Isa’s Yorkshire Pudding
Isa McCallum’s first memory of Sunday school was marching around the perimeter of the church’s kindergarten room, singing hymns like Onward Christian Soldiers. That was […]
Recipes & Memories
Reverend Anne’s Venetian Chicken
Reverend Anne Gajerski-Cauley’s contact with the Presbyterian Record starts with babysitting, in Winnipeg, and fruit cake. In 1974, when Anne was 14 she baby sat […]
Red Cabbage, a hymn and Albi, France
Lucky me! I have just returned from a trip to south-west France, a landscape peppered with mediaeval villages on top of pointy hills. Everyone, seems […]
Wychwood: Decommission Service, Apr. 27
Wychwood-Davenport Presbyterian Church has celebrated its Last Easter on St. Clair Ave. On Sunday, April 27, the church will be the scene of a Decomissioning […]
Australian Lamingtons
“My mother had a Presbyterian temperament although she was brought up Church of England,” says Jenny Dickson. She adds her mother, Margaret Fairie, married a […]
A-1 Chocolate Frosting
The other day, while frosting an old-fashioned carrot cake, I got to thinking about cake-cake, my term for no-nonsense Canadian cakes, like those baked by […]
Jane Tilley’s Butter Tarts
When Jane Tilley joined First Presbyterian Church, in Collingwood, she knew she had come full circle in her religious journey. From birth Jane attended Queen […]
Lickety-Split Shortbread
In my experience the best Christmas shortbread recipe, ever, is the one I’ve dubbed Lickety-Split Shortbread. It was first introduced to me and the baking […]
Bible Cake (recipe and game)
In the 19th century, games and activities were expected to be edifying. While a Victorian mother may find baking with her children a pleasure, she […]
Marcia’s Chocolate Spritz Cookies
Marcia Livingstone cannot remember a time when she was not in the Presbyterian fold. “The church has been a part of my life from a […]
Marlene Barnett’s Cauliflower
Marlene Barnett, a member of Beaches Presbyterian since the 1970s, had no church affiliation until she was 17. At that age, she was taken to […]
Elisabeth Grant’s Quinoa with Tomatoes
Elisabeth Grant, now a member of Beaches Presbyterian Church, started her Christian journey as an Anglican. In fact, her father was an Anglican minister. He […]
Dorothy Mills Butter Tart Squares
Dorothy Mills, a member of Knox Burlington for 53 years, is a quilter extraordinaire. For more than 25 years, Dorothy and a bevy of ladies […]
Elizabeth Adam’s Corn Chowder
Elizabeth Adam’s affiliation, with the Presbyterian Church, began with an exotic story. When Elizabeth’s father was seven years old his Jewish family converted, from Judaism, […]
Rev.MacKinnon’s Oatcakes
Reverend Lydia MacKinnon has come full circle. From manse to manse. From the time she was an infant, in Cape Breton, Lydia was taken to […]
Goderich’s Mega Sale Marmalade
Major Neal Nickles (retired) and his wife Myrann, met and married at Knox Presbyterian Church in Stratford, Ontario. After a peripatetic life in the Canadian […]
Jan’s Baked Beans
Jan Rintoul Clapp has been a member of Winchester Presbyterian Church for a mere 41 years. That makes her, more or less, a new comer […]
Joanne Walter’s Favourite Pumpkin Bars
Joanne Walters has attended Knox Presbyterian, Goderich, as long as she can remember. Today her involvement in the church pretty much adds up to a […]
Mary’s Coleslaw for One Hundred
It was a long journey for Mary McGibbon from her grandparents farm, in Flamborough Township to Knox Presbyterian Church in Burlington, Ontario. Not in miles […]
Lynda Franklin’s Date Loaf
Cooke’s Presbyterian Church, in Toronto, was known as “the Irish” church. So when Lynda Hughes and her brother came along, they were baptized in Cooke’s […]