Bananas Flambe
Servings: 1
Ingredients:
2 ea Bananas, ripe but not soft 1 x Butter
3 T Brown sugar 1 x Rum, dark
Take 2 ripe, but not soft bananas and cut in half, then split lengthwise.Melt a few Tablespoons butter over medium heat. Add 2-3 T brown sugar andstir. Add bananas. Cook until fairly warm and starting to soften (about 1min.). Flip bananas and allow to cook an additional 30 seconds. Add rum(light or dark; [...]
Fairfax Chocolate Icing
Servings: 1
Ingredients:
2 ea Chocolate, bitter squares 2 ea Chocolate, semi-sweet square
3 T Butter 6 T Water
6 ea Marshmallows 1/2 c Confectioners sugar
1 t Vanilla
Mix chocolate, sugar and water together. Cook about 5 minutes. Remove fromheat, add marshmallows, butter and vanilla. Beat until thick enough tospread.
Mrs. Harold T. Cook
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Caramel Icing
Servings: 1
Ingredients:
2 c Brown sugar 1 c White sugar
1 T White syrup 1 c Cream
1 t Vanilla
Cook together all ingredients except vanilla until mixture forms soft ballwhen dropped into cold water. Add vanilla and stir until desiredconsistency to spread.
Mrs. Charles E. Phillips
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Mattie’s Jam Cake
Servings: 1
Ingredients:
2 1/2 c Brown sugar 2 c Sour milk
4 c Flour 3/4 c Butter
2 c Jam 2 t Baking soda
3 t Cinnamon 2 t Cloves
2 t Nutmeg 3 ea Eggs, lg
15 oz Raisins 1 c Nutmeats
1 x Figs and dates as desired
Mix all ingredients together well except jam. Lastly, gently stir in the2c jam. Pour into greased and floured 9′ round cake pans. Bake in 325degree oven for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comesout clean. If desired, serve caramel icing.
Mrs. Charles E. Phillips
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Party Date
Servings: 25
Ingredients:
3 c Dates, cut up 1 1/2 c Shortening
3 c Boiling water 6 ea Eggs
3 t Baking soda 3 T Cocoa
4 c Sugar 4 1/2 c Flour
1 c Chopped nuts 2 c Chocolate bits
Mix dates and water and allow to cool. Combine 3c sugar, shortening, eggs,cocoa and flour. Add baking soda to date mixture and combine. Pour into 2greased loaf pans and sprinkle with topping of 1c sugar, nuts andchocolate bits. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes. Slice and servehot. Garnish with whipped cream.
Mrs. Henry [...]
Strawberry Angel Fluff
Servings: 12
Ingredients:
1 ea Angel food cake 1 pk Strawberry Jello, lg
1 pk Frozen whipped topping, lg 1 pk Frozen strawberries
Tear the cake into walnut-size pieces and scatter over bottom of 10′ X 13′sheet cake pan. Dissolve Jello in 2 cups of boiling water and then 2 cupscold water. Allow to jell a little. Fold in the frozen strawberries andwhipped topping which has thawed a little. Pour over cake and refrigerateuntil set. [...]
Lemon Bars
Servings: 1
Ingredients:
3/4 c Flour 1/3 c Butter
2 ea Eggs 2 c Brown sugar
1/8 t Baking powder 1/2 c Nuts
1/2 t Vanilla 2/3 c Confectioners sugar
1 t Lemon rind, grated 1 1/2 T Lemon juice
Mix flour and butter into a fine crumb and pat down into an 11′ X 7′ pan.Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Beat eggs. Mix brown sugar, nuts,baking powder and vanilla and spread onto hot crumb mixture. Bake at 350degrees for 20 minutes. Mix confectioners’ sugar, lemon rind and juice andspread over [...]
Mimi’s Pound Cake
Servings: 1
Ingredients:
1/2 lb Butter (NO subst) 5 ea Eggs
2 c Cake flour 1 2/3 c Sugar
2 t Vanilla
Cream butter and sugar. Drop in eggs one at a time, stirring after each.Fold in flour and mix well. Add vanilla. Bake in 350 degree over for about50 minutes.
Mrs. Charles E. Phillips
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Fluffy Gold Cake
Servings: 1
Ingredients:
2 c Cake flour, sifted 1 1/3 c Sugar
3 t Baking powder 1 t Salt
1/3 c Shortening 1 c Milk
1 t Vanilla 4 ea Egg yolks
Sift together dry ingredients and put in mixing bowl. Add shortening andhalf the milk. Mix. Add remaining milk, vanilla, and egg yolks. Blendwell. Pour into 2 greased and floured round layer pans and bake at 350degrees for 30-35 minutes.
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Date Fruit Cake
Servings: 2
Ingredients:
4 c Dates, stoned but not cut up 1 lb Walnut meats, not cut up
1 lb Candied cherries, not cut up 1 c Flour
1/2 t Salt 3 t Baking powder
1 c Sugar 4 ea Eggs, separated
1 t Vanilla
Mix dates, walnuts and cherries. Sift together flour, salt and bakingpowder, and mix with the fruit mixture. Add sugar and mix. Beat 4 eggyolks until thick and mix thoroughly through cake mix. Add vanilla. Beategg whites until stiff and dry and fold into mixture. Line 2 loaf panswith wax paper, pour in [...]