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Easter Bread and Easter Fritatta--2023
I used the Easter Bread recipe on page 66 of Joan's and my recipes. It was origianly from Rosella Rago(?)
I put the ingredients into the bread machine and let it do the heavy work....
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Rainbow RV Resort…1/26/2023
Joan and I made cookies as a give-away (Manager's Suggestion) for the club house show on 1/26////23.
Joan made a full batch of Pizzelles (6 eggs) which yielded 8 doz on the small iron.
She also made a double batch of Chocolate Chips which gave us 10 dozen.
I made a recipe and 1/2 on a large sheet pan of sponge cake, which I cut into squares and frosted, then rolled in coconut. (11 dozen)
I also made a recipe and 1/2 of Georgia's Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Cookies. I used a star cut-out and then dipped them in melted chocolate.
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Christmas Cookie—2nd Event—Rainbow RV Resort, Frostproof, FL—12/18/2022
Joan and I have the use of the Clubhouse Kitchen at Rainbow RV Resort in Frostproof FL. It has 2 household stoves, lots of counter top space and a 3 bowl sink for clean-up. Last year (2021) we used the kitchen to make 2 kinds of pasta with 6 friends here. We had scoured flea markets and thrift stores for needed kitchen utensil essentials, even tho it is pretty well stocked. I brought my white Kitchenaid mixer from home, as well as some attachments. (Actually, I"ve set up a nice prep area in our outdoor shed and have been able to make several batches of pasta).
Christmas Cooking Baking....11/21 and 11/22 of 2022
Denielle is here for Thanksgiving week. Tumeca usually comes but had to stay home this year for a visiting cousin.
Denielle mixed the butterballs, but I gave her the wrong directions......I forgot that you have to cream the butter and sugar before adding the other ingredients. When the cookies were in the oven, they lost their shape and went flat, like a drop cookie. They didn't really hold together as they were eaten either.
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Christmas Cookie Baking---2022
Margot and Tonya came over on Saturday, 11/19/22
We made butterballs, chocolate meatballs and cornstarch. I had the doughs already made and the girls did the forming and baking. They packaged them up and left a container of each for Joan and I. What a couple of sweethearts!!
All the cookies baked up just fine....I found out that Margot doesn't really like chocolate.
Another recipe that won’t add the regular way (Strawberry Glaze)
1 cup fresh strawberrries, cleaned and mashed.
1 cup sugar
3 Tablespoons cornstarch
3/4 cup water
Optional red food coloring
I doubled this recipe for the June Birthday Birthday cake. 1 1/2 recipes would have been enough.
Mash the berrries and set aside.
In a saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch.
Stir in water and mashed berries.
Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Add food coloring if necessary.
Cook and stir for 3 minutes until thick.
A recipe that won’t add the regular way (Pound Cake)
2 sticks butter
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
1 box vanilla instant pudding and pie mix
5 eggs
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon lemon
Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour, then line with parchment paper an oversized rectangular pan.
Cream the butter, shortening and sugar 'til light, fluffy and smooth.
Add eggs one at a time and beat after each.
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Lane, Easton and Rhet end of year school awards. (2022)
Joan made chocolate chips. Denielle made rice crispy treats and Joan also made cornstarch cutout in letters of the alphabet. We used icing to hold the cookies onto paper plates that spelled out the kids' names. While we were at it, we made the same ' name plates' for our families.
Regin’s Baby Shower——6/22
I made: chocolate walnut puffs, thumbprints and Christine's.
Joan made: cornstarch cutouts in the shape of baby bottles and three flavors of pizzelles (chocolate, vanilla and anise). Joan also made one of those soft cushions liners that you put the baby in when using a shopping cart.
Christmas Cooking Baking with Maria, Garrett and Gerald Anthony---2021
On Saturday, December 18, Maria and family came over to bake. She brought lots of ingredients, stuff to eat along the way and a 4 section bundt cake pan gift for Joan. She also had a double batch of pre-made Cornstarch Cookies. I had a sponge cake for Petit Fors, Butter Balls and Kpiful dough. Maria had the three colored cakes for her Napolians. As the day went on, I mixed Basic Dough for a fig loaf and Maria really wanted to try Gampa Dalesio's stove top Pizzelle iron.
