3 eggs | 3 cups flour (heaping) |
½ cup orange juice | 3 tsp baking powder |
1 tsp orange extract | 3 tbs. orange rind |
1 ½ sticks butter/margarine | |
½ cup of sugar |
Cream margarine (room temperature) with sugar. Add other ingredients on left & mix.
Add ingredients on right & knead until dough isn't sticky. (Takes about 5 minutes, adding sprinkles of flour as you go).
Let dough stand for 10 minutes. Then take tablespoons of dough, and roll each one into a ball about the size of a jawbreaker. Then roll between hands into small logs.
Bend into crescents & place on ungreased cookie sheets. Makes 24-30 cookies.
Bake 15 minutes until golden on bottom.
FROSTING 2 cups confectioners sugar...3 tablespoons orange juice...1 teaspoon orange extract should be thick & pasty...Drip over cookies.
Beat eggs 5 min. gradually add sugar and then pumpkin and lemon juice.
Sift together 3/4 plain flour, 1 tsp. ginger, 1 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp salt, ½ tsp nutmeg, 2 tsp cinnamon. Add to pumpkin mixture. Grease and flour jelly roll pan, sprinkle cake with chopped pecans (about ½ cup) and pat in gently, bake at 350 degrees only 15 minutes. Sprinkle tea towel with powdered sugar when cake is done turn out on towel and roll cake up in towel and allow to cool.
FILLING
1 cup powdered sugar
2 oz. pkgs cream cheese
4 tablespoons margarine
½ tablespoons vanilla and beat till smooth
½ cup nuts
Unroll cake and spread with filling, re-roll and cool 1 hour and cut.
Mix all ingredients together and bake in a 8" square pan at 300 degrees for 1 hour or until firm.
FILLING
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
Mix all together Pour half of the batter in a bundt pan, sprinkle with sugar mixture, and with a knife, swirl the sugar mixture into the batter, then pour the remaining batter on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes.
Mix sugar, water, syrup and salt. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until sugar is dissolved and mixture boils. Cook until hard ball stage (about 262 degrees). Remove from heat and pour over stiffly beaten eggs whites. Add vanilla and continue beating until mixture can be handled as dough. Divide into 3 balls and roll on greased board with greased rolling pin until about 1/4 inch thick. Roll with peanut butter which has been thinned to spreading consistency by adding melted butter. Blend in nuts, if desired. Roll as jelly roll and put on waxed paper. Let stand for short time..then slice to desired thickness.
1 cup peanut butter | 1 tsp vanilla |
2 cups powdered sugar | 1 stick margarine |
1 8 oz. package chocolate chips | 1 tbsp paraffin (melted) |
Work together the peanut butter, powdered sugar, margarine and vanilla and make into balls (use one teaspoon of mixture for each ball). Chill in freezer while melting chocolate chips and paraffin over low heat or in double boiler. Put each ball on toothpick and swirl in the chocolate. Place on waxed paper and put in refrigerator to chill. These can be made ahead of time and put in freezer for future use. May substitute butterscotch chips for chocolate chips.
3 cups sugar | 3/4 evaporated milk |
pinch of salt | 1 tsp vanilla |
3/4 cup water | 1 ½ cup peanut butter |
Boil sugar, water, evaporated milk, salt...to soft ball stage ( to about 234 degrees) Stir in peanut butter, margarine and marshmallow cream. Pour in buttered 8" square pan. Cut when cool.
Bring sugar and butter to a boil. Stir constantly until mixture turns caramel colored about 6-8 minutes. Pour mixture onto cookie sheet. Lay Hershey bars on top. Let melt and spread. Sprinkle with nuts and let cool before cutting.
2 cups cooked chicken (diced) | 2 tsp pimento |
1 can french style green beans | 1 med onion (chopped) |
1 can celery soup | ½ cup mayonnaise |
1 box Uncle Ben's Longrain Wild Rice | 1 can water chestnuts |
Mix all ingredients together. Bake for 350 degrees for 1 hour in a 9 X 13 pan.
1 cup small shell macaroni | ½ cup ketchup |
2 cups sliced celery | 1/4 tsp sugar |
1/4 tsp pepper | 1 tsp garlic salt |
1 tbs. Worcestershire sauce | 1 lb ground beef |
1 med onion (chopped) | 1 2 oz can of mushrooms (undrained) |
1 28 oz whole peeled tomatoes |
In a skillet brown meat and onions, drain fat, add rest of ingredients and macaroni. Serve with some shredded sharp chedder cheese.... hmmmmmm. Simmer 20-25 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in 13 X 9-inch baking pan. Mix sugar, flour and mile together; pour over melted butter. Pour peaches (or any other kind of fruit, cherries, strawberries. Blackberries, etc.) Evenly over batter. Do not stir. Bake for 45 minutes until brown and baked through. If you use canned fruit, in heavy syrup., decrease sugar to 3/4 cup.
Wash cauliflower and broccoli. Chop into small pieces. Mix with onions. Combine last 5 ingredients. Toss lightly with vegetables. Chill overnight.
Put sugar, milk, and syrup in a heavy saucepan. Let it come to a boil. Boil until it forms a ball in a glass of cold water. Remove from heat. Add chocolate chips, marshmallow cream, and vanilla and stir. Pour into a greased or buttered 9 x 13 pan and cool.
Note: You can substitute 1 16 oz. jar of peanut butter instead of the chocolate.