There is always something happening at Grandma Sunday’s house and she usually has good things to eat. Along with her standard recipe for gingersnaps, this is where to find out what else she has to share today. Enjoy printing and trying the recipes you find here or share them by sending them to friends. They change often and most of them will not be repeated, so check back soon so that you don’t miss special things Grandma Sunday makes for her seven orphan girls.

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Recipes for this week's treats

These cookies are a favorite for visitors of Grandma Sunday. Even when she can’t get spices at Harold’s General Store, she can still make these tasty cookies using wild ginger that grows along the brook in Ginger Brook Hollow.

The simple ingredients of a basic sugar cookie and the extra sweetness of raisins make these cookies a perfect fall or winter treat. Raisins and other dried fruits were extra special treats because they were one way of saving the sweetness of summer for the months before fruit would again be available. Without freezers and other modern conveniences preservation of food was limited mostly to canning and drying all the delicious things that grew in the warmer months. These cookies just happen to be Mr. Wood’s favorite treat.

These go perfectly with the Chicken Noodle Soup!

These are fun with gravy on top like a meat pie or just by themselves. They can be frozen well and heated for a quick meal. It is a tasty way to cook cabbage.

This is a light and easy salad for those who want a healthy change from a regular green salad.

Grandma loves this recipe because it was always one of her father's favorite things. He learned to love it when his mother made it in Germany. It is good for breakfast fresh from the oven, and it is good for dessert, especially with a little bit of caramel sauce added. *Bread that is not fresh or slightly dry works well in this recipe. French bread type loaves are nice, but any kind will work.

This is a simple old time recipe, but still very tasty. It was one of Meg's favorites because Grandma made it special with a sprinkle of nutmeg. Canned fruit works well for this recipe making it a nice winter treat (or breakfast). Best fruits to use in this recipe are ones with a lot of flavor such as berries, cherries, peaches, or plums. Serves 2-4 hungry people.

Who would have thought that something so sour as buttermilk would make this yummy pie? This is a fine twist to an English classic.

These yummy nuts are easy to make, and sure to please. Although pecans are a favorite nut for this recipe, walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts can all be used too. The promise of this special treat would have inspired the seven orphan girls to comb Ginger Brook Hollow for nuts and then complete the task of shelling them.

Grandma Sunday saw how much the orphans were enjoying their pocket mice, so she made special little treats the girls called "mouse bites". They were created after the saying, "Apple pie without the cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze." and she told the girls that they were meant to be kisses and hugs from her. These little bites can be made either as cookies or muffins, but either way they are meant to be tiny.

Of course the week the girls found Suzannah's mice, things made with cheese were "all the rage". It was that week that Meg made something with cheese that became one of their favorite dishes. These are a fun side dish, snack, or appetizer.

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