Gravestone Recipes: Recipes Etched on Tombstones

 

This article with interview appears in The Mercury News! Scroll down for complete article link.

Archivist and TikTok creator Rosie Grant traveled the U.S. collecting the details and stories behind over 40 gravestone recipes. Interview to follow. 

Who’d have guessed that the place to find a killer spritz cookie recipe would be inside a cemetery?
But that’s just where Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson’s cookie recipe lives, etched in stone at her final resting place at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.

When archivist Rosie Grant, who was was completing an internship at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., learned about this recipe on a gravestone back in 2021, she decided to bake the cookies and share a video of the experience on her TikTok account, @ghostlyarchives. Comments poured in, and she learned that there were gravestone recipes scattered across the U.S.

So began her quest to cook the recipes and learn the stories of the people behind them — a project that eventually yielded an entire 40-recipe cookbook. Grant’s book is more than a cookbook copying over these recipes etched in stone, however. It also explores the intersections of food, legacy and memory, while providing background information and missing details to enable anyone to cook these recipes at home.

Read more here. 

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/13/cooking-with-the-dead-to-die-for-tries-out-recipes-etched-on-tombstones/?share=iwaeuttdoor0odtchauw

RETRO HALLOWEEN PARTY GAMES & RECIPES: 1960

Happy Halloween. I love Betty Crocker's Party Book from 1960. Lots of different Halloween recipes, games and centerpieces! There are many different holidays in the book, but the following pages are for Halloween, lots of sugar and chocolate! Cute illustrations, too! Enjoy!

Brownie Recipe Round-Up: National Brownie Day

Photo: Ghiradelli Gluten-Free Brownies

Today is National Brownie Day. I've posted many Brownie recipes over the years, including my favorite, Aunt Sylvia's Brownies.

Here's a Round-up of 50+ Brownie Recipes I've posted over the years. I'm sure I didn't catch them all, but it's an updated list. Several recipes are Gluten-Free.

And, to start, here's a link to Tips for Making the Best Brownies.

2016 Brownie Recipe Round-Up: 
Links to 50+ Brownie Recipes

Aunt Sylvia's Brownies

Double Chocolate Brownies  

Peanut Butter Brownies 

Peppermint Bark Brownies

Cherry Port Heart-Shaped Brownies

Super Moon Blue Cheese Brownies 

Double Chocolate Olive Oil Brownies

Extra Nutty Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies

Guy Fawkes Night: Bonfire Brownies

Peanut Butter Toffee Cheesecake Brownies

White Chocolate Brownies

Lemon Curd Brownies 

Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

Best Ever Gluten Free Brownies 

Easter Egg Brownies 

Peanut Butter & Jelly Brownies

Milky Way Brownies

Gluten Free Chocolate & Peanut Butter Chip Brownies

Peanut Butter Marbled Brownies

White Chocolate Brownies with Macadamia Nuts 

Full Moon Brownies

Fudgy Mocha Brownies

Cream Cheese Brownies

Chocolate Cream Cheese Brownies

Guinness Stout Brownies

Kahlua Brownies

Creme de Menthe Brownies

Blood Moon Eclipse Brownies

Pumpkin Chocolate Brownies

Strawberry Extra-Chocolately Brownies

Ghirardelli Gluten-Free Brownies

S'mores Brownies from a Mix

S'mores Brownies from Scratch

S'mores Brownies

Gravenstein Apple Chocolate Brownies

Cocoanut Golden-Brownies

Chocolate Walnut Brownies

Gold Rush Brownies  

Ghirardelli Gluten-Free Brownies

Nutella Brownie Muffins 

Sea Salt Caramel Brownies: 2 Recipes

Brownie Ice Box Cookies: Retro Ad & Recipe

Cherry Cheesecake Brownies

Honey Chocolate Brownies

Chocolate Raspberry Beer Brownies

Better Bacon Brownies

Congo Squares

Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies

Eggnog Brownies

Scotch Brownies : Butter Scotch Brownies

Tequila Brownies 

Brandy Alexander Brownies

Bourbon Cream Cheese Brownies

Chocolate Chewy Pistachio Brownies 

Double Chocolate Fresh Cherry Brownies

Cocoanut Golden-Brownies

Red Wine Brownies 

Scharffen Berger Mother's Day Brownies

Glad's Brownies

Chocolate Merlot Mustard Brownies 

Mounds of Brownies: Chocolate Revelations

Candy Corn Brownies

Halloween Oreo Brownies

Halloween Brownies

Harvest Moon Pumpkin Brownies

Peanut Butter Brownie Cupcakes 

Pumpkin Chocolate Brownies

Brownie Ice Cream Sandwiches

Passover Flourless Brownies (4 recipes) #Gluten-free

Dutch Process Cocoa Brownies

Spinach Carrot Brownies: Eat Your Veggies!

Judy Hogan's Healthy Brownies

Brownies in a Mug

Brownie Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches

Miss Piggy's Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Brownies 

"Mounds" of Brownies

Mexican Spicy Brownies

Brownie Bites with Cherry Jubilee Sauce 

Pudding Brownies

Brownies in a Jar

Decadent Quadruple Chocolate Brownie Pie

Retro Chocolate Brownie Pie

Chocolate Pecan Brownie Fudge Cake

Brownie Recipe Round-Up: 60+ Recipes for National Brownie Day

Photo: Ghiradelli Gluten-Free Brownies

Today is National Brownie Day. I've posted so many Brownie recipes over the years, including my favorite, Aunt Sylvia's Brownies. Here's a Round-up of 60+ Brownie Recipes I've posted. I'm sure I didn't catch them all, but it's an updated list. Feel free to add links to your own favorites in the comments. Be sure to scroll down for more 'vintage' brownie recipes and variations circa 1958.

2013 Brownie Recipe Round-Up: Links to 60+ Recipes

Aunt Sylvia's Brownies

Peppermint Bark Brownies

Extra Nutty Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies

Guy Fawkes Night: Bonfire Brownies

Peanut Butter Toffee Cheesecake Brownies

Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

Peanut Butter & Jelly Brownies

Peanut Butter Marbled Brownies

White Chocolate Brownies with Macadamia Nuts 

Full Moon Brownies

Fudgy Mocha Brownies

Cream Cheese Brownies

Chocolate Cream Cheese Brownies

Guinness Stout Brownies

Kahlua Brownies

Pumpkin Chocolate Brownies

Strawberry Extra-Chocolately Brownies

Ghirardelli Gluten-Free Brownies

S'mores Brownies from a Mix

S'mores Brownies from Scratch

Gravenstein Apple Chocolate Brownies

Cocoanut Golden-Brownies

Chocolate Walnut Brownies

Gold Rush Brownies  

Nutella Brownie Muffins 

Cherry Cheesecake Brownies

Honey Chocolate Brownies

Chocolate Raspberry Beer Brownies

Bacon Brownies

Eggnog Brownies

Brandy Alexander Brownies

Double Chocolate Fresh Cherry Brownies

Cocoanut Golden-Brownies

Red Wine Brownies 

Glad's Brownies

Chocolate Merlot Mustard Brownies 

Mounds of Brownies: Chocolate Revelations

Candy Corn Brownies

Halloween Oreo Brownies

Harvest Moon Pumpkin Brownies

Peanut Butter Brownie Cupcakes 

Pumpkin Chocolate Brownies

Passover Flourless Brownies (4 recipes) #Gluten-free

Dutch Process Cocoa Brownies

Judy Hogan's Healthy Brownies

Brownie Mini Ice Cream Sandwiches

Miss Piggy's Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Brownies 

"Mounds" of Brownies

Mexican Spicy Brownies

Brownie Bites with Cherry Jubilee Sauce 

Pudding Brownies

Brownies in a Jar

Decadent Quadruple Chocolate Brownie Pie

Retro Chocolate Brownie Pie

Chocolate Pecan Brownie Fudge Cake

And even more variations on this page from Good Housekeeping's Book of Cookies (1958). Brownies, after all, are a type of Bar Cookie!