Well, the holidays are over, but that doesn’t mean the good treats and sweets have to stop! Not in my house, anyway. This week I have a delicious recipe for some yummy, homemade cinnamon rolls – great for a Saturday morning when it is cold outside. Add some hot chocolate to these and you can close your eyes and dream you are in some ski lodge somewhere!
I remember visiting Monarch Mountain Ski Lodge in Colorado one year during the ski season and other than the monstrous snowdrifts that line the road, the lodge has huge, fresh-baked cinnamon rolls and big cups of hot chocolate. These rolls would melt in your mouth! I have a fond memory connected to that event, so there are no cinnamon rolls that will ever be the same! But these are good, so give them a try.
I received a cookbook for Christmas from a family member. She knows I like to cook and she is always getting everyone in the family something that is appropriate to their tastes, hence my cookbook. But this is no ordinary cookbook. You have to go back into the 70’s and 80’s to enjoy this cookbook. It is Edith Bunker’s All In The Family cookbook.
Those of you around my age can appreciate this book, while the younger generation might not know exactly who Edith Bunker was. My Mom and Dad would! When I was young, we never missed an episode of All In The Family with Jean Stapleton playing Edith Bunker, the long-suffering, and devoted wife of Archie Bunker. Carroll O’Conner played Archie Bunker, a chauvinistic, loveable yet controversial bigot.
This cookbook is a hoot. It has a short story before each recipe written by Edith, who caters to Archie’s likes and dislikes. Below I printed one of the stories to share what I have been enjoying the last few days. Remember to imagine Edith’s sweet, drawn-out voice that she mastered beautifully, and the patronizing and sarcastic voice that made Archie Bunker – Archie Bunker.
“Oh-oh, S.O.S. time,” Archie always used to say when I served him creamed chipped beef on toast. “Why, no, Archie,” I’d say. “S.O.S. means some disaster is happenin’, don’t it? You can’t call this dish a disaster.” “That ain’t what I had in mind, Edith. In my dictionary S.O.S. stands for something quite different.” When Michael moved in, he told me Archie picked up S.O.S. in the Army. It seems that’s what all the soldiers called Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast. Michael says it stands for ‘something-on-a-shingle’. But that don’t seem as funny as Archie thinks it is!
Hopefully, with this, I leave you laughing. Have a great week!
Pecan Cinnamon Rolls
Rapid Rolls:
3 (.25-ounce) packets active dry yeast
1 3/4 cups warm water
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup melted butter, plus more for brushing
2 teaspoons salt
2 large eggs, beaten
4 to 6 cups flour, plus more if needed
Filling:
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup chopped pecans
6 tablespoons dark brown sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon Cream Cheese Glaze:
1 cup powdered (confectioners’) sugar
1/2 cup (4 ounces) cream cheese
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 tablespoons milk
Melted butter, for brushing