Recipes
These recipes came from family and
friends. Enjoy!
Swedish Nuts
Susan's Famous Rolled
Swedish Nuts
Ingredients:
2 egg whites
3 cups walnuts
1 cup sugar
1 stick butter or margarine (I use margarine)
Directions:
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Beat egg whites until very stiff (use small bowl).
Beat in sugar.
Fold in nuts until all nuts are coated.
Slowly melt butter or margarine in a heavy 10" cast iron skillet.
Stir in nut mixture (mix right in skillet).
Place iron skillet in oven.
Stir with wooden spoon after 10 minutes
Stir every 5 minutes for the next 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
Cool on wax paper.
Break into bite size pieces
I got this
recipe from
a co-worker when I worked in the Pentagon.
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Susan's Rolled Sugar Cookies
Ingredients:
½ cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
¼ cup milk
½ tsp. vanilla
2 ¼ cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt.
Directions
Mix butter, sugar and eggs thoroughly. Add milk and vanilla. Stir flour,
baking powder, and salt together and gradually add to ingredients.
Mix thoroughly. Chill dough for at least one hour.
Heat oven to 375
degrees. Roll dough 1/8" thick on lightly floured surface. Cut with 3"
cookie cutter. Place on ungreased baking sheet. Bake 7-12 minutes or
until cookies are a delicate golden color. Cool and frost.
Icing ingredients
2 ½ Tablespoons softened butter
1 ½ cups sifted powdered sugar
1 ½ Tablespoons milk
¾ tsp. vanilla
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together and frost cookies.
My daughter, Susan,
makes these on holidays and special occasions for her friends and family.
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Creamy Cucumber Delight
Ingredients:
1 large cucumber
1/8 tsp. celery seed (or flakes)
2 Tablespoons chopped onions
2 heaping Tablespoons salad dressing or mayonnaise
2 Tablespoons chopped green pepper (optional)
1 Tablespoon vinegar
½ tsp. parsley flakes
1 tsp. sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Pare and slice cucumber (the thinner the better).
Add remaining ingredients and mix until creamy.
Chill.
Note: will not keep overnight.
I got this recipe from
Mary Karas. She used to fix it for holiday dinners.
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Cheese Broccoli
Bake
Ingredients:
2 packages frozen chopped broccoli (cooked and drained, still hot)
¼ lb. margarine
½ lb. processed cheese (cubed)
¼ lb. Ritz crackers (crushed)
Dash lemon juice (optional)
Directions:
Add half of margarine, cheese and lemon juice to hot broccoli.
Mix well and pour into buttered casserole dish.
Sprinkle topping over broccoli mixture.
Bake at 350 degrees until bubbly (about 25 minutes).
Topping: Melt remaining margarine and mix with cracker crumbs.
This is a favorite of my
kids. I usually serve it on holidays when they are home. This
recipe came from a friend of J's in Manassas, VA.
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Carmel Dip for
Apples
Ingredients:
8 oz. cream cheese
½ cup white sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
½ cup brown sugar
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together until smooth.
Serve with sliced apples.
We have an apple tree in
our back yard. This is delicious!!!
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Paul's Crock Pot Pork Roast
Recipe
Ingredients:
Pork roast
½ cup chopped yellow onions
Bull's Eye BBQ Sauce (original, 18 oz. size)
Directions:
Place pork roast in crock pot.
Cover top of pork roast with chopped onions.
Pour BBQ sauce (18 oz. or less) over the top of the onions and down the
sides of the pork.
Turn the crock pot on slow for 8-10 hours.
Slice and enjoy. It's good for sandwiches too. This is an
easy-to-make pork roast that is a crowd pleaser. At pots lucks, we
often hear, "Paul brought that delicious pork roast, didn't he?"
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Million Dollar
Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup shortening
½ cup white sugar
½ cup light brown sugar
1 egg beaten
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
½ tsp. soda
½ tsp. salt
Directions:
Cream shortening and sugars.
Add egg, vanilla, and sifted dry ingredients.
Form into 1 inch balls; roll in sugar.
Place on cookie sheet and press flat with bottom of glass or fork dipped
in sugar.
Bake about 10 minutes at 350 degrees (bake until the edges just start to
turn brown).
Makes 4 dozen cookies.
Susan won a purple
ribbon at the Central States Fair with this recipe! We got this
recipe from my sister, Penny.
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Poppy Seed Bread
Ingredients:
3 cups flour
1 ½ tsp. salt
1 ½ tsp. baking powder
3 eggs
1 ½ cups milk
1 1/8 cups vegetable oil
2 ¼ cups sugar
1 ½ Tbs. poppy seed
1 ½ tsp. vanilla extract
1 ½ tsp. almond extract
1 ½ tsp. butter extract
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together until smooth.
Bake at 350 degrees (small loaves: 20-25 minutes; large loaves: 40-50
minutes)
Makes 2 large loaves, 3 medium loaves or 5 small loaves.
The best way to check to see if they are done is to insert a fork or
toothpick in the middle/sides -- if it comes out clean, it's done.
Add glaze while still warm.
Glaze: ½ tsp. vanilla, ½ tsp. almond extract, ½ tsp. butter extract, ¾
cups confection sugar. Add orange juice. Mix until it forms a thin
glaze. Poke holes in the loaves with a toothpick or fork. Brush or pour
glaze on loaves while still warm.
I got this recipe from a
friend from Belgium who worked at Ellsworth AFB.
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Alice's
Modified Snickerdoodles
Ingredients:
1 cup shortening
1 tsp. soda
1 ½ cups sugar
¼ tsp. salt
2 eggs
2 Tablespoons sugar
2 ¾ cups flour
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp. cream of tartar
Directions:
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix shortening, 1 ½ cups sugar, and eggs
thoroughly. Blend flour, cream of tartar, soda, and salt; stir in. Shape
dough in 1 inch balls. Roll in mixture of 2 Tbsp. sugar (more, if
needed). At Christmas time I use colored sugar. Place 2” apart on
ungreased baking sheet. Bake 12-15 minutes. These cookies puff up at
first, then flatten out.
To make colored sugar:
mix ½ cup (or more) of sugar and a few drops of food coloring in a plastic
bag and mix.
This was a favorite of my kids.
Snickerdoodles come from the Betty Crocker Cookbook. I’ve modified it.
The original recipe calls for baking it at 400 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
It doesn’t call for 1 tsp vanilla. It calls for rolling the 1 inch balls
in a mixture of 2 tbsp sugar and 2 tsp cinnamon.
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Knepfla Soup (German cooking)
Knepfla Dough
Ingredients:
3 eggs
3/4 cup water/milk mixed
1 tsp salt
1 Tablespoon sugar (optional)
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup wheat flour
1 cup white flour (if you need to add more flour, use white)
Directions:
Beat eggs and water/milk mixture. Add remaining items. Beat until a
medium stiff dough (like cookie dough-slightly sticky). Drop the
dough into boiling water (teaspoonful size) -- for about 5 minutes.
Directions to make Kneplfla soup:
Boil potatoes in water for 20 minutes. Five minutes before done,
drop the Knepfla dough into the potato water. Let simmer for 5
minutes after all the dough is in water. Add 1/4 cup sour cream.
Add 1 or 2 cans of cream of whatever soup (I use 2 cans of Cream of
Mushroom).
Optional: Add your other favorite veggies
-- carrots, broccoli, etc.
My mother used to make
Knepfla every Friday night when my dad was living. She would make the
dough, boil them for 5 minutes and then fry them. They were
delicious. I got this knepfla recipe from Christal, a church friend
from North Dakota.
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Rhubarb
Pie
Ingredients:
4 cups chopped rhubarb
1 ¼ cup sugar
3 Tablespoons flour
2 eggs beaten
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together.
Pour into unbaked pie crust.
Add topping and bake for about 45 minutes at 350 degrees. (bake until fork
comes out fairly clean)
Topping: Mix ¼ cup brown sugar, ½ cup flour, ¼ cup margarine together.
This recipe comes from my sister, Penny.
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Crock Pot Candy
Ingredients:
16 oz. Planters Lightly Salted Dry Roasted Peanuts
16 oz. Planters Unsalted Dry Roasted Peanuts
12 oz. pack Nestles Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
12 oz. Nestles white chocolate chips
16 oz. vanilla bar
Directions:
Combine all ingredients into crock pot. Cover and turn on low setting until
the chocolate melts (about 1 ½-2 hours). Stir with a large spoon, coating
all the peanuts. Spoon onto waxed paper and let harden. Keep crock pot
on until all candy has been spooned out.
Paul's mom, Freida, makes these for us when we visit her in Denver. They
are scrumptious! I haven't tried it yet, but I bet pecans would
taste good too.
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