Potato Fritters

3 cups hot mashed potatoes
1 cup hot milk
1/2 cup fine bread crumbs
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 tablespoon grated cheese
2 eggs
1 tablespoon flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Mix the potatoes, milk, bread crumbs, butter, and grated cheese.  When cool, add the eggs, beaten.  Sift together the flour and baking powder and stir in.  Mix well, then drop by spoonfuls in hot fat and fry until golden brown.  Drain on paper towels and serve crisp and hot.

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Leftover Baked Hash

2 cups chopped cold (fully cooked) meat
2 cups chopped cold potatoes
1 small minced onion
1 cup bread crumbs
1 cup left-over canned tomatoes
1 tablespoon drippings
Salt and pepper

Mix meat, potatoes, onion, salt, and pepper.  Grease baking dish, sprinkle with crumbs.  Put in a layer of meat and potatoes, then cover with a little tomato.  Repeat until ingredients are used up.  Sprinkle top thick with crumbs and dot with butter.  Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until heated through.

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Raisin Biscuits

1 cup seedless raisins
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup milk
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons shortening

Sift the flour, salt, and baking powder into a bowl. Add the shortening and rub in very lightly. Add enough cold milk to hold together, add the raisins and mix.

Place dough on floured board, roll or pat with hands until 1 inch thick. Then cut with biscuit cutter and brush tops with cold milk.

Bake in hot oven (400 degrees) for 20 to 25 minutes.

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Spanish Potatoes

6 to 10 small potatoes
2 medium size onions, diced
3 green peppers, seeded and diced
Cream sauce (recipe below)

Pare and parboil the potatoes in salted water for 10 minutes. Drain and dice potatoes, and mix with onions and peppers. Fry in preferred shortening. Place in a baking dish and cover with cream sauce. Bake at 350 just until the top is browned.

Cream Sauce

1 cup milk
1 tablespoon flour
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup grated cheese

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Peach Roll

Peach Roll

Peach Roll

4 eggs
6 tablespoons sugar
1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
6 tablespoons butter, melted
2 cups peaches, sieved
Chopped nut meats or coconut

Soften and slightly sweeten peaches. Rub them through a sieve and keep them warm. Beat up eggs and sugar 5 minutes, then beat over boiling water 10 minutes. Take from water and beat until cold.

Remove beater, sift in flour mixed with baking powder. Add lemon and butter. Mix carefully. Turn into a greased and floured jelly roll tin and bake in quick oven (375 to 400 degrees) 12 minutes. Turn out on a paper sprinkled with sugar, spread quickly with peach sauce, roll up at once and sprinkle over with chopped coconut or nut meats.

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Potato Snow au Gratin

1.  Beat with 4 cups of freshly boiled hot potatoes 3/4 cup boiling milk, 1 heaping tablespoon butter or margarine, salt, and pepper to taste.

2.  Beat first with a fork, then with a spoon and finally with an egg beater, adding more hot milk if very stiff.

3.  The mixture should be perfectly smooth, very light, and almost as thin as cake batter.

4.  Pile this in large spoonfuls in a baking pan and sprinkle with grated cheese.

5.  Bake at 350 for a few minutes until cheese has melted and crisped.

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Risotto

Many people are not aware of this rice that is brown in color with a rich, nutty flavor that makes it especially desirable for main dishes at dinner or supper. Here is a good way to cook it by following this Italian recipe:

1. Melt in a saucepan 2 tablespoonfuls of sausage or bacon fat; lightly brown in the fat half of a small onion, sliced, and a cupful of uncooked rice.

2. Add 1 1/2 cups cooked tomatoes, 2 cups soup stock or water, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and a dash of pepper.

3. Cook until the rice is tender and has absorbed all the liquid.

4. Now pick out the onion rings and stir in 1/2 cup of grated cheese.

5. Leave the dish over hot water for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally to melt the cheese.

Serve while hot.

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Blarney Stone Cookies

2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup coconut
2 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
Tiny pinch salt

Mix all together, adding well-beaten eggs last. Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased baking sheet and bake for 10 to 15 minutes in hot oven (400 degrees).

Do not try to remove from sheet till cool. A bit of candied fruit may be put on each just before baking.

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Irish Bun Bread for St. Patrick’s Day

4 cups bread dough that has risen twice
1/2 cup melted butter or margarine
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 egg (may be omitted)
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup chopped raisins

Cream sugar and shortening, beat with egg and work into dough. Add spice and fruit, and last stir in well the soda dissolved in a little warm milk.

Knead for 2 minutes, form into two small round loaves, let rise for 30 minutes. Then with a sharp knife, make two cross cuts on top of each loaf, brush with milk and bake in medium hot oven (375 – 400 degrees) for 40 to 45 minutes.

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