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Wednesday, November 11, 2026Nov 11

Readers send recipes for carrot cake, pound cake, baked salmon, ‘chip lunch’

Though summer has been in the rear-view mirror for many schooldays now, August ends on these pages with Labor Day ahead. How about some low-labor recipes for the busy fall?

A visitor from South Carolina loaded her car with home-state peaches and in the process met a peach salesman named Von who extolled the virtues of peach pudding.

She came away hungry but with no recipe. “He said it was as good as banana pudding and much like it, but that you used a different cookie than vanilla wafers.”

Please fill in the blanks of this tasty-sounding treat.