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🕵️‍♀️Family History blogger~2009
👩‍💻 WordPress designer~2017
🔎Encouraging you to find & share your family's story
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Ahhhh the aromas that wafted from that oven.... 🥰

Nearly every morning of our growing up years, Mama made biscuits. These weren't canned, frozen, or short-cut biscuits. These were from scratch. Made like her grandmother taught her.

It's now my turn.

I can make biscuits like she did. Shoot, those biscuits were one of the hooks I used to snare my not-yet husband. You know the saying, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach". A lifetime later, I'm still making biscuits and he's still eating them so yeah, that apparently worked. 😂 🥰

When I saw this photo in my mother's album, I remembered the biscuits. I remembered birthday cakes ... her signature chocolate meringue pie. 😋 It also brought to mind the little cookie cookbook titled "Bake up a Story" that came with a vintage cookie press I bought years ago at a garage sale.

This year, I'm baking up a new story. Not only am I making Mama's biscuits for my grand-littles, I have also made my grandma's Stack Cake.

A Stack Cake is made up of thin layers, sweetened primarily with molasses, spiced with ginger, cinnamon and allspice. It's not iced, but is filled with dried apples rehydrated and cooked down to an apple butter consistency. It is also called an Appalachian Wedding Cake because wedding guests would bake layers at home and bring them to the wedding where the cake was assembled with the apple filling provided by the bride's family. The more guests, the more layers, which was an indicator of the popularity of the girl.

By baking the cake, biscuits, and gingerbread cookies, I am truly baking up stories - family history stories that I can tell my grandchildren as we sit around the table, laughing, and making memories. 🥰🎄❤️
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