Recipes

 Anyone wishing to share their recipes I will put them on this page. Maybe a cookbook sometime in the future.

March 2025

   Patsy Williamson's 
    Coconut Pound Cake

6  eggs
1 cup shortening
½ cup butter
3 cups sugar
½ teaspoon almond extract
½ teaspoon coconut extract
3 cups sifted flour
1 cup milk
2 cups grated coconut

 Separate eggs, placing whites in one large bowl and yolks in another large bowl.  Let whites warm to room temperature, about 1 hour.  Preheat oven to 300°.  Grease 10 inch tube pan.  With mixer at high speed, beat yolks with shortening and margarine till blended.  Gradually add sugar, beating until light.  Add extracts.  Blend.  At low speed beat in flour in fourths alternately with milk in thirds.  Add coconut.  Blend.  Beat egg whites just until stiff peaks form.  Gently fold whites into batter.  Turn into tube pan.  Bake 2 hours or until cake tester comes out clean.  Cool in pan 15 minutes.  Remove from pan and cool thoroughly on wire rack.  Dust top with 10X sugar.  Has a nice macaroon-like top.

Jennifer's Apple Cake 

February 2025

Cranberry Cheese dip

from Wendy Dec. 2024

Polish Tea Cakes Cookies 

(CIASTKA ZKONISERWIL)

Patsy's Recipe   (June 2024)

½ cup butter, softened

½ cup granulated sugar

1 egg, separated

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon water

1 cup pecans, chopped

Raspberry jam

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. In mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolk and vanilla; beat until combined. In separate bowl, combine flour and salt; add to butter mixture and mix well. Shape into 1-inch balls. In separate bowl, whisk egg white and water until frothy. Dip balls in egg white, then roll in pecans. Place on parchment paper-lined cookie sheets; press down center of ball with finger or end of wooden spoon. Bake at 325 degrees for 5 minutes. Remove from oven; again press down center. Return to oven; bake additional 10 to 15 minutes. Cool on wire cooling racks. Fill middle of cookie with jam. Pipe Sour Cream Frosting around jam. Makes about 2 dozen.

Sour Cream Frosting

3 tablespoons butter, softened

1 cup powdered sugar

2 tablespoons sour cream

In small bowl, beat butter, sugar and sour cream until smooth.

Gluten-Free Vegan Chocolate Cake

March 2024

Celery and Fennel Gratin

from Jennifer Dec. 2023

Celery and Fennel Gratin

This is from Jennifer, Sept. 2023 

Wonderful cherry chocolate cake from Pam, March 2023

"My mom’s name was Julie Ann Dietz Dorn.  She passed in 1986 and made the cake before this.  She often shared her recipes.  She was a dessert maker; I am not so I treasure her dessert recipes.  Pamela"

If you can't make out the recipe above, let me know and I will retype it.  Love the recipe card in Pam's Mother's handwriting though.

Wendy

Click on the links to find the recipe.

Celery Casserole (Jennifer)

Celery Casserole

So, I used 5 cups of celery (called for 4 cups), chopped up the water chestnuts, didn't use the pimento, used Panko instead of soft bread crumbs (since that's what I have on hand), and didn't use the extra butter in the topping.  And I made up my own "mushroom soup" from the recipe at the end with mushrooms I'd cooked yesterday (with Thyme added I think)--- be sure to squeeze out the extra water.

Add 1 tsp of ground sage for a little extra flavor.

Beef and Black Bean Taco Dip (Priscilla)

Beef and Bean Taco Dip