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I was trying to find a use for the buttermilk I had left over from making these biscuits when I just happened to find a recipe for buttermilk pie in the September 2008 issue of Better Homes and Gardens. I made it and topped it with my strawberry-rhubarb jam. The pie is delicious – like […]

I was feeling kind of silly for not having a good biscuit recipe. I mean, what kind of self-respecting black girl doesn’t have a working biscuit recipe in her repertoire? My friend Rose, who knew nothing of my despair, asked me the other day if I had a biscuit recipe, then offered me hers when

When I was a kid growing up in LA, my Granny would make peach cobblers all summer long. She had a peach tree, which supplied her with the ingredients for her cobblers (she also had a lemon tree, which supplied one ingredient of her special “lemonade” – vodka with lemon and ice – but that’s

This is how we eat jam at Jen and Jake central – with a spoon. Oh, and with leftover scones I just happened to have handy. But eating this batch of rhubarb-strawberry preserves with a spoon is almost required. This is the first time I’ve ever cooked rhubarb – and the first time I’ve ever
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