Ingredients for two crusts:
3 cups flour
1 t salt
1 cup shortening or lard
1 egg
1 t white vinegar (or champagne vinegar)
5 T cold water
It’s my favorite time of the year – time for pies! Maybe you have a pick it yourself apple orchard near you or a bunch of pumpkins in your garden all ready to be harvested. If not, head to your local produce market and decide what to put inside this lovely flaky crust.
The Daughter was making a double batch of our favorite cookie – Brown Sugar Cookies. Because it is always my way to imagine changes to things, I wondered what would happen if we added butterscotch morsels to the cookies. The Daughter agreed that this could be a marvelous thing indeed and so before baking the last dozen, we poured in a good cup of the beautiful morsels.
Result: the world’s best cookie stirred up to perfection. Make your own today!
Butterscotch Brown Sugar Cookies
Ingredients:
2/3 cup shortening
2/3 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 cup firmly packed mounding out of the cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 t pure vanilla extract – get the good stuff do not use Imitation Vanilla
3 1/4 cup flour (plus a little extra for rolling out)
1 t baking soda
1 t salt
Addition: 2 cups butterscotch morsels
For the directions, click here, and don’t forget the morsels!
My Mom always made Boston Cream Pie for my birthday.
Last year, my daughter made this one for me, thus continuing the tastiest of all family traditions.
Cake Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 t vanilla
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour, spoon lightly into the measuring cup
2 t baking powder
1/2 t salt
2/3 cup milk Read More
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups dark brown sugar, firmly packed
2 large eggs
1 T pure vanilla extract
1 cup homemade unsweetened applesauce
1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
Optional: 1/2 cup chopped pecans Read More
My daughter and I have made these awesome cookies since she was very small. Make a batch today with your daughter!
WARNING: Do NOT use margarine in this cookie
Ingredients:
2/3 cup shortening
2/3 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 cup firmly packed mounding out of the cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 t pure vanilla extract – get the good stuff do not use Imitation Vanilla
3 1/4 cup flour (plus a little extra for rolling out)
1 t baking soda
1 t salt Read More
Ingredients:
2 (10 oz) packages of frozen wild blueberries
1/3 cup orange juice
1/3 cup sugar
2 T lemon juice
1 1/2 T cornstarch
1 Angel Food Cake Read More
Makes 8 Servings
Ingredients:
1 pineapple, sliced into eight wedges
1/2 cup dark rum
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/8 cup honey
1/4 cup orange juice Read More
A beautiful pie just like Grandma used to make.
Crust Ingredients:
3 cups flour
1 t salt
1 cup shortening
1 egg
1 t white vinegar
5 T cold water Read More
This recipe is easy to adjust for servings. For each pear combine 1 cup water, 1 T dark brown sugar, and 1 T tawny port. For every 4 pears, use one entire cinnamon stick.
Ingredients:
2 Bosc Pears, peeled and sliced
2 cups water
2 T dark brown sugar
2 T tawny port (omit entirely or omit and increase the sugar by 1 tablespoon per two pears)
1 cinnamon stick, broken in large chunks (discard small bits)
Parchment paper cut to the fit the opening of the pot Read More
Ingredients:
1/3 cup whipping cream
8 oz semi sweet baking chocolate
1/3 cup butter
cocoa and powdered sugar
Spoon Mage™ Note:
My son used to make these for teacher Christmas gifts in elementary school. All I had to do was help with the Read More
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