Monday, November 18, 2024

RECIPES TAKEN FROM THE COLLECTION OF GRANDMA ALICE hAFEN

 


 





This last one must have been used a lot.  It also includes an indentation to attend the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Carrol Madsen. 

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Carrot Pudding and Lemon Sauce ~~~ Rigby Family Favorite

 

 














Carrot Pudding


1/2 Cup of butter

1Cup Sugar  (creamed with above butter)

1 Cup of grated carrots

1 Cup of grated potato

1 1/2 cups of flour sifted

1 tsp soda (dissolved in hot water)

pinch of salt

1 Cup of raisins minced

1 Cup of dates and figs minced

1/2 Cup walnuts chopped

1 tsp vanilla 

Cream butter and sugar 

Blend all ingredients in the order given

Pour into a well buttered mold

Place oiled waxed paper over the pudding then a lid

Steam for 3 hours

Serve with Lemon Sauce (below)


Lemon Sauce 

1 pint of boiling water

1 Cup of Sugar

1/2  butter

2 tbs of flour

Grated rind of 1 lemon

Juice of 2 lemons and 1 orange

dash of nutmeg

Melt butter, blend in flour, then sugar, and add boiling water slowly

then the lemon.

Cook in a double boiler, and stir until the mixture thickens.

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Easier Lemon Sauce:

1 Cup of sugar

1 Cup of boiling water

1 tbs of cornstarch

1 tsp lemon extract

1 egg

Dissolve cornstarch in a little cold water

Add sugar to the beaten egg

add the cornstarch, 

stir in the boiling water

Add the flavoring.

Cook in a double boiler to right consistency and stir the mixture



Sunday, November 14, 2021

KEEN KUTTER RECIPES 2

 

 




We had a bundle of interest in the last posting from Keen Kutters.  So here are some more. 









Tuesday, August 24, 2021

KEEN KUTTER RECIPES

 


We have one of these at our  Relic Home.  I remember my mother having one.  We would drag it out at Thanksgiving time.  We would chop the bread, onion, celery, carrots and whatever. 

Now it has been replaced by the more modern food chopper and electrified.  Browse through the recipes below and decide what you want to try.  One of the recipes includes tongue.  

I remember opening the refrigerator one day and seeing a cow's tongue all sprawled out on a nice dinner plate.  

You may ask:  What is clarified butter? So I asked Google: butter from which water and milk solids have been removed, so that only the butterfat remains: 








 














Tuesday, April 6, 2021

OLD -TIME RECIPES

 


Maggie Peel's Lye Soap 

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 Jack Peel's White Fruitcake 

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Emma Fowles Grahm Bread 




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Mary Margaret Peel's Gooseberry Jam 


Friday, April 3, 2020

Keneflei and Flapjacks From Alice Hafen's Cookbook



 


On the bottom she writes:  This Recipe came with the
Hafen Family from Switzerland. 

Friday, September 13, 2019

Alice Hafen Recipe for Mincemeat

3 lbs venison (grind meat fine)      
25 apples
1 lb. beef suet                               
2 lbs raisins
2 lbs currants
1/4 lb citron, diced
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup molasses
2 cups white sugar
2 tsp. salt
4 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp allspice
1 tsp ginger 
1 1/2 tsp cloves 
1 1/2 tsp mace
1 quart of cidar
3 cups pineapple juice 
Juice of 2 lemons 

Alice would process this in bottles 

Updatee Recipe  1978
Added 
1/2 C molasses
1/2 c cider vinegar 



Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Recipes For the Fall Season







SALSA 


28 tomatoes (peeled)
2 jalepeno peppers
2 buds of garlic
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tbs chili powder
3  Tbs salt
1 1/2 Tbs pepper
2 tsp mustard
4 green peppers
2 red peppers
4 onions

Mix together and bottle.  Put in Hot bath for 5 minutes to seal.