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Some of Gramma Kath's Favorite
Recipes
Indian
Pudding
Gramma Kath was very enthusiastic
about this recipe. We like it too. And it is easy to
make.
Heat 1 qt. of milk in the
microwave.
Add:
2 tblsps. Quick cooking tapioca
2 tblsps. Corn meal
½ cup sugar
½ cup molasses\
1 egg
1 tsp salt
Butter the size of the egg
Bring to just boiling in the
microwave
Then cook ¾ hr. in oven at 350º.
Best served warm with vanilla ice
cream.
Chocolate Steamed Pudding (Gramma Kath)
Ingredients:
½ cup sugar
1 tblsp melted shortening
1 heaping tsp of baking powder
1 egg
1 square of chocolate
½ cup milk
1 cup flour
Mix together and steam for one
hour.
Sauce:
Cream ½ cup sugar, 2 tblsps butter,
2 large spoons flour, 1 egg yolk, ½ cup coiling water.
Set over hot water and cook until
thick.
Let cool and add white of egg, beat
stiff, add vanilla.
Great Grandmother Gilchrist’s chocolate donuts
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp melted butter
1 cup sweet milk
½ cup cocoa
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
Vanilla, salt and flour to make
soft dough.
Gramma
Kath’s Holiday Banana Bread
1 egg
1 cup sugar
½ cup shortening
3 ripe mashed bananas
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ cup chopped dates
½ cup chopped maraschino cherries
½ cup chopped nuts
In a large bowl beat egg, sugar,
shortening, bananas and vanilla until smooth. Sift flour
and soda and blend in.
Stir in remaining ingredients.
Pour batter into greased and
floured pan (one 9x5x3 or two 7 3/8 x 3 5/8 x 2 ¼ or one
fluted 4 c. tubepan and one small loaf pan).
Bake at 350º for one hour and 15
minutes.
Chocolate Ice-Box Cake (Gramma Kath)
One two layer spongey or small
angel cake
4 eggs, separated
1 cup confectioner’s sugar
1 envelope plain gelatin
½ cup cold water
½ cup boiling water
2 sq. chocolate, melted
Vanilla
Beat yolks until thick, gradually
beat in sugar and chocolate.
Soften gelatin in cold water. Add
boiling water. Then add to chocolate mixture . Add
vanilla. Lastly fold in beaten egg whites. Pour ½
mixture into dish, break cake into small pieces. Put on
top. Cover with all remaining mixture and chill
overnight for at least 12 hours. Serve with whipped
cream.
Popovers (Gramma Kath)
1 cup flour
¼ tsp. salt
7/8 cup milk
2 eggs
½ tsp melted butter.
Mix salt and flour, add milk
gradually. Beat eggs until light and add to mixture. Add
butter. Beat two minutes with egg beater. Turn into
buttered custard cups or burning hot buttered iron gem
pans. Bake 30-35 min., beginning with a hot oven
(400 degrees) and
decreasing gradually to a moderate oven.
Blueberry Pudding
Serves six.
Gramma Kath got this recipe from
someone called Mary McNally
6 slices bread, buttered
Cinnamon
3 cups blueberries
1 cup sugar
½ cup water
½ pt. heavy cream.
Sprinkle bread lightly with
cinnamon. Cook berries, sugar and water for 10 minutes.
Layer with bread in a glass dish.
Chill in refrigerator for several
hours.
Serve with Whipped cream (flavored
with sherry).
Lemon Sponge
Pie (Gramma Kath)
Beat together 1 cup sugar, 3 tblsps
butter, yolks of two eggs. Add juice and rind of one
lemon, 3 tblsps flour. Mix together. Add 1 cup milk and
stiffly beaten whites. Back ¾ hour in moderate oven.
Rhubarb Jam (Gramma Kath)
4 cups rhubarb
5 cups sugar
1 medium sized can crushed
pineapple, drained.
Boil together to quite thick.
Stir in one package of strawberry
jello.
Pineapple and Apricot Jam (Gramma
Kath)
1 lb. apricots, soaked overnight.
Drain off nearly all water.
Add one large can or two #2 cans
crushed pineapple
Cook slowly two hours.
Add 5 cups sugar and cook 20
minutes.
Pear Conserve
(Gramma Kath)
8 lbs hard pears
2 lemons
1 orange
¼ lb. ginger
8 lbs sugar
Put pears, peeled and cored,
lemons, oranges, ginger through food chopper. Add sugar
and mix. Bring to boil slowly to start juices flowing.
Cook until clear and thick. Stir often.
Gramma Kath’s Sliced Cucumber Pickle Relish
Slice cucumbers twice as thick as
for the table. To every two quarts of cucumber add one
green pepper sliced (seeds removed), one onion sliced.
Salt in layers (by sprinkling) for three hours. Then
drain. Then to one qurt of vinegar add one cup of brown
sugar, 1 tsp tumeric powder and a bag of mixed spices.
Put all together and cook until tender
Gramma
Kath’s Bread and Butter Pickle
4 qts sliced cucumber
3 onions sliced
2 green peppers sliced
1 red pepper sliced
3 cups sugar
3 cups vinegar
4 tsp salt
1 tsp tumeric
Scald but do not boil. Can hot and
seal.
Makes 8 pts. |