The Family Table: A Labor of Love From a Farm Wife With ‘a Heart of Gold’

Readers share their treasured recipes

This chocolate and coconut cake was a fixture of the author's Fourth of July family picnics in northwest Iowa, where she grew up. Courtesy of Susan Schmid Burton

Submitted by Susan Schmid-Burton, Texas

My siblings and I collaborated on a family cookbook in 2010 and self-published it in 2011. It is our family history told in the language of food—our family recipes. I am submitting one of my entries to share with my fellow Epoch Times readers across this nation and the world. My Aunt Joann passed away in 2022, which makes this recipe all the more precious.