recipes

  • Tuesday, December 22, 2015 5:50pm
  • LifeFood

Recipes 12.23

RECIPES

Coconut Dainties

These are light and crispy

They just melt in your mouth

2 eggs whites

3 cups corn flakes

1 cup sugar

1 cup coconut

1/2 teaspoon lemon or vanilla flavoring

Beat egg whites very stiff

Add sugar and continue to beat 1 min.

Fold in corn flakes.,

Flavoring,coconut and foldin well

.

Dropped by 1 tablespoon

on well grease sheet or on buttered parchment paper.

.

Bake 350° until light brown. Remove after 5 min.

baking rack.

Enjoy and have one for me

Date-Nut Cookie

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup butter

One egg

1/2 teaspoons soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup nuts

1 cup chopped dates

1/2 cup flour

Mix thoroughly and drop by spoonfuls

on lightly oiled cookie sheet

Bake 375° for 10 min.

Cool on rack and enjoy

Poor Man’s Cookie

I have to laugh at the name of this cookie

because I sure made a lot of this when my kids were growing up.

They never got tired of it

and neither did I baking it.

Stir it up, pour the greased 9 x 12 pan and stick it in the oven.

Cut and eat

Cook 1 cup raisins in 2 cups of water

until you have 1 cup left

ADD:

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup butter

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon each, cinnamon, allspice, cloves, soda

1/4 t salt

Mix together and bake in small cookie sheet with short sides

Should be about 1/2 inch thick when spread.

Bake until toothpick comes clean about 20 min.

at 350° Let cool slightly and top with powdered sugar mixed with

small amount of warm water.

Cut into bars and share with neighbors

APPLESAUCE CAKE (no eggs)

2 cups applesauce

1 3/4 cups sugar

1/2 cup butter

1 cup raisins

3 cups flour + 2 Tblsp

2 tea soda

1 teas each cinnamon and cloves

1/4 tea salt

You may add one or two eggs, but not neccessary.

Mix well untiol well incorporated

Bake at 350% on small cookie sheet with sides until tooth pick comes out clean

I hope you have enjoyed these recpice

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