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Scented Cinnamon Ornaments
In medium bowl, combine cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. Add applesauce and glue; stir to combine. Work mixture with hands 2 to 3 minutes or until dough is smooth and ingredients are thoroughly mixed. Divide into 4 portions. On floured surface, roll each portion to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut dough with floured cookie cutters of desired shapes. Using straw or toothpick, make a small hole in the top of the ornament. Place cutouts on wire racks and allow to dry at room temperature for several days or dry them in a dehydrator. Thread ribbon through hole in ornament. DO NOT EAT. Makes about 32 (2 inch) ornaments.
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Traditional Decorated Christmas Cookies
Beat together butter and sugar in small bowl with electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, lemon peel, vanilla and salt. Gradually beat in flour until thoroughly incorporated. Add water, a few drops at a time, only until dough starts to come away from side of bowl. Wrap dough in plastic wrap. Refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 350øF. Lightly grease 4 cookie sheets. On lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8\" thickness. Cut out various shapes using cookie cutters or homemade cardboard patterns, or freehand. Reroll scraps and cut out. Make small holes with wooden pick if planning to hang cookies. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until beginning to brown around edges. Remove cookies to wire rack to cool before decorating.
Prepare icing: Beat egg whites in small bowl with electric mixer until foamy. Slowly beat in the powdered sugar. Continue to beat until thick and creamy. Add just enough water to get a good spreading consistency. Tint with food coloring, if you wish. Spread evenly over cookies. Decorate with glitter, sprinkles, dragees and cinnamon red hots, if desired.
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Victorian Christmas Jar Potpourri
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Yule Log
Brush bottom and sides of a 15x10 inch jellyroll pan with vegetable oil; line with wax paper, and oil and flour wax paper. Set aside.
Beat egg yolks at high speed with an electric mixer until thick and pale; gradually add 1/4 cup sugar, beating constantly. Add 1 Tablespoon oil and almond extract, stirring well.
Beat egg whites until foamy; gradually add remaining 1/2 cup sugar, beating until stiff but not dry. Fold into yolk mixture.
Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; gradually fold into egg mixture. Spread batter evenly into prepared pan.
Bake at 350 for 8 minutes or until center of cake springs back when touched.
Sift powdered sugar in a 15x10 inch rectangle on a cloth towel. When cake is done, immediately loosen from sides of pan, and turn out onto towel. Carefully peel of wax paper. Starting ant narrow end, roll cake and towel together, jelly roll fashion; cool completely on a wire rack, seam side down.
Unroll cake, spread with 1 cup Mocha Buttercream Frosting and carefully reroll without towel. Place, seam side down, on a serving plate. Spread remaining frosting over cake. Diagonally cut a 1 inch slice from 1 end of cake, and place against top center of cake to resemble the knot of a tree. Score frosting with fork tines to resemble bark. Chill at least 1 hour. Garnish, if desired. Makes 8-10 servings.
Mocha Buttercream Frosting:
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
5 cups sifted powdered sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
1/4-1/2 cup cold strong coffee
2 teaspoons vanilla
Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; add powdered sugar, cocoa, 1/4 cup coffee, and vanilla, beating well. Add enough remaining coffee to reach desired spreading consistency. Makes 2 1/2 cups.
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the Highlands Bourbon Balls
Combine pecans and bourbon; wait at least 3 hours for pecans to absorb bourbon flavor. Cream butter and powdered sugar with mixer, adding bourbon and pecan mixture. Roll mixture into small balls and chill in refrigerator for 1-1/2 hours. Melt chocolate in double boiler, adding shaved paraffin. Heat until thoroughly melted. Dip balls into chocolate and put on waxed paper to dry. (use fork or long skewer when dipping balls.)
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Fourth of July Feast On the Grill
Almost everyone has an early recollection of how the Fourth of July was celebrated his or her home town. I remember how my father provided fireworks for the neighborhood and what my mother prepared for dinner. She would say: "There should be red, white, and blue food." Usually it would be salmon, mashed or baked potatoes, and a blueberry cobbler or pie for dessert. Now, with the popularity of the grill, the following five recipes, which constitute a family meal, might be appropriate. Thanks, mom, for the idea.
Making your Fourth of July meal on the grill presents some logistics problems that would not occur in your inside kitchen. But, as always, the secret of unchaotic meals is to prepare as much as possible ahead of time. In this case, you can skewer the shrimp, make its chili mop, and refrigerate both in the morning. The salad and red salsa for the potatoes can also be prepared in advance, and the potatoes themselves scrubbed and parboiled. As for the blueberry pudding, it should be made the day before.
When it's time to start your grill on the Fourth, first prepare the bell pepper sauce for the salmon and refrigerate it until needed. Next grill the skewered shrimp appetizers and get everyone started while you put on the potato wedges. After they're cooking, add the salmon steaks to the grill so both dishes are done together. Retrieve the sauces from the fridge, serve up the salad, and let the feast begin.
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Cranberry Jelly
Wash and pick over cranberries, discarding any that are soft. Place in a deep saucepan and add fruit juices. Cover and simmer for about 20 minutes, until fruit is soft. Mash to break up any berries left whole.
Strain in food mill to remove seeds. Return to saucepan and heat to boiling. Add pectin, glycerine and gelatin, stirring well. Boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Skim and pour into hot, sterile pint jars, leaving 1/2 inch at top. Cap with hot sterile lids. Process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes after water returns to boiling. If any jars fail to seal, refrigerate and use within 10 days or freeze for later use. Makes 3 1/2 cups.
VARIATION: You can substitute 1/2 cup low-methoxy pectin solution and 2 1/2 tsp calcium solution for the liquid pectin and glycerine, but add calcium after removing from heat. If you plan to freeze the jelly, be sure to use the full amount of gelatin.
NUTRITIONAL VALUE: 1 tb contains 20 Calories (protein 0, fat 0, carbohydrate 5 gm) 1 1/2 tbsp = 1/2 diabetic fruit exchange or 1/2 bread exchange. If salt is omitted, 1 1/2 tsp contain less than 1 mg sodium. Recipe contains 0 cholesterol. 1/2 tsp can be used without diabetic replacement.
Use the full amount of gelatin for very firm jam or for freezing.
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Holiday Float
Scald all but 1/2 cup milk in top of a large double boiler. Separate eggs. In a large bowl, beat yokes well while adding 1 cup sugar and flour sifted together and 1/2 cup cold milk. Add hot milk slowly to mixture, stirring well. Put back into double boiler and cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, add wiskey, brandy and vanilla. Place nutmeg on bottom of a large baking bowl. Beat egg whites while slowly adding 10 tablespoons sugar until foam peaks. Place on top of custard mix. Bake at 350F about 10 minutes or top turns golden brown. Chill before serving.
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Holiday Almond Wreaths
In medium bowl with electric mixer at medium speed, beat margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg product and almond extract; beat well. Stir in flour and ground almonds. Using pastry bag with 1/2" star tip, pipe dough into 1 1/2" wreaths, 2" apart, on ungreased baking sheets. Decorate wreaths with red and green candied cherries, if desired. Bake at 400'F. for 10-12 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool on wire racks.
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Brunch Egg Casserole
Preheat oven to 350.
Melt butter. Chop ham. Beat eggs until light-lemon-colored. Add flour and remaining ingredients. Pour into well-greased casserole dish. Bake 40 minutes, until knife inserted in middle comes out clean.
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Holiday Charlotte
Separate ladyfingers and line bottom and sides of 9-inch charlotte mold or bowl. Combine sugar and water in small saucepan. Bring to boil. Boil 2 minutes. Cool. Beat egg yolks in large bowl. Gradually beat in sugar syrup. Blend in melted chocolate. Fold in whipped cream. Turn into ladyfinger- lined pan to within 1 inch of rim. Chill until set. When ready to serve, remove cake from mold. Fill top of cake with fruit, then brush fruit with melted apple jelly.
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Holiday Sun Catchers
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil. Spray sides of cookie cutters with nonstick cooking spray; place on foil-lined cookie sheet. Unwrap and place hard ring-shaped candies on the foil, inside the cookie cutters. Fill as much of the cookie cutter as possible, keeping the candies in a single layer. Bake until candies are melted, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately cut holes in the top of each Sun Catcher using a drinking straw. If Sun Catchers harden too quickly, return them to the oven for 1 minute. (Cookie cutters and candy will be hot) When cool, peel off foil. Break off any excess candy around cookie cutter. Carefully loosen cookie cutter from Sun Catcher. Thread a ribbon through hole in top to form a loop for hanging.
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Hoppin John
Wash and sort the peas. Place them in a saucepan, add the water, and discard any peas that float. Gently boil the peas with the pepper, ham hock and onion, uncovered, until tender but not mushy - about 1 1/2 hours - or until 2 cups of liquid remain. Add the rice to the pot, cover, and simmer for about 30 minutes, never lifting the lid.
Remove from the heat and allow to steam, still covered, for another 10 minutes. Remove the cover, fluff with a fork, and serve immediately.
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New Year s Sherried Figs
Place plenty of California dried figs in a bowl. Cover with California sherry. Turn occasionally so all figs are well soaked in the sherry. Let them stand for 24 hours or longer. Drain and roll lightly in confectioners' sugar. Keep the sherry for pudding sauce. These Sherried Figs are guaranteed to disappear like the Old Year at midnight!
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Plum and Fig Pudding
Cover the figs with hot water and let stand for 10 minutes. Drain. With scissors, snip off stems, then cut into small bits. Cut raisins into thirds. Combine all ingredients and place in buttered casserole. Dot top of pudding with remaining butter. Place casserole in pan of hot water. Bake for about 40 minutes in moderate oven (350 F.) or until pudding is "set". Serve warm with hard sauce. Serves 6-7.
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Smoked Turkey With Smoked Oyster Dressing
This is a fairly straightforward smoked turkey recipe.
Prepare your smoker and smoke the turkey for six to eight hours between 220-240 degrees, using your choice of hardwood (a 50/50 mix of apple and oak is excellent, if you can get it--try your best to include at least some fruit wood). If you live in a particularly dry climate, you can put a water pan underneath the turkey, or between the turkey and the heat source, to insure a moist smoke.
When you start the turkey, take your loaf of bread and spread it out on a table to let it get stale. About an hour before the turkey is ready to come off the smoker, take your quart jar of oysters, strain and reserve the oyster liquid, put the oysters into a pan, and put them in the smoker with the turkey. Keep up a good, steady smoke throughout the time the turkey is in the smoker.
At the end of six or eight hours, remove the turkey and the oysters from the smoker. Set the oysters aside, put the turkey into a large dutch oven with a cover. Add one cup of white vinegar and about six or seven cups of water to the dutch oven--enough liquid so that there is about one and a half to two inches in the bottom of the oven. If you'd like, you can sprinkle the turkey with a little garlic powder and black pepper and drizzle with honey, but this is optional. Put the turkey, covered, into your range oven and bake at 325 degrees for 2 to 3 hours, or until the internal temperature of the bird at it's thickest point reads 190 degrees (I like to be extra cautious when it comes to poultry. I lived in North Carolina, which is one of the top commercial turkey producing states in the USA, for a long time, and I've seen how they're raised).
While the turkey is baking, get out a large baking pan. Brush lightly with oil, pull your stale bread into chunks, and place in the pan. About 15 minutes before the turkey is done, add the chopped onion and celery, pressed garlic, chopped jalapeno, sage, oregano, black pepper, and crushed mustard seeds. Combine well. Add the smoked oysters and reserved oyster liquor (make sure you've strained this well). Combine. Remove the turkey from the oven and keep covered. Add 2 to 3 cups of the turkey liquor from the dutch oven and 4 tablespoons of worcestershire sauce to your dressing and combine well. Don't make it too wet, but you do want it to be somewhat doughy. Place the dressing in your range oven and bake at 325 degrees for about 45 minutes to an hour, or until the top of the dressing is just slightly darker than golden brown. Remove the dressing from the oven and serve along with the turkey.
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Valentine Cutouts
In a bowl, dissolve gelatin in water; set aside for 30 min. In a small bowl, whisk milk and pudding mix until smooth, about 1 minute. Quickly pour into gelatin; whisk until well blended. Pour into an oiled 13x9x2" dish. Chill until set. Cut into cubes or use a heart-shaped cookie cutter. Yield: 8-10 servings.
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Valentine Sugar Cookies
In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg and extracts. Stir in flour; mix well. Chill for several hours. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/4 inch thickness; cut with a 2 1/2 or 3 inch heart shaped cookie cutter. Place on ungreased baking sheets; sprinkle with red sugar, if desired. Bake at 375F for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned.
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Winterlude Jar Potpourri
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