Becca Cooks

Fresh Peach Pie

2012-01-25T23:00:00.000-08:00

1 cup sugar
2 cups water
fresh peaches
2 tablespoons corn starch
1 small package peach jell-o
whipped cream Mix sugar and corn starch in sauce pan. Add water and bring to a boil. Stir in jello until it is dissolved. Chill mixture in refrigerator until it starts to thicken. Pour in baked pie shell in layers with sliced fresh peaches. Make sure each peach slice is coated with jello mixiure, so it won't turn dark. Serve with whipped cream.

Sour Cream Cucumbers

2012-01-22T23:00:00.000-08:00

5 or 6 Cucumbers
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon salt
1 pint sour cream Peel and slice cucumbers, add salt and sugar. Let stand over night. Add sour cream, you may not need the full pint, serve.

Spaghetti Soup

2012-01-20T23:00:00.000-08:00

3 stalks chopped celery
1 onion chopped
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
2 quarts tomato juice
3/4 pound hamburger browned
1 handful of spaghetti
4 diced carrots
3 medium potatoes chopped
3 teaspoons beef bullion
1/2 quart water
3 bay leaves

Brown hamburger, add all ingredients except spaghetti into a large pan. Simmer until vegetables are tender. Add spaghetti just before soup is done.

A Quilter's Eggs and Fried Rice

2012-01-19T20:51:00.000-08:00

Today I found a cute recipe on a Quilting/Cooking site called A Quilter's Eggs and Fried Rice - Easy Recipe
I looked amazing and wanted to share it with you. Please visit the link above for full directions and pictures on how to make this interesting meal. If you have any interesting meal or recipes you would like to share on my site please email me or leave a note on one of my blog posts and I would be happy to blog about it and link back to your site.

Ingredients include and steps to prepare on http://lunchlookslikeaquilttome.blogspot.com.

Raw Apple Cake

2012-01-16T23:00:00.000-08:00

1 3/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup cooking oil
3 eggs
3 cups raw apples
2 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon soda Mix eggs, oil, and sugar. Add dry ingredients. Add apples and nuts. Bake 45 minutes at 350 degrees. Frost with cream cheese frosting.

Date Filled Cookies

2012-01-13T23:00:00.000-08:00

Cookies:
1 cup shortening
3 eggs
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon soda
2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoons vanilla

Filling:
2 cups ground dates
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup sugar Cook filling ingredients until thickened, cool.

Cream sugar, shortening, eggs, water, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients. Roll out dough and cut out cookies. put 1 teaspoon filling between two cookies. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

End of the Garden Pickles

2012-01-10T23:00:00.000-08:00

1 cup cucumbers
1 cup small pickling onions
1 cup chopped carrots
1 cup chopped celery
2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon celery seed
1 cup chopped cabbage
1 cup cauliflower
1 cup string beans cut
2 cups vinegar
1 tablespoon turmeric
2 tablespoons mustard seed Soak vegetables in 2 quarts water and 1/2 cup salt for several hours. Boil until tender. Drain, add vinegar, sugar, and turmeric. Tie celery seed and mustard seed in a cheese cloth sack, add to vinegar mixture. Cook 10 minutes. Put in bottles, cold pack 10 minutes.

Homemade Ice Cream

2012-01-04T23:00:00.000-08:00

8 cups milk
4 tablespoons flour
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2-2 pints cream
4 eggs beaten
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon lemon flavoring Mix sugar, flour, and salt. Warm milk, add sugar mixture and eggs. Cook until thickened, add cream, vanilla, and lemon flavoring. Freeze in an ice cream freezer.

Walnut Harvest Cake Frosting

2012-01-01T23:00:00.000-08:00

1/4 cup canned milk
1 cube margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups powdered sugar Heat milk, margarine and brown sugar until sugar is melted. Add powdered sugar and vanilla.

Zucchini Bread

2011-12-29T23:00:00.000-08:00

3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup white sugar
1 cup oil
1 teaspoon soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs
2 cups grated zucchini
1 cup brown sugar Sift together flour, salt, soda, baking powder, and cinnamon, set aside. Combine sugars and oil, add beaten eggs, vanilla, and zucchini. Add dry ingredients. Nuts, raisins, or chocolate chips may be added. Put in greased and floured loaf pans, makes 2 loaves. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, turn down to 32 degrees for 45 minutes.

White Cake with Strawberry Topping

2011-12-26T23:00:00.000-08:00

1 white cake mix
2 cups cool whip
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 8 ounce package f cream cheese
2 cups powdered sugar
1 large package danish dessert
2 packages frozen or fresh strawberries, or raspberries
1 1/2 cups water Mix 1 white cake mix according to package directions, bake in a cookie sheet.
Mix softened cream cheese, cool whip, powdered sugar, and vanilla. Spread on cooled cake.
Mix danish desert and water. Follow instructions on box. Add strawberries. Cool and pour over cake. Keep refrigerated.

Applesauce Fruit Cake

2011-12-23T23:00:00.000-08:00

3/4 cup shortening
2 1/4 cups sugar
2 eggs beaten
2 cups applesauce
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons cocoa
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup nuts Chop nuts, raisins, cherries, and dates, set aside. Cream shortening, sugar, eggs and applesauce. Add dry ingredients, then add nuts and fruit. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Quick Bread

2011-06-28T23:00:00.000-07:00

2 tablespoons yeast
3/4 cup warm water
2 2/3 cup water
1/4 cups sugar
1 tablespoon salt
3 tablespoons shortening
5 cups flour Mix yeast and 3/4 cup water. Add salt, sugar, shortening and remaining water. Add 2 1/2 cups flour, mix. Add remaining flour, knead. Let raise until double in bulk. Put in loaf tins, let raise until double in bulk. Bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees or 375 degrees.

Fudge

2011-06-25T23:00:00.000-07:00

4 1/2 cups sugar
2 squares margarine
2 cups chopped walnuts
3 6 ounce packages chocolate chip
1 can evaporated milk
2 teaspoons vanilla Boil sugar and milk for 8 minutes, stirring constantly, remove from heat. Add chocolate chips, margarine, nuts and vanilla. Put back on heat until everything is melted. Pour on buttered cookie sheet. Cool and cut in squares.

Apple Buter

2011-06-22T23:00:00.000-07:00

4 quarts cooked apples
1/4 cup vinegar
1/2 teaspoon cloves
2 quarts sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon Cook until clear. Put in bottles, seal.

Grandma Hall's Soap

2011-06-19T23:00:00.000-07:00

6 cans lye
10 quart buckets of hot water
24 pounds grease

Put grease, lye, and 2 buckets of hot water in a drum cut in half. Boil until grease is dissolved, add the rest of the water. Stir after each bucket is added. It will go thick and string from stirring stick. Put half in a no. 3 tub rinsed with cooled water. when hard, about 2 days, cut and dry. Stores well.

Note: I doubt anyone will use this, but thought it was a good reminder of how it used to be.

Corn Bread

2011-06-16T23:00:00.000-07:00

1 cup yellow corn meal
1 cup sifted flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup soft shortening
1 cup milk
1 egg

Sift dry ingredients into a mixing bowl. Cut in shortening until well blended. Beat milk and egg together. Mix with dry ingredients until just blended. Pour into a well buttered 8 inch square pan. Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes or until done. Serve warm.

Delicious Pudding

2011-06-13T23:00:00.000-07:00

Syrup:
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups boiling water
2 tablespoons butter

Pudding:
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon soda
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup raisins

Mix all ingredients to make batter. Drop in spoonfuls on top of syrup mixture. Bake 40 minutes at 350 degrees.

Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

2011-06-10T23:00:00.000-07:00

1 cup sugar
2 cups brown sugar
2 cups Crisco
4 eggs
2/3 cup milk
6 cups unsifted flour
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons soda
2 teaspoons milk
1 package chocolate chips

Cream sugars and shortening. Add eggs and milk. Add dry ingredients, vanilla and chips. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 12 minutes. Do not over bake. Remove when just starting to turn brown.

Caramels

2011-06-07T23:00:00.000-07:00

2 cups sugar
2 cups cream
1 dash of salt
2 cups corn syrup
3/4 cup evaporated milk
2 teaspoons vanilla

Boil sugar, syrup and salt. Heat milk in separate pan. Add 1/9 cup of milk at a time to sugar mixture, about every 5 minutes. After all milk is added, cook to a soft ball stage, add vanilla .Pour into a buttered pan. Let cool, cut into squares

Mints

2011-06-04T23:00:00.000-07:00

7 cups sugar
1 cap butter flavoring
coloring
1 8 ounce cream cheese
1 cap mint flavoring

Mix all ingredients together and put in molds.

Jell-O Dessert

2011-06-01T23:00:00.000-07:00

Crust:
3 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup finely chopped nuts
4 teaspoons margarine

Filling:
1 can evaporated milk
3/4 cup hot water
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 package jell-o
1 cup sugar

Crust: Line a 13 x 9 cake pan with half of the graham cracker mixture. Save the other half for the top.

Boil 1 can evaporated milk, in can for 5 minutes. Chill and whip. Mix jell-o (Red or lemon) in water, add sugar and lemon juice, dissolve well, cool. Cool until syrupy. Add to whipped milk. Pour on top of graham cracker crumbs. Sprinkle remaining crumbs on top. Chill.

Date Balls

2011-05-29T23:00:00.000-07:00

1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 cups chopped dates
2 teaspoons milk
2 beaten eggs
2 cups chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon vanilla
5 cups rice krispies
coconut

Melt butter and sugar in heavy skillet over medium heat. When melted add chopped dates. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, remove from heat. Add milk and eggs, then boil for 2 minutes. Add nuts, rice krispies, and vanilla. Cool, roll into balls and roll in coconut.

Meat Loaf

2011-05-26T23:00:00.000-07:00

2 lb ground beef
1/2 c onion
1 egg
1 can crean of mushroom soup
1 t salt
1/2 c bread crumbs
1 T worcestershire sauce
Dash of pepper
2 T chopped parsley

Mix all together well. bake for 1-1 1/2 hours at 350. tomato slices may be put on top or at the last minute grate cheese over top for variety.

By Rudy Hall

Bottled Applesauce Cake

2011-05-23T23:00:00.000-07:00

2/3 cup shortening
4 eggs
2 cups applesauce
2 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2/3 cups raisins
2 2/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup water
3 1/3 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cloves
2/3 cup nuts
Cream together shortening and sugar. Add eggs, water, and applesauce. Sift together dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture. Grease very well 8 wide mouth pint jars. Fill half full. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes on a cookie sheet. Have lids hot and apply to bottles. Seal as soon as removed from oven.