• Lunacran on December 13, 2018

  Good peanut butter cookie recipe 14 minute bake A tiny bit sweet maybe next time use a little less white sugar

• Lindacakes on April 20, 2014

  The pie section (pages 63 to 91) looks particularly good. There are lots of coffee cake recipes in the Quick Breads (page 93) and Yeast Breads (page 113) sections. There are a lot of bar cookie recipes, as well as recipes that use berries and cardamom.

• Breadcrumbs on April 06, 2011

  p. 44 -Last night I made Grandma’s Blackberry Cake from Jim Fobel’s Old-Fashioned Baking Book. This is the first recipe I’ve tried from this appealing little book and we really enjoyed the cake. I will say that Jim describes it as having a sweet-tangy flavor and a rich marbleized colour. While he describes the flavour well, the colour was fairly uniform. Given that Fobel has you beat the batter for one minute with and electric mixer after the addition of the very tender blackberries, I find it hard to believe that anyone would achieve a marbleized colour. Appearance aside, this really is a delicious cake with a moist, tender crumb and a comforting familiar aroma that I just couldn’t place. The cake really did take us back to our childhoods though. I omitted the pecans. Photos here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/773062#6443265 Looking forward to further exploring this book.

Notes about Recipes in this book

• Glazed blueberry pie

  • Brikl on September 01, 2017

    This is my mom's favorite pie. It's messy but tasty.

• Grandma’s peanut butter cookies

  • andria_0o0hf2 on March 15, 2026

    Leave out the cornstarch for soft and chewy cookies

  • andria_0o0hf2 on March 15, 2026

    Leave out the cornstarch for soft instead of crisp cookies