1 cup flour
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/8 cup of milk
Mix together and roll
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Brownies
2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cup self rising flour
4 tbs cocoa
4 eggs
2 sticks butter
1 tbs vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts
Mix ingredients and bake in a 15 inch brownie pan @ 350 for 30 minutes.
Frosting:
1 stick butter
2 tbs cocoa
1 10 oz box 4x sugar
Mix and place in the top of a double boiler, bring to a bubble but not boiling, pour over the top of the brownies.
1 3/4 cup self rising flour
4 tbs cocoa
4 eggs
2 sticks butter
1 tbs vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts
Mix ingredients and bake in a 15 inch brownie pan @ 350 for 30 minutes.
Frosting:
1 stick butter
2 tbs cocoa
1 10 oz box 4x sugar
Mix and place in the top of a double boiler, bring to a bubble but not boiling, pour over the top of the brownies.
Pecan Pie
1 Cup Sugar
2 Cups Dark Karo Syrup
6 eggs
1 stick butter
1 tsp vanilla
2 unbaked pie shells
Mix sugar and syrup and cook until medium hard ball stage, stirring constantly. Add butter to sugar and syrup. Beat eggs separately and mix slowly into the hot mixture. Return to heat and cook until mixture boils add vanilla and pour into pie shells and arrange pecans on top of pies. Bake in oven @ 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until the pie shells are brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
2 Cups Dark Karo Syrup
6 eggs
1 stick butter
1 tsp vanilla
2 unbaked pie shells
Mix sugar and syrup and cook until medium hard ball stage, stirring constantly. Add butter to sugar and syrup. Beat eggs separately and mix slowly into the hot mixture. Return to heat and cook until mixture boils add vanilla and pour into pie shells and arrange pecans on top of pies. Bake in oven @ 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until the pie shells are brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
Friday, December 24, 2010
"Special" Banana Bread
Okay one more recipe of mine that I was making today and decided to share with you. I found this recipe on the Internet and added a few ingredients to make it special to me. You can make it with our without the extras and it turns out so yummy and moist, it is almost pudding like.
First "regular" banana bread.....very good!
3-4 really, really ripe bananas
1/3 cup melted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg beaten
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 pinch of salt
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 cup chopped nuts ( optional)- walnuts, or pecans
Mas bananas in a large mixing bowl, mash in melted butter until smooth, add sugar,egg, and vanilla. Add in all purpose flour and nuts, then sprinkle baking soda and salt over the top, mix well. Pour into a greased pan and bake at 350 until golden brown, approx 30-40 min.
Special Banana Bread:
3-4 really ripe bananas
1/3 cup melted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg beaten
1 tsp vanilla
2 shots Irish cream liqueur
1 tsp baking soda
1 pinch salt
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
Mash bananas and melted butter in the bottom of a large mixing bowl, mix in sugar, egg, vanilla, liqueur until mixed well. Add in cocoa powder and flour mix well, sprinkle the top with baking soda and salt, mix together well. Bake @ 350 degrees until toothpick come out clean. Approx 30-45 min.
Enjoy!
Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you are eating wonderful goodies, gathered together with your family and friends!
First "regular" banana bread.....very good!
3-4 really, really ripe bananas
1/3 cup melted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg beaten
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 pinch of salt
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 cup chopped nuts ( optional)- walnuts, or pecans
Mas bananas in a large mixing bowl, mash in melted butter until smooth, add sugar,egg, and vanilla. Add in all purpose flour and nuts, then sprinkle baking soda and salt over the top, mix well. Pour into a greased pan and bake at 350 until golden brown, approx 30-40 min.
Special Banana Bread:
3-4 really ripe bananas
1/3 cup melted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg beaten
1 tsp vanilla
2 shots Irish cream liqueur
1 tsp baking soda
1 pinch salt
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
Mash bananas and melted butter in the bottom of a large mixing bowl, mix in sugar, egg, vanilla, liqueur until mixed well. Add in cocoa powder and flour mix well, sprinkle the top with baking soda and salt, mix together well. Bake @ 350 degrees until toothpick come out clean. Approx 30-45 min.
Enjoy!
Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you are eating wonderful goodies, gathered together with your family and friends!
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Dressing
Tonight I am going to give you one of my recipes, I wanted to give you something besides sweets today and I couldn't find a recipe in the box for dressing. I know Mama Cook made dressing and like everything else she cooked, it had to be good....but she obviously didn't need a recipe for it.
I don't either, but I will tell you what I do. Every time I make this, it is a little different, I don't measure my spices, or my milk or my oil, or well....mostly anything.
Dressing is a southern thing, but you should really try it if you have never had it because it is the single reason to eat in my family during the holidays!
This recipe will feed a large crowd, if you need a smaller batch, just half everything I have here.
Step 1:
In a LARGE mixing bowl combine
4 cups White Lily Buttermilk Cornbread Mix
approx 2 tbsp garlic powder
approx 1 tbsp celery seed or powder
approx 2 tbsp oregano
approx 2 tbsp Mrs Dash
1 large onion diced
2 stalks of celery diced
4 eggs
approx 1/2 cup oil ( canola, vegetable, peanut, coconut....whatever you normally use)
stir this together and then add slowly add milk to make the mixture approximate 1 to 1 1/2 cups, you should be able to scoop up on the spoon and it should be just thin enough to slide off the spoon easily. Bake this in a large greased frying pan or 2 depending on the size you own @ 350 degrees until golden brown. Let sit overnight.
Step 2:
3 cans of Progresso cream of mushroom soup
3-4 large containers of Chicken Broth ( I use whatever is the least expensive but has NO MSG)
1 stalk of celery
2 eggs
1/4 cup of oil
garlic powder
celery powder
basil
onion powder
1 tsp sage
In a large mixing bowl combine crumbled cornbread mixture, soup, broth, eggs, oil, chopped celery. Add enough broth so your dressing mixture is the same consistency as your cornbread from the night before (okay this part is weird....bare with me :) Smell your mixture...... then add garlic powder, celery powder, basil, onion powder by small doses until your mixture smells savory and yummy. I know this sounds weird but I cook a lot by smell, and it works really well.
Bake this mixture in a 350 degree oven for approx 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until set on the edges and golden brown on top. Don't overcook or it will dry out.
I think you will love it. Don't over season the mix! Enjoy!
I don't either, but I will tell you what I do. Every time I make this, it is a little different, I don't measure my spices, or my milk or my oil, or well....mostly anything.
Dressing is a southern thing, but you should really try it if you have never had it because it is the single reason to eat in my family during the holidays!
This recipe will feed a large crowd, if you need a smaller batch, just half everything I have here.
Step 1:
In a LARGE mixing bowl combine
4 cups White Lily Buttermilk Cornbread Mix
approx 2 tbsp garlic powder
approx 1 tbsp celery seed or powder
approx 2 tbsp oregano
approx 2 tbsp Mrs Dash
1 large onion diced
2 stalks of celery diced
4 eggs
approx 1/2 cup oil ( canola, vegetable, peanut, coconut....whatever you normally use)
stir this together and then add slowly add milk to make the mixture approximate 1 to 1 1/2 cups, you should be able to scoop up on the spoon and it should be just thin enough to slide off the spoon easily. Bake this in a large greased frying pan or 2 depending on the size you own @ 350 degrees until golden brown. Let sit overnight.
Step 2:
3 cans of Progresso cream of mushroom soup
3-4 large containers of Chicken Broth ( I use whatever is the least expensive but has NO MSG)
1 stalk of celery
2 eggs
1/4 cup of oil
garlic powder
celery powder
basil
onion powder
1 tsp sage
In a large mixing bowl combine crumbled cornbread mixture, soup, broth, eggs, oil, chopped celery. Add enough broth so your dressing mixture is the same consistency as your cornbread from the night before (okay this part is weird....bare with me :) Smell your mixture...... then add garlic powder, celery powder, basil, onion powder by small doses until your mixture smells savory and yummy. I know this sounds weird but I cook a lot by smell, and it works really well.
Bake this mixture in a 350 degree oven for approx 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until set on the edges and golden brown on top. Don't overcook or it will dry out.
I think you will love it. Don't over season the mix! Enjoy!
Biscuits and Divorce????
When my parents divorced I spent a lot of time between my paternal and maternal grandparents. Both of my parents worked a lot and when I was growing up you were most likely "baby sat" by family. I loved going to Mama Cook's house. We didn't do any TV watching during the day, but there was a huge farm to run around. We played horse on the gas tank in the back yard, we built " houses" in the trees where we pretended to live, we ran and climbed and pretended all over that place!
One day I was in the kitchen with Mama Cook and she was beginning to make lunch, I loved to help her cook. I was fascinated with all that she did, cooking, sewing, gardening, all of it. Anyway she started a batch of biscuits, just like she did every day, and I said " Mama Cook, why do you make biscuits every day?" (Nobody else I knew made biscuits everyday!) She responded " If I didn't have biscuits on that table every meal I think your Daddy Cook would divorce me." I laughed with her, but it made me stop to think. This couple was invincible, there was no such thing as divorce in their world. They had raised 7 kids, took in family members, weathered loss and love and need and there was just no way they would give up, especially over biscuits. But just in case they were there every day!
One day I was in the kitchen with Mama Cook and she was beginning to make lunch, I loved to help her cook. I was fascinated with all that she did, cooking, sewing, gardening, all of it. Anyway she started a batch of biscuits, just like she did every day, and I said " Mama Cook, why do you make biscuits every day?" (Nobody else I knew made biscuits everyday!) She responded " If I didn't have biscuits on that table every meal I think your Daddy Cook would divorce me." I laughed with her, but it made me stop to think. This couple was invincible, there was no such thing as divorce in their world. They had raised 7 kids, took in family members, weathered loss and love and need and there was just no way they would give up, especially over biscuits. But just in case they were there every day!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Christmas Drop Cookies
Well it is the time of year for this one right. This recipe card is from Aunt Evelyn, and I am sure it is delicious! Just a note, that this makes LOTS of cookies, 12-15 dozen, so you may want to trim it down based on your need. Also this recipe is not one of those quick and easy one bowl jobs....but the results will be worth it!
Step 1
In a large bowl mix together:
2lbs candied cherries cut in 3 pieces drained
2lbs candied pineapple chopped drained
1lb dark raisins
1lb light raisins
6 cups chopped pecans
1 cup flour
Step 2
Cream together in a separate bowl 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar, 1 stick butter, 3 tbsp sweet milk ( condensed milk)
Step 3
Mix together 5 cups self rising flour, 3 tbsp baking soda, 1 tsp each allspice, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg
Step 4
Add ingredients from Step 2 & Step 3 alternating with 1 cup pineapple juice.
Step 5 add batter to fruit and nuts from Step 1 mixing with hands.
Drop by teaspoons on cookie sheets
Bake on cookie sheet # 300-325 until light brown.
Step 1
In a large bowl mix together:
2lbs candied cherries cut in 3 pieces drained
2lbs candied pineapple chopped drained
1lb dark raisins
1lb light raisins
6 cups chopped pecans
1 cup flour
Step 2
Cream together in a separate bowl 1 1/2 cups light brown sugar, 1 stick butter, 3 tbsp sweet milk ( condensed milk)
Step 3
Mix together 5 cups self rising flour, 3 tbsp baking soda, 1 tsp each allspice, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg
Step 4
Add ingredients from Step 2 & Step 3 alternating with 1 cup pineapple juice.
Step 5 add batter to fruit and nuts from Step 1 mixing with hands.
Drop by teaspoons on cookie sheets
Bake on cookie sheet # 300-325 until light brown.
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