Sunday, February 28, 2010

No Cook Ice Cream

Ok - I don't recommend using this recipe as it is.  There are just too many uncooked eggs.  But - we all used to eat it as kids and we are all fine (well - at least most of us are - ha ha).  We had to take turns with cranking it down in the basement. 

Aunt Ellen mentioned perhaps using the pasteurized liquid eggs from the grocery store would work, but we haven't tried it, so I don't know. 

8 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 Tbsp vanilla
1 quart cream
1 can condensed milk

Mix all together.  Fill ice cream maker to 2" from top.  Make the ice cream per your maker's instructions. 

Sauce for Asparagus

6 Tbsp chopped onion
2 Tbsp butter
2 cup sour cream
2/3 cup mayonnaise
2 Tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp green pepper
4 pounds cooked fresh asparagus

Sautee onion in butter.  Stir in rest, but do not boil.
Drizzle over the asparagus.

Rolls

1 cup hot water
1 cup milk
4 Tbsp shortening (melted)
4 Tbsp sugar
3 tsp salt
1 egg
1/2 cake yeast (I'm not sure how many tsps a cake is...)
2 cup flour + 4 cups flour

Beat until smooth using two cups of flour
Add the remaining four cups of flour and mix well.
Let rise 1 hour. 
Put into pans.
Bake 20 minutes at 375 degrees

Steak Salad Dressing

2 heaping tsp corn starch
6 Tbsp sugar
1/2 cup vinegar
4 Tbsp water
1 1/2 tsp salt
3 slices bacon - chopped and fried

microwave 2-3 minutes. 

Grams' notes:  Joy puts together lettuce, hard boiled eggs, cucumbers, tomatoes, french fries and steak. Then she adds the warm dressing. 

I remember using spinach instead and boy - was that good!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

I always knew I was grandma's favorite when she baked chocolate chip cookies and brought them to me at college (wink, wink!). 

1 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 Tbsp hot water
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda


Cream together butter and sugars.  Add eggs, water and vanilla.  Sift flour, salt and soda and add dry ingredients to the wet ones. 

Drop by the teaspoonful onto a baking sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.  Makes 60 cookies

Rose's Sandwich Filling

1 1/2 cup chipped ham
1/2 cup grated cheese
5 green onions
4 eggs
1/2 cup chilli sauce (recipe to follow later)
1 cup mayonaise

Mix all together.  Put in refrigerator for 7 hours.
Cut buns or a loaf of french bread.
Add filling and wrap in tin foil.

Put in 400 degree oven for 10-15 minutes. 

Doris' Icing

1 box powdered sugar
1/2 cup crisco
1/3 cup milk
1 Tbsp vanilla
dash salt

Beat slowly until mixed then beat 15 minutes more

Apple Kuchen

1 cup flour
2 Tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter

Mix together with pastry blender.  Pat into a 9x9 pan

5 cups apples - peeled and sliced
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Mix together.  Add to the pastry.
Bake 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes

Topping: 
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
4 Tbsp butter
Mix together and make crumbly.  Top off the apple mixture when it comes out of the oven.

**NOTE:  instead of apples, you can also use 2 1/2 cup strawberries, 2 1/2 cup rhubarb and 3/4 cup sugar. 

Banana Bread

1 cup sugar
2 eggs
pinch salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
3/4 cup nuts
1/2 cup shortening
3 bananas (about 1 cup mashed)
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cup flour

Cream shortening and sugar together.
Add the rest of the ingredients and mix together. 

Pour into two greased bread pans. 

Bake at 325 for 40-50 minutes.

Sugar Cookies

1 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sifted confectioners sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cup sifted flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp salt

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla.  Beat well.
Sift together dry ingredients and blend into creamed mixture. 
Chill in refrigerator - it doesn't say how long, but I would guess until it's firm enough to work with?
Roll out on floured board and cut out with cookie shapes. 

Bake 6 minutes at 400 degrees.

Pizzelles

Ok - this is the recipe she had written down, but if you ever saw Gram actually make the pizzelles, she took liberties with the extracts - sometimes just pouring the entire bottle in.  So - feel free to play with the ingredients.

3 1/2 cup sugar
2 cups crisco
2 Tbsp lemon extract
2 Tbsp anise extract
2 Tbsp rum extract
1 dozen eggs
about 7 cups of flour
2 Tbsp baking powder

Mix all together and use a pizzelle maker.

Peanut Blossoms

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
2 Tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt

Cream together shortening, peanut butter, sugar and brown sugar
Add egg milk and vanilla - beat well

Blend in dry ingredients.

Shape dough into 1 tsp balls.  Roll in sugar and place on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake at 375 for 8 minutes.
Remove from oven and place kiss on top - pressing down so cookie cracks around edges. 

Return to oven and bake 2-5 minutes longer.

Apple/Yam Bake

I believe this is from my Aunt Joy - either that or grandma was doodling on the recipe....

Use  a 1 1/2 qt baking dish

2 apples - sliced
1/2 cup nuts
1/2 cups brown sugar - packed
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 17 oz cans of sweet potatoes (yams) - drained
1/4 cup margarine
2 cups miniature marshmallows

Toss apples, nuts, brown sugar and cinnamon
Alternate layers of apples and yams
Bake at 350 degrees 35 to 40 minutes

Put marshmallows on top and bake another 10 minutes

Raisin Puff Cookies

1 cup seedless raisins
1 cup golden raisins
1 cup water

Cook until water is gone, but watch so it doesn't burn.  Set aside.

1 cup shortening
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
 3 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
grated peel of one orange (about 1 Tbsp)

Cream shortening, add sugar and mix well.  Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
Add dry ingredients a little a time until the flour is mixed in.  Add raisins and mix. 
Form one inch balls and roll in granulated sugar. Bake on greased cookie sheet in 400 degree oven for 10-12 minutes.

Note:  I remember grandma making these, but the raisins were a filling and not mixed in...  Hmm - I'll have to keep looking through her recipes to find the right one.

Hard Candy

3 3/4 cups granulated sugar
1 1/2 cup white corn syrup
1 cup water
1/9 tsp desired food coloring
1 dram desired flavoring oil
powdered sugar (use after cooking)

Combine sugar, syrup and water in heavy saucepan, stirring with a wooden spoon.  Boil until temperature reaches 310 degrees.   Then add the desired food coloring and flavoring oil.

Pour into a buttered 7 inch square pan and while still warm, mark into small squares.  When cool and hard, break into pieces and dust with powdered sugar to keep pieces from sticking together. 

Store in airtight container. 
Suggested combinations of flavors and colors:
Lemon - dark yellow
Orange - orange
Clove - toast
Peppermint - pink
Cinnamon - red
Spearmint - green
Sassafras - Blue
Anise - Black
Wintergreen - no color
Butter - yellow
Lime - green
Cherry - red
Raspberry - red

Strawberry Pie

2 Tbsp corn starch
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 water
1 small box strawberry jello
Sliced or quartered strawberries
1 pie crust

Mix all together.  Add to pie crust and refrigerate for 8 hours

Brownies

by Barb T.

Make brownies in cookie sheet:
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 sticks oleo
2 eggs
4 Tbsp cocoa
1 cup water
1/2 cup sour milk (1/2 cup milk + 1 tsp vinegar)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla

Mix sugar and flour together in a large bowl. 
Heat oleo, cocoa and water in a sauce pan until it reaches a boiling point.
Pour hot mixture over dry ingredients. 
Add milk to soda, eggs and vanilla.
Mix well
Pour batter into a greased and floured pan - 11x16x1 cookie sheet. 
It doesn't say how long to bake it, so Grandma must have just known.  Maybe I'll make some and see what a good time is....????

Mix icing while cake is in oven. 

Icing
1 stick oleo
3 Tbsp cocoa
5 Tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 box (4 cups) powdered sugar

Put oleo, cocoa and milk in a pan.
Heat slowly until melted.
Remove from stove (when cake is almost done) and add powdered sugar. 
Blend well - add vanilla and nuts. 
Spread over hot cake as soon as taken from the oven.

Pinwheel Cookies

1/3 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp vanilla
3 Tbsp milk
1/12 cup cake flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 oz melted square chocolate

Cream together sugar and shortening.
Add egg yolk, vanilla and milk.  Beat until mixed.
Sift and add flour, salt, baking powder

Divide into 2 parts
Add melted chocolate to one. 
Chill at least one hour.
Roll out on wax paper into the same sized squares. 
Place the chocolate on the white. 

Starting at one end, roll into a log-shape. 
Cut into cookie pieces. 

Bake in a 375 degree oven for 10-15 minutes.

Butter Cookies

Use unbuttered cookie sheet

1 c butter
1 1/2 cup sifted confectioners sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 cup sifted flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tarter
1/4 tsp salt

Cream together butter and sugar
Add egg and vanilla - beat well
Add dry ingredients
Divide dough and chill
Roll out and cut

Bake in a 400 degree oven for about 6 minutes.

Makes 65 cookies

French Pastry Dough (used for Lady Fingers)

by Ann Cable

The night before - mix together: 
1/2 lb oleo
3 cups flour
2 Tbsp sugar.
(can add vanilla, but doesn't say how much)

The next morning, mix in 1 cup water.  Put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes
Take dough out of refrigerator and roll out
Spread 1/4 lb oleo on dough - fold up like an envelope and put back in refrigerator for 20 minutes.
Take out and roll out again.
Spread another 1/4 lb oleo on dough.
Fold up again and put back in refrigerator for 20 minutes
Cut into four pieces.
Roll out one strip at a time.  Cut 1/2 wide and wrap around a stick.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

In another recipe, I found a recipe for the filling:
1 cup milk
5 tbsp flour
1 cup shortening (prefer Crisco - which makes it white)
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp vanilla
6 tbsp marshmallow whip
(cocoa - optional)

Mix together milk and flour.  Cook until thick and allow to cool.
Mix together shortening, sugar and vanilla.  Cream until well blended.
Add marshmallow whip and cocoa if you want chocolate filling
Add cooled paste, beat 10 minutes with  mixer at high speed. 
Chill well in refrigerator before filling lady fingers.