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English Toffee

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English Toffee
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Recipe Type: dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 2 ½ C. sugar
  • 1 C. water
  • 4 sticks of butter
  • C. light corn syrup
  • 2-3 C. of nuts (Any type you prefer)
Instructions
  1. Put half of the nuts on an unbuttered cookie sheet.
  2. Cook the first four ingredients over medium heat until golden brown in a large pan.
  3. Pour mixture over nuts on cookie sheet and sprinkle with remaining nuts.
  4. Let cool and break into pieces.

 

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Milk Chocolate Truffles

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Milk Chocolate Truffles
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Recipe Type: dessert
 
Ingredients
  • 9 oz. chocolate chips
  • 2 tbsp. unsalted butter
  • ⅓ c. heavy cream
  • 1 c. unsweetened cocoa
Instructions
  1. Melt chocolate chips and butter and mix together.
  2. Add cream and stir until smooth.
  3. Cover and refrigerate for about 5 hours.
  4. When mixture has set, scoop a teaspoon of mixture and roll into a ball and then roll in cocoa.

 

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Flatbread

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Flatbread
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Recipe Type: bread
 
Ingredients
  • ¾ c. buttermilk
  • ¼ c. cream
  • ¼ c. shortening
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ⅓ tsp. soda
  • 2 tbsp. sugar
  • 1½ c. flour
Instructions
  1. Melt shortening and mix mix in sugar, flour, salt and baking soda.
  2. Add liquid ingredients to flour mixture gradually.
  3. Add additional flour to thicken if needed. form dough into about 20 balls, and let rest for 30 minutes.
  4. Roll thin on a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 until done.

 

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Potato Candy

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Potato Candy
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Recipe Type: Dessert
 
Ingredients
  • ½ c. mashed potatoes
  • powered sugar
  • peanut butter
Instructions
  1. Place mashed potatoes in a bowl and add powdered sugar until mixture is thick enough to roll out on a flat surface.
  2. Roll out dough and cover with a thin layer of peanut butter.
  3. Roll like a jelly roll and cut into small pieces.

 

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Eggnog Bread

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Eggnog Bread
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Recipe Type: bread
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Ingredients
  • 3 c. flour
  • ½ c. sugar
  • 4 tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ tsp. ground nutmeg
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1¾ c. dairy eggnog
  • ½ c. vegetable oil
  • ½ c. chopped pecans
  • ½ c. raisins
  • ½ c. powdered sugar
  • 2 to 3 tsp. eggnog
Instructions
  1. In a large mixing bowl, stir together all of the dry ingredients.
  2. In a second bowl, mix the egg, eggnog and oil and slowly mix in the dry ingredients.
  3. Mix in the nuts and raisins last.
  4. Pour mixture into a large greased loaf pan.
  5. Bake in a 350°F oven for 60 to 65 minutes.
  6. Allow bread to cool in pan for 10 minutes after removing from the oven.
  7. Remove bread from pan and allow to cool on a wire rack.
  8. To glaze, stir together powdered sugar and enough eggnog to make glaze and pour over the bread.

 

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Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies

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Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
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Recipe Type: Cookies
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Ingredients
  • 1 c. sugar
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 1 c. butter
  • 3 oz. cream cheese
  • ½ tsp. almond extract
  • ½ tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2¼ c. flour
Instructions
  1. Combine and blend all ingredients except flour and then slowly mix in the flour.
  2. Chill for a couple of hours. Roll out dough to desired thickness and cut into shapes.
  3. Place on un-greased cookie sheet.
  4. Bake at 375 degrees for 7 to 10 minutes or until the edges begin to brown.

 

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Apple Cranberry Relish

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Apple Cranberry Relish
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Recipe Type: Sauce
 
Ingredients
  • 8 red firm apples,
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 1 can whole cranberry sauce
  • ½ cup chopped candied ginger
  • 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger root
  • ½ c. fresh cranberries
  • ¾ cup coarsely chopped walnuts
  • ½ c. orange juice
Instructions
  1. Grate the unpeeled apples and toss with the lemon juice.
  2. Mash up the cranberry sauce slightly and combine that with the grated apples and the remaining ingredients.
  3. Refrigerate and allow cool for several hours before serving.

 

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