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My Favorite Recipes

Old Fashioned Salmon Loaf with Spanish Sauce

This is a truly old, old, family favorite recipe of my Grandma’s. My Mom used to make it when I was a kid, and to be honest I never much cared for it. But as my taste buds have matured, I do it enjoy it now. My Mom and Grandma always made a white sauce made with peas to serve over it. For some reason it is called “Spanish Sauce”. This is an easy, economical and healthy recipe.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups canned salmon
  • 1 Tablespoon chopped parsley
  • 1 cup soft bread crumbs
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 Tablespooon minced onion
  • 2 Tablespoon melted butter
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Directions
Beat egg, add other ingredients and press in a greased bread pan. Bake @ 375 degrees for 45 minutes.

Spanish Sauce
Ingredients

  • 4 Tablespoons butter
  • 4 Tablespoons flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1/2 cup peas
  • 2 Tablespoons pimento
  • 1 hard boiled egg, chopped
  • Pepper, to taste

Directions
Make a white sauce of butter, flour, milk, salt and pepper. Add the pimento, peas and egg. Serve over the salmon loaf.

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Bread Machine

Corn and Cheddar Bread

Corn and Cheddar Bread
Corn and Cheddar Bread
Here is another favorite bread machine recipe of mine from Madge Rosenberg’s book, “The Best Bread Machine
Cook Book Ever”. Try this bread with chili or your favorite Tex-Mex dish.

Ingredients for 1 1/2 pound loaf

  • 1 1/4 cups milk
  • 2 Tablespoons honey
  • 3 Tablespoons butter
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
  • 2 1/2 cups bread flour
  • 1 cup yellow cornmeal
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 2/3 cup grated cheddar cheese

Directions
Scald the milk and stir in the honey and butter and let cool to room temperature. Add the milk mixture and all remaining ingredients except the cheese in the order suggested by your bread machine manual. At the beeper, add the cheese.

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Cookies

Peanut Blossoms

I’m sure this is many family’s favorite recipe. No collection of recipes would be complete without this old fashioned Christmas goodie.

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon soda
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 2 Tablespoons milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • Hershey’s chocolate candy kisses

Directions
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Roll balls in additional sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake @ 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown. Once removed from oven, top each hot cookie with candy kiss, pressing down so cookie cracks around edges.

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Cookies

Old Fashioned Date Turtles

Chocolate
Chocolate
This is a really old favorite recipe of my Mom’s. If you like dates these are really scrumptious. They are easy and require no cooking. My Mom used to add paraffin to chocolate chips, but that is not recommended nowadays. So I use dipping chocolate for the coating.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sifted powdered sugar
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 2 teaspoons butter
  • 1 cup dates, cut up
  • 1 cup nuts, chopped
  • Dipping chocolate

Directions
Mix together the sugar, peanut butter, and butter. Add dates and nuts. Roll into balls and flatten into patties with a glass. Chill in the refrigerator. Using a fork, dip the chilled patties into the dipping chocolate, following the directions on the package of chocolate. Place on waxed paper to cool and harden.

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Bread Machine

Seeduction Bread

My daughter lived in Washington D.C. and we used to go to a whole food market by her house, I think it was Wild Oats. We would buy a bread there that we loved, called Seeduction Bread. I found a similar recipe online and revised it a bit and make it in my bread machine. It is fabulous and one of my favorite bread machine recipes.

Ingredients

  • 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
  • 1 1/4 cups water
  • 2 Tablespoons molasses
  • 2 Tablespoons honey
  • 2 Tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 cups bread flour
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 Tablespoons pumpkin seeds
  • 2 Tablespoons sunflower seeds
  • 2 Tablespoons millet seed
  • 3 Tablespoons malted barley flour
  • 1 Tablespoon wheat gluten
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 teaspoon millet seed

Instructions
Add ingredients in order suggested by your bread machine.

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Cookies

Russian Teacakes or Mexican Wedding Cakes

This is my favorite Christmas cookie recipe. Unfortunately my family is not too crazy about them, so when I make them, I end up eating them all. So I don’t make them too often! They are really an old fashioned cookie that has been around for a long time. Some people call them Russian Teacakes and others call them Mexican Wedding Cakes. They are buttery and good and not too sweet.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup nuts, finely chopped. I prefer pecans.

Directions
Mix the flour, sugar and vanilla thoroughly. Work in the flour, salt and nuts until dough holds together. Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Bake @ 400 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes or until set but not brown. While warm, roll in powdered sugar. Cool.

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Cookies

Old Fashioned Norwegian and Swedish Cookies

Years ago I belonged to this little country Norwegian Lutheran Church. Every fall the ladies put on a Norwegian dinner. It consisted of meatballs, mashed potatoes, cole slaw, rutabagas, and lutefisk. In other words a very White Norwegian Dinner. The highlight was the assortment of homemade Norwegian and Swedish sweets. They were all homemade by a sweet little group of ladies, most of who are now deceased. At one point they published a church cookbook and shared their old family Scandinavian cookie recipes. I am sharing them with you today. I am publishing them exactly as they printed them. They are authentic and have been passed down for many generation. ENJOY!

BERLINER KRANSER
BERLINER KRANSER

Ingredients

  • 4 hard boiled egg yolks
  • 4 raw eggs
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 pound butter
  • 5 cups flour
  • loaf sugar (I think this would be a sugar cube)
  • egg white

 Directions
Mix egg yolks and raw eggs until smooth. Add sugar. Add butter and flour alternately and knead. Take pieces of dough and roll out to size of a pencil and shape into a wreath. Dip each one in egg white to which crushed loaf sugar has been added. Bake @ 375 degrees until light brown.

Danish Sugar Cookies
Danish Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup Crisco
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ teaspoon lemon extract
  • 2 cups flour
  • ½ teaspoon soda
  • ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt 

Directions
Cream butter, shortening, sugar, eggs and flavorings. Add dry ingredients. Mix well and chill. Shape into 1 inch balls, roll in sugar, flatten with glass. Bake 10 minutes @ 350 degrees.

Norwegian Butter Cookies
Norwegian Butter Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla 

Directions
Combine all ingredients and make into balls the size of a walnut and press down with a fork. Bake in moderate oven @ 350 degrees, until the edges become a light brown.

 FATTIGMUND
Ingredients

  • 6 egg yolks
  • 1 Tablespoon melted butter
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 6 Tablespoons sweet cream
  • 4 Tablespoons sugar
  • ½ teaspoon cardamom
  • 1 ½ – 2 cups flour 

Directions
Beat yolks well, add sugar and mix well. Add rest of the ingredients. Roll thin and cut in diamond shapes. Fry @ 370 degrees until golden brown. Peanut oil best for frying. Drain on paper towels and dust with powdered sugar. 

KRUMKAKE 
Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • ½ cup butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 ½ cup flour 

Directions
Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten eggs, milk, and flour. Bake in Krumkake iron, roll on wooden spoon.
NOTE: To make Cardamom Krumkake, add 1 teaspoon of freshly ground cardamom.

 ROSETTES 
Ingredients

  • 1 egg
  • 1 Tablespoon sugar
  • ½ cup flour
  • ½ cup cornstarch
  • 1 cup milk
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt 

Directions
Beat egg, add sugar and vanilla. Mix flour, cornstarch and salt with milk, making sure there are no lumps. Mix milk mixture with egg mixture. Bake on form in hot cooking oil.

SPRITZ COOKIES 
Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 2/3 cup white sugar
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1 teaspoon almond extract
  • 2 ½ cups flour
  • ¼ teaspoon salt

Directions
Mix in order given. Put through cookie press. Bake @ 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. 

SANDBAKKELS
Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup margarine of Fluffo
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar (or use all white sugar)
  • 1 egg
  • 3 cups flour

 Directions
Pat into form and bake at 375 degrees. (may not need full 3 cups flour) 

SWEDISH SMORBAKELS 
Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 cups butter
  • 1 whole egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • ½ teaspoon almond extract
  • 3-4 cup flour 

Directions
Mix in order. Add flour to handle. Press into sandbakel tins. Bake @ 400 degrees oven until lightly browned. Cool slightly, squeeze tins to loosen. 

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Bread Machine

Tex-Mex Cornbread

Here’s another favorite bread machine of mine from Madge Rosenberg’s book, “The Best Bread Machine Cook Book Ever”.
It’s spicy and yummy

Ingredients for 1 1/2 pound loaf

  • 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons yellow cornmeal
  • 3 Tablespoons wheat germ
  • 1 Tablespoon cumin
  • 1 Tablespoon chili powder
  • 3 Tablespoons minced cilantro
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 1/2 Tablespoons sugar
  • 3 Tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 whole egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon minced jalapeno pepper
  • 3/4 cup corn kernels

Directions

Add all ingredients except jalapeno and corn in the order suggested by your bread maker. Add the corn an jalapeno when your machine beeps for adding additional items.

Nani Tip

  • Watch the bread as it starts to mix and add more water or flour as needed to form a soft dough that pulls away from the pan.
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Bread Machine

Italian Spice Bread

This is another favorite bread machine recipe of mine. The parmesan cheese and Italian spices are a real winner. It makes a great sandwich with that leftover Thanksgiving turkey.

Ingredients for 1 1/2 pound loaf

  • 2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
  • 3 cups bread flour
  • 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
  • 1 teaspoon garlic salt
  • 1 Tablespoon Italian spice
  • 1/2 cup dry milk
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
  • 1 1/4 cups warm water
  • 1/4 cup olive oil


Directions
Place all ingredients in pan in order suggested by your bread machine.

Nani Tips

  • Add more water of flour as needed. Dough should be soft and pull away from pan.
  • Substitute milk for the water and dry milk.
  • Substitute a combination of spices for the Italian spice.