| Zucchini Bread
Ingredients:
3 eggs, well beaten
1 cup oil
2 1/3 cups sugar
3 cups flour
3 cups zucchini, grated or ground
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup chopped nuts, optional
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease
and flour two loaf pans. Mix everything together (I alternate mixing part of the
flour and part of the zucchini in with the other ingredients.) Bake in
greased/floured loaf pans at 350 degrees for one hour (or until a toothpick inserted in
the center comes out clean.)
Makes 2 loaves. Freezes well.
Serving suggestion: Serve with cream cheese or make a spread by mixing cream cheese
and chopped olives.
--The original recipe is called
"Safie's Zucchini Bread, Adapted by Julie McQueen"
Ingredients:
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup chopped pitted dates
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoons salt
3 Tablespoons shortening
3/4 cup boiling water
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 cups all-purpose
flour
Instructions:
1. Mix first four ingredients with a fork.
2. Add shortening and boiling water. Let stand for 20 minutes
3. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
4. In a large bowl, beat eggs.
5. Add vanilla, then sugar and flour, beating with a fork.
6. Add date mixture, mixing until blended.
7. Pour into a greased 9x5x3 loaf pan.
8. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 65 minutes (or until toothpick comes out
clean.)
This delicious bread was served
with Rachel
Ray's Chutney & Cheese Spread. Wonderful!
Bonelos
(Coconut Doughnuts)
Ingredients:
2 cups coconut milk
1 cup sugar
4-5 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
coconut or cooking oil
powdered sugar
Instructions:
1. Mix sugar and coconut milk.
2. Mix together flour and baking powder.
3. Gradually add
flour mixture to the milk mixture to make dough.
4. Roll dough into small balls and deep fry in hot oil until brown.
5. While warm, roll in powdered sugar.
This recipe is from "Leblon
Finatinas Para Guam" (Guam Cookbook.) These doughnuts are very good!
Ingredients:
10 to 12 thick slices of bread
12 eggs, beaten
2 cups milk
1/4 to 1/2 cup maple syrup
1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, still
chilled
Cinnamon sugar
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Coat a 9x13 glass baking dish with vegetable spray.
3. Cut bread into cubes and place in pan evenly.
4. In a bowl, mix together eggs, milk, and syrup, and pour over bread cubes.
5. Break cream cheese into pieces and place evenly over mixture.
6. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
7. Bake for 1 hour.
8. Serve with warm maple syrup and confectioners sugar.
Makes 8 servings.
From "Ladies of the Church Present
Heavenly Creations"
(Albemarle Road Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, NC, 2003)
Ingredients:
2 cups (10 ounces) unbleached all-purpose
flour
2 teaspoons sugar
1
teaspoon baking powder
1
teaspoon salt
1
1/2 cups heavy cream
Instructions:
1. Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat oven
to 425 degrees.
2. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
3. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl.
4. Add 1 1/4 cups cream and stir with wooden spoon until dough forms, about 30
seconds.
5. Transfer dough from bowl to countertop, leaving all dry, floury bits behind in
the bowl.
6. In 1 tablespoon increments, add up to 1/4 cup cream to the dry bits in the bowl,
mixing with wooden spoon after each addition, until moistened.
7. Add these moistened bits to the rest of the dough and knead by hand just until
smooth, about 30 seconds.
8. To shape the biscuits, you can make round or wedge biscuits, by pressing the
dough into an 8-inch cake pan, then turn the dough out onto a lightly-floured work
surface.
To make wedge biscuits, use a knife or bench scraper to cut
the dough into eight wedges.
To make round biscuites, use a biscuit cutter. Push
together remaining dough into a 3/4-inch-thick round and cut out several more biscuits.
Discard remaining scraps.
9. Place wedges or rounds onto parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake until golden
brown, about 15 minutes.
Serve immediately.
Variations:
Cream Biscuits with fresh herbs: whisk 2 tablespoons of minced fresh herbs into
flour along with sugar, baking powder, and salt.
Cheddar Cheese Biscuits: stir 1/2 cup sharp cheddar cheese cut into 1/4-inch pieces
into flour along with sugar, baking powder, and salt. Increase baking time to 18
minutes.
-- This recipe is from The
America's Test Kitchen Cookbook
They are excellent biscuits and the wedges are so easy and no dough goes to waste.
Definitely a hit!
The Best Banana Bread
Ingredients:
1
cup sugar
1
stick butter
3
eggs
3
bananas (mashed with 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon baking soda)
2
cups flour
1
teaspoon vanilla
1
cup chopped walnuts
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 345 degrees F. Grease and flour a loaf pan. Cream butter and
sugar in a mixer. Add eggs one at a time and beat. Add banana mixture
alternately with flour. Mix in nuts and vanilla. Pour mixture into greased and
floured loaf pan. Bake for approximately 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in
the center comes out clean. This freezes beautifully (although there won't be any
left to freeze). This is really good when slices are toasted in a toaster oven.
-- Elizabeth Welch's recipe from the Treasures
and Pleasures cookbook, Apopka, FL 1990
Brown Sugar Bacon
Ingredients:
2 pounds of sliced bacon
1 cup brown sugar
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Separate strips of bacon and coat
with brown sugar. Fold each piece in half on a slight angle. Place on
parcement paper in a baking dish.
(Ok, here's an editorial
comment from Kathy: Parchment paper is important! The sugar carmelizes -- Go
to the store and get some before you make this dish!)
Bake in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes or until crisp. Remove from
the oven and let cool on another piece of parchment paper. Transfer to a serving
platter once the bacon hardens.
This can be made early in the day and served at room temperature.
Makes approximately 25 servings.
-- From the Disney
Institute's Autumn Brunch cooking class in Orlando, FL.
Baked
Garlic Grits
Ingredients:
1 Roll of Kraft Garlic Cheese
4 cups cooked grits
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup milk
1 stick butter or margarine, melted
Corn flakes, onion rings, or cracker crumbs for topping
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut 3/4 of the cheese into cubes.
Add cubes to hot grits. Beat eggs and milk together and add to grits. Pour 1/2
of melted butter in with grits. Spray a 2-quart casserole dish with cooking spray
(like Pam). Blend grits mixture well and pour into a 2 quart casserole dish.
Add topping and remaining garlic cheese. Drizzle with remaining melted butter.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
--From the kitchen of Chris Paulk,
Atlanta, GA
This was a big hit at the 1998 Paulk Family Reunion!
Vegetable
Cheese Pie
Ingredients:
4 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups milk
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 package KNORR Spring Vegetable with Herbs Soup and Recipe Mix
1 package (10 oz.) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and
squeezed-dry
1 9-inch deep dish pie crust
Instructions:
Preheat oven and cookie sheet to 375 degrees. In large bowl combine
first 5 ingredients. Spoon into frozen pie crust. Bake pie on the cookie sheet
for 50 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between the edge and the middle comes out
clean. Serves 6-8 people.
-- From the kitchen of Chris Paulk,
Atlanta, GA
Green Chili Frittata
Ingredients:
1/2 cup all-purpose white flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
10 eggs, lightly beaten
1/4 pound butter or margarine, melted and slightly cooled
2 cups small curd cottage cheese
1 pound Monterey Jack cheese, grated
3 4-ounce cans diced green chilies
Salt to taste
Instructions:
Preheat oven and cookie sheet to 350 degrees. Butter a 9x13-inch
glass baking dish. Mix flour and baking powder. Add eggs and butter, blending
well. Blend in remaining ingredients. Put mixture in prepared baking dish and
bake for 35-45 minutes, or until set. Cut into squares and serve very hot.
Terrific with fruit and breakfast breads. Serves 8 people as a luncheon dish, or 12
as hor d'oeuvre.
-- This recipe is a hit at my
church, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Santa Clara, CA |
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10/25/05