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Category Archives: meringue

Now bring us some figgy pudding, & bring some out here!

So, if you’re like me, that line from ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas‘ always made you giggle as a kid. I mean, I’m sure most of us, especially us Yankees here in America, have asked ourselves at one point or another: “What the hell is a figgy pudding, exactly?” Figgy pudding is a pudding [...]


December 17, 2010

Christmas time is here, happiness & cheer.

It’s that time, ladies & gents. That time of year when parents try to kill themselves in toy stores to get the “IT” toy of the year and kids are running around overloaded on sugar from Christmas parties, and there’s piles of snow on the ground and your back aches from shoveling it all. Ahh, [...]


December 04, 2010

Veteran’s Day.

Coming from a family that has a long military history, Veteran’s Day is always important to me. That’s part of the reason why as soon as Yoyo asked me to, I began to participate in Military Monday. My great-great-great grandfather, Albert Hebrank, fought in the Civil War. In 1861, he was an immigrant, right off [...]


November 11, 2010

My vintage hand mixer & some vintage “Snow White” cupcakes.

I’m back! With a new recipe (well, actually two) just like I promised, and on top of that… a really long post! A few weeks back I was helping clean out my grandmother’s kitchen cabinets and I made a real gem of a find. All the way in the back, tucked in a corner buried [...]


June 29, 2010

Earl Grey with lemon “Tea Party” cupcakes.

Nope, these little treats don’t have anything to do with political wingnuts. They do, however, have to do with tea. Remember when “tea parties” meant actual people drinking tea? Or a scene in Alice In Wonderland? Or the famous Tea Party in Boston when people were really protesting something? And not just a bunch of [...]


May 19, 2010