Family Recipes, Sharing Sweet Recipes and Homemade Rolls

Ingredients:

6 large sweet potatoes

2 sticks of butter/margarine

2 cups of sugar

¼ teas salt

4 eggs

1 ½ teas of cinnamon

1 ½ teas of nutmeg

1 ½ teas of allspice

2 cups of milk

1 ½ teaspoons of vanilla

2 deep dish pie shell

Prepare your sweet potatoes by placing them in a large pot covered with water. Bring to a boil until fully cooked. Drain water and peal the skin.

Mix sweet potatoes, eggs sugar, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg and milk in mixer. Mix well and add vanilla. The most important thing to remember is to taste as you go. My mother used to say add some love. What she meant was no recipe is exact an if you taste the batter you can tell what it needs. 

Fill each pie shell to rim. Preheat oven at 350 degrees, cook for 1 hr. (test with toothpick

Let cool and enjo

Ingredients:
2 eggs
3/4 cup of sugar
1 stick of margarine or butter
1/4 cup oil
1 teas salt
6 cups of flour
1 pack of yeast
1 3/4 cups of water
The most important piece to this recipe is that your eggs, butter/margarine, water and is at room temperature. If your water is too hot or cold it kills the yeast.

Mix your eggs, salt, sugar, oil and margarine/butter in a bowl, mix well.
Add yeast and warm water and mix well
Add your flour slowly until 6 cups have been added. Add additional flour until mixture is not sticking to your fingers or side of the bowl.
Let your dough rest for 30 minutes in a bowl covered.
After 30 minutes roll out your dough with a rolling pin. Use a small round cookie cutter cut your rolls. place in a lightly oiled pan. Let your rolls sit until they rise. This may take up to 2 hours.
When ready place in oven at 325 degrees. When your rolls start to brown on top spread butter/margarine on top. Place pan on top rack of your oven until brown. Let cool and enjoy.
 

 Ingredients:
6 cups granny smith apples (cored and wedge sliced)
½ cup sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
1 stick of margarine/butter
3 tablespoons flour
2 table spoon lemon juice
¼ teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg

Directions:

Marinate apples in a bowl cover with cool water with 2 table spoons of lemon juice. Let marinate overnight. Drain apples and place in pie shell. Pour sauce over apples. Mix sugar, flour, cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg in a sauce pan with butter. Stir mixture until smooth and let cool.

Topping: Mix flour, brown sugar and butter in a bowl. Mix with a fork until becomes crumbled. Sprinkle mixture over apples until fully covered. 

Preheat oven to 375, cook for 50 minute

Ingredients:

2c Sifted Flour

2c Sugar

2 Tsp Cinnamon

2 tsp soda

1 tsp salt

1 ½ cup Wesson Oil

4 eggs

3c grated raw carrots
1c chopped pecans (toasted)

Mix dry ingredients, add oil, eggs one at a time, add carrots last

Oil and flour p2 9inch pans

Bake at 325 until a pick comes out clean

Icing
8 oz cream cheese soft

1 box of confectioners’ sugar

6 tea margarine

2 tsp vanilla

Ingredients:

1 c butter, plus 2 tb butter

2 ¼ c sugar, divided
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 c all purpose flour divided
1 tsp baking powder
2 c chopped fresh Georgia peaches

Grease a 10 inch tube pan with 2 tablespoons of butter. Sprinkle pan with ¼ cup sugar (cream remaining butter). Gradually add remaining sugar, mix well. Add eggs one at a time, mix well after each egg is added. Add vanilla and mix well. Combine 2 ¾ cups flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add to creamed mixture, beating until well blended. Dredge peaches with remaining ¼ cup flour. Fold peaches into batter. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 325 degrees for 1 hr. 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool… Enjoy

Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Southern Style Sour Cream Coffee Cake: U mm, imagine starting the  morning  with a slice  of sour cream coffee cake and  a cup of coffee or tea. Moist, sweet with a hint of cinnamon and walnut. Another one of our mother’s scrumptious sweets for the tummy. I would like to share this recipe with you for the holidays. Enjoy…

Ingredients:

1 ½ stick of unsalted butter

1 ½ cup Sugar

3 ex large eggs

1 ½ teaspoon vanilla

1 ¼ cup sour cream

2 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon kosher salt

Streusel mixture:

¾ cup lite brown sugar packed

½ cup all-purpose flour

1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon

¼ teaspoon kosher salt

3 tablespoon cold unsalted butter

¾ cup chopped walnut

Glaze:

½ cup confectionery sugar

2 tablespoon real maple syrup

Preheat oven to 350 oil and flour a 10 inch tube pan

Cake Mix ingredients: eggs, butter, sugar vanilla, sour cream, baking powder, baking soda and kosher salt.
Streusel mix: brown sugar, all purpose flour, cinnamon, kosher salt, unsalted butter and chopped walnuts. Pour half of cake batter in floured tube pan and sprinkle streusel mixture layer. Pour remaining cake batter in pan and sprinkle remaining streusel mixture on top. Cook at 350 for 1 hour or until toothpick is clear. Let cool and pour glaze over cake.

Southern style peaches and cream cake. A favorite recipe of my mother and Aunt. They had a tradition of sharing recipes with each other. There was always a little competition of who’s recipe was the best. They would be on the phone for hours comparing notes. It was always a pleasure to hear them laugh, argue and make up. I would like to share this recipe for Southern Style Peaches and Cream Cake. Enjoy …

Ingredients

1 C. unsalted butter
2 C sugar
6 Large eggs
3C flour (sifted)
1 Tsp salt
½ cup soda
1 Tsp baking soda
1C butter milk
1 Tsp Vanilla

Cake

Beat butter well until creamy, gradually add 2C sugar beating well, add eggs one at a time, beating until blended. Combine flour and next 3 ingredients, add to butter milk beginning and ending with flour, beat till blended. Stir in vanilla, pour batter into greased floured 10inch cake pan. Bake at 325% for 35 minutes or until pick comes out clean. Cooling pan on racks for 10 mins

Meringue Layer

1 to2 tsp sugar
1 C chopped pecan toasted
¾ cup sugar
4 eggs whites
1/8 tsp cream of tartar
pinch of salt

Grease a 10inch pan, line bottom of pan with aluminum foil, grease foil, sprinkle foil sides of pan with 1 to 2 tsp sugar. Set aside. Position knife blade in food processor bowl, add pecans and ¾ cups of sugar, process till pecans are ground. Set aside. Combine egg whites, cream of tartar and pinch of salt. Fold in pecan mix and spread in prepared pan. Bake at 250 for 1 hour and 30 to 45 minutes. Cool completely in pan or rack. Remove from pan

Peach Filling

1 ¾ C dried peaches
1 ½ C water
¼ C sugar
2 tbsp light corn syrup
 

Combine peaches and 1 1/3 C water in med sauce pan, bring to boil and cool for 30 minutes till peaches are soft, add sugar and syrup and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 30 mins. Remove from heat add peaches and mix well.  Place 1 cake layer on cake plate, spread with peach filing, spread 1C buttermilk frosting over filling and top with meringue layer. Spread remaining filling our meringue layer and spread 1 ½ C frosting over filling top on remaining layer spread top and sides of cake with remaining frosting as desired Chill for 2 to 3 hours.