Recipes From Friends of Alice Hafen

 

KEEN KUTTER RECIPES 2

 

 

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

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Now it has been replaced by the more modern food chopper and electrified.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: 

 

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 

Recipes From the Alice Peel Hafen Cookbook

 

 

Keneflei and Flapjacks From Alice Hafen's Cookbook

 

On the bottom she writes:  This Recipe came with the

Hafen Family from Switzerland. 

David Peterson ~~~~~ Mutton and Sour Dough

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 

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.

Recipes from Alice Peel Hafen's Cookbook

Two Family Favorite Recipes

Sour Dough Bread ~ taken from "Sheep Stories" by David R. Gunderson

CARROT RECIPES FROM ALICE PEEL HAFEN'S COOKBOOK

Irish Soda Bread

Recipes From the Early 1900s

Sponge Cake ~~~~~Bertha Tanner

1 Cup sugar
6 eggs
1 Tbs lemon
3 Tbs cold water
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 teacup of flour
1/2 teacup of potato starch

Separate  eggs, beat egg yolks with sugar,
mix with other ingredients
Mix whites, blend into other mixture
Sugar the pan.   No temperature given.

Sponge Cake ~~~~~~~Mrs. Paxman

4 Egg yolks
3 Tbs cold water
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 Tbs cornstarch in cup and fill cup with flour
1  1/4 tsp of baking powder
Whites of 4 eggs

Beat yolks with water til thickened
Add additional ingredients
Add egg whites beaten
No temperature given
(filling below)

Filling~~~~~~~~Mrs. Paxman

7/8 cup of sugar
1/8 cup flour
2 eggs
2 cups scalded milk
1/2 tsp butter cream
add powder sugar until thick
add warm dressing???

Doughnuts~~~~~Bertha Tanner

2 teacups of buttermilk
1 teacup of cream  (sweet or sour)
3 eggs
nutmeg
1 tsp soda
1 teacup of sugar
1 tsp of baking powder
Blend to make a soft dough  and fry.

Baker's Gingersnaps ~~~~~~~~Mina Peterson

1 Cup each of sugar, molasses and butter
1 tsp soda
1 Tbs ginger
1/2 tsp of black pepper
Nearly 1 cup of lukewarm water

Dissolve the soda in lukewarm water.
Mix all together; add flour to make a soft dough.
Punch of pieces the size of marbles.
Place in pan with space between to allow for spreading.
 Bake

Hot Water Cake  ~~~~~~Mrs. Paxman

Cream 1/2 cup sugar with 1/2 cup lard
Add 1/2 cup molasses
2 1/2 cups of flour with a scant tsp of soda
Add  1 tsp each of nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice and cloves.
Last of All, Add 1 cup of boiling hot water.