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Elephant Ear Cookies
If you're looking for something new, try this tasty snack that is made with sour milk and seedless raisins.
Overnight Soaked Oatmeal Muffins
Traditional oatmeal muffins start with overnight soaking in sour milk for extra tenderness. Add dates or raisins, bake 25 minutes for 14 rustic muffins.
Fruit Loaf
Fruit loaf studded with candied cherries, mixed peel, and nuts with almond and vanilla extract. A festive quick bread that bakes in under an hour with no yeast required.
Festive Fruit Cake Cookies
Festive fruit cake cookies loaded with candied cherries, pineapple, raisins, and brazil nuts with vanilla and almond extract. All the flavors of fruit cake in a quick drop cookie.
Guava Chiffon Pie
Guava chiffon pie with a flaky butter-and-shortening crust and a cloud-light tropical filling of guava juice, gelatin, and folded meringue. Topped with sweetened whipped cream and fresh guava slices.
Osage Fry Bread
Osage fry bread, a Native American skillet bread cut into diamonds and fried until pillowy and golden. Crisp blistered exterior with a tender, pull-apart interior for tacos, honey, or powdered sugar.
Osage Fry Bread
Osage fry bread, a Native American skillet bread cut into diamonds and fried until pillowy and golden. Crisp blistered exterior with a tender, pull-apart interior for tacos, honey, or powdered sugar.
Mince-Meat Oatmeal Cookies
Mincemeat oatmeal cookies: chewy spiced drop cookies that pack the entire flavor of a Christmas mince pie into a hand-held bite. Brown sugar, molasses, oats, and a generous spoonful of mincemeat per cookie.
Mincemeat Drop Cookies
Old-fashioned mincemeat drop cookies with a simple shortening-sugar dough and a full cup of prepared mincemeat. Fruity, spiced, and ready to bake in minutes.
Steamed Carrot Pudding
An old Welsh steamed carrot pudding -- This is a
good steamed pudding, despite the list of ingredients that are "good for you".
The sauce (following the recipe) is not a necessity for good
taste, only for authenticity, although I LIKE it with the sauce.
Aunt Sally's Cookies
Old-fashioned soft molasses cookies spiced with cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg, topped with a shiny boiled gelatin frosting. Makes 4 dozen from an overnight chilled dough.
Sour Milk Jumbles
Old-fashioned sour milk jumbles cut with a doughnut cutter and sprinkled with sugar straight from the oven. Buttermilk and nutmeg give these ring-shaped cookies a tender crumb and warm spice.
Screwball Cake
A Depression-era chocolate cake made with no eggs, no butter, and no milk. Mixed right in the pan with the famous three-holes method, topped with rich fudge frosting.
Alabama Cookies
My husband's baseball team prefers these cookies to chocolate chip..... if I make anything else, I have to have Alabama's too!
Bohemian Braid
This simple, but scrumptious bread is made with almonds, pecans and maraschino cherries.
Persimmon Chocolate Chip Cookies
Persimmon chocolate chip cookies: ripe Hachiya persimmon pulp folded into a spiced cookie dough with chocolate chips, walnuts, and dates. Soft, cake-like cookies with autumn-spice warmth in every bite.
If you're looking for something new, try this tasty snack that is made with sour milk and seedless raisins.
Traditional oatmeal muffins start with overnight soaking in sour milk for extra tenderness. Add dates or raisins, bake 25 minutes for 14 rustic muffins.
Fruit loaf studded with candied cherries, mixed peel, and nuts with almond and vanilla extract. A festive quick bread that bakes in under an hour with no yeast required.
Festive fruit cake cookies loaded with candied cherries, pineapple, raisins, and brazil nuts with vanilla and almond extract. All the flavors of fruit cake in a quick drop cookie.
Guava chiffon pie with a flaky butter-and-shortening crust and a cloud-light tropical filling of guava juice, gelatin, and folded meringue. Topped with sweetened whipped cream and fresh guava slices.
Osage fry bread, a Native American skillet bread cut into diamonds and fried until pillowy and golden. Crisp blistered exterior with a tender, pull-apart interior for tacos, honey, or powdered sugar.
Osage fry bread, a Native American skillet bread cut into diamonds and fried until pillowy and golden. Crisp blistered exterior with a tender, pull-apart interior for tacos, honey, or powdered sugar.
Mincemeat oatmeal cookies: chewy spiced drop cookies that pack the entire flavor of a Christmas mince pie into a hand-held bite. Brown sugar, molasses, oats, and a generous spoonful of mincemeat per cookie.
Old-fashioned mincemeat drop cookies with a simple shortening-sugar dough and a full cup of prepared mincemeat. Fruity, spiced, and ready to bake in minutes.
An old Welsh steamed carrot pudding -- This is a good steamed pudding, despite the list of ingredients that are "good for you". The sauce (following the recipe) is not a necessity for good taste, only for authenticity, although I LIKE it with the sauce.
Old-fashioned soft molasses cookies spiced with cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg, topped with a shiny boiled gelatin frosting. Makes 4 dozen from an overnight chilled dough.
Old-fashioned sour milk jumbles cut with a doughnut cutter and sprinkled with sugar straight from the oven. Buttermilk and nutmeg give these ring-shaped cookies a tender crumb and warm spice.
A Depression-era chocolate cake made with no eggs, no butter, and no milk. Mixed right in the pan with the famous three-holes method, topped with rich fudge frosting.
My husband's baseball team prefers these cookies to chocolate chip..... if I make anything else, I have to have Alabama's too!
This simple, but scrumptious bread is made with almonds, pecans and maraschino cherries.
Persimmon chocolate chip cookies: ripe Hachiya persimmon pulp folded into a spiced cookie dough with chocolate chips, walnuts, and dates. Soft, cake-like cookies with autumn-spice warmth in every bite.
