Saturday, March 1, 2008

Holiday Dishes

Baked Blueberry French Toast
Donna Brinkerhoff

1 Loaf French bread: cut into cubes. Don’t use ends
8 oz. Cream cheese
Blueberries
5 Large eggs
¾ C. Milk
1 Tbs. vanilla
1 C. Milk
¾ C. Sugar
1 Tbs. apple pie spice

Put bread into buttered 9x13 pan. Cut up cream cheese and put on bread, scatter blueberries over bread. Whisk together eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla, and apple pie spice. Pour over bread. Cover with aluminum foil and chill overnight or at least 8 hours. Take out of fridge ½ hour before baking. Bake at 400 degrees for 25 min. Serve warm with blueberry syrup (blueberries and karo) and whipped cream.


Sweet Potato Casserole
Laurel Christensen
Base:
2- 20oz. cans sweet potatoes drained or 6 c. cooked sweet potatoes.
1 C. sugar
1 C. milk
4 eggs
1 tsp. salt
3 tsp. vanilla
1 stick butter, melted

Topping:
1 C. brown sugar
2 C. chopped pecans
2/3 C. flour
2/3 stick butter, melted

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix “base” ingredients in food processor or blender. Spread in greased 9x13 pan. Combine “topping” ingredients and sprinkle on top. Bake 30 mi or until golden and crispy.

Grandma Lott’s Rolls
Angie Wycherly

2 Tbs. yeast
¼ c. warm water
½ C. Margarine
½ C. sugar
3 eggs
2 t. salt
4 ½ C. flour
1 C. warm water
Melted butter

Dissolve yeast in ¼ c. warm water. Set aside. Cream together margarine and sugar; beat in eggs one at a time. Add salt. Alternate flour and 1 C. water. Add yeast. Dough should be sticky. Put in fridge overnight or rise until double. Roll out ½ inch thick on heavily floured surface. Cut out with round cookie cutter or a glass. Dip ½ of circle in butter, set on cookie sheet, fold in half (butter side in) and pinch closed. Rise again.
Bake 400 degrees for 10 min or tops are golden brown.
Also makes great cinnamon rolls.

Ruth's Chris Sweet Potato
Martha Grace

1 c. brown sugar
1/3 c. flour
1/2 cube butter (melted)

Mix the above ingredients and set aside.

3 c. cooked and mashed sweet potatoes
1 c. sugar
1/2 t. salt
1 t. vanilla
2 eggs (beaten)
1/3 c. butter (melted)
1/2 c. evaporated milk
1/2 t. nutmeg
1/2 t. cinnamon

Mix the rest of the above ingredients together. Pour into a dish. Sprinklewith the brown sugar crust mixed earlier. Bake at 350 for 30 min.

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