Recipes
Our members have a long history of sharing their favorite family recipes and memories with us. Send us yours!
Our members have a long history of sharing their favorite family recipes and memories with us. Send us yours!
Enjoy the changing seasons with these recipes using a fall favorite: apples. Hand-pick fresh apples from your local orchard and make one of these delicious seasonal recipes to share with your family, friends, and neighbors!
Are you in need of a new dish to bring to your next family gathering or neighborhood cookout? We have just the recipe! Try this Blueberry Raspberry Salad from our 1978 “Sugar ‘n’ Spice and Everything Nice” cookbook.
For the most part, dishes that came out of the 1970s — Jello salad, Hamburger HelperTM, cheese logs — are remembered with a bit of a grimace. But Julie Skalak’s Calico Beans defies that stereotype. It’s a simple recipe with classic flavors that just can’t be beat.
Try as she might, Michelle Faust can’t remember a single family gathering where her Grandma Wehnke’s signature savory dip hasn’t been served. “As a child, I’d go grocery shopping for the ingredients with my grandparents after church,” she recalls.
People often make jokes about fruitcake – there really are some bad ones out there – but there’s nothing funny about Shirley DeSchinckel’s version, a moist, fragrant nut-filled loaf that substitutes overly sweet candied fruit with prunes and dates and has, over the years, generated a devoted following.
Learning to make her Nana’s lemon cake taught Royal Neighbors member and sales agent Amy Davis a lot about patience. The reward was carrying on a 50-year-old family tradition.
As a child growing up in Mentor, Minnesota, Kathy Scheving clearly remembers her mother baking batch after batch of rich, chocolatey brownies—and being first in line among her siblings to help make the frosting.