Easy White Bread

Easy White Bread – Linda’s Favorite Make-in-a-Hurry Bread Recipe

2 cups flour

¼ cup sugar

1 tbsp. salt

2 packages yeast

2 ½ cups milk

¼ cup oil

1 egg

4-5 cups flour


Combine flour sugar, salt and dry yeast in a large mixer bowl. Scald milk and add oil. Cook milk to lukewarm and add to flour mixture. Add egg. Beat ½ minute at low speed, 3 minutes at medium speed. By hand, gradually stir in 4-5 cups additional flour to form a soft dough. Cover dough and let rise until double. Shape into two loaves. Place in greased loaf pans. Cover and let rise until light. Bake 375 degrees F. for 35-40 minutes.

Buttermilk Rolls

Buttermilk Rolls


3 cups buttermilk

1 tbsp. yeast

3 tbsp. warm water

3 eggs

½ cup sugar

2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. soda

1 cube butter

10-12 cups flour

Mix buttermilk (warm), yeast, water and add 3 cups flour. Beat 200 strokes. Let stand one hour. Add beaten eggs, sugar, soda, salt and butter. Add flour to make a soft dough. Beat well. Let stand one hour. Beat dough down. Cover and put in refrigerator overnight. Three hours before baking, roll out the dough. Cut with a small glass, put in greased muffin tins, dip another cut out roll in butter and put it on top of the first one in the muffin tins. Let rise and bake at 375 degrees until golden brown. Makes three dozen rolls.

Emily got this recipe from Tammy.

Apple Pie Filling and other pie fillings

http://utah4h.org/files/publications/publication/pub__6653587.pdf

Go to this link for some awesome recipes for home canned pie filling using clear jel.
I think the apple pie filling recipe must be the one that Emily used, or something similar.

Caramel Corn

Caramel Popcorn
1 ½ cups white sugar
2 cups brown sugar
1 ½ cups dark karo syrup
2 cubes butter
1 tsp. vinegar
2 tsp. vanilla
8 quarts popped popcorn
Mix first five ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Boil four minutes. Add vanilla. Pour over at least 8 quarts popped popcorn and stir well. Emily did not form popcorn balls with this recipe.

Popcorn Balls

Grandma Drake always made these for Halloween. She got this recipe from her friend Colleen Christoffersen.

Popcorn Balls

3 cups sugar
1/2 cup vinegar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup water
2 tbsp. honey
2 tbsp. butter
food coloring - optional
Popped popcorn (???probably 2 batches in an air popcorn popper)

Mix sugar, vinegar, salt and water in a saucepan. Boil up for 5 minutes. Add honey. Cook until crackle stage. Dribble a little syrup in a cup of cold water and if it forms a firm string in the water, that is crackle stage. Add butter. Add a few drops food coloring if desired (orange for Halloween, red for Christmas). Pour over popped corn, stir well and form into balls. Wrap with plastic wrap and tie with ribbon if desired.

Apple Crisp

Apple Crisp -- Emily Drake


½ cup sugar

2 tbsp. butter

½ cup flour

1 egg, beaten

¼ tsp. baking powder

¼ tsp. salt

6 or 8 apples (or peaches could be used; use cooking apples)

Peel and cut up apples. Put in 9X9 pan.

Add:

½ cup sugar

¼ tsp. cinnamon

2 tbsp. water

Mix the apples in the pan with sugar-cinnamon and water. Mix sugar, flour, salt, and baking powder in a bowl. Cut butter into this mixture and add beaten egg. Place this dough on top of apples; a spoonful here and there. Bake at 300 to 350 degrees F. for 30 or 40 minutes, until fruit is done and the dough is brown. Serve with whipped cream.

Salad with Blue Cheese Snow

This is not one of Emily's recipes but I want to learn how to add video to my blogs and I think this is a really nifty way to add blue cheese to salads. So I will be experimenting with this.

I am not being successful. Until I figure out how to make a link in the post, please copy and paste the url below to go to the web page and view the video.

http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2007/11/your-salad-forecast-cool-and-crisp-with.html