OUR CHRISTMAS PAGE
PART 2
More Recipes: by ANN
Gals, (not
tooting any horns here), but the following recipe won me a
monetary award in our local newspaper in 1983! Also, they
published a
Holiday cookbook with my photo and recipe for a grand prize!
It's a hit here in Massachusetts, with history of Salem Witch
Hysteria
of 1692 ! A FUN cake, popular for the Holidays!
I'm sharing this special one with you, since you are all special.
ANN
OLD WITCH'S MAGIC NUT
CAKE
3 eggs
1 lb. can pumpkin
3/4 C. vegetable oil
1/2 C. water
2-1/2 C. all purpose flour
2-1/4 C. sugar
1-1/2 tsp.baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. nutmeg
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
1 C. yellow raisins
1/2 C. walnuts, chopped
Mix egg, pumpkin, oil, and water; beat together, then add
remaining
ingredients.
Pour the batter into 3 buttered 1 pound coffee cans, and place in
oven
standing up. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or
until a
straw
from a WITCH'S BROOM inserted in cake comes out clean. Cool cake
turn
upside
down to remove and frost. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts.
FROSTING
~~~~~~~~
4 oz.cream cheese
3 Tbsp. butter
1 tsp. lemon juice or vanilla extract
1/2 box confectioners sugar
Blend all above ingredients and frost cakes.
(( BEWARE OF BROOMSTICK MAGIC !))
This second recipe is another New England
favorite. Cranberries are
grown and harvested here in Massachusetts!
Here's my version! (Hubby's favorite)!
ANN'S CRANBERRY SOUR
CREAM COFFEE CAKE
1/2 C. margerine
1 C. sugar
2 eggs
2 C. flour
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 pint sour cream plus 2 extra Tbsp. sour cream
1/2 to 3/4 C. walnuts, chopped
1/2 can WHOLE cranberries
1/2 C. brown sugar
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour an angelfood tube pan.
Combine butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla, in a large mixing bowl.
Beat on
medium speed two minutes.
In a seperate bowl mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, and
salt
alternately with sour cream. Spread 1/3 of the batter (about 2
cups)
in the tube pan. Mix together walnuts with the brown sugar, and
sprinkle
about 6 Tbsp. atop the batter in tube pan. With a fork, remove
WHOLE
cranberries from can and fork ontop the sugar and walnut mixture.
Add remaining batter atop the brown sugar, walnut, cranberry
filling,
and sprinkle remaining brown sugar/walnuts on top batter.
Bake at about 60 minutes, or until wooden pick inserted in center
comes out
clean. Cool slightly in pan before removing.
This cake may be left plain, or may be frosted with the
following:
3/4 C. confectioners sugar
1/2 tsp. almond flavoring extract
1 Tbsp. warm water
Mix above ingredients, and spread over warm coffecake, letting it
drizzle
over the sides.
If you choose to frost cake, save last brown sugar/walnut filling
for
atop the frosting, instead of final layer of batter.
(IF) you like spinach!
Here's a winner for Hor d'oeuvres/ Appetizers
ANN'S SPINACH BALLS
1 pkg. frozen CHOPPED spinach,
(cooked & drained)
1 C. stuffing mix (e.g. Stovetop with seasoning, or Bells
Stuffing Mix)
1 medium onion chopped fine
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 C. melted margerine
1/4 C. Parmesan cheese ( I use the fresh)
1/4 tsp. garlic salt
Dash of Thyme
Dash of black pepper
Mix all ingredients, and refrigerate overnight. Roll into balls
the
size of walnuts. Put on coolisheet and bake 15 minutes in 325
degree oven.
Again, Cranberries- A New
England Traditional Favorite!
CRUNCHY CRANBERRY CROWN
(A molded salad)
1 (20-ounce) can crushed pineapple
2 (3-ounce) packages raspberry gelatin
2 cups boiling water
1 (16-ounce) can whole cranberry sauce
1 tsp. grated lemon peel
3 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/4 tsp. salt
1 C. chopped celery
1/2 C. chopped walnuts
Crisp Salad Greens
Drain pineapple well, reserving all syrup. Dissolve gelatin in
boiling
water. Stir in pinaepple syrup, cranberry sauce, lemon peel and
juice,
and salt. Cool until mixture thickens to consistency of unbeaten
eggwhites. Fold in pinaepple,celery, and nuts. Pour into a 1-1/2
quart mold.
Chill until well firm. Unmold onto crisp salad greens.
(If you have a fancy silver platter or lovely glass serving
platter,
this molded salad can be quite an impressive eyepleaser!)
Serves 6.
Happy
Holidays all!
ANN
MORE TRADITIONS:
courtesy
Jennifer
When I was little we always got
dressed up on Christmas Eve and went to
church. Then we would come home and light the candles. In Coral
Springs (even today) everyone lines their property with candles
in bags
(lunch sacks). Then we would have a big appetizer type dinner.
After
dinner we would walk around the streets looking at all the
christmas
lights and candles. It's the most beautiful thing to see. The
whole
city glows! After our walk we went home and got to open one
present.
It was really exciting.
Now that my sister's and I are all grown up with families of our
own,
things have changed just a little. We still all get together at
my
mothers house on Christmas Eve. We still have appetizers for
dinner
and we still light candles and go for walks with the kids. But
after our
walk we get to open all of our presents. That way we can all
spend
Christmas morning at home with our husbands and children.
Because of my parents Christmas Eve has always been my favorite
day of
the year!
Merry
Christmas Everyone!
Jennifer