Quick Danish Soup

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Carrot Cookies - - - Alice Hafen

Alice frosts these with cream cheese frosting

HONEY CANDY RECIPE

2 cups of honey
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of cream

Cook to hard ball. Pour on a buttered platter.
Cool. Cut into 1 inch pieces.

Note: Do not make candy in stormy weather,
as it may not set up like it should.

Alice Peel Hafen

One Peach Pie Filling - - - Alice Hafen

MINCE MEAT

Pioneer Home Remedies - - - Canker Medicine, Corn Medicine

Cure for Goiter - - - Burdock Root

This was found at the Relic Home. We are not sure of the age - the year - or the effectiveness of the so-called cure. And so we kindly ask that you do not hold us responsible or liable for any adverse effects.

FINNANHADDIE WITH TOMATOES

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Leonard Frandsen's Meat Cure

Ammonia Cookies

There are many who remember these cookies as being a lot like the ones you can buy at Christmastime - the Danish Sugar Cookies sold in the big tin. There is a little problem in acquiring the ammonia however. If you go to the druggist to get the ammonia, it will cost you a pretty penny. We went to the local baker and he ordered a tin of it about the same size of the danish cookie tin above. It cost us about $15. That's enough to last a lifetime.

PIONEER COTTAGE CHEESE AND KANAPOOST

PIONEER RECIPES

These recipes are Danish, from the Ericksens. Grandma used to make the cottage cheese from milk that had been skimmed of cream. Mother used to make the cottage cheese and feed the dry curds mixed with cracked grain to her chickens.

It is important to use raw milk for these two recipes. I tried using pasteurized milk and it left a bitter taste in the cottage cheese. Using commercial cottage cheese for the kanapoost also left a bitter taste.........Alice Hafen

Cottage Cheese

4 cups raw skimmed milk

Set milk aside and skim cream from the top. Let sour and when it is clabbered, put it on the back of the stove to cook. (this was the back of an old coal stove where there was very little heat.) When the milk separates, pour into a colander to drain. Do not squeeze the drying curds.

To serve, mix dry curds with Miracle Whip and salt and pepper to taste.

Kanapoost

One recipe of cottage cheese (above)

Salt

Pepper

Caraway seeds

Put cottage cheese in small crock or glass jar and set for a few days with cheese cloth on top. Stir once a day until it gets ripe and then stir in salt, pepper and caraway seeds to taste. Form into a roll about 2 and on half inches long and 2 inches around. It is ready to eat. If it gets hard after a few days, you can grate it.

GROUND CHERRY PRESERVES

2 lbs of groundcherries
1 qt of sugar
Water (just enough to dissolve the sugar)

add the juice and rind of 1 lemon (or to your own taste)

Grandma Peel's Bran Beer

5 gallons of warm water
1 quart bran
1 handful hops
1 quart honey
1 package of dry yeast

Brown bran in oven. Put the browned bran and hops in a cloth sack large enough to allow for swelling, and put in warm water. When the strength is all out of the bran and hops, lift them out of the water and add the honey. This mixture should be hot. When cool enough, add the dissolved yeast. When this mixture is cool, skim and bottle. Set away at room temperature.

Danish Sweet and Sour Cabbage

We hope you all enjoyed the Thanksgiving Holiday. Here at the Hafen Household we work for two days cleaning, cooking, decorating, and setting a beautiful table with the finest china and silverware. We sit down, give thanks to the Lord, and then it takes about twenty minutes to devour it all.

It was just Grandma Great (Alice), Peter and myself at the table this year. Pretty boring, huh?
Our children rotate spending Thanksgiving with us and spending Christmas with us. We get them all for Christmas this year. However, they all seem to show up for leftovers, games and Grandpa Pete's famous pies.

One of our family favorite recipes is Grandma Rigby's Danish Sweet and Sour Cabbage. Well lets say, it is a favorite of some. But Thanksgiving would not be Thanksgiving without it. I used to tease Grandma Rigby about the smell. You can't enjoy the beautiful smell of turkey roasting in the oven if sweet and sour cabbage fills the air. So, this year we did the cabbage on a campstove out in the shop about 150 feet away from the house.

Here is the recipe. Nothing is exact. Subtract or ad as you like: One head of red cabbage. Remove the outer leaves and chop it into chunks of about two inches each. Put the cabbage in a large pot with about two cups of water. Put on the stove at medium heat and let the cabbage steam and decrease in size. Then add vinegar and sugar to your taste. Bring all to a high heat to encourage the sugar and vinegar to carmelize the cabbage. (easier said than done). Add a little crumbled bacon, apple juice and whatever to suit your own taste. Serve hot. Watch for the reaction of your guests. They either love it or they absolutely hate it.

Danish Ebleskivers

3 separated eggs
2 Tbs sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups buttermilk
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
Dash nutmeg
Oil

Separate eggs, beat egg yolks and add sugar, salt and buttermilk. Sift dry ingredients together and add to the egg mixture. Beat egg whites until very stiff and fold into the batter. Add vanilla and nutmeg.

Place about a teaspoon of oil in each indentation of a preheated Danish Ebeleskiver Pan (preferably cast iron). Then fill each indentation to about two/thirds full with the batter.
Cook until bubbly on the top. Then turn carefully with a fine knitting needle or skewer or fork and finish cooking the other side. When fully done, you can roll them in powdered sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon sugar or whatever suits your fancy. Serve them with jam, or syrup or real butter.

Honey Pudding

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Honey Pudding ------ Clarissa Jane Wilcox Seely

1 Cup Honey

1 Cup Milk

1 Cup Suet or oil

1 Egg

2 Cups Flour

1 tsp soda

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

3/4 tsp allspice

1 Cup Nuts

You can add 1 cup each of fruit, dates or raisins; whatever you want.

You can make it rich or plain.Steam for 2 hours.

Serve with caramel sauce and whipped cream.