Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2012
The expression means an unexpected windfall of good fortune. But at first these glazed carrots were anything but a windfall of good flavor.
Pennies from Heaven is a Depression era dish of orange-flavored, glazed carrots with apricots and cinnamon designed to look like newly minted pennies. It sounds promising but most recipes gave us washed out flavors, chewy bits of apricots, ...