My Neighbor's Recipe Stash

This was yesterday morning in my back yard. We now have about 15/16 inches accumulation.


I'll try to start with Breakfast. Bacon and eggs anybody? Don't answer that unless you want to go out to eat. In my Motorcoach travel days, I always liked breakfast best. Almost always a free breakfast at the hotel before a day's adventure. Always good faire.

Well, here is my friend's recipe stash, with comments.

Homemade Cinnamon Coffee Cake

1 tablespoon vegetable oil (I don't know about you, but I find Canola oil is best for my use. It also is a good skin moisturizer.)

1 cup sugar

1 cup milk

1 teaspoons baking powder

2 cups flour

TOPPING: 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 4 tablespoons butter or margarine.

Stir together the first five ingredients until well mointened. Pour into greased and floured 9 x 9 inch pan. Spring brown sugar over cake top with pats of butter and sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake at 350 degrees until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean--about 25 minutes.

From the Amish Cook, Middletown, Ohio.

I find that there is not a whole lot of difference in Coffee Cake Recipes but the next one has a twist that I never heard of.

Ben's Favorite Coffee Cake

3 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1/ teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

2 teaspoons baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup shortening

1/2 teaspoon crushed cloves 2 cups buttermilk

Mix together the first six ingredients. Add the shortening. To the rest, add buttermilk with soda. Blend well. Pour into greased and floured 9 x 13 x 2 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until done. Ice if wished.

Now isn't that a kicker. I never would have thought to add cloves to coffee cake. My grandfather used to chew cloves. I didn't care for them then and I really don't like them now, but that's just me. The next one sounds quite interesting. Good one to try.

Nancy's Coffee Cake

3/4 cup warm water 1 egg 1/4 cup lard

2-1/4 cups flour 1 package yeast 1/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt

Topping: Margarine, cinnamon and Brown Sugar

Dissolve yeast in water. Add sugar, salt and half of the flour. Beat in the egg. Add lard, beat in rest of flour until the mixture is snooth. Drop by spoon in an oblong loaf pan. Let rise in warm place till double. Bake 30 minutes at 375 degrees. Mix topping ingredients and rub on top of the cake.

As I said, this recipe sounds very interesting. However, I have a feeling it would be better if a 1/2 cup of raisins and 1/4 cup chopped nuts was added. What do you think? That is it for today. With this crazy weather, I just don't know what to do. Can't be outside digging in my garden, Just getting stir crazy.

Poppy Seed Coffee Cake

2 eggs 3 cups flour

1/4 Cup Sugar 1 pkg. dry yeast, raised

1/4 Cup Butter, softened 1/2 tsp. mace or vanilla

3/4 cup warm milk 2 tsp. salt

Beat eggs with sugar. Add softened butter, salt, milk, 1 cup flour, mace or vanilla and beat again. Add raised year; mix well. Turn dough onto floured board and stir in remaining flour, kneading the dough until smooth and not sticky. Roll into a rectangular sheet, 1/2 inch thick. Spread poppy seed filling on dough, roll up and put in a well greased fluted cake form. Let rise until almost double. Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes

Poppy Seed Filling

1 cup ground poppy seed 1 Tbs. honey

1/2 cup milk 1 tsp. allspice

2 Tbs. sugar Bring poppy seed and milk to a slow boil and simmer for about 5 minutes. Stir constantly until thick. Add sugar and honey, cook another 2 minutes. Add allspice last.

Haven't found any more Breakfast recipes, so will go on to Desserts.

Apple Strudel

This recipe is from my neighbor's mother.

4 cup or more flour 6 or 8 apples

1/2 cup sugar 1/2 loaf or more dry bread

1 1/2 teaspoons salt 2 or 3 Tablespoons butter for breadcrumbs

1 cup butter and lard 4 to 6 tablespoons butter & Lard

2 or 3 eggs 1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla 1 Cups nuts (coursely cut)

1/2 cup or more milk 1 cup raisins
cinnamon to taste 2 or 3 tabvlespoons butter to dot over mixture

Sift flour, sugar and salt together, and work in butter and lard. Add eggs and vanilla, then add enough milk to mixture so it is a little thinner than pie dough. Let set until the following is completed. Peel apples and slice as for pie. Roll in finely grated dry bread. Add 2 or more tablespoons butter and brown in shallow pan in oven, stir occasionally to prevent burning.

On floured surface, roll half of dough thinner than for pie. (easier to life into pan if in 2 pieces). Divide following ingredients in half to make 2 small dtrudels instead of 1 large one.) Brush rolled dough with melted butter and lard, then, over entire surface and to near the edge. Sprinkle 1/4 of bread crumbs, also apples, nuts and raisins, then sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle remainder of bread crumbs over mixture and dot with 2 or 3 tablespoons butter.

Carefully roll dough with mixture as thin as possible at beginning. Melt 2 to 3 tablespoons butter and lard in baking pan, then set pan beside rolled strudel. Gently and quickly life strudel into pan (can back 2 in one large baking pan if so desired). Brush strudel with excess melted shortening in baking pan, and bake 1 hour or more at 350 degrees. Have remaining 2 or 3 tablespoons melted butter and lard ready to brush strudel 3 or 4 time during baking process. (easier to remove from pan after cool.) Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar, and slice with sharp knife.