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Almond Butter Strips

Almond Cookies

Almond Macaroons #1

Almond Macaroons #2

Almond Meringue Torte

Amana Dessert Yeast Bread

Amana Fritters

Angel Strawberry Bavarian

Applesauce Cake (Konradt)

Apple Nut Coffee Cake

Apple Slices:  Crust,  Fruit

Apricot Dainties

Baklava

Beer Cake

Berlin Wreaths

Big Dutch Babies

Biscuit Glace

Bohemian Plum Dumplings

Bourbon Pound Cake

Brownies

Butter Crescents (Walnut-Pecan)

Butter Dream Cookies

Buttermilk Pie

Carmelly Cake (Mrs. Anderson)

Cherry Queens

Chocolate Cake,  Frosting

Chocolate Chiffon Pie

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Cupcake Dessert

Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate-Orange Ribbon Cake

Chocolate Snowballs

Christmas Butter Horns

Christmas Cake (Mrs. Hacker)

Christmas Crescent Cookies

Christmas Shortbread

Cinnamon Sticks

Coconut-Pecan Frosting

Cottage Cheese Mix

Cranberry Fruit Nut Bread

Crazy Cake

Crunchy Nut Snowballs

Custard Pie

Danish Cone Cookies

Danish Layer Cake

Date Chews

Date Nut Goodies

Date Squares

Dream Bars

Drechner Stollen

Easter Lamb Cake

Filled Nut Patties

Finnish Pecan Balls

Fluffy Layer Cake

French Toast (Door County, WI)

Fresh Blueberry Cake

Fruit Cake (Mrs. Muske)

Fruit Cake (Mrs. Zelenka)

Fruit Coffee Cake

Fruit Crisp

Fruit Custard Pies

German Sand Tarts

German Sweet Chocolate Cake

Glazed Almond Cookies

Graham -Pineapple Dessert

Graham Streusel Cake

Honey Crisp Coffeecake

Kolačky (Mrs. V. Balaty)

Lemon Bars

Lemon Eggwhite Cake

Lemon Frosting

Lemon Layer Cake

Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon Walnut Bars

Macaroons

M. Dunagan Orange Drop Cookies

Mexican Wedding Cakes

Mom's Special Large Cake

Myrtle's Apricot Bars

Nan's Jello Cake

Nora's Pound Cake

Norwegian Butter Cookies

Nut Cake

Nutmeg Butterballs

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Orange Cake

Orange Torte (Mrs. Brandt)

Oriental Almond Cookies

Paula's Brown Sugar Nut Cups

Paula's Tenants Kisses

Pauline's Cheesecake

Peach Cobbler

Pecan Pie

Pecan Praulines

Pecan Puffs #1

Pecan Puffs #2

Pecan Rum Cake

Pecan Sticks

 

Pineapple Graham Cracker Cake

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Pineapple-Graham Bars

Plain Pastry

Plum Cake

Poppy Seed Cake (Mrs. Hacker)

Puerto Rico Butter Dream Cookies

Ricotta Cheesecake

Rum Cake

Russian Kisses

Sacher Torte

Salzburger Nöckerln

Sand Torte (Freddie)

Sour Cream Cheese Cake

Special Treat Bars

Stollen (Hedwig Schaffek)

Stollen (Martha Mühle)

Strawberries & Cream Torte

Strawberry Angel Dessert

Strawberry Butter Cream

Strawberry Ribbon Cake

Streusel Cake

Strudel (Pauline's)

Strudel (Emma Fisher)

Surprise Cookies

Swiss Crescents

Tea Cakes (Chinese)

Tiny Toffee Squares

Toffee Squares

Toll House Cookies

Tony's Cookies

White Fruit Cake (Sempert)

White Mountain Cake (Nora)

Yeast Cake-Hedwig Schaffek

Yeast Cream Rolls

Yiddish Streudel

 

 

NOTE:  tsp. = tsp.; tbsp. = tablespoon;  Use 350-deg. F. for baking if not noted.

 

Pecan Pie

 

¼ cup butter

1 cup dark brown sugar

1/3 cup white corn syrup

2/3 cup dark corn syrup

3 eggs

1/8 tsp salt

1 tablespoon flour

1 tsp. vanilla

¼ tsp. cinnamon

1 unbaked 9-inch pie shell

1 cup pecans

 

Using your electric mixture, cream the butter and sugar together.  Add the syrup and whip until light. 

 

In a separate bowl, whip the eggs and salt together until light and fluffy.  Combine the eggs with the sugar mixture and also with flour, vanilla, and cinnamon.  Mix well and pour into piecrust.  Arrange pecans on top. 

 

Bake in a 350-deg. F. oven for 50 to 75 minutes.

 

 

 

Amana Fritters 1

 

6 eggs separated

6 tbsp. milk

6 tbsp. flour

Shortening (butter, margarine, oil)

 

 Mix beaten yolks and milk; add flour and beat smooth.  Fold in stiffly beaten whites.

 

 Drop by tablespoon fulls into deep fat (oil or margarine) until golden brown.  Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

 

 

Date Squares

 

1 1/3 cup flour

½ tsp. baking soda

¼ tsp. salt

Date Filling:

2cups dates

1cup water

1 ¾ cups oatmeal

1 cup brown sugar

¾ cup butter

 

1 cup brown sugar

Juice of one lemon

 

 Sift flour, baking soda and salt into a large bowl.  Stir in oatmeal and brown sugar.

 

Cut in butter to make a coarse crumb mixture.  Press half of the crumb mixture into an 8 x 12 inch greased pan.  Spread date filling over crumbs and cover with remaining crumb mixture, pressing them slightly. 

 

Bake 35 minutes at 375 degrees or until slightly brown.  Cut into squares

 

 

 

Christmas Crescent Cookies

 

½ pound butter

½ cup confectioner’s sugar

2 tsp. vanilla

2 cups medium chopped pecans

Dash of salt

About 2 ¼ cups unsifted flour

 

 Cream butter thoroughly; add sifted powdered sugar, a little at a time, and then vanilla. 

 

 Add all-purpose flour alternately with the chopped nuts, beating well after each addition.  Place in refrigerator 1/2 hour to cool-down batter.  Mold at once with fingers into desired shape, such as crescents or rounds.

 

 Place on very lightly greased inverted side of tin spaced 1 & 1/2 inches apart.  Bake for about 25 minutes at 350 deg. F. or until lightly brown on bottom.  An extra 5 min. on top rack of oven can brown tops if desired.

 

 When cookies cool dip into powdered sugar, covering all sides. Makes about 60 cookies of 1-inch diameter.

 

 

Beer Cake

 

1 cup cut up dates

1 cup chopped nuts

1 tsp. baking powder

½ tea baking soda

1 scant tea salt

½ tea cloves, l tea cinnamon

1 tea nutmeg or allspice

½ cup shortening (butter)

1 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 ½ cups flour

1 cup beer

 

 Measure into bowl and stir thoroughly 1 cup dates, 1 cup nuts, ¼ cup flour, l tsp. baking powder, ½ tsp. baking soda, salt, ½ tea cloves, 1 tsp. allspice, and 1 tsp. cinnamon.

 

 In another bowl cream thoroughly ½ cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar, and egg.  To creamed mixture, alternately add 1¼-cup flour, and 1 cup beer.  Slowly mix in date, nuts & spice mixture with beater. 

 

 Bake at 350-375-deg. F. in loaf type pan or 13 x 9 1/2-inch pan for 30-45 min. until inserted tester (e.g., toothpick) comes out dry.  

 

 

Tiny Toffee Squares

 

1cup butter

1cup packed dark brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

2 cups flour

½ tsp. salt

½ pound sweet chocolate, melted

Assorted salted or unsalted nuts

 

 Cream butter and sugar well.  Add egg and beat thoroughly.  Add vanilla, then sifted flour and salt. 

 

 Spread well-mixed batter evenly in ungreased 10 by 15 inch pan (jelly roll pan). 

 

 Bake for 25 minutes at 350-deg. F.. Remove from oven.  At once spread with melted chocolate.  Top with nuts, spacing nuts evenly so you can cut between them. Cut into 12 strips on the long side, six on the narrow, while bars are still warm.

 

 

 

Peach Cobbler

 

¼ cup butter spread or butter

4 cups peeled and sliced peaches,

   nectarines or apples

½ cup sugar

1 tablespoon plus 2/3 cup variety

   baking mix

½ tsp. cinnamon

2 tablespoon brown sugar

2 tbsp. milk

 

 In 1-quart shallow casserole dish, combine peaches, sugar, l tbsp. baking mix and cinnamon. In medium bowl, mix remaining 2/3 cup baking mix with brown sugar.

 

 Cut in butter spread or butter until mixture is size of small peas. Stir in milk until moistened, drop by spoonfuls onto peaches.

 

Bake at 400-deg. F. for 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted into crust comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes. Makes 6 servings

 

 

 

Lemon Walnut Bars

 

Crust: 1cup all-purpose flour

1/3 cup powdered sugar

½ cup finely ground walnuts or

   pecans

½ tsp. grated lemon peel

2/3 cup unsalted butter cut in small

   pieces

Topping: 2 tablespoons all- purpose

   flour

½ tsp. baking powder

2 large eggs

1 cup granulated sugar

7 tablespoons lemon juice

 

 Heat oven to 375 degrees.  Lightly grease an 8-inch square baking pan. Crust: Mix flour, sugar, walnuts and peel in a medium-size bowl. Add butter and, using your fingers, rub into flour mixture until coarse crumbs form. Press mixture evenly over bottom of pan. Bake 15 to 20 minutes until top looks dry. 

 

Topping:  Mix flour and baking powder.  Beat eggs and sugar with electric mixer until pale.  With mixer on low speed add lemon juice then flour mixture.  Beat just until blended.  Pour over crust. Bake 20 to 25 minutes until topping is set and golden.  Place pan on rack to cool completely. Cut in squares. Remove from pan. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

 

 

 

Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

2 ¼ cups flour

1 tsp. baking soda,

1tsp salt

1 cup butter

¾ cup granulated sugar, ¾ c brown

   sugar

1 tsp vanilla, ½ tsp water

2 eggs

12 oz pkg Semi-sweet Chocolate

   Morsels

1 cup coarsely chopped nuts

 

 Add together 2¼ cups flour, 1 tsp. baking soda, 1tsp. salt; set aside. Combine 1cup butter, ¾ cup granulated sugar, ¾ cup brown sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, ½ tsp. water; beat till creamy.  Beat in 2 eggs.  Add flour mixture; mix well.

 

 Stir in one 12-oz pkg (2 cups) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, 1 cup coarsely chopped nuts.  Drop by well-rounded half tsp.fuls onto greased cookie sheets. 

 

Bake at 375* for 10-12minutes.  Makes 100-2 inch cookies.

 

 

 

Freddie’s Special Sand Torte

 

1 pound butter

1 lb plus ¼ cup sifted powdered

  sugar which equals 4.5 cups

7 whole eggs

3 tablespoons lemon juice        

4 cups sifted flour

1 tsp. salt

3 tbsp. lemon juice

 

 Cream butter, sugar and salt.  Add eggs, one at a time beating well with each egg. Slowly add flour and lemon juice.

 

 Bake in well-greased very large form or two medium bread pans about one hour at 250-deg. F. and then finish at 300-deg. F. for another hour or less, The length of baking time depends on size of pan used.

 

 

 

Chocolate-Orange Ribbon Cake

2 squares unsweetened chocolate

1 cup plus 1 tablespoon milk

2 ½ cups sifted cake flour

2 ½ tsp.s baking powder

1 tsp. salt

2/3 cup vegetable shortening

1 ½ cups sugar

3 eggs

1/8 tsp baking soda

1 tsp grated orange rind

Chocolate Frosting:  Melt 4 squares

unsweetened chocolate and ½ cup

butter over hot, not boiling water.  Combine 1 package (l pound) powdered sugar, ½  cup milk and 1 tsp vanilla in a large bowl; stir until blended.  Stir into chocolate mixture and beat until thick enough to spread.

Cake flour from all-purpose flour. For every cup of flour, remove 2 tlb of all- purpose flour and replace it with 2tlb of cornstarch. Sift 5Xs

 

 Preheat oven to 350-deg. F..  Grease and flour two 9x1 ½ inch pans. Heat chocolate and the 1 tlb milk in a small saucepan over very low heat until melted; reserve. Sift flour, baking powder and salt on wax paper. Beat shortening, sugar and eggs in a large bowl with electric mixer on high speed until light and fluffy, about 3min. Stir in sifted dry ingredients alternately with remaining 1 cup milk, beating well after each addition until batter is smooth.  Divide batter equally between two bowls.  Beat cooled chocolate mixture and baking soda into one part until smooth.  Stir orange rind into remaining batter.  Turn each into pans. Bake in a preheated 350 oven for 30 minutes or until centers spring back when lightly touched, Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes.  Loosen around edges; turn out; cool completely. Split layers in half crosswise to make 4 thin layers.  Frost three of the layers with part of the frosting. Stack layers, alternating chocolate with orange. Top with orange layer. Frost top and side of cake.

 

 

Lemon Meringue Pie

 

¾ cup sugar

¼ tsp. salt

¼ cup sifted flour

2 tablespoons cornstarch

1 ½ cups water

2 eggs separated

1 tsp. butter

3 tbsp. lemon juice

l tsp grated lemon peel

Pastry for 1-crust pie 9-inch pan

 

 Start oven at 325 degrees.  Combine and mix together in a glass or enamel saucepan the sugar, salt, flour and cornstarch.  Stir in ½ cup cold water.  Heat the remaining water before adding. 

 

 Cook the mixture slowly over low heat stirring until thickened and clear.  Add gradually the well-beaten yolks, stirring all the while; cook 1 minute.  Remove from the heat. Cool slightly and stir in the butter, lemon juice and peel and mix thoroughly.  Pour the cooled mixture into the cooled pastry shell.  Cover the pie with a meringue.

 

 Make the meringues with the 2 egg whites(I use 4) and 1/8 tsp salt, ¼  (½ ) cup sugar. Beat until light but not stiff, beating well after each addition. Pile meringue over lemon filling. Brown at 350-deg. F. for 20 minutes. Cool before placing in refrigerator.

 

 

 

Plain Pastry

 

2 cups all-purpose white flour

½ tsp salt

2/3 cup shortening (I use Crisco and butter)   5-6 tablespoons ice water

 

 Use sifted flour and add salt.  Work in the shortening with a pastry blender or 2 knives until the mixture has the consistency of very coarse meal or small peas. Add the water, sprinkling it over the dry ingredients; stir with a fork until the dough can be formed into a ball. 

 

Wrap the dough in waxed paper and chill it 1 or 2 hours, or longer in the refrigerator.

 

 

 

Baklava

 

1 box (1lb) phyllo pastry

Syrup:  2 ½ cups sugar

About ½ cup water

2 tablespoons lemon juice

Filling: 1 lb pecans (2/3 of package),

   chopped; 1 cup sugar, ½ tsp

   cinnamon

¾ cup butter (1 1/2 sticks), ¾ cup

   Crisco

 

 Defrost phyllo dough for 2 hours in package or overnight in refrigerator; cut width of pan and cover both parts with moist towel. For the syrup add the sugar and some water; heat and remove when thick and add the 2 tbsp. of lemon juice; let cool. 

 

 For the Filling add the walnuts or pecans and mix in the sugar and cinnamon; set aside.  Melt the butter and Crisco and let cool. Layer phyllo in pan and butter each level.  Use 4 phyllo layers & the nuts, 4 phyllo, nuts, 4 phyllo, nuts and 4 phyllo. This layering can vary using 1/3 of leaves etc. Bake 40 min at 300 degrees then add syrup after 5 minutes.

 

 

 

Pineapple Graham Cracker Cake

 

½ cup butter

1 cup sugar

 2 egg yolks (beaten}

1 cup milk

2 tsp.s baking powder

 

(Pineapple Graham Cracker Cake Topping)  2 – 13 ½ Oz can of crushed pineapple, 1 ½ cups sugar

1/3  tsp. salt &  (1/8 tsp salt)

2 ¼ cups graham crackers crumbs

1 cup nuts (chopped)

1 tsp. vanilla

2 egg whites beaten stiff

Boil the pineapple and sugar for 10 to 20 minutes.  Pour over cake while the mixture is hot. Serve with whipped cream when cooled.

 

 Start oven set at 350-deg. F..  Rub large flat pan (13 – 8- 2 inch) with oil. Cream the butter until smooth, gradually add the sugar and beat until creamy.  Add the egg yolks, vanilla, and then the nuts, beating well after each addition. 

 

 Mix the graham crackers with the baking powder and salt; then add in 3 portions, alternately with the milk to the egg, butter mixture.  Whip the egg whites with 1/8 tsp salt, & fold into batter. Pour into pan and bake about 30 minutes at 350-deg. F.

 

 

 

Strawberry Angel Dessert

 

Topping and Crust:

1 cup sifted flour

¼ cup brown sugar

½ cup nuts

½ cup melted butter

Middle Layer:

2 egg whites

1 to 1½ cups granulated sugar

2 cups unsweetened strawberries

2 tlb lemon juice; 1 cup whipping cream

 

 For the topping and crust mix the flour, brown sugar, nuts and butter.  Bake and mix at 300 to 350-deg. F. for 20 minutes or until brown.  Place 2/3 crumbs on bottom 9-13-2 inch pan and the 1/3 on top. 

 

 For the middle layer in a large bowl mix the egg whites, sugar, strawberries, and lemon juice; beat until stiff approximately 10 min. In another pan add whipping cream, beat until thick. Fold together with egg white mixture. Place the egg white strawberry mixture over crust and then add topping and freeze.

 

 

 

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

1 ½ cups (2-1/2 sticks) butter

¾ cup packed brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

1 ½ cups unsifted flour

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1/8 tsp nutmeg

3 cups (Quick or Old Fashioned)

   oatmeal

2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

 

 Heat oven to 375 degrees. Cream butter with sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla.

 

 Stir flour with baking soda, salt and spices; add to creamed mixture, mixing well. Stir in oats.  Fold in chocolate chips and nuts.  Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheets.

 

 Bake 10 to 11 minutes at 350-deg. F. for a crisp cookie. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet; remove to wire cooling racks. Store in tightly covered container.  About 6 dozen 2-inch cookies.

 

 

 

Puerto Rican Butter Dream Cookies

 

1 cup butter

½ cup sugar

1 tsp almond extract

About 2 ¼ cups unsifted flour

Maraschino cherries sliced in half

 

 Cream butter with sugar then add almond extract.  Next add flour a little at one time, mixing thoroughly.  Place in refrigerator 1/2 hour to cool-down batter.

 

 Shape a level tablespoonful into balls.  Place on ungreased sheet 2-inches apart.  Press 1/2 maraschino cherry into top of each ball, which will flatten it slightly.  Bake at 350 deg. F. for about 25 minutes or until bottoms are very lightly browned.

 

 Dust cookies slightly with powdered sugar to serve.

 

 Makes about 26-30 cookies.

 

 

 

 

Cranberry Fruit Nut Bread

 

2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

1 ½ tsp.s baking powder

1 tsp salt

½ tsp baking soda

¾ cup orange juice

2 tablespoons shortening

1 tablespoon grated orange peel

1 egg, well beaten

1 ½ cup Fresh or Frozen Cranberries, coarse chopped

½ cup chopped nuts

 

 Preheat oven to 350-deg. F.  Grease a 9x 5-inch loaf pan. Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda in a medium-mixing bowl. 

 

 Stir in orange juice, shortening, orange peel and egg.  Mix until well blended. Stir in cranberries and nuts.  Spread evenly in loaf pan. 

 

 Bake for 55 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean.  Cool on rack for 15minutes.  Remover from pan; cool completely. Makes 1 loaf

 

 

 

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

 

¼ to 1/3 cup butter

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 can(20ounces) sliced pineapple,

   drained

1 jar maraschino cherries or use

  nuts

1 package yellow cake mix

Vegetable oil,  and eggs as called for

  on mix

 

 Heat oven to 350-deg. F.  Melt butter in 13x9 inch pan in oven.  Sprinkle brown sugar evenly over batter.

 

 Arrange pineapple slices and cherries or nuts over top, press gently. Add enough water to pineapple juice to make the amount called for on box.  Make cake batter as directed on package-except use pineapple juice mixture instead of the water. Pour batter over pineapple and cherries or nuts.  

 

Bake 42 to 47 minutes at 350-deg. F. or until tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean.  Immediately turn pan upside down onto heatproof serving plate; leave pan over cake 1 minute.  Store loosely covered.

 

 

 

German Sweet Chocolate Cake

 

1 bar (4oz) German’s Sweet

   Chocolate (boiling water)

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup butter

4 egg yolks, unbeaten

2 ½ cups sifted cake flour

½ tsp. salt

1 cup buttermilk

2 cups sugar

1 tsp baking soda

4 egg white, stiffly beaten

 

Melt chocolate in boiling water. Cool. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.  Add  egg yolks, one at a time, and beat well after each.  Add melted chocolate and vanilla. Mix well.  Sift together flour, salt and soda.  Add alternately with buttermilk to chocolate mixture, beat well.  Beat until smooth.  Fold in whites.  Pour into 3 deep 8 or 9-inch layer pans, lined on bottoms with paper.

 

Bake in moderate oven 350-deg. F. 30 or 40 minutes.

 

Coconut-Pecan Frosting

 Combine 1cup evaporated milk, 1cup sugar, 3 egg yolks, ½ cup butter, 1 tsp vanilla.  Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened about 12 minutes.  Add 1 & 1/3 cups Angle Flake Coconut and 1 cup pecans. Beat until thick enough to spread. (2 ½ cups)

 

 

 

Graham Streusel Cake

 

2 cups graham cracker crumbs

¾ cup chopped nits

¾ cup packed brown sugar

1 ¼ tsp.s cinnamon

¾ cup butter, melted

l pkg of cake mix (yellow, chocolate,

   etc.)

Prepare cake mix according to

   instruction

Vanilla Glaze (see below)

 

 Heat oven to 350-deg. F.  Generously grease and flour oblong pan, 13x9x2 inches. Mix crumbs, nuts, brown sugar, cinnamon and butter; reserve.  Blend cake mix, water oil and eggs on low speed, stirring occasionally, 3 minutes.

 

 Pour ½ of batter (about 2 1/3 cups) into pan; sprinkle with ½ of the reserved crumb mixture.  Spread remaining batter evenly over crumb mixture; sprinkle with remaining crumb mixture. Bake until woken pick inserted in center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes; cool. Drizzle cake with Vanilla Glaze

 

Vanilla Glaze: Mix 1 cup powdered sugar and 1 to 2 tbsp. water until desired consistency.

 

 

 

Pineapple-Graham Bars

 

¼ cup butter

½ cup packed brown sugar

1 egg

½ cup sifted all-purpose flour

½ cup graham-cracker crumbs

1 can (8 ½ oz) crushed pineapple,

   drained

½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans

 

 Preheat oven to 350-deg. F.  Lightly grease an 8-8 -2-inch baking pan. 

 

 In a medium bowl, with wooden spoon or portable electric mixer, beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg. Stir in flour, graham-cracker crumbs, pineapple, and nuts.

 

Turn into prepared pan. Bake 30 to 35 minutes at 350-deg. F., or until browned and surface is firm to the touch. Cut into 20 bars.

 

 

 

Dream Bars

 

1 cup sifted all-purpose flour

½ cup butter

1 tbsp. brown sugar

2 eggs

1 ½ cups brown sugar

½ tsp. vanilla

1 cup shredded coconut

½ cup chopped pecans

½ tsp baking powder

 

 Blend flour with butter and 1 tablespoon brown sugar, using a pastry blender.  Pack mixture firmly into a greased 8-inch square pan.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 15 minutes.

 

 In the meantime, beat eggs thoroughly, add remaining brown sugar, vanilla, coconut,  nuts, and baking powder; mix well.  Pour coconut mixture over the baked cookie crust, spreading evenly.

 

 Return to 350-deg. F. oven and bake for 30 minutes longer. Cool and cut into 2-inch squares.

 

 

 

Angel Strawberry Bavarian

 

1 package Angel Food Cake Mix

1 pkg (10 ounces) sweetened, frozen,

   sliced strawberries, thawed

1 small pkg strawberry flavored

   gelatin

1 cup boiling water

2 ½ cups whipping cream, chilled

  and divided

2 ½ tablespoons powdered sugar

¾ tsp. vanilla extract

4 fresh strawberries

 

    Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare, bake and cool cake following package directions. Cut cooled cake into 1-inch cubes.  Drain strawberries, reserving juice. Combine gelatin and boiling water in small bowl.  Stir until gelatin is dissolved.  Add enough water to strawberry juice to measure 1 cup.  Stir into gelatin.  Refrigerate until gelatin is slightly thickened.

    Beat gelatin until foamy. Beat l cup whipping cream until stiff peaks form in large bowl.  Fold into gelatin along with strawberries. Alternate layers of cake cubes and strawberry mixture in 10-inch tuble pan. Press lightly. Cover, Refrigerate overnight. Unmold cake onto serving plate. Beat remaining 1 ½ cups whipping cream, powdered sugar and vanilla extract until stiff peaks form. Frost sides and top of cake. Garnish with strawberries. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

 

 

 

Crazy Cake

 

1 cup all purpose flour

¾ cup sugar

2 tablespoons cocoa

2 tsp.s baking powder

¼ tsp. salt

¾ cup chopped pecans

½ cup milk

2 tlb melted butter

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup brown sugar

¼ cup cocoa

1-3/4 cup hot water

 

 Grease 8-inch square pan thoroughly.  Sift together into this pan flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.  Add pecans and toss lightly. Blend together milk, melted butter, and vanilla.

 

 Add to flour mixture in baking pan and blend thoroughly into batter. Mix together brown sugar and ¼ cup cocoa.  Spread on surface of batter.  Bake at 350-deg. F. for 30-40 minutes.

 

 Pour hot water over surface of cake. The cake will separate into two layers, one of fudge sauce beneath and one of cake on top.

 

 

 

Chocolate Frosting

 

4 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened baking chocolate

1 pkg (16 oz) powdered sugar

1/2cup(1 stick) softened butter

2 tsp.s vanilla

1/3 cup milk

 

 Microwave 4 squares unsweetened baking chocolate in large microwavable bowl on high 2 minutes. Stir until chocolate is completely melted. Cool 5 minutes or to room temperature. 

 

 Add l pkg. powdered sugar softened butter and vanilla; beat with electric mixer on low speed until well blended.  Gradually add 1/3-cup milk, beating until well blended.  Makes 3 cups or enough to frost top and sides of 2(8-or 9-inch) layers; top and side of 13x9-inch cake.

 

 

 

M. Dunagan Orange Drop Cookies

 

 ½ cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 small eggs (beaten)

juice and rind of 1 large orange(grind)

½ cup milk

1 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

2cups flour, enough to make soft

  dough 

 

 Mix all ingredients.  Drop on oiled cookie sheet

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 12 to 15 minutes. 

 

 Ice with powdered sugar and spread orange or lemon juice over cookie.

 

 

 

Drechener Stollen

 

3 lb flour

1 lb butter

1 lb sugar

6 oz currants

6 oz raisins

1/4 lb almonds

1/4 lb citron

lemon or vanilla

2 packages of yeast

 

 Add the yeast to warm water and a little milk.  Let stand for several minutes and then mix the yeast dough with one-half flour, milk and sugar.  Let this rest in a warm place for a while.  Then add the remainder of the ingredients, let these stand awhile before baking at 350-deg. Fahrenheit.

 

 NOTE:  When the dough has all of its ingredients, some kneading can be done to smooth it out.

 

 

Almond Macaroons #1

 

1 cup (or 1/2 lb) almond paste

1 cup sugar

3 egg whites

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1/3rd cup powdered sugar

2 Tbsp. flour

1/8 tsp. salt

 

 Work almond paste and sugar with hands until well blended.  Stir in unbeaten egg whites and vanilla.  Sift powdered sugar, flour and salt.  Then add to first mixture and mix well.  Drop mixture from tsp. or force through pastry tube on buttered cookie sheet.  Mixture will spread slightly, so spread adequately apart.

 

 Let stand 2 hours before baking.  Bake in slow oven (300-deg. F.) 22-25 minutes.  The Yield is about 36 macaroons.

 

 

Almond Macaroons #2

 

1 & 1/2 cups blanched almonds

1 cup sugar

2 egg whites

1/2 tsp. almond extract

 

 Put almonds through a food chopper with a very fine blade.  Add sugar and mix well.  Beat egg whites until stiff, but not too dry.  Add to almond mixture.  Add extract and blend well. 

 

 Drop by spoonfulls on a greased and floured cookie sheet, one inch apart.  Bake in a moderate over at 375-deg. F. for 12 minutes.

 

Yield is about 2-dozen cookies.

 

 

Crunchy Nut Filled Chocolate Snowballs

 

1 & 1/2 cups butter

2/3rds cup granulated sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

2 cups all purpose flour

2 cups chopped pecans

1/8th tsp. salt

1 cup cocoa

 

 Gradually beat dry ingredients into creamed mixture.  Blend in 2 cups fine chopped pecans, mixing thoroughly.  Cover bowl and place in refrigerator for several hours or until dough is quite firm.

 

 Form pieces into about 1-inch balls.  Place balls about 1/2 in. apart on ungreased pan.  Bake at 350-deg. F. for about 20 minutes.  Cool & then roll in sifted powdered sugar.  Yield is about 6 dozen snowballs.

 

 

Yiddish Streudel

 

2 lbs. flour

3/4 lb. butter

3 Tbl. sugar

8 egg yolks

2 cakes of yeast

1/2 tsp. salt

Rind of orange or lemon

1 pint sour cream (or yogurt)

 

 Mix all ingredients.  Divide into six parts and allow dough to rise at room temperature for about 2 hours.  Roll out and fill with apple slices, cut thin.  Allow rising again for about 2 hours.

 

 Brush the risen dough with beaten egg yolks.

 

 Filling:  Beat egg whites until stiff.  Add one pound of sugar, some cinnamon and ground lemon rind to chopped apples.  Add 3 pounds of chopped nuts (walnuts, almonds, pecans, etc.).

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 1-2 hours or until browning occurs.

 

 

Stollen (Martha Mühle)

 

4 lbs. flour

3/4 lbs. sugar

1 pint Milk

5 oz. yeast

1/2 lb. sweet almonds

1/4 lb. bitter almonds

1/2 lb. citron

1/2 lb. orange rind

1/4 lb. lemon rind

1 & 3/4 lbs. butter

1 lb. dark raisins

1 lb. bleached raisins

Rind of 3 lemons

Pinch of Mace

3/8ths bottle of rum

 

 Cut fruit long and peel and grate almonds.  Add rest of ingredients.

 

 Place flour and sugar, some milk and some water into large pan.  Dissolve yeast therein.  Allow to rise for about 1 & 1/2 hours.

 

 Combine rest of ingredients and mix thoroughly.  Allow to rise at room temperature for 3 hours.

 

 Make about 3 lb. pieces, kneading into shape.  Allow to rise again for 1 hour.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for about one hour.

 

 

Christmas Cake (Mrs. Hacker)

 

1 lb powdered sugar

5 eggs separated

1/2 lb. butter

3 cups flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1 cup chopped nuts

1/2 cup milk

1/2 lb. candied cherries

1/2 lb. candied pineapple

The rind and juice of one lemon

1 tsp. vanilla

 

Combine all ingredients and allow to bake in a low oven (about 250-deg F.) for about 1.5  hours

 

 

Myrtle's Apricot Bars

 

1 & 1/2 cup sifted flour

1 tsp. Baking Powder

1 cup brown sugar

1 & 1/2 cup quick cooking rooled

  oats

3/4 cup butter or margarine

1 cup apricot jam

1 cup chopped nuts

 

 Mix flour, baking power sugar and oats.  Cut in butter until crumbly.  Pat 2/3rds of this mix into 12 x 9 & 1/2 x 2-inch pan.  Spread with jam.  Cover with remaining crumbly mixture. 

 

 Bake at 350-de F. about 35 minutes.  Cool, cut into bars. 

 

 Yields about 2-dozen bars.

 

 

Nora's Pound Cake

 

1/2 lb. butter

1 & 2/3rd cup sugar

5 eggs

1/2 tsp. vanilla or other flavoring

2 cups flour

 

 Cream butter with sugar.  Add 5 eggs, one at a time.  Stir 5 minutes with each egg.  Add flavoring and 2 cups flour. 

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for about one hour.

 

 

Carmelly Cake (Mrs. Anderson)

 

1 cup flour

6 tsp. Baking Powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 cup shortening

2 eggs + 1 yolk

1 cup milk

 

Sift dry ingredients.  Cut in shortening.  Beat eggs with milk and add to the dry mixture, stirring well.

 

Spread 1/2 of the mixture into a greased tin.  Cover with 1/2 of the filling and then the rest of the mixture.  Then cover with the remaining filling.

 

Filling: 1 cup brown sugar, 4 tsp. cinnamon, 4 tsp. flour, 6 tsp. melted butter, 1 cup nuts

 

 

Fluffy Layer Cake

 

Sift:  2 & 1/4 cup cake flour

     3 tsp. Baking Powder

     1 tsp. salt

     1 & 1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup shortening

1 cup milk with 1 tsp. vanilla

2 whole unbeaten eggs

 

 Soften shortening and add dry ingredients, 1/2 of the liquid and the eggs.  Mix only until all flour is dampened.  Beat 1 minute.

 

 Add remaining liquids and beat two minutes.

 

 Bake at 350-deg F. in layers about 25 min. and 35 min for a loaf.

 

 

Rum Cake

2 cups sifted cake flour

2 tsp. Baking Powder

1/4 tsp. each salt and soda

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

 

2 eggs separated

1/2 cup orange juice and grated rind

1/2 cup rum

1/4 tsp. almond extract

1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

 

 Sift flour again with Baking Powder, salt and soda.  Cream butter with 3/4 cup sugar till fluffy.  Beat in egg yolks & orange peel.  Blend orange juice, rum, almonds extract and vanilla into a creamed mixture.  Whip egg whites till stiff.  Beat in remaining sugar until whites hold stiff peaks.  Fold white mixture to the batter.

 

 Butter two 9-inch pans and line with waxed paper.  Fill in the batter.  Bake at 350-de F. for 25 min.  Cool 5 min. and remove from pans.  When completely cool peel off wax paper and split the cakes.  Sprinkle each layer with 2 tbsp. rum.

 

 To assemble cake sprinkle each layer with rum.  Spread whipped cream  between the layers.  Frost top and sides with chocolate frosting.  Put walnuts on the sides before serving.  Let cake chill for 24-hrs.

 

Whipped Cream Filling:  2 tsp. unflavored gelatin, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 2 tbsp. hot water, 1/3rd cup rum, 2 cups heavy cream.

 

 

Lemon Layer Cake

 

2 1/2 cups cake flour

2 tsp. Baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1 tbsp. grated lemon rind

6 tbsp. lemon juice

2/3 cup butter

1 & 1/2 cup sugar

3 unbeaten eggs

3 tbsp. water

 

 Add rind to butter and water to lemon juice.  Mix all ingredients and transfer to  two 9-in. pans.  Bake at 375-deg. F. for 20 min.

 

Lucious Lemon Frosting:  1 tbsp. orange or lemon rind, 3 tbsp. butter, 2 cups sifted powdered sugar, 2 tbsp. lemon juice, 1 tbsp, water, dash of salt.

 

 

Lemon Eggwhite Cake

 

1/2 lb. butter or margarine

1 & 1/2 cups sugar

1 tsp. salt

3 tsp. Baking powder

1 tsp. vanilla extract

8 egg whites

2 cups cake flour

1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup lemon juice

Rind of one lemon

 

 Mix lemon rind, butter, egg whites and lemon juice.  Add flour and milk with vanilla alternately, mixing well. 

 

 Transfer to two 9-in. pans.  Bake at 375-deg. F. for 20 min.

 

 Frost with Lemon Frosting

 

 

White Mountain Cake (Nora)

 

1/2 lb. butter

1 & 1/2 cups sugar

6 egg whites

vanilla extract

3 cups flour

1 tsp. Baking Powder

1/2 cup milk

 

 Cream 1/2 lb. butter and 1 & 1/2 cup sugar.  Add 6 egg whites.  Add flavoring Alternately add 3 cups flour mixed with 1 tsp. baking powder and 1/2 cup milk.

 

 Bake in a tube pan at 350-deg. F.

 

 

Poppy Seed Cake (Mrs. Hacker)

 

2 1/2 quarter-pound sticks butter

1 & 1/2 cups nuts

2 cups flour

4 eggs--separated

1 Solo Poppyseed (or equivalent)

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup sour cream (or yogurt)

1 tsp. soda

1 tsp. salt

1 & 1/2 cup sugar

 

 Cream butter and sugar.  Sift flour with salt and soda.  Mix egg yolks and whites and flour, one at a time.  Combine poppyseed, nuts, sour cream (or yogurt) and vanilla with other ingredients.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for one hour.

 

 

Yeast Cream Rolls

 

1 yeast cake

1 cup warm milk

1 & 1/4 lb. butter

4 eggs

1/4 tsp. salt

3 tbsp. powdered sugar

1 lb. flour

Whipped cream

 

1st Dough = Raise 1 yeast cake in 1 cup warm milk + a little sugar.  Melt 1/4 lb. butter and add 4 well-beaten eggs, pinch of salt, 3 tbsp powdered sugar, yeast and 1 lb. flour.

 

Beat well and stand aside to rise.

 

2nd Dough = Rub two heaps flour into 1 lb. butter and put in cold place.

 

Roll out both doughs to 1/2-inch thickness.  Place crosswise to make a square.  Set in cold place for 1 hour.  Roll and cut into strips 1-inch wide.  Roll onto forms and fill with whipped cream after baking. 

 

Bake at 350-deg. F. until brown.

 

 

Kolačke Mrs. Balaty

 

6 cups flour

4 egg yolks

1 whole egg

Evaporated milk diluted to 1 pint

1/2 lb. butter

2 cakes yeast

Rind of one lemon

1 cup sugar

1 & 1/2 tsp. salt

 

Sponge = Use crumbled yeast, 1/4 cup sugar,1 cup milk amd 1 cup flour and let rise.

 

Dough = Mix remaining ingredients.  Add the sponge, which has risen.  Allow the dough to rise.

 

Pour into tins to 1/2-inch depth.  Fill with fruit.  Baste edge of dough with melted butter and bake until light brown at 350-deg. F.

 

 

Pauline's Strudel

 

1/2 lb. cold butter

2 cups flour

1 cake yeast

1 pint sour cream (or yogurt)

2 egg yolks

1 whole egg

2 cups ground nuts

vanilla extract

 

Dough = Cut 1/2 lb. cold butter into 2 cups flour with a knife.  Mix yeast, a little sugar, 1/2 pink sour cream (or yogurt) and 2 egg yolks and let stand in refrigerator overnight.

 

Filling = 2 cups ground nuts, 1/2 pint sour cream (or yogurt), 1 egg, vanilla, cut-up apples, sugar to taste.

 

Next day knead in just enough flour to handle and roll out dough.  Sprinkle filling over rolled dough.

 

Bake at 350-deg. F. until brown (about 1 hour).

 

 

Paula's Brown Sugar Nut Cups

 

1 cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

2 separated eggs

1 tsp. Baking powder

1 cup chopped nuts

1/2 cup flour

 

Cream butter and brown sugar.  Add 2 egg yolks, 1/2-cup flour, Baking powder and chopped nuts.  Mix thoroughly.  Fold in 2 beaten egg whites.

 

Transfer to tiny cupcake forms.  Bake for 15 min. in medium oven (300 deg. F.).

 

 

 

Norwegian Butter Cookies

 

1 cup soft butter

1/2 cup sugar

1 cup sifted flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 cup ground unblanched almonds

Candied lemon or orange peel

 

 Cream butter; add sugar, beat until light.  Add sifted dry ingredients and mix well.  Work in nuts.  Chill overnight.

 

 Shape into 3/4-inch balls.  Decorate with candied lemon or orange peel.

 

B ake in 350-deg. F. oven about 10 minutes. 

 

 Yields about 3 1/2 dozen.  Store in airtight container.

 

 

 

Hedgehogs

 

2 cups walnuts

1 cup pitted dates

1 cup brown sugar

2 cups dried coconut

2 eggs

 

 Grind walnuts and dates in food chopper.  Add sugar, 1 cup coconut and eggs.  Mix thoroughly.  Shape into rolls about 1 inch long and 1.2 inch diameter.  Roll each cookie in remaining coconut.

 

 Place on greased cookie sheets and bake in a 350-deg. F. oven for 15 minutes.

 

 

 

Butter Dream Cookies

 

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup margarine

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp. almond extract

2 & 1/4 cup flour

 

 Mix all ingredients.  Shape into balls and flatten with cherry in top.

 

 Use ungreased tin.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. about 10 minutes according to size.

 

 

 

Finish Pecan Balls

 

1 & 1/2 lb. butter or margine

1/4 cup sugar

2 cups sifted flour

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 cups broken pecans

Powdered sugar (for rolling)

 

 Blend all ingredients except the powdered sugar.  Roll into balls between hands.  Place on buttered pans and bake at 350-deg. F. for about 20 minutes.

 

 Roll in powdered sugar while warm.

 

 

 

Christmas Shortbread

 

1/2 lb. butter (= 1 cup)

2/3 cup light brown sugar

1/2 cup chopped red & green candied

  cherries

1/2 cup slivered blanched almonds

1 & 1/2 cups flour

1/2 cup cornstarch

1/4 tsp. salt

 

 Cream butter until very soft.  Bland sugar in gradually.  Mix dry ingredients into butter and sugar with hands.  turn out onto a lightly floured board and knead in flour until cracks apper on the surface of the dough.  Pat or roll to about 1/2rd inch thickness.  Cut into small diamonds or rectangles.

 

 Bake on ungreased sheet at 275-deg. F. until delicately browned or about 40 min.

 

 

Nutmeg Butterballs

 

1 cup soft butter

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 cups sifted flour

1/8 tsp. salt

1 & 1/2 cup blanched almonds, 

  ground coarsely

1/2 cup powdered sugar

2 tsp. nutmeg

 

 Cream butter and sugar.  Blend in vanilla extract.  Add flour, sugar and almonds.  Mix well.

 

 Shape into 1-inch balls.  Chill.

 

 Bake at 300-deg. F. 15-20 minutes.

 

 While warm, roll in mixed powdered sugar and nutmeg.  Makes about 6 doz. cookies.

 

 

Tea Cakes (Chinese)

 

1/4 cup shortening (butter & lard)

1 cup packed brown sugar

1/8 tsp. soda

1 cup flour

 

 Cream 1/4 cup shortening (equal parts of butter and lard) with 1 cup firmly-packed sifted brown sugar.  Add 1/8 tsp. soda dissolved in 1 tbsp. cold water.  Blend well and add 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract and 1 cup flour.

 

 Form into small balls and place on a buttered baking sheet, about 2 inches apart.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. until lightly brown.

 

 

German Sand Tarts

 

1 cup butter

1 & 1/4 cup sugar

2 cups flour

1 egg

1 egg white

1 tbsp. sugar

1/4 tsp. cinnamon

30 pecan halves

 

 Cream butter and sugar.  Add flour slowly, working it in as with pastry.  Add well-beaten egg and mix well.  Chill thoroughly.

 

 Roll to 1/8th inch thickness and cut into cookie-size pieces.  Brush lightly with egg white beaten until frothy.  Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.  Place 1/2 a pecan firmly in the center of each cookie.

 

 Bake at 375-deg. F. for 8-12 minutes.

 

 

Mexican Wedding Cakes

 

1 cup soft butter or margarine

1/4 to 1/2 cup granulated or powdered

   sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. almond or 2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 cups sifted all purpose flour

1 to 2 cups ground filberts, Brasil

   nuts or walnuts

 

 

 Mix butter with sugar until creamy.  Add salt, extract, flour, nuts.  Mix well.  Chill dough until easy to handle.

 

 Heat oven to 325-deg. F.  Using fingers shape dough into 1-inch balls or 1 to 2 & 1/2-inch rolls, triangles or crescents.

 

 On cookie sheet flatten balls with bottom of tumbler dipped in flour.  Bake 10 min.

 

 While cookies are still warm, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

 

 

Russian Kisses

 

2 cups sifted flour

1 cup sugar

1/2 lb. butter or margarine

1 lb. pecans, ground

1 to 2 tsps. rum extract

Powdered sugar

 

 Sift flour and sugar into a bowl.  Add remaining ingredients and blend well.  Form into balls the size of small walnuts.  Place on greased cookie sheet.

 

 Bake at 300-deg. F. for about 25 minutes or until slightly browned.

 

 When cool, roll into powdered sugar. 

 

 Yields about 6 doz. cookies.

 

 

Bohemian Plum Dumplings

 

7-8 medium raw potatoes, grated

1 tsp. salt

2 large eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

½ cup farina (Cream-of-Wheat)

2 cups flour

12 or more 1 to 2-inch Italian plums

Sugar & cinnamon, mixed

1/2 lb. browned butter

 

Add grated potatoes to beaten eggs & vanilla.  Mix in farina, salt & flour until dough will not stick to hands.  Let stand in refrigerator for about 1 hr.  Remove from frige and form dough around the plums with wet hands.  Drop a few at a time into boiling heavily salted water.  Cook in simmering water, stirring frequently for 20-30 min. When all dumplings are floating remove with a strainer..

 

 NOTE:  Use dehydrated mixes for quicker and almost equally effective results

 

 ERVING:  Cut dumpling open on a plate, and add sugar mixed with cinnamon.  Pour two tablespoons of browned butter or margarine over the top, add some cottage cheese and finish with some more of the sugar-cinnamon mixture.

 

 

Surprise Cookies

 

3/4 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup white sugar

1 cup butter or margarine

2 eggs, slightly beaten

1 tsp. soda

1 tsp. vanilla extract

3 cups flour

1/4 tsp. salt

2 pkgs. chocolate chips

1 cup chopped nuts

1 cup chopped candied cherries

 

 Cream butter and sugar until light.  Add beaten eggs and soda dissolved in water.  Mix well.  Add vanilla extract.  Beat in flour mixed with salt.  Fold in remaining ingredients.  Blend well and chill.  Shape into balls 1-inch in diameter.

 

 Bake at 375-deg. F. for 10-12 minutes.

 

 

Chocolate Snowballs

 

1 cup shortening

1/2 cup sugar

2 tsps. vanilla extract

1 & 2/3rds sifted flour

3/4 tsp. salt

1/2 cup cocoa

2 cups finely-chopped pecans

 

 Cream shortening, sugar and vanilla until fluffy.  Sift flour with salt and cocoa.  Add to creamed mixture, blending thoroughly.  Add pecans and mix well.

 

 Shape into 1-inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake in a slow oven (325-deg. F.) about 20 minutes.  Cool; then roll in powdered sugar.

 

 

Glazed Almond Cookies

 

1 cup soft butter or margarine

1 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. almond extract

1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 eggs, separated

3/4 cup chopped blanched almonds

2 & 2/3rds cup sifted cake flour

1/2 tsp. salt

48 whole almonds, unblanched

 

 Cream butter and add sugar, flavorings and egg yolks, one at a time.  Beat until light.  Add nuts, flour and salt.  Mix well.

 

 Roll into balls about 1-inch in diameter.  Dip in unbeaten egg whites, and put 2-inches apart on greased cookie sheets.  Flatten each ball by pressing thumb into center, making a depression.  Put an almond in each depression.

 

 Bake in 350-deg. F. oven about 10 minutes. 

 

 Yields about 4 dozen.

 

 

Swiss Crescents

 

1 cup butter

3 tbsp. brown sugar

3 tbsp. granulated sugar

30 almonds, blanched and grated

  (about 3/4 cup)

 

1/2 tsp. lemon extract

1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

1/8 tsp. salt

2 & 1/4 cups sifted all purpose flour

2 tbsp. powdered sugar and 1 tbsp.

  cinnamon

 

 Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  Beat in almonds and flavoring.  Work in salt and flour.

 

 Shape with hands into rolls about 3/4-inch thick and 2-inches long.  Then into crescents.

 

 Place on ungreased cookie sheets and bake at 375-deg. F. for 8-10 minutes or until delicately browned.

 

 Cool.  Mix powdered sugar and cinnamon.  Sprinkle over cookies.

 

 

Pecan Sticks

 

1 lb. butter

1 cup powdered sugar

1 & 1/2 tsp. water

2 tsp. vanilla extract

4 & 1/4 cups sifted all purpose flour

2 cups chopped pecans

Powdered sugar

 

 Cream butter and sugar together thoroughly.  Add water, vanilla, flour and nuts, working them in well.  Chill dough 1 hour.

 

 Shape small pieces of dough in palms of hands, the size and shape of a finger.

 

 Place on ungreased cookie sheets.  Bake at 350-deg. F. until slightly brown on edges (about 15-20 minutes).

 

 While still warm, sift powdered sugar over tops.

 

 

Berlin Wreaths

 

1 cup soft butter

1 cup sugar

4 raw egg yolks beaten

6 hard-cooked egg yolks

4 1/2 cups all purpose flour

Trimming:

1 egg white

2 tbsp. sugar

Candied red cherries and green citron

 

 Dough:  Cream butter, add sugar and mix thoroughly.  Stir in raw egg yolks.  Mix in hard egg yolks and flour to form a soft dough.  Chill.

 

Break off small pieces and roll to pencil size (6 in. long, 1/4 in. thick).  Form each piece into a wreath, bringing one end over and through in a single knot.  Leave 1/2 in. end (or tail) on each side.  Place on ungreased baking sheet.

 

 Trimming:  Beat egg white until stiff, adding sugar gradually.  Brush tops of cookies with meringue.  Press bits of red candied cherries on center of knot for holly berries.  Add little jagged leaves our of green citron.

 

 Bake at 375-deg. F. until browned.

 

 

 

Almond Butter Strips

 

3/4 cup soft butter

1/2 tsp. almond extract

2 cups sifted flour

Sugar (about 1/3rd cup)

1/8 tsp. salt

1 egg white, slightly beaten

1/8 tsp. cinnamon

1/3 cup minced blanched almonds

 

 Cream butter; add 1/4-cup sugar and flavoring.  Beat until light.  Add flour and salt.  Chill until firm.

 

 Roll to 1/8 in. thickness.  Cut in 2 x 1-inch strips with pastry wheel.  Put on cookie sheets, and brush with egg white.

 

 Mix 2 tbsp. sugar, cinnamon and almonds.  Sprinkle on cookies.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. about 8 minutes. 

 

 Yields 6 dozen.

 

 

Filled Nut Patties

 

1 cup butter

1/2 cup sugar

2 cups flour

3/4 tsp. salt

2 tbsp. lemon juice

1 tsp. grated lemon rind

1 & 1/2 cup ground nuts

Raspberry jam

Icing:  1 tbsp. melted butter

3/4 cups powdered sugar

1 & 1/2 tbsp. water

1 tsp. corn syrup

1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 square unsweetened chocolate,

  melted

 

 Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  Add flour, salt, lemon juice, rind and nuts.  Mix thoroughly.  Cover and chill for 1 hour.

 

 Roll to about 1/8 inch thick on a floured pastry cloth.  Cut with a round cutter about 1-inch in diameter.  Place on ungreased cookie sheets.

 

 Bake at 375-deg. F. for 8 minutes or until browned.

 

 Combine ingredients for icing and mix smooth.  Sandwich 2 cookies together with jam and top with icing.  Also added may be a pecan half or a candied cherry.

 

 

Danish Cone Cookies

 

3 egg whites

1/2 cup sugar

1/3rd cup cake flour

1/3rd cup melted butter

1/4 tsp. salt

1 tsp. vanilla extract

 

 Beat 3 egg whites until stiff.  Then sprinkle over them 1/2 cup sugar a little at a time and mix carefully.  Fold in 1/3rd cup sifted cake flour a little at a time.  Then fold in 1/3rd cup melted butter and cool.  Add a pinch of salt and 1 tsp. vanilla extract.

 

 Drop batter by tsp.-fulls about 2 inches apart on a buttered and floured baking sheet.  Bake at 375-deg. F. for 10 minutes or until little circles are lightly browned.

 

 While still warm form them quickly into cones, overlapping generously.  If they become too brittle to form place them back in the oven for a minute or so to soften.  When cool these may be filled with chocolate or coffee frosting, dipped in nuts, or they may be filled with whipped cream or ice cream.

 

 

Pecan Puffs #1

 

3 egg whites

1 cup sifted powdered sugar

1 cup granulated sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/2 lb. (2 cups) pecan halves

 

 Beat egg whites until stiff.  Add powdered and granulated sugars gradually, beating continuously.  Add vanilla extract and pecan halves.

 

 Drop by rounded tsp.-fulls 2-inches apart on a greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 300-deg. F. for 12-15 minutes or until firm and delicately browned at the edges.

 

 Yield = 5 dozen

 

 

Pecan Puffs #2

 

1 cup sifted flour

2 tbsp. granulated sugar

1/2 cup butter

1 cup pecans, grated

1 tsp. vanilla extract

 

 Cream butter and sugar.  Add vanilla, flour and pecans.  Form into 1-2 inch balls.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 15 minutes or until lightly brown.

 

 Roll puffs in powdered sugar while still warm.

 

 

 

Paula's Tenants Kisses

 

2 egg whites

2 cups powdered sugar

1 scant tsp. vinegar

2 cups whole pecans

 

 Beat whites until stiff.  Add sugar and vinegar.  Drop with a tsp. 2-inches on a greased tin.

 

 Bake at 300 deg. F. for 12-15 minutes.  Do not let them become browned.

 

 

Date Nut Goodies

 

1 cup chopped dates

1 cup chopped pecans

1 cup sifted powdered sugar

1 unbeaten egg white

 

 Mix dates and pecans with powdered sugar and add to egg white.  Mix thoroughly.

 

 Drop from a tsp. onto a greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350-deg. F. for 12 minutes or until light brown.  Cool before removing from sheet.

 

 If desired these cookies may be topped with candied cherries or sprinkled with colored sugar before baking.

 

 Yield = 30-40 cookies.

 

 

Christmas Butter Horns

 

1 lb. soft butter

1 & 3/4 cup powdered sugar

4 & 1/4 cup flour

1/2 pound almonds, ground

1 & 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

Grated rind of 1 lemon

 

 Place all ingredients into a large bowl and work together with fingers until well blended.

 

 Shape into crescents about 2-inches long.  Bake at 400-deg. F. on ungreased cookie sheet for about 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.

 

 When slightly cool dust with powdered sugar.

 

 

Butter Crescents (Walnut or Pecan)

 

1/2 lb. butter

1/2 cup powdered sugar

2 tsp. vanilla extract

Pinch of salt

1/2 lb (2 cups) chopped walnuts or

  pecans

Abt. 1 & 1/4 cup flour

 

 Combine all ingredients and mix well.  Shape dough into about 2 x 1-inch crescents.

 

 Use inverted side of cookie sheet to place each cookie.  Bake at 350-deg. F. for about 25 minutes or until slightly browned.

 

 Dust with powdered sugar while warm.

 

 

Big Dutch Babies

 

1/4 cup butter

3 eggs

3/4 cup milk

3/4 cup flour

 

 Melt butter in a frying pan with at least 1-inch high sides in a hot oven.  Meanwhile mix batter by combining eggs, flour and milk.

 

 Pour batter into hot butter and place pan back into oven set at 425-deg. F.

 

 After about 7 minutes the pancake begins to puff, then climbs up the sides of the pan.  After about 20 minutes it is billowy and browned.

 

 Remove from oven and serve hot with butter and jam, cinnamon/sugar mixture or syrup.

 

 

Apricot Dainties

 

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup lard or margarine

1 cup sugar

2 egg yolks

1 & 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 small orange juice and grated rind

3 & 1/3rd cups flour

Apricot jam

 

 Cream butter and lard or margarine.  Add sugar and cream until light and fluffy.  Add egg yolks and mix until well blended.  Add vanilla extract, orange juice and grated rind.  Stir flour into batter one third at a time and mix well after each addition.

 

 Place batter in refrigerator for several hours.  Then roll dough on floured board or pastry cloth  to about 1/8th-inch thickness.  Cut into 2-inch circles.  Cut 1/2-inch circles from half of the full circles.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for about 10 minutes.  Cool.

 

 Spread the whole rounds with apricot jam.  Place the remaining 1/2-inch pieces on top of each.  Finish by sprinkling powdered sugar over the top of cookies.

 

 

Pecan Pralines

 

1 & 1/3 cups granulated sugar

2/3rds cup brown sugar

2/3rds cup water

2/3rds cup white vinegar

1/8 tsp. salt

2-3 tablespoons butter

2 cups whole pecans

 

 Dissolve sugars, water, vinegar and salt in a heavy pot over low heat.  Cover and cook for about 3 minutes to allow steam to wash any sugar from sides of the pot. 

 

 Next uncover and cook to 236-deg. F. registered on a candy thermometer, or until a small portion of the mixture dropped into ice water forms a soft ball (that is, the ball does not disintegrate but flattens out of its own accord when picked up with the fingers.

 

 Remove pot from heat and add butter.  Cool to 110-deg. F.  Beat until it begins to lose its gloss and thickens.  Quickly stir in 2 cups pecans and drop onto buttered platter, spreading to form 3-inch rounds.  When hardened wrap in foil.

 

 

Tony's Cookies

 

1 cup butter

1/2 cup sugar

2 egg yolks

2 cups flour

1 tsp. vanilla extract

pinch salt

 

 Cream butter and sugar.  Add egg yolks, vanilla and salt.  Mix well.  Add 2 cups flour slowly with a spoon while mixing.

 

 Shape by hand into 1-inch balls.  Place on greased pan.  Then flatten and decorate if desired.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. until light brown.

 

 

Sempert's White Fruit Cake

 

1/2 lb golden raisins

1/4 lb citron

3/4 lb lemon peel

1/2 lb candied pineapple

1/4 lb candied cherries

1 cup pineapple juice

1 cup brandy

2 cups butter

9 eggs

4 cups flour

2 cups sugar

1 tsp. salt

1 lb blanched almonds

 

 Combine fruits and juice and let stand overnight covered.  Next morning blend 1 cup of the flour well into the fruit.  Then combine all the remaining ingredients into a single mass.

 

 Add to a large angel food pan or 3 loaf pans.  Bake at 325-deg. F. for 2 1/2 to 3 hours.

 

 Yield:  about 7 lbs.

 

 

Applesauce Cake (Hedwig Konradt)

 

2 cups ground Graham crackers

2 tbsp. melted butter

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

2 cups applesauce

3 egg yolks & 3 egg whites

1 can Eagle Brand condensed

  sweetened milk

2 tbsp. lemon juice with grated rind

 

 Mix together the Graham crackers, melted butter and cinnamon.  Line a cake pan with about half this mixture, retaining the rest for placing on top.

 

 Mix the applesauce, egg yolks, condensed milk and lemon.  Fold in 3 stiffly beaten egg whites.  Transfer to cake pan and cover with remaining Graham cracker mixture.

 

 Bake about 3/4 hour at 350-deg. F. (time depends on size of pan).

 

 Cake may be served with whipped cream on top.

 

 

 

 

Orange Torte (Mrs. Brandt)

 

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 whole eggs

1 cup nuts

1 cup raisins or dates

1 cup sour milk

1 tsp. soda

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/8 tsp. salt

orange rind, grated

2 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp. Baking Powder

 

 Cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs, flour, Baking Powder and milk while beating.  Then mix in thoroughly remaining ingredients.

 

 Place in cake pan and bake for 1 hour at 300-deg. F.

 

 Glaze

 When out of the oven for 10 minutes, pour over the top a glaze made with 1/2 cup orange juice and 1 cup sugar that has been heated together until sugar is dissolved.

 

 

 

 

Danish Layer Cake

 

1/2 cup shortening

1 cup sugar

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 egg yolks or whites

2 cups cake flour

1 tsp. Baking Powder

2/3rds cup milk

 

 Cream shortening; add sugar, salt and vanilla.  Cream until fluffy.  Add yolks (or whites) one at a time and beat well.  Sift flour and Baking Powder together and add alternately with milk.

 

 Line the bottoms of two 9-inch pans with waxed paper.  Pour in batter.

 

 Bake at 375-deg. F. for about 27 minutes.

 

 

 

Bourbon Pound Cake

 

4 egg whites

4 egg yolks

1 cup and 1/2 cup sugar (separate)

1 & 1/2 cup flour

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 tsp. almond extract

3 1/2 tbsp. Bourbon

1/4 cup chopped nuts

 

 Beat 4 egg whites until stiff but not dry.  Beat in 1/2 cup sugar gradually.  Set aside.

 

 In another bowl cream 1/2 lb. butter and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy.  Add 4 egg yolks, one at a time while beating thoroughly after each addition.  Add 1 & 1/2 cup flour alternately with a mix of 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 tsp. almond extract and 3 1/2 tbsp. Bourbon (about 3 separate additions of each).  Beat until smooth after each addition. 

 

 Fold beaten egg whites into batter gently.  Sprinkle 1/4 cup chopped nuts over the bottom of a well-buttered tube pan (nuts may be mixed into the batter instead).  Add dough to the pan.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 1 hour. 

 

 Note:  Double the batter for a large angel food tube pan).

 

 

Sour Cream Cheese Cake

 

2 cups ground Graham crackers

1/4 cup sugar & 1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 cup melted butter or margarine

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 lb soft Cream Cheese

1 pint sour cream (or yogurt)

 

 Pat the mixture of ground Graham crackers, sugar, cinnamon and butter into a 9 x 13 x 2-inch pan or a spring form.

 

 Pour the following into the crust:  Beat 2 eggs, add 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla and 1 lb soft Cream Cheese.

 

 Bake about 20 min. at 375-deg. F.  Cool 15 minutes and add:  1 pint sour cream (or yogurt) mixed with 6 tbsp sugar and 1/2 tsp. vanilla.

 

 Bake another 5-8 min. at 475-deg. F.  Cool 45 min. and refrigerate.

 

 

Strawberries & Cream Torte

 

1 package Angel Food Cake Mix

1 pkg. (16 oz.) frozen strawberry

  halves with sugar

1 envelope whipped topping mix

1 tbsp cornstarch

 

 Mix, bake and cook cake as directed on the cake mix package.

 

 Partially thaw strawberries, drain, and reserve 3/4 cup of juice from the fruit.  Prepare whipped topping according to the package directions.

 

 Set aside 5 or 6 strawberry halves to use for garnishing cake.  Combine remaining fruit with whipped topping.  Slice cake into 3 layers; spread whipped topping and fruit mixture between the 3 layers.

 

 In a small saucepan combine cornstarch and strawberry juice (add water to make 3/4 cup liquid).  Cook over medium heat until mixture boils and thickens.  Arrange reserved fruit on top of filled cake.  Pour glaze over fruit and top of cake.  Refrigerate before serving.

 

 

Chocolate Cupcake Dessert

 

1 large Angel Food cake

2 pkgs. chocolate bits or chips

5 tbsp. water

2 beaten egg yolks

2 beaten egg whites

1 pint whipped cream

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/2 cup chopped nuts

 

 Break cake into pieces abt. 1-inch thick.  Line a 9 x 12 pan with 1/2 of the pieces.

 

 Put chocolate bits in a double broiler with water.  Melt, but do not boil.  Add 2 egg yolks to the chocolate and cool.  Add 2 beaten egg whites.  When cold add 1 pint whipped cream and 1 tsp. vanilla.  Spread half over the cake pieces and repeat with other half.  Sprinkle chopped nuts over the top.

 

 

Nan's Jello Cake

 

1 pkg. yellow cake mix

1/2 cup strawberries (no juice)

1/2 cup oil (corn, safflower, etc.)

4 eggs

1 pkg Jello

1/2 cup water

 

 Mix all ingredients, beating thoroughly.  Add to cake pan.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. according to directions on the cake mix package or for about 3/4 hour.  Check with toothpick or metal probe for certainty.

 

 

Heath Bar Cake

 

2 cups flour

2 cups brown sugar

1 tsp. Baking powder

1 tsp. Baking Soda

1 cup milk

1/2 cup butter

1 egg

1/2 cup chopped nuts

1 tsp. vanilla extract

6 Heath Bars, cut up

 

 Mix flour, brown sugar, Baking Powder and soda.  Set aside 1 cup of this batter.

 

 Beat egg and add milk.  Add to dry ingredients.  Add vanilla and mix thoroughly.

 

 Pour into a 9 x 13 inch cake pan.  Top with the rest of the batter, chopped nuts and Heath Bars.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 25-30 minutes.

 

 

Buttermilk Pie

 

2 egg yolks beaten lightly

1 & 1/2 cups sugar

1 & 1/2 cups buttermilk

2 tbsp. flour

1 tbsp. melted butter

1/2 tsp. lemon extract

 

 Mix all ingredients in the order listed above.  Pour into an unbaked 9-inch pie shell.

 

 Bake at 450-deg. F. for 10 min., and then at 350-deg. F. for another 40 min.

 

 

Almond Meringue Torte

 

1 & 1/2 cup sifted cake flour

1 tsp. Baking Powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 cup butter or margarine (= 1 stick)

1 & 1/4 cups sugar

4 eggs separated

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/4 cup milk

1/2 cup toasted slivered almonds

1 cup cream for whipping

1 tbsp. powdered sugar

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

 

 Butter bottoms of two 8-inch layer cake pans; dust with flour.

 

 Sift cake flour, Baking Powder and salt onto waxed paper.

 

 Cream shortening until soft in a bowl.  Beat in 1/2 cup sugar gradully until fluffy.  Beat in egg yolks, one at a time, until blended, and then vanilla.  Stir in flour mixture, alternately with milk, just until blended.  Spoon into prepared pans.

 

 Beat egg white until foamy; then beat in remaining 3/4-cup sugar, 1 tbsp. at a time until meringue stands in firm peaks.  Spread 1/3 over batter in each pan.  With tsp. make rosettes around edge and center of one layer.  Sprinkle both layers with almonds.

 

 

 

Bake at 350-deg. F. for 30 min or until meringue is delicately browned.

 

Cool layers in pans for 5 minutes; loosen around edges with knife; turn each out onto palm of hand, then place meringue side up on racks.  Cool completely.

 

Beat cream with sugar and sinnamon until stiff.  Place plain meringue layer on serving plate and spread with cream mixture.  Top with fancy layer.  Chill to serve.

 

 

 

 

Special Treat Bars

 

1/2 lb butter

1 cup Graham crackers

1 cup shredded coconut

6 oz. chocolate chips

6 oz. butterscotch chips

1 cup broken soft nuts

1 can sweetned condensed milk

 

 In a bake pan (about 8" x 8") melt 1/2 lb butter.  Sprinkle a heaping cup of crushed (or ground) Graham crackers over and flatten down with spoon or fork.  Sprinkle the following over the crackers:

 

 Heaping cup shredded coconut, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, about 1 cup broken soft nuts.

 

 Spread a can of condensed sweetened milk (e.g., Eagle Brand) over all.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F.  When cool cut into small squares.

 

 

Date Chews

 

2 lbs (3-4 cups) dates cut up

1/2 cup boiling water

1 & 1/4 cup shortening

1 & 3/4 cup sugar

1 egg plus 2 yolks

3 cups Corn Flakes

3 cups flour

1 tsp. Baking powder

1 tsp. soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. vanilla extract

 

 Pour boiling water over dates and let cool.  Cream shortening and sugar.  Add eggs, dry ingredients, dates and vanilla.

 

 Drop dough by single tsp.s onto a greased cookie sheet.

 

 Bake at 325-deg. F. for 15 minutes.

 

 

Chocolate Chiffon Pie

 

16 large marshmallows

1/2 cup milk

4 small almond Hershey bars

 

 Melt the above in double broiler and cool.  Then mix in 1/2 pint whipped cream.

 

 Add to baked pie shell.

 

 

Biscuit Glace

 

1 pkg. ladyfingers

3 eggs, separated

1/2 cup sugar

1 pint heavy cream, whipped

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/2 tsp. rum extract

1 can crushed, drained pineapple

15 maraschino cherries, halved

Shaved chocolate

 

 Arrange split ladyfingers on the bottom of a pan, 9 x 9, x 3-in.  Beat egg yolks; add sugar gradually; heat until thick and lemon-colored.  Beat egg whites until stiff; whip cream.  Fold whites into yolks; fold in cream.  Add flavoring and fruit.

 

 Pour mixture over ladyfingers.  Freeze until firm (about 4 hrs.)  Remove from freezer 1/2 hour before cutting.  Garnish with chocolate shavings from a block of sweet chocolate and toasted slivered almonds.

 

 Slice into squares to serve.

 

 

Christmas Butter Cookies

 

1 cup butter or margarine

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp. grated lemon rind

3 cups sifted flour

1/2 tsp. salt

Colored sugar & silver dragees

 

 Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  Blend in 1 whole egg and 1 egg yolk.  Add lemon rind.  Sift flour and salt and gradually work into butter mixture.  As dough stiffens work flour in with hands until dough is smoothly blended and stiff enough to roll.  Wrap dough in waxed paper and chill for several hours.

 

 Roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness on floured pastry cloth.  Cut with cookie cutters, place on ungreased baking sheet.  Brush with remaining egg white, and decorate with colored sugar, silver dragees as preferred.

 

 Bake at 375-deg. F. for about 8 minutes.  Remove from cookie sheet immediately and cool on racks.

 

 

 

Strudel (Emma Fisher)

 

3 & 1/2 cups flour

1 egg

Lard the size of an egg

Cold Water the size of an egg

Bread crumbs

Apples, sliced pieces

Sugar

Raisins

Cinnamon

Nuts (walnuts, filberts, pecans, etc.)

Butter

 

 Place 3 cups flour on a board.  Make a hole in the middle.  Add egg, lard and cold water.  Cut up ingredients with a knife.  Knead in with hands remaining flour where the dough will not stick to the board.  Allow dough to rest in a cold place (over night is OK.

 

 Stretch the dough to a thin consistency.  Sprinkle with bread crumbs, apples, sugar, raisins, cinnamon, nuts and pieces of butter.  The amounts of each may vary according to availability and preference.  Fold dough with contents into a loaf shape (variable).

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for about an hour or until browning

 

 

 

Cherry Queens

 

1/2 cup butter

1/4 cup sugar

1 egg yolk

1 tbsp. grated orange rind

1 tbsp. lemon juice

1 cup sifted flour

1/8 tsp. salt

Finely chopped nuts

Candied cherries

 

 Cream butter, add sugar and mix thoroughly.  Add and mix in egg yolk, orange rind and lemon juice.  Add flour and salt and mix to a smooth paste.  Chill until firm.

 

 Roll in the palms to small marble like balls.  Dip each in slightly beaten egg white and roll in chopped nuts.

 

 Arrange on greased baking sheet and press 1/4 candied cherry on each.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 20 minutes.

 

 

Strawberry Ribbon Cake

 

3 cups sifted cake flour

2 & 1/2 tsp Baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine

2 cups sugar

4 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/2 tsp. almond extract

3/4 cup milk

18 tsp. red food coloring

Strawberry Butter Cream

 

 Grease 2 baking pans:  8 x 8 x 2-in. and dust with flour.  Sift cake flour, baking powder and salt onto waxed paper.  Cream butter or margarine until soft in a large bowl.  Beat in sugar gradually until fluffy.  Beat in eggs, one at a time, until fluffy again, then flavorings.

 

 Stir in flour mixture alternately with milk, just until blended.  Spoon half the batter into one pan; stir food coloring into remaining batter and pour into second pan. 

 

 Bake at 375-deg. F. for 35 minutes or until centers spring back when pressed with fingertip.  Cool layers completely.  Split each cooled layer.  Put together alternating pink & yellow, with part of the strawberry butter cream.  Frost sides and top with remaining.

 

 

Strawberry Butter Cream

 

1 pkg. (3-4 ounces) cream cheese

4 tbsp (1/2 stick) butter or margarine

1/3 cup mashed fresh strawberries

1 pkg. (1 lb.) powdered sugar

 

 Blend cream cheese with butter or margarine until fluffy in a medium sized bowl.  Beat in strawberries.  Stir in 2 cups of the powdered sugar until smooth.  Measure out 1 & 1/2 cups of the mixture for filling.  Beat remaining sugar into remaining mixture in bowl for frosting.

 

 

Basic Yeast Cake (Hedwig Schaffek)

 

1 cup scalded milk

1 cup sugar

1 cup butter

2 eggs

1 tbsp yeast

1/4 cup warm water

1/4 tsp. salt

About 2-3 cups flour

 

 Mix together butter, sugar, 2 eggs and scalded milk.  Add 1 tablespoon of yeast dissolved in 1/4 cup warm water.  Mix flour with salt and 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract.

 

 Allow dough to rise before use, and rolling out into various shapes.

 

 

 

 

Stollen (Hedwig Schaffek)

 

1 & 1/2 cup milk

2 cups sugar

1 tsp. salt

1 & 1/2 lb butter

1/2 cup water for yeast

6 large yeast cakes

6-8 large eggs

All purpose flour (1-2 cups)

1 cup each of pecans, walnuts or

   filberts.

1 cup raisins

1 cup mixed dried fruit

 

 Heat milk to hot and add to butter.  Add sugar and eggs.  Add plain flour until dough is tacky.  Place in oven at very low temperature for 1/2 hours until dough rises.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 45 min.  [Larger recipes require more baking].

 

 

 

 

Bohemian Kolačky

 

3 unbeaten egg yolks

2 cups flour

1/4 lb butter

1/8 tsp. salt

1/2 cup cream or canned milk

 

 Let yeast rise in lukewarm cream or milk.  Add flour and beat well.  Let dough stand until light.

 

 Cream butter; add sugar & salt.  Add to above mixture when batter is light.  Let rise until double in bulk.

 

 Roll out to 1/4-inch thickness.  Shape into small rounds.  Arrange on a greased sheet.  Place a small amount of dry cottage cheese in the center of each and some fruit on top  (pineapple, cherries, cherries, raisins, etc.).  Sprinkle with nuts & brush over with melted butter.  Let rise.  Wait about 1/2 hour.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. until bottoms are brown or about 1/2 hour.

 

 

Cottage Cheese Mix

 

1 lb. cottage cheese

1/4 lb sour cream

2 eggs

1/4 lb sugar

3 tbsp. melted butter

1/2 tbsp. vanilla extract

1/4 cup raisins

 

 Mix all ingredients.  Add as toppings for Kolačky and other Bohemian desserts.

 

 

Easter Lamb Cake

 

1 cup butter

1 cup granulated sugar

2 eggs

2 & 1/2 cup cake flour

3 tsp. Baking powder

3/4 cup milk

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 tbsp. lemon juice

 

 Cream butter and sugar.  Add whole eggs and vanilla extract.  Mix flour and baking powder and alternately add with milk to above, mixing well each time.

 

 In a baking mold shaped as a reclining lamb, grease each side with 2 tsp. unsalted shortening.  Place the dough in the side of the mold with the lamb's face down.  Place toothpicks in the nose, and each ear.  Place the empty side of the mold on top and tie with a wire to hold both sides together.  Make sure that there is a steam escape hole in the top.

 

 Bake at 375-deg. F. for 60 minutes.  Then let cool for 20 minutes and lift off the top.  When completely cooled the lamb may be lifted out of the other half of the mold.

 

 

Amana Dessert Yeast Bread 1

 

1 cup milk

1 cake yeast

1 cup butter or margarine

1 cup sugar

5 eggs

4 cups flour

1/2 tsp. salt

Rind from 1 lemon

1 tsp. vanilla extract

 

 Heat milk and then cool to lukewarm.  Add yeast.  Cream butter and sugar.  Beat in 1 egg at a time.  Add milk, alternating with flour mixed with salt.  Add lemon rind and vanilla.

 

 Pour dough into 2 greased loaf pans.  Allow to double in size (about 2 hours).

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. until nicely browned.

 

 

Fruit Custard Pies 1

 

2 cups flour

1 tsp. salt

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup lard, butter or margarine

3/4 cup milk

2 tsp. Baking powder

 

Pie Crust:  Combine flour, salt and sugar.  Cut in chilled shortening.  Then add milk and form into a ball.

 

Divide into two equal parts, and roll out to fit two large pie pans.  When covering the first layer, be sure to cut vents into the top with a fork.

 

Custard Filling:  Arrange a layer of fruit in unbaked crust.  Beat together and pour over fruit the following:  1 cup sugar, 1 cup thin cream, 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 eggs.

 

Bake at 425-deg. F. for 10 minutes.  Reduce to 350-deg. F. and bake until fruit is cooked and custard is well set.

 

 

Custard Pie 1

 

Pie Crust

2 cups flour

1 tsp. salt

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup lard, butter or margarine

3/4 cup milk

2 tsp. Baking powder

Custard

4 eggs

4 cups milk

4 tbsp. sugar

1/2 tsp. vanilla

Dash of nutmeg

 

Pie Crust:  Combine flour, salt and sugar.  Cut in chilled shortening.  Then add milk and form into a ball.  Divide into two equal parts, and roll out to fit two large pie pans.  When covering the first layer be sure to cut vents into the top with a fork.

 

 Custard:  Beat eggs and add remaining ingredients, mixing well.  Pour into pastry-lined pie tin.

 

 Bake at 450-deg. F. for 10 minutes.  Then continue baking at 325-deg. F. for 30 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean. 

 

 

Streusel Cake 1

 

1 cup milk

1/2 cup sugar

1 tbsp. salt

1 cake yeast

1 cup lukewarm water

6 cups flour

6 tbsp. melted shortening

 

Dough:  Scald milk.  Add sugar and salt.  Cool to lukewarm.  Dissolve yeast in lukewarm water and add cooled milk.  Add 3 cups flour and beat until smooth.  Add shortening and remaining flour.

 

Knead well and place in a greased bowl.  Cover with a cloth and set in warm place away from drafts.  Let rise to double size (about 3 hours).

 

 Roll out dough to 1/2-inch thickness on floured board.  Place in well-greased 8 x 8-in. pan.  Allow to rise until light.  Prick with fork, brush with melted butter and sprinkle with a mixture of the following:  1/2 cup melted butter, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/3 cup flour & 1 tsp. cinnamon.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for about 20 to 25 minutes or until browning on the edges.

 

 

Plum Cake 1

 

1/2 cup scalded milk

1/2 cup shortening

1/4 cup sugar

1/3rd cake compressed yeast

2 eggs

2 cups flour

Plums, fresh Emperor or Santa Rosa

 

 Combine milk, shortening and sugar and let cool to lukewarm.  Dissolve yeast in mixture and add well-beaten eggs.  Add flour and beat thoroughly.  Allow to rise in refrigerator overnight.

 

 Roll on lightly floured board to fit two 9 X 9-inch pans.  Let rise to double volume.  Distribute sliced plums over the dough.

 

 Prepare some crumbs from 1-cup sugar, 1 tbsp. flour, 1 tsp. cinnamon and 1/4 cup butter cut into the dry mixture.  Distribute crumbs over the plums.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for about 30 minutes.

 

 

Nut Cake 1

 

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 cups flour

2 tsp. Baking powder

1 cup milk

1 cup chopped nuts

1 tsp. vanilla extract

 

 Cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs and beat well.  Sift flour and Baking powder and add to previous alternating with milk.  Add chopped nuts and vanilla.

 

 Place in two greased and floured tins.  Bake at 325-deg. F. for 25 to 30 minutes.

 

 

Almond Cookies 1

 

6 egg yolks

1 1/2 cup sugar

1/2 lb. finely ground almonds

1 cup flour

1 tsp. Baking Powder

 

 Beat egg yolks and add sugar and almonds.  Add flour and Baking powder.  Mix well.

 

 Roll out and cut into small pieces.  Transfer to a greased cookie sheet.

 

 Bake at 325-deg. F. for 12 to 15 minutes.

 

 

 

 

Oriental Almond Cookies

 

1 cup butter or margarine

1/2 cup each white and brown sugar

1 egg & 2 tbsp. water

1 & 1/2 tsp. almond extract

1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 & 1/2 cup flour

1 tsp. soda & 1/2 tsp. salt

1 cup blanched almonds

1 egg yolk + 1 tbsp. water

 

 Cream butter and sugar.  Mix in egg, flour, soda, salt and flavorings.  Mix thoroughly.

 

 Shape about 1 tbsp. dough by hand into round cookie.  Place on lightly greased cookie sheet.  Brush with egg yolk-water mix.  Insert an almond on top of each.

 

 Bake at 325-deg. F. for 25 minutes, and remove immediately.

 

 

Macaroons 1

 

6 egg whites

2 cups sugar

4 cups dried coconut

4 tbsp. flour

 

 Beat egg whites, adding sugar gradually.  Then add coconut and flour.

 

 Drop by tsp. fulls onto greased cookie sheet.

 

 Bake at 325-deg. F. for 12 to 15 minutes.

 

 

Apple Slices (Crust)

 

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp. Baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

3/4 cup lard or margarine

1 tsp. lemon juice

2 egg yolks, beaten

1/2 cup water

 

 Sift flour with Baking powder and salt.  Cut in chilled lard or margarine as for pie crust.  Mix lemon juice, egg yolks and water.  Sprinkle over flour mixture, blending it in lightly.

 

 Divide dough in two parts.  Roll first piece to fit bottom and sides of shallow 9 x 13-inch pan.  Introduce the apple mixture [see Apple Slices (Fruit)].

 

 Roll the remaining dough to fit the top of the pan, and seal edges with a fork.  Cut steam vents in the top.

 

 Bake at 450-deg. F. for 20 minutes.  Reduce heat to 350-deg. F. and bake 30 minutes longer.

 

 Top of pie may be iced with a thin layer of powdered sugar.  Cut into rectangles to serve.

 

 

Apple Slices (Fruit)

 

3 lbs. tart cooking apples

1 cup water & 1/4 cup water

1 & 1/4 cups sugar

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp. salt

2 tbsp. cornstarch

 

 Remove apple cores and apples into 1/8th slices.  Cook water, sugar, salt and cinnamon to boiling.  Add apples and cook for 10 minutes.

 

 Blend cornstarch with 1/4-cup cold water, and stir into hot mixture.  Cook 5 minutes longer, stirring gently.

 

 

 

 

Fruit Cake (Mrs. Zelenka)

 

1/2 lb. butter

2 cups sugar

4 whole eggs

2 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. ground cloves

1 lb. raisins

1 lb. walnuts

2 cups mixed dried fruit

3 cups flour

1 tsp. soda

1 tsp. Baking powder

1 cup boiled water

 

 Mix thoroughly butter, sugar and eggs.  In a separate bowl mix cinnamon, cloves, raisins, walnuts and mixed dried fruits.  Add to previous mixture.  Add flour, Baking powder 1 tsp. soda and 1 cup boiled water.

 

Transfer to baking pans and bake in a low oven (250-300-deg. F.) for 1 & 1/2 hours.

 

 

Fruit Cake (Mrs. Muske)

 

1 cup butter

2 cups white sugar

1 cup milk

1/2 tsp. salt

2 tsp. Baking powder

3 eggs

3 & 1/2 cups flour

1 cup chopped nuts

1 & 1/2 cup white raisins

1 lb. mixed dried fruit.

 

 Cream butter and slowly add eggs, sugar and milk.  Combine remaining ingredients in a separate bowl, mixing thoroughly.  Then add to first mixture.

 

 Bake at 300-deg. F. for about 2 hours.

 

 

Pauline's Cheesecake

 

Crust:

1/4 lb. butter

1/4 lb. sugar

1 & 1/2 to 2 cups flour

2 eggs

1/2 lemon rind

Filling:

1 lb. diced cottage cheese

1 pint sour cream

3/4 cup sugar

5 egg yolks & 5 beaten egg whites

2 lbs. sugar & 1 tsp. vanilla extract

Juice of one lemon

 

 Crust:  Mix all ingredients with hands to form a crust.  Line baking pan.

 

 Filling:  Mix all ingredients and add to baking pan lined with crust.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for about one hour.

 

 

Sacher Torte (Fred's)

 

1 & 1/2 cups sweet butter

4 eggs, separated

1 cup sugar

4 oz melted sweet dark chocolate

  or 4 oz. bitter chocolate + 1/3rd cup

  sugar

1 cup sifted flour

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Icing:

4 oz bitter chocolate

4 tbsp. butter, 1/2 cup powdered

  sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla extract

 

 Cream butter and add egg yolks one at a time, beating after each addition.  Add sugar and beat until light and fluffy.  Add melted chocolate and flour.  Beat until well blended.

 

 Beat egg whites until stiff, and gently fold into the previous mixture.  Pour into a greased and floured 8-inch spring form pan.  Bake at 350-deg. F. for one hour.

 

 Let cool in pan and take out of pan upside down.  Spread a thin layer of raspberry jam over the surface.  Melt the remaining chocolate, butter & sugar, blend well & spread over the jam.  Frost sides of torte with remaining icing.

 

 

 

Fruit Crisp

 

1 cup flour

1 cup brown sugar

1/3rd cup butter

4 cups fruit (apples, peaches, cherries, blueberries, etc.)

 

 Crumbly Mix:  Mix flour, brown sugar and butter together.

 

 Spread cut-up fruit in bottom of a greased pan and spread crumbly mixture over it.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 45 minutes.

 

 

 

Graham Cracker-Pineapple Dessert

 

20 Graham crackers, rolled fine

1/2 cup hot milk

1/2 lb. marshmallows

1 cup whipped cream

2 cups crushed pineapple

1/2 cup walnuts

 

 Line shallow pan with 1/2 of cracker crumbs.

 

 In another bowl pour hot milk over marshmallows and mix until dissolved.  Cool and add whipped cream, pineapple and crushed nuts.

 

 Pour mixture over crumbs, and top with remaining crumbs.

 

 Chill for 12 hours before serving.

 

 

Fruit Coffee Cake

 

4 cups chopped fruit (apples, apricots, peaches, pineapple, etc.)

1 cup water & 2 tbsp. lemon juice

1 & 1/4 cups sugar + 1/2 cup sugar

1 & 1/4 cup butter

1/3rd cup cornstarch

3 & 1/2 cups flour & 1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. Baking powder

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/2 cup ground walnuts, pecans, etc.

 

 Combine fruit and water.  Simmer in bowl about 5 min.  Stir in lemon juice.  Add mixed sugar and cornstarch into fruit mixture.  Cook and stir until thickened.  Cool. 

 

 In a bowl stir together 3 cups flour, 1-cup sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.  Cut in 1-cup butter until crumbly.  Combine eggs, milk & vanilla.  Blend into flour mixture.  Spread 1/2 batter into greased baking pan or pans.

 

 Spread cooled fruit over batter.  Spoon remaining batter in small mounds over fruit mixture.  Combine 1/2-cup sugar & 1/2-cup flour; cut into 1/4-cup butter until coarsely crumbly.  Stir in nuts and spread batter in pan

 

 Bake 40-45 min.

 

 

Apple Nut Coffee Cake

 

1/2 cup butter or margarine

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 cups flour

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 tsp. each Baking powder and soda

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/4 tsp. salt

1 cup sour cream (or yogurt)

2 cups finely chopped apple

1/2 cup chopped nuts

 

 Cream together shortening and sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla.  Cook over medium heat.

 

 Sift together flour, Baking powder, baking soda and salt.  Add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream (or yogurt).  Fold in chopped apple.  Spread batter in greased baking pan.

 

 Combine chopped nuts, brown sugar, cinnamon and 2 tbsp. melted butter.  Sprinkle over batter.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 35 to 40 minutes.  Turn cake upside-down so that nuts are on top.

 

 

Honey Crisp Coffee Cake

 

1 & 1/2 cups sifted flour

1/2 cup sugar

2 tsp. Baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. vanilla extract

One 8 & 3/4 oz. can crushed

  pineapple

Milk mixed with syrup to 1/2 cup vol.

1 egg, beaten

1/4 cup safflower oil

1/3rd cup honey

3 tbsp. butter

1/2 cup crushed cornflakes

1/4 cup dried coconut

 

 Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.  Drain crushed pineapple and add liquid to milk to make 1/2 cup liquid. 

 

  Combine beaten egg, pineapple-milk liquid, vanilla and 1/4-cup safflower oil.  Add to flour mixture and mix well.  Pour into greased layer pan.

 

 Cream honey and butter.  Add to crushed cornflakes, coconut and drained pineapple.  Mix well and spread atop the batter.

 

 Bake at 400-deg. F. for 25 minutes.

 

 

 

Fresh Blueberry Cake

 

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs, slightly beaten

2 cups cake flour

3 tsp. Baking powder & 1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 cup milk

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Blueberries

1 pint fresh (or frozen) blueberries

2 tbsp. flour

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

 

 Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.  Add eggs and sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk and vanilla extract.  Beat until smooth after each addition.

 

 Spread in greased and floured pan.   Wash blueberries and drain excess liquid.  Dust lightly with flour.  Sprinkle berries over cake batter.  Sift 1/2-cup sugar and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon over all.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 45 minutes.

 

 

 

Orange Cake

 

3/4 cup butter or margarine

1 & 1/2 cups sugar

3 eggs

3 cups sifted flour

3 & 1/2 tsp. Baking powder

3/4 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 tbsp. grated orange rind

1 cup fresh orange juice

2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice

 

 Cream butter, sugar and vanilla extract until light and fluffy.  Add eggs one at a time and beat well.  Add sifted dry ingredients and alternately with fruit juices, mixing until smooth after each addition.

 

 Spread in two greased and floured 9-inch cake pans.  Bake at 375-deg. F. for 30 minutes.  Remove from oven and cool.

 

 Icing:  Cream 4 tbsp. butter and 2 cups powdered sugar.  Add 1 tsp. lemon or orange rind and 2-4 tbsp. orange or lemon juice.  Mix well and apply to top of one cake layer; cover with 2nd layer and spread over entire cake.

 

 

Pecan Rum Cake

 

1 cup chopped pecans

1 yellow cake mix

1 pkg. instant vanilla pudding

1 tsp. vanilla extract

4 eggs

1/2 cup Safflower or Corn oil

1/2 cup dark rum

Glaze:  1 cup butter, 1/4 cup water, 1 cup granulated sugar

 

 Combine pecans, cake mix, pudding, vanilla, eggs and oil, mixing thoroughly.  Transfer to baking pan.

 

 Bake at 325-deg. F. for one hour.

 

 Glaze:  In a separate pan mix butter, water and sugar.  Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.  Remove and add rum.  Drizzle over cake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chocolate Cake

 

1 bar (4 oz.) chocolate

1/2 cup boiling water

1 cup butter or margarine

2 cups sugar

4 egg yolks

1 tsp. vanilla extract

2 & 1/2 cups sifted cake flour

1/2 tsp. salt & 1 tsp. baking soda

1 cup buttermilk

4 egg whites, stiffly beaten

 

  Melt chocolate in boiling water and cool.  Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.  Add egg yolks, one at a time, and beat well after each.  Add melted chocolate and vanilla.  Mix well.

 

 Sift together flour, salt and soda.  Add alternately with buttermilk to chocolate mixture.  Beat well until smooth.  Fold in egg whites.

 

 Pour into three 8 or 9-inch layer pans lined on bottoms with paper.  Bake at 350-deg. F. 30-40 minutes.  Cool and stack cake layers.

 

 Frost tops only with Chocolate Frosting or  Coconut-Pecan Frosting

 

 

Coconut-Pecan Frosting

 

1 cup evaporated milk

1 cup sugar

3 egg yolks

1/2 cup butter or margarine

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 & 1/3rd cups dried coconut

1 cup chopped pecans

 

 Combine evaporated milk, sugar and egg yolks, shortening and vanilla.

 

 Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened (about 12 minutes).

 

 Add coconut and chopped pecans.  Beat until thick enough to spread.

 

 

Mom's Special Large Cake

 

3/4 lb. butter

2 cups sugar

6 eggs

3 & 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp. Baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

1 cup milk

2 tsp. vanilla extract

 

 Cream butter, sugar and vanilla.  Add eggs one at a time mixing thoroughly after each addition.

 

 Sift flour, salt and baking powder.  Add alternately with milk to previous mixture, mixing thoroughly after each addition.

 

 Bake at 300-deg. F. for one hour in a tube pan, or 350-deg. F. for one hour in two layer pans.

 

 Frost with any kind of frosting (e.g., Chocolate, Coconut-Pecan, Lemon, etc.)

 

 

Lemon Frosting

 

1 tsp. orange or lemon rind

3 tbsp. butter

2 cups sifted powdered sugar

2 tbsp. lemon juice

1 tbsp. water

Dash of salt

 

 Cream butter and add salt, fruit rind lemon juice and water.  Add powdered sugar a little at one time, mixing thoroughly after each addition.

 

 

 

Ricotta Cheesecake

 

1 & 1/2 lb. Ricotta cheese

2/3rds cup sugar

1/3rd cup sour cream

1/3rd cup cornstarch

1 tsp. Baking powder

1 tsp. vanilla extract

3 tbsp. melted butter or margarine

2 tsp. grated lemon peel

1/2 cup raisins (optional)

 

Use Blender or Electric Mixer

 

 Crust

  Blend 1 & 1/2 cups vanilla wafer or cookie crumbs with 2 & 1/2 tbsp. melted butter.  Press over bottom and sides of a 9-inch cake pan with removable bottom.  Bake a6 350-deg. F. for six minutes, cool.

 

 Filling

 Blend eggs, cheese, sugar and sour cream until smooth.  Mix cornstarch and baking powder and add to cheese mixture with vanilla, butter and lemon peel.  Raisins may be added at this time by stirring into mixture.  Spoon filling into prepared crust.

 

 Bake at 325-deg. F. for 60 minutes or until center appears set.  Cool on a rack, cover and refrigerate.

 

 

Brownies

 

1/4 lb. butter or margarine

4 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1/2 tsp. salt

One 16-oz. can chocolate syrup

1 cup sugar

1 cup flour

1/2 cup nuts (walnuts or pecans)

 

 Cream shortening, sugar, salt, eggs and vanilla.  Mix in flour and chocolate syrup and mix well.  Then mix in 1/2 cup nuts.

 

 Spoon 1 tablespoon-sized portions onto a greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350-deg. F. for 20-25 minutes.

 

 Frosting:

 

 Mix together 6 tbsp. butter, 1 & 1/2 cups sugar and 6 tbsp. milk.  Boil for 1/2 minute.  Add 1 & 1/2 cups chocolate chips and stir.

 

 Place frosting on top of each brownie.

 

 

Lemon Bars

 

2 cups sifted flour

1/2 cup powdered sugar, sifted

1 cup butter or margarine

4 eggs

2 cups granulated sugar

1/3rd cup lemon juice

1/4 cup flour

1/2 tsp. Baking powder

Sifted powdered sugar

 

 Crust:

 Sift together the flour and 1/2 cup powdered sugar.  Cut in shortening until the mixture clings together.  Press in a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan.  Bake at 350-deg. F. until lightly browned (about 20-25 minutes).

 

 Lemon Filling:

 Put eggs, granulated sugar and lemon juice in a blender, and blend until thick and smooth.  Sift 1/4 cup flour and baking powder.  Add to blender and blend to combine.  Pour over crust.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 25 minutes.  Sprinkle with powdered sugar.  Cool.  Cut into bars (about 30).

 

 

Toffee Squares

 

1 cup soft butter

1 cup sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 egg, separated

2 cups sifted flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 cup ground pecans

 

 Cream butter; add sugar, vanilla and egg yolk.  Beat until light.

 

 Add sifted dry ingredients (sugar, flour, salt, cinnamon).  Add 1/2 cup of the nuts.  Mix well.

 

 Press into 15 x 10 x 1-inch pan.  Brush with beaten egg white, and sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup nuts.

 

 Bake at 350-deg. F. for 25-30 minutes.

 

Cut into 2-inch squares while warm

 

 

Toll House Cookies

 

1/2 cup butter

6 tbsp. granulated sugar

6 tbsp. brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 tsp. soda & 1/2 tsp. salt

1 & 1/8th cup flour, sifted

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 tbsp. hot water

1/2 cup chopped nuts

 

 Cream butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar.  Add 1 beaten egg and vanilla.  Add soda, flour and salt that have been mixed together.  Add 1 tbsp. hot water.  Thoroughly mix all ingredients.  Finally mix in chopped nuts.

 

 Drop batter by 1/2 teaspoons onto a greased cookie sheet.

 

Bake at 375-deg. F. for 10-12 minutes.

 

 

Cinnamon Sticks

 

1/3rd cup brown sugar

1/3rd cup granulated sugar

1 tbsp. cinnamon

1 & 1/2 lb. unsliced white bread

1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted

 

 Blend sugars and cinnamon together.  Remove crust from bread and cut into 1-inch slices.  Cut each slice into 3 strips.

 

 Roll each strip lightly in butter and then sugar and cinnamon mixture.

 

 Place on a cookie sheet.  Bake at 350-deg. F. for 15 minutes.

 

 

French Toast (Door County, Wisconsin)

 

4 slices bread (3/4 inch thick)

3 eggs

3/4 cup milk

1/4 tsp. vanilla extract

1 tbsp. sugar & 1/4 tsp. salt

2-4 tbsp. butter

Powdered sugar

Maple or fruit syrup

 

 Mix eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla and salt thoroughly.  Pour mix over bread, and turn over.  Refrigerate overnight.

 

 Sauté on both sides slowly in frying pan with butter until golden brown (12 min. or more).

 

 Dust with powdered sugar and erve with cinnamon and sugar, maple syrup or fruit syrup.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salzburger Nöckerln

 

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup sugar & 2 tsp. cornstarch

1/4 cup lemon juice

1 & 1/2 tsp. grated lemon peel

4 eggs, separated

1/3rd cup sugar

1/8th tsp each salt & cream of tartar

2 tbsp. flour

Powdered sugar

 

 Lemon Sauce: Melt 1/2-cup butter.  Combine 1/2-cup sugar & 2 tsp. cornstarch.  Stir into melted butter.  Gradually add 1/4 cup lemon juice & 1/2 tsp. grated lemon peel.  Cook, stirring until sauce boils and thickens.  Set aside.

 

 Soufflé:  Separate 4 eggs, placing whites in a large bowl and yolks in a smaller bowl.

 

 Beat egg whites with 1/8th tsp. each salt and cream of tartar until stiff peaks form.  Gradually beat in 1/3rd cup sugar, beating until whites are very stiff.  Set aside.

 

 Beat egg yolks until lemon colored.  Add 2 tbsp. flour and 1 tsp. grated lemon peel.  Continue beating until yolks are thickened. Gently fold yolks into beaten whites.

 

 Pour lemon sauce into an 8x10-inch oval baking dish (or another shallow dish that holds 1 & 1/2 quarts.  Spoon soufflé mixture in 3 large mounds over sauce.  Bake at 350-deg. F. for 12-15 minutes.  Remove & dust with powdered sugar.

 

 

 

 

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FOOTNOTES:

 

1.  Modified from an Amana recipe.