Category: Desserts

A double-crust apple pie enriched with boiled cider, a custardy filling and thinly sliced apples for an old-fashioned fall dessert.

A vintage mock apple pie made with Ritz crackers, lemon, cinnamon and Splenda—an inventive pie that tastes remarkably like apple without using apples.

A pumpkin-spiced gooey butter cake with a yellow-cake crust and cream cheese filling—rich, soft-centered and made for fall gatherings.

Soft, moist persimmon cookies with cinnamon, cloves, raisins and nuts, preserved with a remarkable local note from Eldred, Illinois.

A sweet cream cheese dip with brown sugar, vanilla and caramel flavor, served with crisp apples.

A baked German Chocolate Pie with coconut and pecans, preserved from the 2006 Jersey County community cookbook 75 Years of Caring and Sharing.