Giveaway: Mrs. Rowe’s Little Book of Southern Pies
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With the holiday season upon us, one’s thoughts naturally turn to that of…pie. And Mrs. Rowe, a.k.a. “the Pie Lady,” was the quintessential purveyor of comfort food. Today, Mrs. Rowe’s family carries on her legacy at the original Mrs. Rowe’s Restaurant and Bakery in Staunton, Virginia. And now, in Mollie Cox Bryan’s taste-full tome, you’ll find over 65 legendary recipes — such as
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Key Lime Pie
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Original Coconut Cream Pie
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French Apple Pie
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Shoofly Pie (a regional gem!)
We at Wonders & Marvels are pleased to offer three copies of Mrs. Rowe’s Little Book of Southern Pies as a giveaway. To enter this contest, you only need to comment in response to this question: What is your fondest “comfort food” memory? Entries accepted until November 25, 2009 midnight Eastern time. Only one entry per person, please. To enter, you must live in North America. The winners will be selected at random and announced soon after the draw. Good luck!
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My fondest comfort food memory is my moms mashed potatoes everyone always asks her how to make them and she graciously tells them but for some reason no matter how hard a person tries they never taste the same I guess its the love
My favorite comfort food memory is probably my mom making huge pots of vegetable soup along with homemade bread during the winter months when I was a kid. I don’t think anything was ever as warming or filling- and now I continue the tradition.
My dad traveled a lot on business, often leaving for a trip as soon as he came home. One night, while he was away, my mom made cream puffs that she filled with vanilla pudding with a few chocolate chips at the bottom that got all melty under the warm pudding. My sister and I begged to try them, even though it was nearly dinner time. I’m not entirely sure what made my mom give in, but she carefully prepared some carrot sticks and apple slices, then let us eat a “dinner” of cream puffs. I will never forget sitting around our kitchen table in the gray light of late afternoon in a Cleveland winter, eating warm cream puffs. When my dad came home, we immediately tattled and she denied ever having done such a thing.
Fondest Food I would have to say is cheesecake, but anything else is good too !
Oh my gosh, my husband is from close to Staunton and his grandparents frequented Rowe’s! My fondest comfort memory is of the Lithuanian dishes my mother made when I was growing up.
My fondest memory is sitting at my grand mother’s table drinking rooibos tea and eating fig preserve with a tiny spoon and afterwards licking the plate clean!
This sounds like a perfect Christmas gift for my 20-something daughter who loves to cook.
Almost every morning of my childhood my mother made us a hot breakfast of biscuits and bacon gravy. She’s not a morning person so it was a real act of love.
My favorite comfort food as a child was pork and beans my mother once took a picture that I still have of my head in a bowl of them fast asleep..
We love spaghetti and meatballs. Everyone is involved from making the sauce to rolling the meatballs! A real family tradition on cold winter’s days.
I haven’t had it in years and have never tasted fried chicken as good as what my mom used to make. Mmmm.
My mom recently passed away, so I have thought often lately about favorite comfort food memories. It was not at all unusual to come home from school and find that Mom had made cookies or cupcakes. Just because she liked us. I feel lucky to remember.
For some reason lately, I have thought about, and even dreamed about, these very thin shortbread/butter cookies that she cut into diamond shapes and topped with sprinkles. They were so thin you had to watch them like a hawk so they wouldn’t burn.
Last Christmas before she died I made dog-shaped cookies with her old cookie press and everyone loved seeing them again — think I will do it again this year.
My best comfort food memory would be a couple of days after Christmas, and it involves homemade apple pie.
One of our neighbors always makes homemade apple pies. As soon as one comes out of the oven, she walks it down the street to us–still warm from the oven, carrying it in her oven mits
.Last year it was raining the day she brought it. After she left to check on another pie, I cut a slice and sat down with a book. There was nothing better than listening to the rain, reading and enjoying fresh apple pie.
I’ve been baking pies all week. Did buttermilk pies (older son Loves them), pecan pie and now working on a fudge pie–new recipe to me. I love pie. Pie is the right size dessert-cakes are often too big. Pecan and chocolate meringue pies are comfort foods for me. Also tamales. I guess because I’m a Texan, tamales mean home to me.
Your home culture shows from the foods you eat on holidays. Texans tend to do tamales on Christmas eve (whatever their ethnicity) and black-eyed peas on New Years…
I lovingly remember my mother’s recipe for ham loaf. She ground the ham and the veal herself in a big metal meat grinder and mixed it with eggs and graham cracker crumbs…It was sooooo good!!! But it was a special treat and when we requested our birthday meals, it was one of the few dishes that got asked for time and again. I have tried making it myself, but the love is missing that she put in and it is not the same.
My fondest memory is coming home for the first time from college. Home-cooking never tasted so good!
I always think of my mom’s pumpkin bread during the holiday season. She taught me how to make it and every time I cook up a batch during the holiday season, it reminds me of home. Thank you!