Championship Tomato Ketchup

Championship Tomato Ketchup

I can still hear my father’s voice telling me that if I was ever going to be a good cook that I would have to learn a repertoire of recipes without the use of a cook book for reference. During my first 10 years learning to cook I refrained from using a book and found that hands on cooking with different chefs was the fastest way to learn popular recipes and pick up the appropriate tips. Very few relic chefs use a recipe to cook, but will read a cook book to polish up a favorite dish. As I gained a good collection of recipes mentally, I became more academic in finding new...
Mennonite Apple Dumplings

Mennonite Apple Dumplings

  Mennonite Apple Dumplings Being brought up close to a German Mennonite community in Waterloo County I was shown how the Mennonite farmers live off their land with meagre equipment and no power. They sure know how to grow a garden and orchards. I used to buy hundreds of bushels of apples from those area farms to make perfect apple pies for  commercial baking and dry storing a good Spy Apple was absolutely necessary to have a supply from season to season. The Spy Apple originating from The River Spey valley in Scotland is where this apple was first grown and was...