Friday, October 28, 2016

Oatmeal Cookies

This is my grandmother Cleone's recipe:

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs
2 cups oatmeal
1 cup milk
2 cups flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt.

Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes.

Homemade Bread

This is Lael Wall's recipe:

7 cups Unbleached Flour
2 tbsp Salt
2 tbsp Powdered Milk
2 tbsp Instant Yeast
2/3 cup Sugar

Blend together.

Add:
5 1/2 cups water 
6 tbsp oil.

Blend then add 6 cups of flour.

Mix for 7 minutes. 

Put in oiled bowl.

Let rise till doubled in size.

Punch down and let rise 40 minutes.

Punch down and let rise 20 minutes.

Roll out into 4 loaves.  

Let rise 15 minutes.

Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Cherry Crumb Pie

1 frozen pie crust
1 (21 oz) can cherry pie filling
1/4 cup flour
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp butter or margarine, melted

Heat over to 425 degrees.

Spoon filling into frozen pie crust.  In small bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, and butter, until crumbly.  Sprinkle over filling.  Bake 35 to 45 minutes until filling is bubbly. 

Saturday, October 15, 2016

No Bake Fudge

1 (20 oz) chocolate bar
1 can Eagle Brand milk
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 small bag chopped walnuts

Melt chocolate.  Add milk, salt, and vanilla.  Sit until well mixed.  Add nuts.  Shape into rolls.  Refrigerate until cool.  Cut into slices.

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Pumpkin Spice Cookies

3 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup butter
2 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp pumpkin spice
2 eggs

Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together. In a separate bowl, cream butter and vanilla together until softened. Add sugar to butter mixture until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time to butter mixture, stirring after each one. Add a fourth of the dry ingredients to the butter mix at a time, stirring after each fourth. Cover bowl and chill in refrigerate over night. Remove dough from fridge and shape into ball 1/4 inch thick. Use cookie cutters to make shapes and lay cookies on a greased cookie sheet.


Bake at 400 degrees for 6 to 8 minutes.  Let cool on wax paper before moving the cookies to the container.  Makes 2 to 3 dozen.



Thursday, September 22, 2016

Pumpkin Cobbler


I found the recipe on Food.com, but I didn't have a yellow cake mix, so I had to make one from scratch, using flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.


Saturday, May 7, 2016

Caramel Chocolate Cake

1 package chocolate cake mix
1 Score or Heath candy bar
2 or 3 bottles of Caramel Sauce
1 package Whipped Cream


Prepare and bake chocolate cake mix, as directed on box. While cake is warm, poke holes into cake and pour caramel sauce on top.




When cake is cool, put cool whip on top.



Sprinkle candy crumbs on top of cool whip,


Refrigerate leftovers.