norgeway
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Well, since im off till Monday, I started my baking,First i made Grandmothers Oatmeal Cookies..And my Mothers Tea Cakes.
Christmas Baking!
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norgeway
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Then..
While the first batch of Oatmeal cookies was baking, I whipped up a Betty Feezor chocolate Pound Cake, and put it in the gas oven, now no one need tell me that a electric oven is better for cakes!! IMHO, it aint! Here is proof, it rose higher than the pan!
While the first batch of Oatmeal cookies was baking, I whipped up a Betty Feezor chocolate Pound Cake, and put it in the gas oven, now no one need tell me that a electric oven is better for cakes!! IMHO, it aint! Here is proof, it rose higher than the pan!
norgeway
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Recipes!
Oatmeal Cookies, This is one of my Grandmothers recipes she made when I was growing up, and when my Mother was a kid, since they are both gone , it is nice to fix these at Christmas.
1 cup sifted flour
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
3/4 cup Crisco
1 1/3 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups plain oats
1 cup raisins
Siftdry ingredients, all but sugar and oats, add sugar Crisco eggs and vanilla, blend well, beat smooth with a wooden spoon, stir in oats and raisins,drop by heaping tsp on greased cookie sheets, bake 350 12 to 15 minutes.
Oatmeal Cookies, This is one of my Grandmothers recipes she made when I was growing up, and when my Mother was a kid, since they are both gone , it is nice to fix these at Christmas.
1 cup sifted flour
1/2 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
3/4 cup Crisco
1 1/3 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups plain oats
1 cup raisins
Siftdry ingredients, all but sugar and oats, add sugar Crisco eggs and vanilla, blend well, beat smooth with a wooden spoon, stir in oats and raisins,drop by heaping tsp on greased cookie sheets, bake 350 12 to 15 minutes.
norgeway
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Tea Cakes..
My Mother started making these in the 60s, they were always my favorites.
1 cup Crisco
2 cups sugar
2 eggs separated
4 cups sifted flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
1 TBSP lemon juice
1 cup evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla
Cream crisco, sugar, and egg yolks till light and fluffy,add lemon juice to the evap. milk,add alternately to creamed mixture, add vanilla and fold in egg whites stiffly beaten,drop by spoonsfull onto greased cookie sheet, bake at 375 for 10 to 12 minutes
Thes are soft and very light,I sprinkle with cinnamon sugar or colored sugar.
My Mother started making these in the 60s, they were always my favorites.
1 cup Crisco
2 cups sugar
2 eggs separated
4 cups sifted flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
1 TBSP lemon juice
1 cup evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla
Cream crisco, sugar, and egg yolks till light and fluffy,add lemon juice to the evap. milk,add alternately to creamed mixture, add vanilla and fold in egg whites stiffly beaten,drop by spoonsfull onto greased cookie sheet, bake at 375 for 10 to 12 minutes
Thes are soft and very light,I sprinkle with cinnamon sugar or colored sugar.
polkanut
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Hans,
When you say "plain oats", do you mean the non quick cooking type?
When you say "plain oats", do you mean the non quick cooking type?
norgeway
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Betty Feezors Chocolate Pound Cake.
2 sticks butter
1/2 cup Crisco
3 cups sugar
3 cups all purpose flour
5 eggs
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 1/4 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla
Cream butter, crisco and sugar,add eggs one at time beating well after each, sift dry ingredients, add alternately with milk, add vanilla, bake in a greased and floured tube pan 325 for 1 3/4 to 2 hours.
2 sticks butter
1/2 cup Crisco
3 cups sugar
3 cups all purpose flour
5 eggs
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 1/4 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla
Cream butter, crisco and sugar,add eggs one at time beating well after each, sift dry ingredients, add alternately with milk, add vanilla, bake in a greased and floured tube pan 325 for 1 3/4 to 2 hours.
norgeway
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oatmeal...
I use the quick cooking Quaker oats, Grandmother used regular, because the quick cooking ones had not been invented!!!
I use the quick cooking Quaker oats, Grandmother used regular, because the quick cooking ones had not been invented!!!
norgeway
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Oh Yeah...
The rack the cookies are on came out of my Grandmothers first refrigerator, a 1938 Apex, it died in 1950 , the seal blew out and the sulfur dioxide ran everybody out of the house!!
The rack the cookies are on came out of my Grandmothers first refrigerator, a 1938 Apex, it died in 1950 , the seal blew out and the sulfur dioxide ran everybody out of the house!!
norgeway
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More..
To come!!
To come!!
Hans,
These look great! I'm looking forward to trying them - and that pound cake!! You haven't shared a Better Frezor recipe yet that wasn't wonderful!
Thanks!
These look great! I'm looking forward to trying them - and that pound cake!! You haven't shared a Better Frezor recipe yet that wasn't wonderful!
Thanks!
whirlcool
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My mother used to make those oatmeal raisin cookies. She used to douse them in powdered sugar which I wasn't fond of. But it was so nice to come home from school and smell the house filled with the great smell of those baking!
I am about to poke the start button on my oven........
My church is having an open to the public Christmas Day lunch, and I've been asked to bring several batches of cookies. I am also helping with set-up tomorrow, and serving on the day.
Here's what I am going to make: Double Orange (a sugar cookie base, but with orange zest instead of vanilla, with an orange juice/confectioner's sugar glaze), and Butter Drops (have posted the recipe here previously), and if I am ambitious, a batch of blonde brownies.
I am going to transport them in Tupperware, but have the perfect glass platter.....it is painted on the reverse with snowflakes and polar bears, and I got it at Goodwill years ago for something like 1.75!
Happy Baking!
Lawrence/Maytagbear
My church is having an open to the public Christmas Day lunch, and I've been asked to bring several batches of cookies. I am also helping with set-up tomorrow, and serving on the day.
Here's what I am going to make: Double Orange (a sugar cookie base, but with orange zest instead of vanilla, with an orange juice/confectioner's sugar glaze), and Butter Drops (have posted the recipe here previously), and if I am ambitious, a batch of blonde brownies.
I am going to transport them in Tupperware, but have the perfect glass platter.....it is painted on the reverse with snowflakes and polar bears, and I got it at Goodwill years ago for something like 1.75!
Happy Baking!
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Root Beer Pizzelles
Substitute one part each vanilla extract, anise extract and almond extract for anise extract alone. When cooled, the pizzelles have a wisp of root beer flavor.
Substitute one part each vanilla extract, anise extract and almond extract for anise extract alone. When cooled, the pizzelles have a wisp of root beer flavor.
To me, nothing says "Christmas" like a German Chocolate Cake! Here's a perfectly baked one that I managed to get a good shot of, before impulsively cutting off a piece or two & eating it up:
So what is about Pecan & Coconut frosting that makes a German Chocolate Cake, 'German Chocolate', in addition to the chocolate used?
Well, what does it matter? I'm sure like my other pastries, this has got to be good!
Well, what does it matter? I'm sure like my other pastries, this has got to be good!
A misprint that became a cultural icon
Baker's makes a baking chocolate that's still called German's Sweet Chocolate and the recipe was supposed to be called German's Chocolate Cake. A typesetter missed the possessive and an American dessert suddenly became a faux-German creation.
Extra credit: Where was Chicken Kiev invented?
Baker's makes a baking chocolate that's still called German's Sweet Chocolate and the recipe was supposed to be called German's Chocolate Cake. A typesetter missed the possessive and an American dessert suddenly became a faux-German creation.
Extra credit: Where was Chicken Kiev invented?
norgeway
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I dont know...
But it is a fun dish to make, My mother ate it years ago at the Russian Tea Room, and came home determined to find the recipe, she did and my family has made it ever sense, it takes time to do it right, but its good!!
But it is a fun dish to make, My mother ate it years ago at the Russian Tea Room, and came home determined to find the recipe, she did and my family has made it ever sense, it takes time to do it right, but its good!!
