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Easy Orange Blossoms

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Easy Orange Blossoms
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Recipe Type: bread
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Ingredients
  • 2 cans small biscuits
  • 1 c. orange juice
  • 1 c. sugar
  • ½ c. butter
Instructions
  1. Place two biscuits side by side in muffin pan.
  2. Bake according to directions on package.
  3. While the biscuits are baking, bring orange juice, sugar, and butter to a boil on the stove. Boil for about 10 minutes or until it starts to thicken slightly.
  4. As soon as the biscuits come out of the oven, pour about ⅛ cup of orange juice mixture over the biscuits and serve.

 

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Sugar Cookies

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Sugar Cookies
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • 1 stick butter
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp. milk
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 2 c. flour
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
Instructions
  1. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla all together.
  2. Add egg. Beat until light and fluffy.
  3. Stir in milk.
  4. Stir in sifted dry ingredients. Blend well.
  5. Divide dough in half. Chill 1 hour or more.
  6. Roll dough on floured board to about ⅛ inch thickness.
  7. Cut to desired shape.
  8. Bake on cookie sheet, in a 375 degree oven, for 8 minutes.
  9. ICING:
  10. c. sifted confectioner's sugar
  11. /4 c. milk
  12. /2 tsp. vanilla
  13. Dash of salt
  14. Combine all ingredients and mix well.
  15. Add food coloring if desired.

 

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English Toffee

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English Toffee
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • 2 C. Sugar
  • 5 tbsp. Water
  • Lb. butter
  • 1 C. Almonds, Chopped (optional)
Instructions
  1. Using a heavy wide bottom pan, melt the butter and mix in the sugar.
  2. Cook on high, stirring constantly until mixture reached hard crack temperature (300).
  3. Pour on a buttered cookie sheet.
  4. Score the top a little bit and top with 1 C. chopped nuts if desired.

 

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Snow Pudding

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Snow Pudding
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Recipe Type: dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 2 c. scalded milk
  • Add 3 egg yolks, beaten
  • ¼ c. sugar
  • 1 package plain gelatin
  • ¼ cup cold water
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • ¼ cup lemon juice
  • 3 egg whites
  • Little salt
Instructions
  1. Dissolve 1 package plain gelatin in ¼ cup cold water. Add 1 cup boiling water, ¾ cup sugar, ¼ cup lemon juice. Fold in 3 egg whites which have been beaten stiff. Refrigerate.
  2. CUSTARD SAUCE FOR SNOW PUDDING:
  3. c. scalded milk
  4. Add 3 egg yolks, beaten
  5. /4 c. sugar
  6. Little salt
  7. Put on low heat and when it thickens, add 1 teaspoon vanilla. Chill and pour over Snow Pudding when serving.

 

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Breakfast Casserole

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Breakfast Casserole
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Recipe Type: breakfast
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Ingredients
  • 1½ pounds sausage
  • 6 slices bread, cubed
  • 1½ cups shredded cheddar cheese
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1 teaspoon dry mustard
  • 4 ounces mushroom pieces, drained
  • ¼ cup green bell pepper, diced
  • ¼ cup green onion, diced
Instructions
  1. Brown sausage and drain grease.
  2. Layer bread in bottom of 9 x 13-inch well-greased baking pan.
  3. Sprinkle sausage over bread.
  4. Add cheese.
  5. In a separate bowl, combine eggs and remaining ingredients.
  6. Pour slowly over cheese.
  7. Bake at 325 F. for 45 minutes.
  8. Recipe can be made the might before and refrigerated before cooking if desired.

 

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Dinner Rolls

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Dinner Rolls
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Serves: 10
 
Ingredients
  • 1 square of margarine
  • 6 tbsp. Sugar
  • 2 C. scalded milk
  • 1 tbsp. salt
  • 2 eggs beater
  • 2 pk. Yeast in ½ cup warm water
  • 6-7 cups flour
Instructions
  1. Mix everything together and allow to rise for at least 1 hour.
  2. Roll out dough and cut with a biscuit cutter.
  3. Allow to raise for an additional 10-15 minutes.
  4. Brush tops of rolls with melted butter.
  5. Bake at 425 for 10-15 minutes

 

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Divinity

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Divinity
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Ingredients
  • 2 C. sugar
  • 2 egg whites
  • C. white corn syrup
  • C. water
Instructions
  1. Mix sugar, syrup, and water in a medium sized sauce pan.
  2. Cook on high heat, stirring frequently until candy thermometer reaches 250 degrees F.
  3. While syrup mixture cooks, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form.
  4. When syrup reaches 250F, pour slowly over egg whites beating constantly.
  5. Continue to beat the mixture until it holds its shape.
  6. Using a spoon, drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto waxed paper and allow to cool completely. You will need to work fast as this will begin to set up rather quickly.

 

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Rock Candy

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Rock Candy
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Recipe Type: candy
 
Ingredients
  • 4 C. sugar
  • 1 C. white corn syrup
  • 1 C. cold water
  • Oil Based Flavoring of your choice
Instructions
  1. Mix well and bring to a boil everything except the flavoring.
  2. Reduce heat to keep it boiling.
  3. Set candy thermometer in mixture and bring it to 300 degrees.
  4. Add two teaspoons flavoring and 2 drops of color.
  5. Mix well and pour onto cookie sheet that has been lined with foil and powdered lightly with powdered sugar.

 

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Sugar Cookies

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Sugar Cookies
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Recipe Type: cookies
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Serves: 8
 
Ingredients
  • 2 C. sugar
  • 1 C. butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 C. milk
  • 3 tsp. vanilla
  • 1tsp. lemon flavoring
  • 5 C. flour
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 3 tsp. baking powder
Instructions
  1. Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and beat well.
  2. Mix in lemon and vanilla.
  3. Add remaining ingredients.
  4. Roll ¼ thick, cut and bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 min.
  5. Makes about 5 dozen.

 

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Pineapple Rasin Cookies

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Pineapple Rasin Cookies
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Serves: 84
 
Ingredients
  • 1 C. firmly packed brown sugar
  • C. butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • C. raisins
  • C. crushed pineapple, with juice
  • 2 C. flour
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • tsp. salt
  • tsp. soda
Instructions
  1. Beat together sugar, butter, egg and vanilla until fluffy.
  2. Add raisins and pineapple and sift in flour with baking powder soda and salt.
  3. Drop by spoonfuls on greased cookie sheets.
  4. Bake at 375 degrees for 12-15 minutes.

 

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Dolly Cookies

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Dolly Cookies
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • C. butter (melted)
  • C. graham cracker crumbs
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 C. semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1⅓ C. flaked coconut
Instructions
  1. Pour sweetened milk evenly over crumbs.
  2. Top with remaining ingredients.
  3. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.
  4. Cool completely before eating.

 

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Kislins

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Kislins
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • 7 oz. powdered sugar
  • 1 ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 14 oz. butter
  • 7 oz. grated almonds
  • 4 oz. granulated sugar
  • 3 ½ C. Flour
Instructions
  1. Cream butter and granulated sugar together.
  2. Mix ½ flour with almonds, add to butter.
  3. Continue to add flour until the consistency of putty about 3 ½ cups.
  4. Shape into balls and flatten with fork.
  5. Bake 15 in 350 degrees.
  6. When cool dip in powdered sugar.

 

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Butter Cookies

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Butter Cookies
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Recipe Type: Dessert
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Ingredients
  • C. Sugar
  • 1 lb. margarine
  • 4 C. Flour
  • Nuts (optional)
Instructions
  1. Cream butter and sugar together and slowly mix in flour.
  2. Roll into balls and flatten with a fork on a cookie sheet.
  3. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes.

 

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Orange Rolls

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Orange Rolls
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Recipe Type: dessert
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Ingredients
  • 2 pkg. biscuits
  • 2/4 C. Sugar
  • C. butter, melted
  • 1 orange rind, grated fine
  • Juice from 1 orange
Instructions
  1. Combine melted butter, sugar, orange rind and orange juice together.
  2. Place biscuits in a Bundt pan and pour orange mixture over the dough.
  3. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
  4. Immediately turn out biscuits onto a plate after they have been removed from the oven.

 

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