Jane's Recipes

BAKED OATMEAL
1 egg (beaten)
 ¼ t salt
½ cup sugar
1½ t baking powder
1/3 cup oil
¾ cup milk
2½ cups oatmeal
You can add raisins if you like.
Mix egg, sugar and oil. Add oatmeal, salt baking powder and milk.
Stir well and pour into a greased casserole dish.
Bake at 325º to 350 for 45 min. until done in center.
This is great served with strawberries or peaches and milk.
From Country Gardens Bed & Breakfast, Mount Joy, PA
You may reduce the sugar if you wish. Also, I like to add raisins, Craisins, and broken walnuts. _______________________________________________________
Aunt Dee’s Peach Cobbler2 heaping cups sliced peaches (canned, fresh, or frozen)
1¾ cups sugar
¾ cups flour
½ cup butter
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ cup milk
Heat peaches with 1 C of sugar until
sugar is disolved. Melt ½ C butter
in 9x13 pan. Pour in batter (¾ C flour,
½ C milk, ¾ cup sugar, 1 t baking powder).
Pour in peaches. Bake 30 min. at 350.
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Vegetable Loaf
2 tablespoons melted shortening
1 cup diced or chopped onion
1 cup minced celery
1 cup grated raw carrots
1 cup finely ground walnuts (or mixed nuts)
1 cup dry whole wheat or rye bread crumbs
1 teaspoon each salt and poultry seasoning
2 eggs
1 cup evaporated milk or cream
1-1/2 cups tomato or mushroom sauce
Cook onions in hot melted shortening til
light brown and add vegetables, nuts, crumbs
and seasonings. Sauté. Beat eggs and
stir in cream. Combine both mixtures and
turn into well-greased loaf pan or
shape into patties.
Bake at 350º 40 to 45 minutes
or til nicely browned. Turn out loaf and
serve with tomato sauce or fresh mushroom
sauce. Or use a can or cream of mushroom
soup, heated just before serving.
Garnish with hard cooked eggs or green peas
around the loaf.
Serves 4 to 6.
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Louane's Chocolate Cherry Cake
1 pkg. fudge cake mix, 1 (21 Oz.) can cherry pie filling, 1 t almond extract, 2 eggs
Preheat oven to 350. Grease & flour 13x9 cake pan or 15x10 jelly-roll pan.
In large bowl combine the first 4 ingredients - mixing by hand. Stir until well
mixed. Pour into prepared pan. Bake for 20- 30 min. or toothpick removes clean.
Frosting - 1cup sugar, 5 T margarine,
1/3 cup milk, 1 (6 oz.) pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips
In saucepan, combine sugar, margarine & milk.
Boil, stirring constantly for 1 min. Remove
from heat. Stir in chips til smooth. Pour.
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Heavenly Hot Fudge Sauce
½ cup margarine (or butter) ½ teaspoon salt
4 squares unsweetened 1-2/3 cups (I tall can) ,
chocolate evaporated milk
3 cups sugar
Melt the margarine and chocolate in the top of a double boiler
over boiling water. Gradually stir in the sugar, about 4 table-
spoons at a time, being sure the sugar is completely moistened
after each addition. The mixture will become very thick and
quite dry. Add the salt and slowly stir in the evaporated milk,
a little at a time. Serve warm. MAKES APPROXIMATELY 3½ CUPS.
If a thinner sauce is desired, slowly stir in an additional
I or 2 tablespoons evaporated milk. Store the sauce in a covered
jar in the refrigerator and reheat in a double boiler before using.
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Michelle Obama's Shortbread Cookies1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar
2 egg yolks
3 cups cake flour (not self-rising)
1 teaspoon each orange and lemon zest
2 tablespoons amaretto (almond liqueur)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 beaten egg white
Chopped nuts or dried fruit (optional)
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.Mix together butter and 1 ½ cups of sugar.Add egg yolks one at a time and beat until smooth.Stir in flour, zest, amaretto and salt, and mix only until everything is incorporated.Spread dough evenly onto baking pan and brush top of dough with egg white and remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Sprinkle with nuts or fruit if desired. Bake until golden brown, approximately 25 minutes. Cool for a short time, then cut while still warm.


PLAIN CAKE (cottage pudding)
from my mother's old school book
½ cup butter or other fat
¾ cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
¾ cup milk
3 t baking powder
1 t vanilla
Cream the butter & add sugar gradually. If other fat is substituted
for butter,add ½ t salt. Add well beaten eggs then the vanilla
and mix thorougly. Sift the baking powder with flour and add
to the mixture alternatly with the liquid. Do not use mixer but stir
by hand just enough to mix the ingredients. Put into greased
loaf or shallow pan and bake at 350º 30 to 35 min. until it
shrinks from sides of pan.
Don't bake too long. Try minimum time.
Thin Chocolate Sauce (for topping the Cottage Pudding)
Mix in pan:
1 cup sugar
2 sq. unsweetened baking chocolate (cut up)
2 T cornstarch
Stir in gradually:
2 cups boiling water
Boil 1 min. - stirring constantly.
Stir in:
4 T butter
1 t vanilla