Pfannkuchen are among my favorite breakfast foods. We called them Pfann-akuchen. My mom’s were rather thick but rightly about the size of a saucer. When we still had a wood-burning kitchen stove, she poured the batter right on the stove top. In 1952, we got an electric range, and those stove-top pan...

Bowle is pronounced bowl and is a wine punch, but it doesn’t have much clout among wine connoisseurs. Deanna, Case Fischer’s wife, has been making it on special occasions or for social gatherings for years, ever since she was given the recipe by Ruth Knopp many years ago. Ruth was the former Ruth Di...

The first stuffed cabbage recipe was submitted to the first PTA cookbook by Mrs. Owe W. Striegler, the former Anna Püschel, born 1851, i n B astrop. S he m arried Owe, a Danish immigrant here in 1869. He taught at Meusebach Creek, a country school. Their daughter was the mother of Stella Jung, my FH...

When I was young, we had several native pecan trees around the house, and behind my dad’s office on Main Street were several larger ones. Gathering th...

My brother, Jarvis, married a city girl. She proved to be a blessing to our family. Certainly, parents wonder what kind of girl their son will marry. ...

The Aztecs, Incas and Mayans enjoyed salsa in the Americas centuries before the Spanish arrived. By 1494, the first chili peppers reached Spain. Their...