my mom baked two pies every saturday morning - eiher raisin or cherry. sometimes she baked blackberry jam cakes and/or ginger bread. in her later years she was the queen of pumpkin bread. my dd took one of her loaves of pumpkin bread and entered it in the county fair - it won a best of show ribbon. they said it had been a long time since they had bread without holes. mother was a sticker when it came to cooking. measured EVERYTHING - i don't.