Heat the oven to 450 degrees F. Heat the butter in a square pan 9 X 9 X 2-inches, in the oven until the butter is melted. Mix the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Add the milk and stir with a fork just until a soft dough forms, about 30 […]
Baking
Cappuccino Bundt Cake
Prepare a 12 cup bundt pan with olive oil, then sprinkle lightly with flour. Preheat over to 325F. Mix chocolate chips and nuts. Spoon evenly into bottom of prepared pan. In a large bowl, stir espresso powder and cinnamon into cake mix, then add 1/3 cup olive oil, eggs and water. Mix slowly with elextric […]
Nut Or Almond Ring
roll out the pastry to a rectangle 14X18 in. (35X45cm) FOR THE FILLING: mix the nuts, sugar, baking essence, egg white and 1/2 egg yolk with as much of the water as will give a good spreading consistency and spread evenly over the pastry with a spatula. Starting from the longer side, roll up the […]
Clotted Cream, Devon-style
Im not sure this works without FRESH, REALLY FRESH, LIKE RIGHT FROM THE COW FRESH milk. Let milk stand in earthenware pans for 12 to 24 hours (12 in summer, 24 in winter; these are English temp.s, BTW). Carefully lift & place on a stove & simmer very slowly. Do not allow to boil. Simmer […]
Oatmeal Pie Crust
Combine flour, rolled oats and salt in mixing bowl. Slowly drizzle in oil, mixing with a fork until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Add ice water slowly until mixture begins to form a ball. Pat into 9 inch pie plate. Bake according to filling recipe. For baked pastry shell: Prick pastry with fork in several places. […]
Clootie Dumpling
Mix flour with suet, fruit, sugar, cinnamon and soda. Stir in enough milk to make a soft batter. Dip a pudding cloth (cheesecloth) into boiling water, sink it in a basin large enough to hold the batter. Dredge it lightly with flour and spoon in the batter. Draw the fullness of the cloth together evenly, […]
Chocolate Leaf Pie
1 x FLAKY PASTRY PIE DOUGH 2 1/2 c all purpose flour FLAKY PASTRY PIE DOUGH In large bowl combine the flour and salt, cut in shortening until the mixture resembles coarse meal with some pieces of shortening the size of corn kernels still visible. Sprinkle 5 tablespoons of the ice water over the mixture, […]
Concord Grape Pie
PREHEAT OVEN TO 400F. Make the crust, line a pan and roll out the 2nd crust. Refrigerate both while you make the filling. If you have the larger amount of grapes, use a deeper pie tin. Slip the grapes from their skins, working directly into a sauce pan. Put the skins into a bowl. Cook […]
Zucchini Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
–CREAM CHEESE FROSTING– 3 c Powdered sugar; sifted 6 oz Cream cheese; softened 5 tb Butter or margarine 1 ts Lemon extract Beat sugar, oil and eggs at medium speed in electric mixer bowl 4 minutes. Sift flour with soda, salt and cinnamon. Fold zucchini and nuts into sugar mixture. Fold in flour mixture and […]
Chocolate Mint Creams
Chocolate Mint Creams ^ Stir together flour and baking soda. In a medium pan, heat and stir brown sugar, butter and water over low heat until butter is melted. Add chocolate pieces and stir until chocolate is melted. Pour into large mixing bowl and let stand 10-15 minutes or until cool. Beat egg into chocolate […]
