With the extra meals being prepared at home now, we have brought out our family's favorite recipes to bring a little extra comfort. For me there is just about nothing more comforting that a hot slice of homemade bread slathered with butter. My hubs loves to slather his in honey, but that is another story!
I learned how to make bread on our farm as a little girl. It's funny how many skills you lean on when you can't go to a grocery store or restaurant for your meals. My grandma had this huge, deep, metal, hand-crank bread maker. I loved turning the handle to knead the bread. The best type of bread was a mixture of wheat and white. I love to call it my 80/20 bread.

A little of this a little of that and you have a honey of a bundt cake! This is one of my most asked for recipes. It is a cake that can be made in advance and refrigerated until the party begins. It takes a few ingredients from your pantry and an orange. You will love this comfort cake especially this spring, with resources limited and we are all craving a bite or two of something sweet.

Honey Peanut Butter Cookies
1/4 C. Room Temp Butter
1/2 C. Sugar
1/2 Cup Fresh Peanut Butter (Adam's Chunky is our Favorite)
1/2 C. Honey
1 Room Temperature Egg
Mix in a mixer until smooth. Sift together and add into the mixture slowly...
1 1/4 C Flour
1/4 Tsp. Salt
1 Tbs Baking Powder
Mix together and chill for an hour. Line your baking sheets with baking parchment paper and preheat oven to 375 degrees. Roll into Ping Pong size balls and roll in Raw Amber Sugar. Place on cookie sheet about 1 1/2" apart. Use a slotted spatula to make the lines (or a wide fork). Press one direction and then the opposite direction to make a criss-cross pattern. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes. Let cool on a baking rack.

Recipes get passed down through generations for many different reasons. Some for traditions, or remembrance of the maker, and some because they are just too good to forget. I found my Great Great Grandmother Rose's Sugar Cookie recipe in a stash of loose paper recipes my mother gave to me. For years I have used my Grandma's Sour Cream Sugar Cookie Recipe and that is the one my children have loved forever.
This Valentine's weekend I decided to try my Grandma Rose's cookies to see what the difference is and why my mother, who is a fabulous maker saved this one with stars and hearts. My mom wrote a little note that these cookies were made when she would visit Grandma Rose as a little girl and that the scent of them baking always reminded her of her favorite grandma. So, there you go...you know why I had to try them.

Happy New Year! It is hard to believe that 2020 is here. We hope your celebrations were everything you hoped for and that you are renewed and excited for this fresh new year. When the producers of KUTV Fresh Living asked me to give them my favorite winter comfort food, there was no doubt which one I would pick. Our family's most requested soup in Momma's Potato Leek Soup.


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