Thread: Help! I need to bake something.

"Janet Wilder" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> If someone could please help me with a few suggestions, I could take it
> from there. If it helps, some of the things I have on hand (besides the
> usual flour, butter, etc.) are almond meal and unsweetened, flaked
> coconut.
>

My wife makes these every year for the past 30 or 40 years or so and anyone
that receives one asks for more.


Fruit Stollen





Dough:



7 ½ to 8 cups Flour (2 lbs of flour)

1 cup of sugar

3 ½ teaspoons of baking powder



3 eggs

1 cup of milk

1 cup of oil

1 teaspoon of vanilla



Blend flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.



Make a well and add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Mix and divide the dough
into 5 or 6 sections.



Let dough rest about 10 minutes.



Roll out each section and spread out the filling in each section. Roll
dough up.





Filling:



1 Jar of apple butter (1 lb.)

¼ cup of minute tapioca

1 cup of raisins and/or dried fruit

½ cup of nuts chopped

½ cup of maraschino cherries and/or coconut

½ cup of chocolate chips



Mix the above ingredients and spread out on dough.



Place on lightly greased cookie sheet.



Makes about 5 to 6 loaves. Bake in 375-degree oven for 30 minutes.



Cool and then dust with powder sugar.

Janet Wilder <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:002d1b28$0$9172$[email protected]..
> I am going to a holiday meeting of a club I belong to.
> We are all supposed to "bake something" [..] that costs
> about $10 to buy in a bakery or market.
[snip rest of thought]

Persimmon Pudding


INGREDIENTS
1 cup persimmon pulp

1 cup sifted flour

1 cup sugar

½ cup milk

2 tsp. baking soda

2 Tbs. liquid shortening

1 large egg, beaten well

2 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. salt

½ cup raisins

1 tsp. baking powder

½ cup walnuts, chopped fine



METHOD:

Separate persimmon pulp from skin, seeds and fibers. Mash pulp,
add sugar, soda, egg. Sift together dry ingredients, add
alternately with milk. Add shortening, raisins, and nuts. Stir
together until well-blended. Pour into greased molds, cover and
tented foil. Set in pan of water and steam in oven for 1-¼
hours @ 350ºF.





The Ranger

"Janet Wilder" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:002d1b28$0$9172$[email protected]..
>I am going to a holiday meeting of a club I belong to. We are all supposed
>to "bake something" to exchange with the other members. It should be
>something that costs about $10 to buy in a bakery or market.
>
> We don't celebrate Christmas. I have cookie recipes but I don't know if
> they would be suitable. I have cake recipes, but I don't know if they
> would be suitable.
>
> I went to a dozen recipe web sites and looked at hundreds of recipes. I
> think I totally confused myself.
>
> We have a new puppy who is keeping me busy. Our friends who winter here
> are starting to arrive and we are always having drop-in visitors so I'm
> looking for something that doesn't take days to prepare. I don't want to
> roll dough for cut-out cookies, either. I *can* do yeast.
>
> If someone could please help me with a few suggestions, I could take it
> from there. If it helps, some of the things I have on hand (besides the
> usual flour, butter, etc.) are almond meal and unsweetened, flaked
> coconut.
>
> All ideas would be welcome.
>
> TIA,
>
> Janet, scratching her head in way-the-heck-south Texas
> --
> Janet Wilder
> Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
> Good Friends. Good Life


Pumpkin roll

On Sat 06 Dec 2008 08:27:53p, Janet Wilder told us...

> I am going to a holiday meeting of a club I belong to. We are all
> supposed to "bake something" to exchange with the other members. It
> should be something that costs about $10 to buy in a bakery or market.
>
> We don't celebrate Christmas. I have cookie recipes but I don't know if
> they would be suitable. I have cake recipes, but I don't know if they
> would be suitable.
>
> I went to a dozen recipe web sites and looked at hundreds of recipes. I
> think I totally confused myself.
>
> We have a new puppy who is keeping me busy. Our friends who winter here
> are starting to arrive and we are always having drop-in visitors so I'm
> looking for something that doesn't take days to prepare. I don't want to
> roll dough for cut-out cookies, either. I *can* do yeast.
>
> If someone could please help me with a few suggestions, I could take it
> from there. If it helps, some of the things I have on hand (besides the
> usual flour, butter, etc.) are almond meal and unsweetened, flaked
coconut.
>
> All ideas would be welcome.
>
> TIA,
>
> Janet, scratching her head in way-the-heck-south Texas

The cakes I bake for the holidays are elaborate and time consuming, so I
can’t recommend them. There are a couple of cookies I bake that fall into
the same category. However, there are a couple of cookies my mother always
made at the holidays that are simple and delicious, do not have to be
rolled out, and have always been popular. I still make them.

Sandies

6 tablespoons vegetable shortening or unsalted butter
2-1/2 tablespoons powdered sugar
1 cup sifted cake flour
1/2 teaspoon ice water
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup powdered sugar

Cream shortening until fluffy; add the powdered sugar gradually, continuing
to cream with shortening until light. Add the flour, ice water, walnuts,
and vanilla, and mix well. Cover and chill mixture about two hours. Shape
into crescents about 1-1/4” long by 1/2” wide, or into 1” balls. Place on
parchment covered baking sheet, and bake at 300°F. for 30-35 minutes, or
until lightly browned. Remove from baking sheet immediately, and roll in
powdered sugar. When cool, roll again in powdered sugar. Makes 20
cookies. Store in tightly sealed container. (I usually double or triple
this recipe.)

Christmas Cherries

1/2 cup vegetable shortening or unsalted butter
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 egg, separated
1 tablespoon orange zest
1-1/2 teaspoons lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup sifted cake flour
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
6 candied cherries

Cream shortening until fluffy and creamy; add the sugar gradually while
continuing until light. Add the beaten egg yolk, orange and lemon zest,
vanilla, and lemon juice, and mix well. Add the flour and mix well; chill
for several hours or overnight. Roll into small balls 1/2” in diameter;
roll in the egg white slightly beaten, then in the walnut meats. Place on
parchment covered baking sheet and press a small piece of cherry on each.
Bake in a 350° F. oven for 20 minutes. Makes 33 cookies 1-1/2” diameter.
Store in tightly covered container. (I usually double this recipe.)

--
Wayne Boatwright
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On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:27:53 -0600, Janet Wilder
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I went to a dozen recipe web sites and looked at hundreds of recipes. I
>think I totally confused myself.

Make some snickerdoodles (cookies) and call it done, Janet!
You can google a decent recipe.



--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:27:53 -0600, Janet Wilder
<[email protected]> wrote:

>If someone could please help me with a few suggestions, I could take it
>from there. If it helps, some of the things I have on hand (besides the
>usual flour, butter, etc.) are almond meal and unsweetened, flaked coconut.

I should have read your *entire* post before replying.

If you have coconut, do you have sweetened condensed milk? You could
make macaroons.
http://southernfood.about.com/od/coc...r/bl30214l.htm


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:56:26 GMT, "BD" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Pumpkin roll
>

My DIL make that for T'day. It was very good.


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

Janet Wilder wrote:
>
> I am going to a holiday meeting of a club I belong to. We are all
> supposed to "bake something" to exchange with the other members. It
> should be something that costs about $10 to buy in a bakery or market.
>
> We don't celebrate Christmas. I have cookie recipes but I don't know if
> they would be suitable. I have cake recipes, but I don't know if they
> would be suitable.
>
> I went to a dozen recipe web sites and looked at hundreds of recipes. I
> think I totally confused myself.
>
> We have a new puppy who is keeping me busy. Our friends who winter here
> are starting to arrive and we are always having drop-in visitors so I'm
> looking for something that doesn't take days to prepare. I don't want to
> roll dough for cut-out cookies, either. I *can* do yeast.
>
> If someone could please help me with a few suggestions, I could take it
> from there. If it helps, some of the things I have on hand (besides the
> usual flour, butter, etc.) are almond meal and unsweetened, flaked coconut.
>
> All ideas would be welcome.
>
> TIA,
>
> Janet, scratching her head in way-the-heck-south Texas
>

Pound cake, stuffed with almond paste made from the almond meal and
sugar. Or stuffed with chocolate

"Janet Wilder" <[email protected]> wrote
>
> All ideas would be welcome.
>

Do a simple carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Tasty and easy and not
seen much around the holidays. A nice break from the sugar cookies and the
chocolate.

In article <002d1b28$0$9172$[email protected]>,
Janet Wilder <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am going to a holiday meeting of a club I belong to. We are all
> supposed to "bake something" to exchange with the other members. It
> should be something that costs about $10 to buy in a bakery or market.
>
> We don't celebrate Christmas. I have cookie recipes but I don't know if
> they would be suitable. I have cake recipes, but I don't know if they
> would be suitable.
>
> I went to a dozen recipe web sites and looked at hundreds of recipes. I
> think I totally confused myself.
>
> We have a new puppy who is keeping me busy. Our friends who winter here
> are starting to arrive and we are always having drop-in visitors so I'm
> looking for something that doesn't take days to prepare. I don't want to
> roll dough for cut-out cookies, either. I *can* do yeast.
>
> If someone could please help me with a few suggestions, I could take it
> from there. If it helps, some of the things I have on hand (besides the
> usual flour, butter, etc.) are almond meal and unsweetened, flaked coconut.
>
> All ideas would be welcome.
>
> TIA,
>
> Janet, scratching her head in way-the-heck-south Texas

Pineapple upside down cake.
Simple and one of my personal favorites!
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

==============================================:
Make either peanut butter or snickerdoodle cookie dough, Roll in 1"
balls & dip the tops in sugar. Bake until done but still a little
soft in the middle. Remove from pan. Press an unwrapped Hershey's
Kiss in the middle of each cookie. Use those new mint flavored kisses
in the snickerdoodle kind.

Or just make Mexican Wedding Cakes or Russian Tea Cakes or Vienese
Sugar Balls or Italian Butternuts - all the same cookie. I figure if
they have that many names, people must like 'em.

Lynn in Fargo
4 dozen should definitely go for at least$10!

Janet Wilder wrote:
> I am going to a holiday meeting of a club I belong to. We are all
> supposed to "bake something" to exchange with the other members. It
> should be something that costs about $10 to buy in a bakery or market.
>
> We don't celebrate Christmas. I have cookie recipes but I don't know if
> they would be suitable. I have cake recipes, but I don't know if they
> would be suitable.
>
> I went to a dozen recipe web sites and looked at hundreds of recipes. I
> think I totally confused myself.

I have a cranberry-pistachio biscotti recipe--or, HAD, since I can't
find it--that would suit your purposes. I hope having just the idea
is good enough;-) I'll post the recipe if I locate it. The biscotti
look very Christmas-y.

pat

In article
<[email protected]>,
Cryambers <[email protected]> wrote:

> Janet Wilder wrote:
> > I am going to a holiday meeting of a club I belong to. We are all
> > supposed to "bake something" to exchange with the other members. It
> > should be something that costs about $10 to buy in a bakery or market.
> >
> > We don't celebrate Christmas. I have cookie recipes but I don't know if
> > they would be suitable. I have cake recipes, but I don't know if they
> > would be suitable.
> >
> > I went to a dozen recipe web sites and looked at hundreds of recipes. I
> > think I totally confused myself.
>
> I have a cranberry-pistachio biscotti recipe--or, HAD, since I can't
> find it--that would suit your purposes. I hope having just the idea
> is good enough;-) I'll post the recipe if I locate it. The biscotti
> look very Christmas-y.
>
> pat

Oh gods... That reminds me of one of my #1 favorite breads I can get
from Whole Paycheck (Whole Foods Market). Lemon with Cranberries.

I've not had it in many many months but it's OH so good! Lemon and
Cranberries is a combo straight from heaven.
--
Peace! Om

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." -- Dalai Lama

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Sat 06 Dec 2008 08:27:53p, Janet Wilder told us...
>
>> I am going to a holiday meeting of a club I belong to. We are all
>> supposed to "bake something" to exchange with the other members. It
>> should be something that costs about $10 to buy in a bakery or market.
>>
>> We don't celebrate Christmas. I have cookie recipes but I don't know if
>> they would be suitable. I have cake recipes, but I don't know if they
>> would be suitable.
>>
>> I went to a dozen recipe web sites and looked at hundreds of recipes. I
>> think I totally confused myself.
>>
>> We have a new puppy who is keeping me busy. Our friends who winter here
>> are starting to arrive and we are always having drop-in visitors so I'm
>> looking for something that doesn't take days to prepare. I don't want to
>> roll dough for cut-out cookies, either. I *can* do yeast.
>>
>> If someone could please help me with a few suggestions, I could take it
>> from there. If it helps, some of the things I have on hand (besides the
>> usual flour, butter, etc.) are almond meal and unsweetened, flaked
> coconut.
>> All ideas would be welcome.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Janet, scratching her head in way-the-heck-south Texas
>
> The cakes I bake for the holidays are elaborate and time consuming, so I
> can’t recommend them. There are a couple of cookies I bake that fall into
> the same category. However, there are a couple of cookies my mother always
> made at the holidays that are simple and delicious, do not have to be
> rolled out, and have always been popular. I still make them.
>
> Sandies
>
> 6 tablespoons vegetable shortening or unsalted butter
> 2-1/2 tablespoons powdered sugar
> 1 cup sifted cake flour
> 1/2 teaspoon ice water
> 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
> 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
> 1/2 cup powdered sugar
>
> Cream shortening until fluffy; add the powdered sugar gradually, continuing
> to cream with shortening until light. Add the flour, ice water, walnuts,
> and vanilla, and mix well. Cover and chill mixture about two hours. Shape
> into crescents about 1-1/4” long by 1/2” wide, or into 1” balls. Place on
> parchment covered baking sheet, and bake at 300°F. for 30-35 minutes, or
> until lightly browned. Remove from baking sheet immediately, and roll in
> powdered sugar. When cool, roll again in powdered sugar. Makes 20
> cookies. Store in tightly sealed container. (I usually double or triple
> this recipe.)
>
> Christmas Cherries
>
> 1/2 cup vegetable shortening or unsalted butter
> 1/4 cup granulated sugar
> 1 egg, separated
> 1 tablespoon orange zest
> 1-1/2 teaspoons lemon zest
> 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
> 1 tablespoon lemon juice
> 1 cup sifted cake flour
> 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
> 6 candied cherries
>
> Cream shortening until fluffy and creamy; add the sugar gradually while
> continuing until light. Add the beaten egg yolk, orange and lemon zest,
> vanilla, and lemon juice, and mix well. Add the flour and mix well; chill
> for several hours or overnight. Roll into small balls 1/2” in diameter;
> roll in the egg white slightly beaten, then in the walnut meats. Place on
> parchment covered baking sheet and press a small piece of cherry on each.
> Bake in a 350° F. oven for 20 minutes. Makes 33 cookies 1-1/2” diameter.
> Store in tightly covered container. (I usually double this recipe.)
>

Those sound awesome. Copied and saved!!!

Thanks so much Wayne.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

sf wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:27:53 -0600, Janet Wilder
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I went to a dozen recipe web sites and looked at hundreds of recipes. I
>> think I totally confused myself.
>
> Make some snickerdoodles (cookies) and call it done, Janet!
> You can google a decent recipe.
>
>
>
I'll look into that. Thanks.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

sf wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:27:53 -0600, Janet Wilder
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If someone could please help me with a few suggestions, I could take it
>>from there. If it helps, some of the things I have on hand (besides the
>> usual flour, butter, etc.) are almond meal and unsweetened, flaked coconut.
>
> I should have read your *entire* post before replying.
>
> If you have coconut, do you have sweetened condensed milk? You could
> make macaroons.
> http://southernfood.about.com/od/coc...r/bl30214l.htm
>
>
I have that recipe and I thought about it. I usually put a half a
candied cherry on the top. I just thought that everyone would know how
simple they were and I'd be embarrassed :-)

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

cybercat wrote:
> "Janet Wilder" <[email protected]> wrote
>> All ideas would be welcome.
>>
>
> Do a simple carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Tasty and easy and not
> seen much around the holidays. A nice break from the sugar cookies and the
> chocolate.
>
>
What a great idea! AAMOF, I have Wayne's awesome carrot cake recipe in
my files.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

Cryambers wrote:
> Janet Wilder wrote:
>> I am going to a holiday meeting of a club I belong to. We are all
>> supposed to "bake something" to exchange with the other members. It
>> should be something that costs about $10 to buy in a bakery or market.
>>
>> We don't celebrate Christmas. I have cookie recipes but I don't know if
>> they would be suitable. I have cake recipes, but I don't know if they
>> would be suitable.
>>
>> I went to a dozen recipe web sites and looked at hundreds of recipes. I
>> think I totally confused myself.
>
> I have a cranberry-pistachio biscotti recipe--or, HAD, since I can't
> find it--that would suit your purposes. I hope having just the idea
> is good enough;-) I'll post the recipe if I locate it. The biscotti
> look very Christmas-y.
>
> pat

I think Giada did one this morning on Food Network. I thought about it,
but it might be too "exotic" for these ladies.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

Thanks all for your suggestions. I'm seriously thinking carrot cake, but
I much appreciate the input. You folks are *the best*

Holiday hugs,

Janet
--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life