Miracle Whip Cake
Ingredients & Directions 16 oz Miracle whip 2 c White sugar 4 ts Baking soda 4 c Cake flour 8 tb Cocoa 2 c Cold water Mix and beat all ingredients. Bake at 350 until done (can be cut in half) Yields 1 Servings
Lightly Chocolate Rum Cake
Ingredients & Directions 1 pk Yellow cake mix 1 pk Instant chocolate pudding 1 tb Vanilla 8 oz Sour cream 1/4 c Dark rum 4 Eggs 1/2 c Oil 1 c Chocolate chips 1 c Pecans; chopped Powdered sugar; optional Combine all ingredients except nuts and chocolate chips. Beat 3 minutes. Add half of the chocolate chips and nuts; beat 2 more minutes. Fold in remaining chocolate chips and pecans. The batter will be very stiff. Pour into well greased and floured 10″ tube pan, bake at 350~ for 1 hour. Cool 30 minutes on rack before removing from pan. Sprinkle top with powdered sugar, if desired. Yields 12 Servings
Dilly Casserole Bread (1960)
Ingredients & Directions 2 c Up to … 2 2/3 c Flour 2 tb Sugar 2 ts Up to … 3 ts Instant minced onion 2 ts Dill seed 1 ts Salt 1/4 ts Baking soda 1 pk Active dry yeast 1/4 c Water 1 tb Butter 1 c Creamed cottage cheese 1 Egg 2 ts Butter, melted 1/4 ts Coarse salt (opt) Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off. In large bowl, cimbine 1 c flour, sugar, onion, dill seed, 1 t salt, baking soda and yeast; mix well. In small saucepan, heat water, 1 T butter and cottage cheese until very warm (120 to 130 degrees). Add warm liquid and egg to flour mixture. Blend at low speed until moistened; beat 3 minutes at medium speed. By hand, stir in remaining 1 c to 1 2/3 c flour to form a stiff batter. Cover loosely with greased plastic wrap and cloth towel. Let rise in warm place (80 to 85 degrees) until light and doubled in size, 45 ot 60 minutes. Generously grease 1 1/2 or 2 quart casserole. Stir down dough to remove all air bubbles. Turn into greased casserole. Cover; let rise in warm place until light and doubled in size, 30 to 45 minutes. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Uncover dough. Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until deep golden brown and loaf sounds hollow when lightly tapped. Immediately remove from casserole; cool on wire rack. Brush warm loaf with melted butter; sprinkle with coarse salt. Yields 1 Loaf
Banana Bread`
Ingredients & Directions 1 c Sugar 1 ts Vanilla 8 tb Butter Or Margarine 2 Egg — well-beaten 1 ts Baking Soda 1 tb Boiling Water 3 c All-Purpose Flour 1 ts Baking Powder 1/2 ts Salt 1/3 c Orange Juice 1 c Chopped Nuts 1 c Chopped Raisins Or Currants 2 lg (3 Sm) Bananas — mashed 1 tb Orange And Lemon Rind — Grated Cream the sugar, vanilla, and butter together. Combine the eggs and baking soda with the boiling water. Mix into the sugar mixture. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir, alternating with the orange juice, into the sugar mixture. Add the nuts, raisins, bananas and rinds. Pour into 2 greased loaf pans. Bake at 350 F for 45-50 mns. Yields 2 servings
Blind Date Cookies
Ingredients & Directions 30 lg Pitted dates 30 lg Walnuts, halves 1 1/4 c All-purpose flour 1/4 ts Salt 1/4 ts Baking powder 1/2 ts Baking soda 4 tb Butter 1/2 ts Vanilla extract 3/4 c Light brown sugar, firmly -packed 1 Egg 1/2 c Sour cream Glaze: 4 tb Butter 1 c Confectioner’s sugar 1/2 ts Vanilla extract 2 tb Milk, up to 3 T Adjust a rack to the top position in the oven and preheat the oven to 400. Cut parchement to fit cookie sheets. Slit one long side of each date, stuff with one walnut half or a few pieces of walnut. Close the date around the nut and set aside. Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda and set aside. Cream the butter, add the vanilla and the sugar and beat to mix well. Add the egg and beat thouroughly. On the lowest speed gradually add half the dry ingredients, then all of the sour cream, then the remaining dry ingredients. Scrape the bowl after each addition and beat only until combined. Transfer the dough to a shallow bowl for easier handling. Using two forks, drop each stuffed date into the the dough and roll it around until it is completely coated. There will be enough dough to cover each date, but don’t overdo it or you won’t have enough to go around. Using the forks, place the dough coated dates 2-3 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheets. Bake one sheet at a time for about 10 minutes until lightly browned. While baking, prepare the glaze. Melt the butter and mix it well with the remaining ingredients, using only enough milk to make the mixture the consistency of soft mayonnaise. Keep the glaze covered when you are not using it. Remove the cookies form the oven. With a pastry brush, immediatley brush the tops with a generous coating of the glaze. Transfer cookies to a rack to cool. Let them stand until the glaze is dry. NOTES : The dates I purchased from the Coop were huge. We cut the date in half and stuffed them with walnut pieces. These aren’t the most beautiful cookies but boy are they good. Yields 30 Servings
Homemade Cake Mix
Ingredients & Directions 10 c All-purpose flour 6 1/4 c Sugar 1 c Cornstarch 5 tb Baking powder 1 tb Salt 2 1/2 c Vegetable shortening In a large sifter, combine flour, sugar, cornstarch, baking powder and salt. Sift, in batches, into a large bowl. Use a pastry blender or a heavy duty mixer to blend in the shortening until the mixture resembles cornmeal in texture. Spoon into a contai Makes about 17 c of Homemade Cake Mix. Yields 1 Servings
Sweet Egg Bread (abm)
Ingredients & Directions 3/4 Salt 1 Egg white 1 Applesauce or margarine 2 Bread flour 1 1/2 Instant dry milk powder 3 Sugar 1 1/2 Rapid rise yeast Combine all ingredients according to manufacturer’s directions. Process in regular, delayed, or rapid bake cycle. Yields 12 Servings
