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Monday, November 9, 2026Nov 9

Pumpkin cookies, pork roast set the table for the season

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Good morning, October celebrants. In a world of pumpkins and apples and spices, the robustness of autumn invades our senses … and our kitchens.

We have a repeat request for “homemade apple butter, or any other fruit butters, that do not contain added sugars.” And then, from the same anonymous Exchanger, “I would also like advice on choosing walnuts that are not bitter to the taste. Seems like I guess wrong about half the time.”

He or she added this one. “Does anyone have a recipe for fruit crumble that is gluten-free?”

COOKIE BONANZA

Roseann Strazinsky keeps on cooking at her Fairfield Glade, Tennessee, home. This morning she wrote, “I am sending you my favorite Pumpkin Cookies that make about six dozen cookies.”