Christmas on the Farm
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The BEST Pumpkin Pie EVER
Find yourself enjoying the most pumpkin-ee-est pie you’ve ever had. Seriously. Those coffee people know what they're doing.
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Nana Mulligan’s Butter Tarts
The Farmer’s Wife is a Mother. She is a Sister. She is an Aunt. She is not a Grandmother, and certainly not a Nana—although she has high hopes in being one someday. She did however have both of these at one time or another, therefore she feels comfortable discussing them at length. Today, Nana will be presented. Picture her: A small woman; maybe all of four nine and eighty pounds dripping wet. She’s there, waiting at the back door the moment you arrive to usher you in. Now, I know it’s not much of a back door. Not what it once was. At one time it had been a great…
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Yammy Cinnamon Rolls
There’s nothing in life the Farmer’s Wife enjoys so much as a good Cinnamon Roll, and this, my friends is a very good one. It can be a dessert, a breakfast, an any-time-you-want-it, or of course, served alongside dinner as a vegetable. Yes, you read that right. The Farmer’s Wife has managed to justify a Cinnamon Roll as a vegetable! First it was the Holiday Pie for breakfast and now this! Oh, you’ve never heard the Holiday Pie for breakfast rational? It goes something like this: Well, it has Eggs, doesn’t it? And Milk, right? What can be more breakfasty than that? Oh, that crust? Just think of it as…
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Great Grandma Waite’s Holiday Pie
There are few things that spark a twinkle in the Farmer’s Wife’s eye like Great Grandma Waite’s Custard Pie–it’s all the loveliness of Christmas and childhood in one smooth, creamy bite. But, only if it’s done right. If it’s done wrong, it’s a bunch of sweetened scrambled eggs in a soggy crust. So, let me show you how to do it right. First, the Crust is made. Now, this particular crust recipe may or may not be the one Great Grandma Waite made with her pie, but it is the one the Farmer’s Wife uses all the time. So, that’s the one we’re going with. You take 4.5 ounces all…
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The BEST Coconut Cream Pie (Seriously)
The Farmer’s Wife has sooooo many eggs, she hardly knows what to do! “I know,” she says. “I will make the BEST Coconut Cream pie!” And so she does. First, she starts with the Crust. For that, she takes 3/4 cup flour and stirs with it 1/3 cup confectionary sugar and a pinch of salt. To that she cuts in 4 tablespoons of cold butter. The Farmer’s Wife uses an old fashioned pastry blender, but you can use a food processor or your hands if you don’t have either of those. She keeps mixing until the butter is as small as peas. To that she stirs in one egg yolk…
