Cake, Desserts

This is a faster version of Grandma’s Poppy Seed Coffee Cake. Makes three coffee cakes.

5-6 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup soft crisco
2 eggs
2 packages dry yeast (quick rise yeast)
1 and 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 and 1/2 cups very hot water

In a bowl add 2 cups flour, dry yeast, sugar and salt. Mix it. Add crisco and hot water. Beat mixture on high for 2 minutes. Add eggs and beat more. Add the rest of the flour until the right consistency. But no more than 6 cups total. Let mixture stand in bowl until doubled.

Take it out of the bowl and cut into three sections. Roll out and put dough on cookie sheet, then cover with poppy seed or cream cheese filling below. Brush egg white around edges of dough after covering dough with filling. Fold dough into thirds- start by folding dough from one side about 1/3 of the way over and brushing egg white on top of folded part. Then fold over the second third). Let it rise. 

Crumb topping (This is 1 and 1/2 batch)
1 1/3 cups flour (1 and 1/3 cups flour)
3/4 cups butter
3/4 cups sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 

Before putting crumbs on coffee cake, dilute a small portion of white Karo Syrup with a little milk and spread mixture on coffee cake with fingers. 

For three poppy seed coffee cake filling, use two cans Solo Poppy Seed filling and mix in 1 cup applesauce.

BAKE AT 350 degrees For 30 to 35 minutes. 

Cream Cheese filling version: Cream cheese filling for 3 coffee cakes:
3 8 oz. packages cream cheese
3 egg yolks
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
beat until real fluffy

Breakfast, Muffins & Sweet Breads, Uncategorized

Ingredients

2 Tbsp coarse chopped peeled fresh ginger root
1-2 lemons well scrubbed, patted dry
1/2 cup butter room temp.
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup yogurt or buttermilk
2 cups flour
1/4 fresh lemon juice
2 tbsp. of sugar


Heat oven to 375 degrees.
Finely chopped ginger, finely grate the lemon peel so you have 2 tbsp.
Beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Add ginger and lemon peel
Stir baking soda into buttermilk. Fold flour into ginger mixture one third at a time alternating with buttermilk. when well blended scoop into muffin cups. bake 18-20 minutes until springy to the touch.
While muffins are baking, mix lemon juice and 2 tbsp. sugar until dissolved. When the muffins are baked, cool 3-5 min. then dip into mixture (top and bottom).

Desserts, Holiday Recipes, Pies and Tarts

Bake small pie pumpkins in the oven at 350 degrees until really soft and pulling away from skin. Remove seeds and skin, puree when cooled.

Ingredients:

1 9 inch deep dish pie crust, preferably home made
2 cups of pureed pumpkin (1- 15 ounce can of pumpkin in a pinch)
3 eggs slightly beaten
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 Tbsp molasses
optional- finely chopped crystallized ginger
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ginger
1 cup evaporated milk
Par bake crust 4-5 minutes at 400 degrees. Combine pumpkin and remaining ingredients. Pour in pie shell. Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes, reduce temperature to 350 degrees and bake an additional 40-45 minutes until knife comes out clean.

Camping and Trail food

Ingredients:

5 pounds ground beef or ground venison
5 tbsp Mortons Tender Quick Salt
1 Tbsp garlic salt
1 Tbsp mustard seed
1 Tbsp black pepper
2 tsp red pepper

Mix well and mold into 5 or 6 long loaves. Let sit for 24 hours in refrigerator. Bake 6 hours at 150 degrees or 5 hours at 170 degrees.

Cool, wrap and refrigerate. Can also freeze.

Pasta, Potatoes and Rice

Boil 8 unpeeled potatoes the night before, don’t overcook.
Drain water and let potatoes cool – peel & cut into cubes

Pour  the following ingredients over the potatoes and turn (don’t stir)

  • 1/4 cup vinegar
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 1/4 tsp paprika salt and pepper

Refrigerate overnight
Stir occasionally. Taste potatoes to confirm if dry,  add more oil
Hard boil 8 eggs, do not add until next day

The next day:

Chop up 1/2 cup onion
Chop 1/2 cup celery

Mix mayo (about 3/4 cup) and milk – keep mixture a bit thick.
Add onion and mayo mix to potatoes Add more paprika and chopped eggs.