Monday, January 14, 2008
Pumpkin Bread from Kylie Brinton
3 ½ cups sugar
4 eggs
1 ½ cups oil
1 (29 oz) can pumpkin (or 3 cups)
¾ cup water
5 ½ cups flour
3 tsp soda
1 ½ tsp salt
1 ½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp cloves
2 cups chopped nuts (if desired)

In large bowl, combine sugar, eggs, oil, pumpkin and water. Mix well. Add dry ingredients until moistened. Add nuts. Grease and line bottom of bread pans with wax paper. Pour batter into pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes for small pans or 1 hour for large loaf pans. Turn loaves out as soon as finished baking. Cool. Makes 3 large or 5 to 6 small loaves.

Makes 36 muffins, bake 20 min. at 350.

Make it Gluten Free: Switch from Wheat Flour to 3 1/2 cups ATK gluten free flour blend, plus 2 cups gf oat flour, and 1 tsp xantham gum, and add another 1/4 cup of water (for a total of 1 cup of water). Let the batter rest 15-30 minutes before baking. Pour into 3 9x9 pans and bake at 330 degrees f. for 60 minutes.

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Fruit Cake

I admit it, I love Fruit Cake! Somewhere along the line in my childhood, I learned to love fruit cake. Probably from the year that my mom made dozens and took them to all the neighbors when I was around 8. I try to make one every year. This year I ate about half of it myself. Porter (3) would see me eating something good and beg for a bite, so I'd give him one. Everytime he would make a face and spit it in the trash! After 5 or 6 times, he started looking closer at what I was eating and he quit asking me for a bite. LOL!


Here's my favorite recipe, straight off the None Such Mincemeat Jar - anything else and you're just wasting money and taking your chances, as far as I'm concerned.


2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

2 eggs, slightly beaten

1 (27 oz) jar NoneSuch ready-to-use Mincemeat

1 (14 oz) can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk (not evaporated milk)

2 cups (1 pound) mixed candied fruit

1 cup coarsly chopped nuts


Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Grease and flour a 10 inch bundt pan. Combine flour and baking soda, set aside. In a large bowl, combine remaining ingredients; blend in dry ingredients. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 1 hour and 45 to 50 minutes (that's almost 2 hours!) or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes. Turn out of pan. Garnish as desired.

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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Christmas Potatoes or Funeral Potatoes (as needed)
Large bag frozen hash browns or potatoes O'brien
1 onion minced and sauteed in butter
1 carton sour cream
1 can Cream of Chicken Soup
2 cups grated Cheddar cheese
1 cube margarine or butter

Sautee onions in large pan with butter, add sour cream, and soup. Heat and pour, (into 9 x 13 pan that has been sprayed with Pam) over hash browns, toss with cheese. Cover and Bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours at 350 degrees. Uncover, and top with more cheese and bake another 10 minutes. Fabulous with ham.

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