Desserts

Family favorite recipe by Grandma Irene

Ingredients:
2 beaten eggs
3 packages dry yeast and 2 and 1/2 cups lukewarm water
1 cup milk
4 Tbsp shortening
1 and 3/4 cups sugar
1 tablespoon salt

Scald milk. Let milk cool to lukewarm
Heat shortening until just melted
Mix milk, lukewarm water ( 2 cups) and sugar
Add yeast and stir
Let stand a few minutes to allow yeast to grow. It will look like its moving
Add melted shortening, beaten eggs and salt.
Stir in about 10 cups of flour. When it gets too stiff to stir, kneed in the flour.
Dough should not be as stiff as for bread. Get all the lumps out as you kneed.
When dough holds together in one piece you have enough flour
Let rise and punch down twice
The third time, roll out dough and place in greased cookie sheet.
Spread poppy seed filling on top about 1 inch from edge
Fold sides in and pinch edges shut. Let rise

Topping
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) butter
2 tsp cinnamon
Mix and add cinnamon last. Add more butter if it doesn’t stick together enough.
Spread beaten egg on top of coffee cake. Put topping on right before baking.

Poppy seed filling
3 cans poppy seed (12 and 1/2 oz)
3 beaten eggs
3 cans milk
3 heaping teaspoons cornstarch mixed with milk

Stir together poppy seed and milk on medium high heat. When mixed add beaten eggs. When it comes to a boil, thicken with corn starch and milk. Cool (maybe mix 2 cups milk with poppy seed & mix 1 cup milk with cornstarch

Bake at 350 degrees about 30 minutes.

Cookies, Desserts, Holiday Recipes

“Soft gingerbread,” according to my kids, this recipe makes a large quantity, so consider making a half batch.

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1 cup dark molasses
1 cup lard, melted
1 cup hot water
1 heaping tsp baking soda
Pinch of salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp ginger
5 cups flour

Put all ingredients except flour in a bowl. Stir well, then add flour. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours. Roll out on floured surface. Sprinkle with white sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for 7-8 minutes. 

Cookies, Desserts, Uncategorized

Rich and similar to Mrs. Field’s cookies, this recipe is large, so consider making a half or quarter batch.

Ingredients:

2 cups butter
2 cups sugar 
2 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon baking soda
2 to 3 cups oatmeal
2 teaspoon baking powder
24 oz. package chocolate chips
One 8 oz. Hershey chocolate bar, chopped
3 cups walnuts, chopped

Cream together butter and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix together dry ingredients (except for chocolate and walnuts). Add to butter and sugar mixture. Stir in chocolate and walnuts. Make golf-ball size cookies. Place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 6 minutes. Makes approximately 112 cookies.

Cake, Desserts

Note: must be made in 12″ Almond Cake Pan (available from Bethany Housewares)

Ingredients
1 ¼ cup sugar
1 egg
1 ¼ cup flour
1 stick melted margarine
powdered sugar
1 ½ tsp almond extract
2/3 cup milk
½ tsp baking powder
sliced almonds

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray the pan with non-stick cooking spray. Sprinkle sliced almonds on the bottom of the pan.

Combine sugar, egg, almond extract, and milk. Mix in flour and baking powder. Add margarine. Mix well.

Carefully poor over sliced almonds. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes, until edges turn golden brown. Cool cake completely before removing from pan. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Beverages

Ingredients:

16 oz. pulp free orange juice or Sunny Delight
Ice
Water
1 oz vanilla syrup
1 tsp vanilla pudding mix

Put orange juice in blender. Add about a cup of ice. Add 1/2 cup water. Add vanilla syrup and vanilla pudding mix. Blend until smooth.

Muffins & Sweet Breads

Ingredients:

1-3/4 cup flour
1-1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 eggs
2 ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 plus 1 Tbsp. buttermilk or yogurt
1 tsp vanilla extrace
1 cup chopped walnuts and/or mini chocolate chips

In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, combine eggs, bananas, oil, buttermilk and vanilla. Add to flour mixture, stir well. Fold in nuts and/or chocolate chips. Line a 9 x 5 x 3 inch baking pan with parchment paper. Bake at 325 for 1 and 1/2 hours or until toothpick comes out clean from center of bread. Yields 1 loaf.

Desserts, Uncategorized

Ingredients:
4 cups sliced apples or 3 cups plus 1 cup fresh cranberries
1/2 cup water
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup dry oats

Place apples in greased 9×9 baking dish. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pour water over the apples. Sprinkle with cinnamon. Cream together butter and both sugars. Add flour and oatmeal, blend well. Sprinkle mixture over apples. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with ice cream if desired.

Cookies, Holiday Recipes

Ingredients:
2-1/4 cup sugar, divided
2/3 cup butter
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup sour cream
5 cups flour, sifted
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1-1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg

Gradually blend 2 cups sugar into butter, cream thoroughly. Add eggs to sugar mixture, beat until fluffy. Stir vanilla & sour cream into sugar mixture. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt & nutmeg. Mix the dry ingredients and add gradually to the sugar-butter mixture. Chill dough before rolling. Sprinkle with remaining sugar. Bake at 400 degrees for about 6-8 minutes.

Appetizers

Ingredients:
Dough:
1 package active dry yeast
1/3 cup warm water
1/3 cup warm milk (110 to 115 degrees)
1/8 cup sugar
1/8 cup shortening
1 egg
1 tsp salt
2-1/4 to 2-1/2 cups flour

May need to make a double batch of dough for the amount of filling below.

Filling:
1/2 pound bacon cooked and diced
1 pound ground beef
1/2 small onion, chopped
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1 pound Velveta processed cheese

In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add warm milk, sugar, shortening, egg, salt and most of the flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough flour to make a soft dough. May also be made in bread machine on manual setting. Knead until smooth and elastic, about 6 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.

Meanwhile, in a large skillet, brown ground beef with onion. Bake the bacon on a cookie sheet for about 25 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool bacon, chop. Put all filling ingredients in a crock pot to melt the cheese. Mix well.

Punch dough down, turn onto a lightly floured surface. Divide into fourths. Roll each portion into 12″ x 8″ rectangle. Cut rectangle into 6 squares. Place 1/4 cup meat mixture in the center of each square. Bring the corners together in the center and pinch to seat. Use milk or water to seal if necessary.

Place 2″ apart on a greased baking sheet or parchment paper. Bake at 400 degrees for 9-11 minutes or until lightly browned. Brush with butter.

 

Cake, Desserts

The late Sally Schneeweis’ specialty. Contributed by Melanie Lundheim.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and lightly flour bottom only of 13×9” pan.

Cake:
1 package yellow cake without pudding in the mix (like Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe)
1 small package lemon Jell-O
4 eggs
Rind of 1 lemon
1/2 cup oil
1 teaspoon lemon extract

Dissolve Jell-O in 1 cup boiling water and add to the rest of the above cake ingredients. Beat well. Spread mixture in pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Leave in pan and puncture top of cake evenly with fork.

Glaze for top of cake:
Juice of 1 lemon
1/2 teaspoon rum flavoring
1 cup powdered sugar

Mix glaze ingredients and pour evenly over fork-punctured cake when cake is hot.