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Cakes, Desserts

$250 Red Cake

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$250 Red Cake

There’s a story that goes with this cake that adds to its intrigue.  Many years ago a restaurateur  from St. Louis was eating at a famous restaurant in New York and fell in love with this cake. When she returned home she wrote to the restaurant and requested a copy of the recipe. They in turn mailed it to her with a bill for $250. Stunned by this, she in turn posted it in the local newspaper for all to enjoy. Now I’m sure you’ve eaten red velvet cake, but once you try your hand at this one, you’ll understand why it was worth every penny. Be careful what you wish for, right?

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups whit sugar

1/2 cup Crisco

2 Eggs

1 cup buttermilk

2 2/1 cups cake flour sifted

2 oz. red food coloring

2 tbsp. cocoa

1 tsp. vanilla

1/4 tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking soda dissolved in 1 tbsp. vinegar

Directions  for cake:

Cream  sugar and crisco. Add eggs alternately. Make a paste of the flour and buttermilk  combine into mixture. Add food coloring, cocoa, vanilla, salt and vinegar mixture.  Blend all together well.  Bake in 3 round cake pans (the picture shows 2 but 3 gives you more frosting) in 350 degree oven for 30 min.

Ingredients for filling/frosting:

5 tbsp. flour

1 cup milk

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

 

Directions for filling/frosting:

Cook until thick & then cool–5 tbsp. flour and 1 cup milk

Cream together and add to cool mixture—-1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar (added gradually) and 1 tsp. vanilla.

After cake has cooled for 10-15 min. remove from pans and allow to cool completely before frosting. Place first layer upside down on plate and top with frosting. Place next layer upside down on top of first and top with frosting. Place final layer right-side-up on top and frost the entire cake. If you like lots of frosting feel free to double the above amounts.

Breads, Recipes

BEER BREAD

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Ingredients

3 cups flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons sugar

1 (12-ounce) can of beer

2 tablespoons butter, melted, optional
Directions

Stir all ingredients together. Place in greased loaf pan and bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour or until golden. Brush top with melted butter, if desired.

Makes 12 servings, each with 153 calories, 2 grams fat, 5 mg cholesterol, 3 grams protein, 27 grams carbohydrates, 1 gram fiber, 277 grams sodium.

 

Recipes, Soups, Stews, Chowders

Potato Soup/w Spatzle

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Ingredients

2-3  Pounds red or white potatoes (not russets), peeled and cut into bite size pieces.

Salt and pepper to taste

Milk as needed

1 large onion diced

1 stick of butter

6-8 slices of bacon chopped(or bacon bits)

Shredded cheddar cheese

Spatzle (recipe below)

 

Directions

In large soup pot or dutch oven pot, fry chopped bacon. Remove and drain.  Add butter to same pot and saute onions. Remove onions to bowl for garnish later (they can also be fried later and served in the pan in which you fry them).

If you did the frying in the stock pot, wipe out pot and place cut-up potatoes in pot with enough water to almost cover.  Cook potatoes until fork tender 15-20 min. While the potatoes are cooking, make the spatzle. Remove potatoes to bowl with slotted spoon. Drop spatzle into broth and cook until they float.  Return potatoes to pot and add milk and heat through. I usually only have skim milk so some cream enriches it.

Garnish with bacon bits, sauted onions and cheddar cheese. Skip the bacon or use artificial bacon bits during Lent.

This saves a lot on dishes. You end up with one dirty bowl and one large pot.  Not too bad for such a heart warming meal.

The recipe for the spatzle is below and you can adjust it to make as many noodles as you want.  I usually use 3 eggs and 2-3 cups flour because we love these noodles.

 

Spatzle

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Ingredients:

2-3 Eggs

Flour to make stiff dough

Directions:

Beat eggs, then add flour a little at a time until you have a stiff dough. You don’t want it too sticky or it’s too hard to handle. I pull off small pieces (it really blows up in the broth) and drop them into the broth left after removing the potatoes with a slotted spoon. The noodles will float when done.

 

 

 

 

Appetizers, Buffet Items, Christmas Recipes, Recipes

Salami Roll-ups

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42 Servings Prep/total time: 25 Min.

Ingredients

1 carton (8 ounces) whipped cream cheese

1/4 pound hard salami, finely chopped

2 tablespoons dill pickle relish or sweet if you prefer

4 flour tortillas (10 inches), room temperature

Directions

In a small bowl, combine the cream cheese, salami and pickle relish.

Spread over tortillas. Roll up tightly; wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 15 minutes. Unwrap and cut each tortilla into 1-in. slices. Yield: 3-1/2 dozen.

Nutritional Facts1 roll-up equals 49 calories, 3 g fat (2 g saturated fat), 9 mg cholesterol, 120 mg sodium, 4 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein.

 

 

Appetizers, Buffet Items, Christmas Recipes, Recipes

Appetizer Meatballs

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Ingredients:

1 1/2 Lb. Ground Beef

1 1/2 Lb. Ground Chuck

1 envelope onion soup mix

3/4 C. dry bread crumbs

3 eggs

Salt, pepper & garlic powder to taste

Sauce:

1- 32oz. Bottle of catsup

1-6 to 8 oz. jar of pizza sauce

1-10oz. Jar grape jelly

2 tbsp. lemon juice

Directions:

For make your own- beat eggs and soup & seasonings to mix well.  Add meats and bread crumbs, mix. Make tiny balls ( 12 doz.) Bake 350 degrees – 20 Min.

Mix catsup, pizza sauce, jelly and lemon juice. Stir and cook over low heat 20 Min.  Add meatballs  to sauce and simmer about 30 Min.

Quick Method:

Make sauce as directed but use frozen meatballs instead of homemade to save extra work.  Just thaw the frozen meatballs and add to sauce, then simmer as directed.  When I first started making these there were now such thing as ready-made meatballs.  That’s what I’m using this year.

Cookies, Desserts, Recipes

Date-Nut Pinwheels

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Ingredients for Dough

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

Directions

Work butter in a bowl until creamy, add sugar gradually, add egg and beat well.

Add dry ingredients. Chill dough. Make filling while dough is chilling.

Roll chilled dough to 10×16 in. rectangle. Spread filling on dough and roll like jelly roll starting on a wide side. Wrap lightly and chill overnight.

Bake 10 to 12 min. at 350 degrees.

Ingredients for Filling

1 lb.(1 cup) pitted chopped dates

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup water

Pinch salt

1/2 cup finely chopped pecans

Directions

Cook five minutes, chill, add nuts