Area Cooks Share Recipes — Red, White, and Blue Dessert

Basic but delicious recipe for any occasion

By Lorna Carlisle
Area Cooks Share Recipes — Red, White, and Blue Dessert

Not everyone has the time or inclination to bake a fancy dessert, especially in the summer. This recipe starts with store-bought Cream Horns. You know the kind — those flaky pastries where the puff pastry is wrapped in a cone shape and filled with cream. Cut the Cream Horns into one-inch slices. Top each slice […]

Florence Gove Receives Boston Post Cane as Oldest Resident

Awarded by Andover Select Board on May 1

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Florence Gove Receives Boston Post Cane as Oldest Resident

Florence Gove, who turned 100 years old in July, 2022, was presented with the Boston Post Cane, on May 1, by Andover Selectmen Roland Carter, Jim Delaney, and Dana Swenson. Also on hand to witness the ceremonial giving of the cane were Town Administrator Kimberley Edelmann, Florence’s daughter Beryl Sanborn, granddaughter Angela Monahan, and son-in-law […]

Andover Cooks Share Favorites “Hollandaise Sauce”

Delicious served over fresh asparagus

By Lorna Carlisle
Andover Cooks Share Favorites “Hollandaise Sauce”

This recipe works very well and can be thinned if desired. I recommend using “pastured raised” eggs. This will give the sauce a nice, bright yellow color.  Store-bought eggs–not so much! Here, I used the sauce over fresh asparagus, but it can be used over poached eggs, as in Eggs Benedict, over fish, or a […]

Andover Cooks Share Favorites “Corn and Green Chile Casserole”

Friend's recipe is a long-time favorite

By Lois Magenau
Andover Cooks Share Favorites “Corn and Green Chile Casserole”

Ellen Morton Hamil was a good childhood friend of my sister, Mary. She brought this dish to a Concord High School sisters’ party that I held here on Ragged Mountain in September of 2010. 4 cups fresh corn (cook in boiling water for about 5 minutes, drain well) or use an equivalent amount of canned […]

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