Archive for the ‘Holiday Foods’ Category
Christmas Pudding
2 cups Pillsbury’s Best All Purpose Flour* — sifted 1/3 cup sugar 1 1/4 teaspoons soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon French’s Cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon French’s Ginger 1/4 teaspoon French’s Nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon French’s Cloves 1 cup suet — ground or grated 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk 1 cup raisins 1/3 cup molasses Butterscotch, [...]
Candy: M&M Christmas Ornaments
——————————-TREE ORNAMENTS——————————- Plastic wrap Pkg.’s M&M’s Pipe Cleaner Ribbon ——————————CHRISTMAS WREATH—————————— Same ingredients as ornament – but also a wire coat – hanger |TREE ORNAMENTS: Cut plastic wrap into 6-inch squares. Gather corners and twist tightly. Secure with pipe cleaner. Cluster individual balls into one large one, connecting each ball with the adjoining pipe cleaner. [...]
Fudgy Bat Cookies
9 oz Chocolate wafer cookies 4 oz Milk chocolate candy melts|Use a serrated knife to carefully cut 18 of the cookies into quarters. Save remaining cookies for another use. For each bat, place 2 cookie quarters 1/4″ apart on waxed paper. Repeat with remaining quarters. Melt candy melts. Drop about 1/2 teaspoon of melted candy [...]
Valentine Sugar Cookies
1 cup Butter or margarine — softened 1 1/2 cups Sugar — confectioner’s 1 Egg — lightly beaten 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract 1 teaspoon Almond extract 2 1/2 cups Flour — all purpose Red decorators sugar ( opt.) | In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg and extracts. Stir in flour; mix [...]
Herbed Turkey and Dressing
BASTING SAUCE: 2 1/4 cups chicken broth 1/2 cup butter or margarine 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1/4 teaspoon each: dried marjoram, rosemary and 1/4 cup fresh parsley — chopped 2 Tablespoons dried chives DRESSING: 1 pound sliced bread 1 pound bulk pork sausage 1/2 cup butter or margarine 4 cups celery — [...]
Thanksgiving Turkey Roll
4 Slices turkey breast meat * Stuffing 2 ts To 3 ts flour 1 tb Butter 1/4 c Dry Madeira or Marsala 3/4 c Chicken broth —–STUFFING—– 1 tb Butter Large shallot, minced Clove garlic, minced 1/4 lb Mild pork sausage/grnd pork 1/4 ts Crushed, dry sage 1/4 ts Crushed, dry red pepper flks 1/4 [...]
Pumpkin Cake
4 Eggs 2 c Sugar 2 c Cooked pumpkin 1 c Oil 3 c All-purpose flour 1 ts Salt 2 ts Baking soda 2 ts Baking powder 2 ts Cinnamon 1 c Nuts or raisins | In the food processor, combine the eggs an sugar until smooth. Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, [...]
Black Cat Cupcakes
1 1/4 c Reduced Fat Oreo? cookie crumbs 18 1/4 ozs reduced fat chocolate cake mix 24 pcs Halloween Oreo? cookies 16 ozs reduced fat milk chocolate frosting black string licorice jelly beans semisweet chocolate chips|Preheat oven to 350. Prepare 24-2 1/2″ muffin cups with cooking spray and flour; set aside. Prepare cake mix according [...]
Peanut Butter Reindeer
———————————-COOKIES———————————- 1 pk DUNCAN HINES Peanut Butter -Cookie Mix 1 Egg 2 t All-purpose flour —————————-ASSORTED DECORATIONS—————————- Miniature semi-sweet -chocolate chips Vanilla milk chips Candy-coated semi-sweet -chocolate chips Colored sprinkles| 1. FOR COOKIES, combine cookie mix, contents of peanut butter packet from Mix and egg in large bowl. Stir until thoroughly blended. Form dough into [...]
Christmas Spiced Tea
2 ts Cinnamon 1 t Ground cloves 2 c Sugar 1/2 c Instant tea w/twist of lemon 18 oz Jar of Tang Juice Mix|Mix together all the ingredients and store in air-tight container. ADD 2 HEAPING teaspoons for each mug of boiling water for tea. I remember drinking this as a child when we visited [...]
