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Aunt Evelyn’s Virginia Tea Cakes

  Helen Reporting, This handwritten recipe also has, as a subtitle, (Tea cakes / Aunt Mary Campbell). Not sure who she was but if she had a hand in these cookies, her distant descendants are grateful. We know these cookies come from Virginia and the relatives there raved over them. They are delicious, faintly sophisticated, […]

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Macaroon Angels

Helen Reporting   Macaroons are pale gold coconut confections, half-cookie, half-cake. No one knows exactly who made the first one or in what country, but French bakers were praised for these confections as early as the17th century. Creole Cookery, printed in New Orleans in 1885, calls for two ounces of almonds pounded in a mortar […]

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