Grandmother Bread was the only one I had!  And I've broadcast it across the world, LOL.  But I always think a great recipe should be shared!!  Food is too good to keep secret!!  I love food!

Oh wow, thank you!  I can't wait to try these!  Brown sugar sounds like the secret ingredient!  I've never seen a sugar cookie recipe with brown sugar before.  They sound excellent!!!

Honestly, I have never found these online or anywhere else, other than Grandma. The brown sugar with the buttermilk is maybe the difference. Careful, that baking soda goes crazy in the buttermilk…

One thing I should add about the sour cream cake…..

It doesn't look like you have enough batter, but just divide it evenly.  It rises really well.

And I forgot to say grease your pans. I use vegetable oil spray.

And I'm making that yellow sour cream cake for my husband tonight!!!  Thanks!!!

Here is decadence in a bread pan… Lorelei’s made me think of this old one.

Chocolate Sour Cream Cake
1 cup boiling water
2 squares of coco unsweetened
1/2 cup softened butter
1 3/4 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 3/4 cup + 2 Tbsp flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup of sour cream

Combine the boiling water and coco squares in separate bowl. Let them cool a bit.
Combine sugar, eggs and butter in large mixing bowl. Sift together the flour, salt and soda and add to the sugar mixture. Add the remaining ingredients. Beat well… there is no time mentioned in the recipe, but I beat it for 2 minutes as I add the ingredients and 1 or 2 minutes more when I am done.

Bake at 325* for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Batter will be runny.

Frost with Chocolate butter cream frosting

1 stick butter, softened
Dark coco powder (or reg.)
Powdered sugar
Vanilla
A little bit of milk…add as needed.

Grease and line with wax paper, one bread pan.

My Great-grandmother’s Applesauce Cake with Black Walnuts

This cake was always there for company, and always on the Christmas dinner table. That’s how I learned to love Black Walnuts!

2 C Flour, sifted
1 C White Sugar
1 tsp Salt
2 tsp Chinese 5-Spice (or use cinnamon/cloves/nutmeg)
2 tsp Baking Soda
1 C Raisins (soak in warm water to plump and soften)
1 C Black Walnuts, chopped
1/2 C Butter, softened
2 C Apple Butter

Drain and dry the soaked raisins. Discard the soaking water. Toss the raisins with some of the flour called for in the recipe. (This will keep the raisins from sinking to the bottom of the cake.) Sift the dry ingredients together. In a separate bowl, cream the butter and the apple butter until smooth.

In a large bowl alternate adding the wet and dry ingredients, stirring with a spoon to blend. Start and end with the dry ingredients. When the batter is smooth, add the floured raisins and the chopped black walnuts to the batter, and mix well.

Grease and flour a 9×13 baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes. The cake should be moist, but the center should be dry when tested with a toothpick.

Frost with homemade (or canned) cream cheese frosting.

It's hard to convert ingredients from pinches, handfuls, and dashes.  I always mess with recipes to get them to suit me.  You'll probably need to tweak this to your taste.

Mom learned this from her mom and passed on to her kids.  Even my brother knows this recipe.

Enjoy

Mom's Apple Dumplings

Ingredients:
2 cups self-rising flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup cold butter or margarine
2/3 cup milk

2 1/2 cups peeled, thick sliced apples(Granny Smith are good)
1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
3 cups water
 DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 400 degrees .  Butter large deep cast iron skillet (Or a 9×13 inch pan) In bowl, using fork (we just use our hands) mix the 2 cups self-rising flour,  1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/2 cup cold butter or margarine making a crumbly mixture, gradually work in the 2/3 cup of milk to make a dough.
On a lightly floured surface, roll dough into a large square? about 24 by 16? inches. Cut into 6 small square pieces.  In bowl toss apples slices with 1/2 of the brown sugar and the spices. Make sure all the apple slices get a good coating.  Place apple slices mixture on each  square. Cut butter into 8 pieces.  Place 1 piece of butter on top of apple slices mixture and save other 2 for sauce.  With slightly wet fingers, bring corners of dough square up to the top of the apple mixture, pinch together.  Slightly pinch the dough at the sides to seal in the apple. Do the same with the remaining bundles. Place in skillet or baking dish.
In a saucepan combine water, rest of brown sugar and butter. Place over medium heat and bring to a boil.  Boil for 5 minutes or until sugar is dissolved. Carefully pour over dumplings.
Bake in preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes.
Great with vanilla icecream.

OMG..all these recipes sound WONDERFUL! I'm going to have to go through mine and see what I have to post!

Grandma's Pumpkin Bread
 
3 1/2 cups flour
3 1/2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
Pinch of Nutmeg
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
8 oz butter, melted and cooled
2 15 oz cans pumpkin
4 eggs
2/3 cup water
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Butter three regular loaf pans.
In a large bowl mix together sugar, pumpkin and cinnamon until smooth and well blended.  Add water, then butter, stirring each until well blended.  Add eggs and mix until just incorporated.
In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.  Add this to the liquid in three parts, mixing each addition until just blended.  Finish mixing the last addition of flour with a spatula by hand.  Don't over mix.
Pour into loaf pans being sure the batter is spread evenly into the corners.
Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Let cool for 5-10 minutes in the pans, then remove from pans to finish cooling.  You may need to run a table knife gently around the edge of the pans to get them to release smoothly.