DESSERTS
from the Alpha/CGSN Message Board
CREAM CHEESE PIE |
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Old Mom Well, my hubby 'claims' to make the best cheesecake in the world... although he has yet to prove it to me. So as not to hurt or wound his ego, pride, or to engage in any competition with the in-laws, I make cream cheese pie. |
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Graham cracker crust, thin layer of chocolate; fill, bake, eat. |
Filling: 2 eight oz packages of cream cheese, softened, 2 eggs, a little lemon peel (or orange peel), 1 cup of sugar. |
Mix well (like in a blender). Pour it in a shell, bake at 350 F for about a half hour. |
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As a variation: make a batch of sweet roll dough; cut into fillable squares (alternative is a pastry filler); put some of the above filling in the squares (let raise if you are using a yeast based dough); cook at 350F for about 20 min. Then, you have a 'cheese' pocket.. good as a 'dainty' desert or with boys.. a great bag of snacks. I have a manual pastry filler, so it isn't that big of a deal. Don't know if it is better than cheesecake...but it is a good 'eat-n-run' sort of thing. |
NUBI'S FUDGE CAKE 1934 |
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Relic The following recipe, written in pencil in my mother's 'Schilling Recipe Scrap Book', is bound to be habit-forming. |
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1/2 cup Crisco |
2 cups flour |
2 cups brown sugar |
2 teaspoons baking powder |
3 eggs |
1/3 teaspoon salt |
1 teaspoon vanilla |
1 cup milk |
2 squares unsweetened chocolate |
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Cream Crisco and sugar. Add egg yolks (unbeaten) and vanilla. Mix well. Add melted chocolate. Stir well. Sift dry ingredients together. Add a little flour to above mixture, alternating with a little milk (always start and end with flour). Fold in egg whites which have been beaten stiff but not dry. Beat batter two minutes (DO THIS BY HAND!!!) Pour into greased, floured cake tins and bake at 325 for about 25 minutes, or until toothpick slides out dry. Frost as desired. |
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A short story about this cake: Nubi, a cousin the same age as my mom, wrote the recipe. I baked and sold them to her restaurant when I was a youngster. THEN in 1942...... we visited some relatives in Washington. A cousin who couldn't cook wanted to impress her boyfriend. I volunteered to make the cake. Her family had one of those 'new electric mixers, so I used it for the two-minute beating. The frosted cake was beautiful, Lloyd seemed to buy the story that Eva baked it... then, he started to slice a piece of it.. and the whole cake fell apart!!!!! It just sort of shimmered into tiny crumbs. He looked at me and said, 'Nice try.' I could have died on the spot! So, don't try to use any modern devices with this recipe. It's strictly 'hand-made.' ~ Relic |
HONEY BARS |
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Old Mom |
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1 and a half cups of honey |
2 teaspoon baking powder |
3/4 cup of sugar |
1 teaspoon baking soda |
3 tablespoon butter or substitute |
1/4 cup of candied orange peel (or lemon peel from the spice rack) |
about 4-5 cups of flour |
Spice with a little ginger, cardamom, cloves |
Combine the dry ingredients and add to the honey. Put in a covered crock to age a day or so (I usually go 2 days). Then, roll it out to about a 1/4 inch thick, and put on a cookie sheet or whatever pan. Cook at 350F for about 25-30 min. When it cools, you can frost it, cut into squares. I keep them in a covered mason jar. They have great storability... if you can keep from eating them. Enjoy! |
Relic |
Here is a recipe to work the aggression out of your system! |
1 cup brown sugar |
1 cup flour |
2 cups oatmeal |
Mix like pie crust until soft. Beat it... hit it........ pound it....... pinch it ............ squish and squash it...... Don't quit until you've worked all those nasty aggressive feelings out of your system. Then: flatten one-inch balls of dough on ungreased cookie sheet. Use bottom of glass dipped in sugar to flatten. Bake at 350 for about ten minutes. You have now succeeded in transmuting your aggressive feelings into about 4 dozen sweet snacks. Feel better? |