Ben Starr

The Ultimate Food Geek

Tag: nutmeg

  • Buttermilk Cardamom Coffee Cake

    We’ve lost the coffee cake, somehow.  I rarely see it on menus at breakfast restaurants.  And it’s such a yummy and easy thing to make.  I’ll make an attempt at revitalizing interest in coffee cake by coming up with some new, inventive flavors, and this is my first…featuring my favorite spice, cardamom.  So many fans…

  • Mama Starr’s Nutmeg Coffee Cake

    Mama Starr is my Dad’s mother.  She and Daddy Bill, who made his living as a barber and a Protestant minister, were always very formal, straight-laced grandparents (as opposed to Meemaw and Peepaw who were ornery and occasionally a tad bit crude when humor called for it).  This is a photograph from 1927 when Mama…