Priscilla's Favorite Recipes


Hazelnut Honey Bread

2½ cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 egg
1 cup milk
¾ cup honey
½ teaspoon vanilla
1 cup Hazelnuts, chopped

Preheat oven to 350º. Mix dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Melt butter or margarine. Beat egg until light. Beat in milk, honey, vanilla, and melted butter or margarine. Mix the liquid ingredients with the dry ingredients. Fold in the Hazelnuts. Bake in a greased bread pan for 40 minutes.


Black Walnut and Fruit Bread

1 cup milk

1 cup water
1 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
¼ cup 110º water
1 package dry yeast
6½ cups flour
2 tablespoons gluten
1 cup chopped black walnuts
½ cup dried cranberries
¼ cup dried apricots, slivered

Dissolve yeast in ¼ cup warm water. Scald milk and add water, butter, sugar, and salt. Stir in 3 cups of flour and gluten and beat for one minute. Add remaining flour, nuts and fruit and knead well. Place in greased bowl and let rise. Punch down and let rise again. Punch down and shape into 2 loaves and place in greased loaf pans. Let rise until almost doubled in bulk. Preheat oven to 450º. Bake the bread 10 minutes, then lower heat to 350º and bake for 30 minutes more. Test for doneness. Remove from pans.


Oregon Honey Beer Special Beans

12 ounces Oregon Honey Beer

4 cups black beans
8 cups water
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
1 tablespoon oregano
1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
1 tablespoon paprika
1 medium onion, chopped

Presoak beans, then combine all ingredients and simmer until beans are tender. Garnish with cheese.


Strawberry Jam Tots

½ cup sugar

½ cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2½ cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup Strawberry Jam
Almonds for decoration

Preheat oven to 350º. Grease muffin tin. Cream together butter and sugar. Beat in vanilla, eggs, flour, baking powder, and salt. Form into balls and indent each one. Fill with Strawberry Jam and top with almond. Bake for 10 minutes.


Buttermilk Raspberry Rum Crepes

2 eggs

1 cup Buttermilk
½ teaspoon vanilla
¾ cup flour
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup red raspberry jam
2 tablespoons spiced rum
¼ cup chopped almonds

Beat eggs and add Buttermilk, and vanilla. Mix lightly into flour, salt, and sugar. Cook in lightly greased skillet, turning once. Combine jam and rum and spread over crepes. Roll up and top with chopped almonds.


Mushroom Appetizers Supreme

1 package fresh Mushrooms

1 cup white wine
¼ cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning
½ teaspoon lobster broth extract
1 teaspoon corn starch
¼ cup grated Swiss cheese
¼ cup fresh chopped oysters

Remove stems from mushrooms and wipe with damp cloth. Cover with wine in a sauce pan, add onions and seasonings and simmer gently for five minutes. Remove mushrooms from pan and continue simmering to reduce wine to half. mix remaining ingredients and add to wine. Gently simmer until cheese is melted and oysters are firmed. Cool before filling mushrooms. Garnish with fresh herbs.


Love to have feed back concerning these recipes. All of these have won awards at either county or state fairs, as well as the GeoCities Thanksgiving Recipe Contest for the first three receipes.

Priscilla

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