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About 40 years ago when my wife and I were setting up housekeeping, we were given a wood carving board. It was large enough for roasts and a turkey. It had a juice ring around it that caught all the juices, a little reservoir at the end for the excess juice and it had 4 little spikes on the...

OK I need some help from some senior citizens out there. In my mom's recipe book, there's a recipe for Mrs. Wyre's Speculaas, a spice cookie. It includes: Shortening brown sugar almonds flour cinnamon nutmeg coriander cardiman soda salt allspice cloves ginger and the tricky one: pastry...

I found a recipe for a Dutch cookie called Speculaas. My mom used to make it all the time. One ingredient is called "Pastry Spices." I think it was something that mom bought as a mixture. Does anyone have a clue what it is and if it is still available? This would have been in the time...

My daughter went to the local Safeway today and brought home some Mother's iced oatmeal cookies. Yum! They're back, made by K, the corn flake people. Now the cookie aisle won't look so depressing. Mother's cookies started in Oakland California in 1914 and abruptly shut down last year. I...