This recipe for Danish Sour Cream Cookies comes from Sarah Morgan’s 1971 “The Saga of Texas Cooking.” Deanna Fischer (Case’s wife), flagged it for me to review and maybe she was drawn to it because her father’s people were from Denmark, and the name alone suggested a familiar connection. Morgan’s bo...

The Russian Rock Cookie recipe submitted to Kerrville’s Wesley-Philathea Class Recipes by Mrs. Gus Schreiner caught my attention for reasons that had little to do with cookies. Mrs. Schreiner was the former Hulda Rummel, whose family arrived in Texas with Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels’ settlers in ...

When German’s Chocolate Cake first appeared, everyone felt pleased — even proud. We all thought it was something special, something that connected us to our German heritage. Little did we know how little actual Germans knew about our cakes! Still, my mom baked one, as did most everyone else, and lik...