Garlic Butter Crouton Recipe These are wonderful with a salad and for breakfast in our Baked Eggs Recipe. Ingredients 4-5 Slices of French bread cubed 4 Tbls. Unsalted butter Garlic powder Parsley Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Melt butter over medium heat in a large saute pan. Stir in garlic…
Mary Naughton’s Irish Bread Recipe This is a recipe that Bill’s grandmother, Mary Ann Naughton brought from Ireland when she emigrated to Boston, from County Roscommon in Ireland, in the early twentieth century. She worked as a ladies maid until she met and married John Connery who was from Waterford, Ireland. The recipe was handed down…
Cheesecake Crust Recipe A light and crunchy compliment to your cheesecake. Crust Ingredients 1 cup sifted enriched flour 1/4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel 1/2 cup butter 1 slightly beaten egg yoke 1/4 teaspoon vanilla Instructions Combine first three ingredients. Cut in the butter until the mixture is crumbly. Add the egg yoke…
O’Connell’s Cheesecake Recipe This decadent cheesecake recipe is the perfect compliment to your Valentine’s Day dinner. This is a recipe that I have been making for special occasions since Bill and I were first married fifty-one years ago. It was the desert we would serve when we had company. The recipe has now been passed down…
Holiday Ginger Snaps Recipe Before owning the Palmer House Inn, Bill and I lived on boats. I enjoyed making these holiday ginger snaps recipe because ginger is calming to the digestive system. Many folks were concerned about sea sickness. This recipe makes about 5 dozen. Ingredients: 3/4 cup shortening 1 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup…
Our friend Mim has shared with us another of her favorite old Cape Cod recipes. This is one that she enjoys preparing this time of year because the apples and and cranberries are being harvested. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Ingredients: 5-6 MacIntosh apples 1 cup fresh cranberries 1 cup crushed walnuts 1 stick of…
Portuguese Sweet Bread Recipe Cape Cod has a large Portuguese population. Most of the Portuguese immigrants came to America in the early years of the twentieth century and brought this Portuguese Sweet Bread recipe with them. Because most of them were farmers or fishermen by trade, Cape Cod was the ideal location to settle. The…
Wild Blueberry Soup Recipe Marjorie Drucker created this recipe. Marjorie and her husband Paul own the New England Soup Factory restaurants in Boston. When I read about her series of chilled soups, I just had to blend them into our fruit course offerings at the Palmer House Inn. They are smooth, refreshing and so nutritious…