Fudge

This is the worlds most easy fudge recipe!! Never fails!

Take a half pound of processed cheese and a half pound butter or margarine,put it in a saucepan and melt it over low heat .
Sift 2 pounds of confectioners sugar,with half a cup of unsweetened cocoa powder in a mixing bowl.
Combine the melted butter and cheese with the sugar mix.
Stir in one and a half cup of walnuts and 2 teaspoons of vanilla.
Press it in a 9 x 13 inch pan and cool until firm!!

It is such an easy way , even Sandra can do it!!

Enjoy!!!!

Corn Pie

Crust:
1¼ cups all purpose flour
¼ ts salt
3 Tbs shortening, cut in pieces and chilled
5 Tbs butter, cut in pieces and chilled
4-6 Tbs ice

Filling:
4 large eggs
12 ears of corn, husk and silk removed
1 cup heavy cream
4 Tbs butter
1 onion, minced
1 celery rib, chopped fine
1 ts salt
1 garlic clove,minced
¼ ts pepper
¼ cup chopped parsley

Crust:
Mix flour and salt together, work with pastry blender or two knives first the shortening and when that is done, the butter through the flour. .Next take 4 Tbs ice water and work it in the mixture ,until the dough forms.Use the other Tbs of ice water if necessary- one at a time.
Turn the dough on a sheet of plastic wrap and form in a 4 inch disk, wrap it in plastic and refrigerate for at least an hour.

Filling:
Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 375° F.
Hard boil 2 of the eggs, peel and slice them.
Slice corn kernels from the cobs.Mash half of the corn with the cream, easy in a blender or food processor. Combine with the 2 remaining eggs.
Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a 10 inch cast iron skillet over medium heat. Add the onion ,celery and salt, cook until softened.Stir in the garlic and pepper and cook for another 30 sec.Take it from the fire and stir in the remaining corn kernels,corn-cream mixture, and parsley. Smooth the surface of the filling and arrange the sliced eggs over the top in an even layer.
Break up the remaining butter and scatter it evenly over the top.
Roll out the dough to a 12 inch circle, roll the dough over a rolling pin-loose- and than over the pie. Make some vents in the crust.
Place the skillet on a baking sheet and bake until the filling is bubbling and the crust golden brown,about an hour. Let stand for 10 minutes and serve!!

"Stoofpeertjes"

In the Netherlands, we love stewed pears! But I had a problem here,finding the right ones to use!!We have the "Giessen Wildeman",not to find here and also not someone who looks a bit like it! So i tried and found out that Bosc pears give the best results.
Now I tell you how to handle:
For 2 persons, I use 2/3 pears, depends on the size, Peel them cut in quarters , uncore and put them in a pan.Put in a half glass of red wine and so much water that they are just covered(it can without wine, just use a tablespoon sugar an a small piece of vanilla bean).
Put it for at least 2 hours on a very low heat ( a wood stove is good for that).
Enjoy!!

Dutch Apple Pie

Dutch apple pie

1¼ cup flour
½ cup sugar
¾ cup +1 T. chilled butter
1 egg yolk
½ cup raisins
⅓ cup orange juice
2 lbs apples
2 t. cornstarch
2 t. cinnamon
2 T sugar
3 T apricot jam
salt

Preparation: In a bowl combine flour, sugar and a pinch of salt. cut the butter in pieces and mix into the flour .Use 2 knives or a pastry blender and work the butter through the flour. Knead it with a cool hand and roll up in a firm dough ball.
Grease a 10 inch ring-mold and press ⅔ of the dough into the bottom and sides of the pan. Refrigerate it with the rest of the dough until ready to use.
Preheat the oven to 375º F.
In a saucepan bring the raisins and orange juice to a boil and leave to simmer gently for about 5 min. until the liquid has evaporated.
Peel , core and slices the apples. Put them in a bowl and combine with the raisins, cornstarch cinnamon and the 2 T sugar.
Arrange the filling over the dough in the ring-mold .
Roll out the rest of the dough and cut into ½ inch strips. Arrange them in a criss-cross pattern.
Beat the egg yolk and wash it over the pie. Put in the lower part of the oven.
Bake it for 50 - 60 minutes until golden brown.
Remove from oven and top with apricot jam.
Allow to cool in the pan for 10 min.
Remove from ring-mold and serve with ice-cream and whipped cream!!

(I always use lemon juice!!)

Ghost Town Cookies

½ C Starter
½ C Shortening
1½ C Light brown sugar
2 Eggs
½ C Buttermilk

Sift together:
2 C Flour -
1 tsp Baking soda
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Cinnamon
and
½ tsp All spice

3 C Oatmeal
1 C Raisins
½ C Nuts

Pre-heat oven to 375°

Combine first 3 ingredients, than eggs- one by one and the buttermilk
Add the sifted ingredients- mix well, than Oatmeal and stir in the raisins and the nuts.
Drop up greased cookie sheet ( I use a cookie scoop)
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes on 375°
Enjoy!!

Christmas Angel Cookies

Here the recipe of the cookies I baked for Christmas in July!!!
Easy to make and very tasteful.
I found it in Recipe Source and came from Irene Holloway.

Christmas Angel Cookies

½ C Shortening
½ C Cream cheese, softened
1 C Light brown sugar ( firmly packed )
½ C Granulated sugar
2 Eggs
3 C Flour
½ ts Baking soda
½ ts Salt
1 Tb Vanilla
2 C Candied fruit, mixed
2 C Broken pecans or almonds

Preheat oven to 350 ° F

Sift flour, baking soda and salt together. Set aside

Mix shortening and cream cheese until they are smooth and fluffy.
Add sugars , eggs and vanilla, mix well.

Add flour mixture, mix well

Add candied fruits and nuts, use your hands.
A little shortening on your hands will keep the dough from sticking.

Drop by rounded spoonfuls or cookie scoop on prepared cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 to 15 minutes (I did 15 minutes) just browned at the edges!

Have fun

Banane nut bread

After a long silence I start this blog again. The first post is the sourdough starter.
When you start to make this, it will take sometime before you can use it, so in between make this Banana Nut Bread!!

Beat 4 eggs
add a cup sugar and a cup oil

add:

• 1 t cinnamon
• 1 1/2 t cloves
• 2 t baking soda
• 1/2 t salt
• 2 cup flour
• 1 1/2 cup nuts-chopped
• 1 1/2 cup raisins

Fold in 6 mashed bananas

Bake in 2 loaf pans for ca 1 hr at 325f

ENJOY!!

God Bless