always sharing food with her friends and neighbors. She would say, “I just can’t make spee-ghetty (spaghetti) without taking a boiler full out to Katherine’s. She loves it better’n anything.” What an act of love and kindness! Just because Katherine loved her spee-ghetty, she always...

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