Neysa’s Banana Nut Bread

Ingredients & Directions 2 1/2 c Sugar 1 c Crisco 4 Eggs 4 c Flour 1 1/2 ts Baking soda 1 ts Baking powder 1 ts Salt 1/2 c Buttermilk 6 Ripe bananas, mashed 1 ts Vanilla 1 c Broken walnuts Cream crisco and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time. Beat until fluffy. Mix […]

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Merry Cherry Chocolate Cupcakes

Ingredients & Directions 1 pk Cream cheese, softened (8oz) 1 pk Confectioners’ sugar (16 oz) 1 cn Maraschino cherries, drained -(6 oz) 2 c PLANTERS Pecan Halves 24 Prepared chocolate cupcakes, -cooled (2 1/2″) In medium bowl, with electric mixer at medium speed, beat cream cheese until smooth. Slowly add confectioners’ sugar, beating until smooth […]

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Fudgy Chocolate Cookie Bars

Ingredients & Directions 1 3/4 c Flour 3/4 c Confectioner’s sugar 1/4 c Cocoa 1 c Butter; cold 12 oz Semisweet chocolate chips 14 oz Sweetened condensed milk 1 ts Vanilla 1 c Nuts; chopped Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar and cocoa; cut in butter until crumbly – […]

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Dobosh Torte Sponge Cake

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Flour; (or cake flour) 3 lg Eggs 1 ts Baking powder 1 c Sugar 1/4 ts Salt 1/3 c Water 1 ts Vanilla Heat oven to 375 degrees. Grease and flour a jelly roll pan, or grease and line it with parchment paper or aluminum foil. Measure flour by dip […]

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Mincemeat Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 1 1/2 c Brown sugar 1 c Shortening 2 Egg; well beaten 3 c Flour 2 tb Sweetened condensed milk 2 c Rolled oats 1/2 ts Salt 1/4 c Molasses 1 1/4 c Mincemeat 2 tb ;Water 4 ts Baking powder Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs, molasses, milk, water, and mince- […]

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Hamentashen (traditional Purim Cookie)

Ingredients & Directions 4 Eggs 1 c Oil 1 1/4 c Sugar 2 ts Vanilla 3 ts Baking powder 5 1/2 -(up to) 6 c Flour 1 -(up to) 2 Jars (small) baked good -filling (apricot; prune, -cherry, poppyseed; etc.) From: MARNI MJFST19@vms.cis.pitt.edu Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 22:30:42 GMT Mix together eggs, oil, sugar, […]

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Grandmother’s Jelly Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Butter or margarine, -softened 1 1/2 c Sugar 1 Egg 1 1/2 ts Vanilla extract 3 1/2 c All-purpose flour 1 ts Salt 3/4 c Red raspberry, strawberry or -peach preserves In the spirit of the season, Grandmother’s Jelly Cookies guarantee that Santa Claus will recruit you to pack his […]

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Sawdust Pie

Ingredients & Directions -CRUST- 1 c Instant oats 1 c Flour 2/3 c Butter 1 c Brown sugar 1 tb Baking powder Work all ingredients Together. Press into a 9″ Pan saving some to sprinkle On top. FILLING 1 c Crushed pineapple 1 c Sugar 2 Eggs, slightly beaten 1/2 c Butter 1 tb Flour […]

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Blueberry Pie

Ingredients & Directions -CREAM CHEESE PASTRY- 1 1/2 c Flour 1/2 c Butter; cold 3 oz Cheese, cream; cubed 1 ts Extract, vanilla FILLING 2 pt Blueberries 2 tb Cornstarch 2/3 c Fruit spread, blueberry 1/4 ts Nutmeg, ground -GLAZE- 1 Egg yolks 1 tb Cream, sour Blueberries can be fresh or frozen. Preheat oven […]

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Banana Sunflower Seed Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 c Oil 2 md Bananas 1/2 c Sugar 1 1/2 c Flour 1 c Sunflower seeds 1 ts Baking soda Bananas should be really ripe. Preheat oven to 350. Peel and mash bananas. In large bowl, beat oil, bananas, and sugar. Mix flour with sunflower seeds and soda. Add dry ingredients […]

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