The recipes on Potluck Revival are real recipes inspired from vintage recipe cards, cookbooks, and family collections. The recipes in this series belonged to Fritz. However, the story of Fritz and Bernice is historical fiction based on just a few clues I have of Fritz’s life. Chapter 1 Fritz smoothed the front of her dress…
Jump to Recipe I purchased Fritz’s recipe collection at an auction because buying old cookbooks and handwritten recipes is one of my favorite hobbies. Some people golf. I spend Friday nights with vintage recipe cards scattered all around me. I know her name was Fritz because tucked into the middle of the yellowed recipe cards…
I sat across from my mother as I thumbed through Alice’s cookbook. “Isn’t it amazing,” Mom said, “that she made nearly every recipe in those cookbooks?” “What do you mean?” I asked. “She made all of them. These are her recipes.” “These are her recipe collections,” Mom corrected me. “I’m sure she had her favorites…
It was early in the morning on a weekend, and I was still making my way through Alice’s cookbook. The smell of sizzling sausage was slowly filling our little apartment. Outside, it was cold, with more snow in the forecast. As I stirred together Alice’s breakfast casserole, I found myself thinking about her and wondering…
When I was a kid, a trip through the Dairy Queen drive-thru felt like a big deal, mostly because of the dip cones. I can still picture sitting in the car, watching them take a plain vanilla cone and dip it into that glossy coating that somehow hardened in seconds. On a good week, my…
There was a woman named Alice who lived across the hall from my grandmother in an assisted living community. Alice was known for many things, but especially for her cooking. In fact, when she passed away, one of the recipes mentioned in her obituary was her pepperoni roll ups. So when I was going through…