If you have been reading our #LegacyCookingProject for a while, you obviously know how much I love our family and our food! While writing this blog/project I have learned so much about our family, tasted food that brought back so many memories, and I am having a ton of fun while doing it! I completely […]
Category: Legacy Cooking Project
Hello everyone, and welcome to the home of the Legacy Cooking Project! I am cooking my way through my Family Cookbook, and sharing some stories along the way!

Rice Custard
With my birthday coming up in a couple of weeks, I decided it was time to make my all time favorite recipe again! So this week for our #LegacyCookingProject blog we are showing off my grandma’s Rice Custard! Rice custard is one of my favorite side dishes / desserts / breakfast ever! Okay, you probably […]

Neopolitan Cremes
I decided to make these for my moms birthday, but she beat me to it! So I just decided to make a batch and eat the WHOLE. DANG. PAN. myself. Yep, it happened. This is a favorite recipe of mine, and my grandma used to make it pretty often! As Coby describes these, they […]

Harrold & Ruby go to Kinsey
Kinsey is an unincorporated community just outside of Miles City in eastern Montana. It’s population is approximately 135 people. Harrold and Ruby moved to Kinsey in 1942 because of Roosevelt’s WPA (Works Progress Administration). My Papa (Larry) was pretty young at the time, only about 5. I asked him if he remembered anything about […]

Hickey Cake- The Scanlan Tradition
I’m not sure about the rest of the Scanlan Clan, but in Larry’s family Hickey Cake is a summer tradition. Our side has an absurd amount of July birthdays, so every July we gotta make Hickey Cake! My grandma (Betty, Larry’s wife) always told us it was called Hickey Cake, because of the colors. The […]

More On Ruby
Ruby Viola Strausburg was born in 1909 in Kansas. Ruby and her family moved to Fergus when she was 5 years old. Ruby’s father, Sam, was on the school board while Ruby was growing up. Sam and the school board built a new school in 1919, and Ruby’s class was actually the first class to […]

Great Grandma Ruby’s Cornbread
Harrold & Ruby Scanlan Written & researched by Patti Scanlan Our Scanlan family story began August 9, 1899 with the birth of Harrold. Harrold was born in Fargo, North Dakota to Ole and Martha (Katie) Winger. A couple of weeks after Harrold was born, his mother passed away. We are told that being newly widowed […]

The Legacy Cooking Project– The Introduction
Welcome to the Legacy Cooking Project! We have been writing a family cookbook for 2(+) years now, and it’s pretty slow going. But, like any good cookbook, we decided we needed photos of the recipes to go along with the cookbook! So, it was decided that I would cook my way through the family cookbook. […]