Nicky’s Favourite Shortbread

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Unsalted butter (room temp.) 1/4 ts Baking powder 1/2 c Icing sugar 1/4 ts Salt 2 c All purpose flour* Slivers of glaced cherries * 1 3/4 c if measured before sifting Cream butter and sugar together until silky. Add sifted dry ingredients and mix until blended, but just. Turn […]

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Crackling Bread

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Corn meal 1/2 ts Soda 1/4 ts Salt 1 c Buttermilk 1 c Cracklings, diced (see -below) Sift corn meal, salt and soda together. Add milk and stir in cracklings. Form into oblong cakes and place on greased baking sheets. Bake, hot, for 30 minutes. CRACKLINGS: Cut fat back into […]

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Double Dill Bread

Ingredients & Directions 1 dee penrod 1 pk baking yeast 1/4 c warm, not hot, water 1 c lowfat cottage cheese 1 (small curd) 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon reduced-calorie 1 margarine 1 teaspoon dill seed, crushed 1 lightly 2 teasp minced fresh dill weed 1 teaspoon dried onion flakes 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon […]

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Breaded Tomatoes

Ingredients & Directions 1 cn Chopped tomatoes with juice – OR – 1 lb Fresh tomatoes 2 tb Sugar 1 tb Flour 2 sl Bread, torn into pieces CREAM (CAN OR FRESH) If using fresh tomatoes, cook 5 to 10 minutes or until tender or the canned tomatoes to the boil. Mix the sugar and […]

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Maple-pecan Cornbread

Ingredients & Directions 1 c All-purpose Gold Medal flour 1 c Yellow cornmeal 1 ts Baking powder 1 ts Baking soda 1 ts Salt 3 tb Butter or margarine; -softened 2 tb Brown sugar 2 Eggs 1/3 c Pure maple syrup 3/4 c Buttermilk 1/2 c Chopped pecans Combine flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda […]

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Bread Griddle Cakes

Ingredients & Directions 1 1/2 c Bread crumbs 1 1/2 c Milk 2 ea Eggs 1/2 c Flour 1/2 ts Salt 2 tb Melted butter 4 ts Baking powder Soak crumbs in milk, add other ingredients.Cook as griddle cakes and serve with butter & syrup. Yields 4 Servings

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Gingerbread Muffins

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Butter 1/2 c Brown sugar 4 Eggs 2 1/2 c All-purpose flour 1 c Molasses 2 ts Cinnamon 2 ts Baking soda 1 c Buttermilk 2 ts Ground ginger 2 c Whole-wheat flour 1 c Seedless raisins, optional Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after […]

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Balmoral Shortbread

Ingredients & Directions 375 g Plain flour 250 g Butter (nothing else will -do) 125 g Sugar Salt From: Iain G Liddell Iain.Liddell@brunel.ac.uk Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 09:54:44 +0000 (GMT) Scottish Shortbread: As far as shortbread is concerned, I’m a great believer in simplicity. The recipe for Balmoral Shortbread below is typical of this […]

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Chocolate Raisin Bread Pudding W/white Chocol

Ingredients & Directions BREAD PUDDING 10 sl Raisin bread; about 1 lb 3 c Half-and-half 2 c Whole milk 6 oz Milk chocolate; coarse chopd 4 lg Eggs 2/3 c Granulated sugar 1/3 c Mandarin orange liqueur; OR -other orange liqueur 1 1/2 ts Vanilla extract Dash salt 5 oz Bittersweet chocolate; -coarsely chopped -CREME […]

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Old-fashioned Oatmeal Bread

Ingredients & Directions 2 Cakes compressed yeast; or.. 2 pk -Dry yeast 1/2 c Lukewarm water 2 c Milk; scalded 1/4 c Sugar 1 1/2 ts Salt 1/3 c Shortening 5 c Sifted all-purpose flour — (plus more as necessary) 2 c Quaker Oats, uncooked — (quick or old-fashioned) Soften yeast in lukewarm water. (Use […]

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