Desserts

• Mix
  • 3 cups peeled, cored, and sliced apples (Jonathon Winesaps)
  • 1 scant cup white sugar (adjust to tartness of apples and desired taste)
  • 1 Tblsp. flour
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 1/4 tsp. cinnamon

  and place in shallow baking dish.

• Separately, mix until crumbly (adjust topping amounts to desired depth as needed):
  • 1/3 cup butter
  • 3/4 cup raw quick cook oats
  • 3/4 cup flour

• Mix:
  • 1 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2/3 cup white karo syrup
  • 1 cup water
• Cook to soft ball stage
• Add:
  • 2 cups (16 oz) raw Spanish nuts
  • 1 Tblsp. margarine
  • dash salt
• Stir and Cook to the hard crack stage where it breaks into hard brittle threads (approximately 10 minutes).
• Remove from heat.
• Add 1 tsp. soda and stir well.
• Pour into greased cookie sheet.

• Mix together:
  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 3 Tblsps. cream (may substitute canned milk or whole milk for cream)
  • 1/4 tsp. maple flavoring.
  • 1/2 cup coconut
  • 1/4 cup chopped pecans.
• Spread over warm baked cake.
• Place 4 to 5 inches from broiler unit, and broil until bubbly and brown. It can burn easily, so keep a careful eye on it.

• Soak 6 slices of dry cubed bread in 1 1/2 cups of warm milk.
• Add a dash of salt
• Combine and beat well
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 3/4 tsp. vanilla
  • 1/4 tsp. nutmeg

  and add to the bread and milk mixture

• Add 1/4 cup raisins or chopped dates.
• Stir lightly with fork
• If you do not wish to top with meringue, whip egg whites until stiff and fold in here

This is adjusted for a steam pudding pan. The style can vary. My mom used a round cylindrical pan. My wife uses a pan that is a bit fancier with a center cylinder somewhat like an angel food cake pan (but suitable for steaming).

• Chop:
  • 10 oz. dates
  • 10 oz. raisins
  • 2 oz. citron (sprinkle with part of the flour).

• Beat together:
  • 1 3/4 cups sugar
  • 7 Tblsp. butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1 3/4 cup thick unsweetened applesauce
  • 1 3/4 tsp. vanilla flavoring
• Sift together and add:
  • 3 3/4 cups flour (dipped)
  • 1 3/4 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 3/4 tsp. soda
  • 3/4 tsp. cloves
  • 1 3/4 tsp. cinnamon
  • scant tsp. salt
• Add:

• Mix thoroughly
  • 2/3 cup soft shortening (part butter)
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
• Sift together and stir in
  • 1 1/2 cups sifted flour (for a softer more rounded cookie, use 1 3/4 cups flour)
  • 1/2 tsp. soda
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
• Stir in
  • 1/2 cup chopped nuts (pecans)

• Cream:
  • 1/4 cup shortening
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1/2 cup honey
• Sift and add:
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
• Add:
  • 1/2 cup quick-cook oats
  • 1/2 cup chopped nuts
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 cup starter
• 1 3/4 cup flour
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. soda

Cream first 5 ingredients. Sift together dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture.

Mix well. Drop by teaspoons onto a greased cookie sheet. Mix 1/2 cup sugar and 2 tsps cinnamon and sprinkle on each cookie. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes.

Makes about 4 1/2 dozen.

• 1 cup sugar (close packed brown) or white
• Beat until soft: 1/2 cup butter (1/4 lb.)
• Add sugar gradually, blend until very light.
• Beat in 1 egg.

• 1 3/4 cups cake flour (or 1 5/8 cups regular flour)
• Sift a little of the flour over:
  • 1 cup raisins (chopped)
  • 1 cup nut meats (pecans preferred)

• Add to the balance of the flour:
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. soda
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon