A Recipe For Homemade Cup Cheese!

I was given this recipe by a fantastic Mom who loves gardening and earth/nature as much as I do!
She is an expert at making her own cottage cheese and from that came the recipe for the Cup Cheese. I am trying the recipe this weekend, so I'll post a review for it here.

Hello Suze,

Yes, I do have a recipe for Amish cup cheese. This recipe was given to me by a Mennonite friend of mine. She grew up here in Lancaster PA.

~Cup Cheese~

5 cups dry curds 1/4 cup butter

1 Tblsp. Baking soda 1/2 cup cream

1 tsp. salt

Add soda and salt to curds. Let set 3 to 4 hrs. In double boiler, crock pot, or iron skillet melt the butter. Add curds. Melt stirring occasionally, to keep from sticking to sides and bottom. When melted add sweet or sour cream. Let come to boil, pour into a dish. If a thinner cheese is desired, add more cream or milk. If the curds don't want to melt right you can put in the blender, before it's cold.

Tip: Even if it's lumpy it's still good, a special kind of cheese in itself...... Whatever suits your taste. Cheddar powder, sour cream and onion powder, maybe even fresh herbs. Crumbled bacon and thin cheese makes a good sauce, a thick cheese you can spread on bread, makes a nice sandwich. It's also good with pretzles or crackers.

Enjoy,

~Joyful Mama~ :)

Miss Lizzie West's Cornbread/Sussex County, DE

This is a wonderful recipe that was given to me by one of my neighbors shortly after we moved into our wonderful, old house here at the beach. This is a recipe that was a favorite of Miss Lizzie West, one of the former residents of our house. She was a wonderful old woman who was all that is good about the southern part of Sussex County, Delaware.

This is an Eastern Shore wet cornbread, not at all like the dry, crumbly version that I was accustomed to prior to moving here.

Miss Lizzie's Cornbread


4 cups of boiling water
2 cups of cornmeal
1 tsp. salt
1/2 stick of butter
2 eggs
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of milk
1 cup flour

Mix together, then add 1 cup of milk, again. Then mix all together with a mixer.
Grease baking pan. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for one hour or until brown.
Miss Lizzie's sister, Margie, was a resident of a local nursing home and had some very interesting things to say about Miss Lizzie's experiences in our house. Suffice it to say, when we wondered about finding a lock of hair in the fireplace in the dining room, Miss Margie told our neighbor that Miss Lizzie often stated she saw a woman in green shoes, rocking in that room....and she had no head.....

Sadie Lebo's Famous Coconut Cake!

Sadie Lebo and I aren't related, but she was a dear, dear woman I met through our many trips to the now-defunct Reinholds Athletic Club. She was a waitress there and she and her husband, Popeye, were great people.
This cake was famous throughout the area and no one could ever hope to duplicate it.
Thanks to Sadie's daughter-in-law, Janet Miller for sharing it with me. When I was a Charge Nurse at the Denver Nursing Home, Janet's father was a patient there. I asked her about the recipe and she not only got it for me, she handed it to me, in Sadie's handwriting! I value this as I do my own grandmother's recipes. Thank you Janet, and thank you Sadie.

Sadie Lebo's Coconut Cake (as served at the Reinhold's AC)

2 cups of granulated sugar
1/2 cup of butter
4 egg yolks
Mix these three together.

2 cups of flour
Pinch of salt
3/4 cup of sweet milk
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup of coconut
1 tsp vanilla
4 egg whites beaten stiff ( mix in last)

Cream the butter, sugar, egg yolks, adding ingredients alternately with the milk.
Add the vanilla, then coconut.
Lastly fold in egg whites.
Put in oven, bake at 360 degrees for 4o minutes.

Enjoy!

Nanny Kelley's Bread Pudding

This comes from a fading piece of paper, now tan with the 'receipt' written in ink, by my grandmother herself, Belva A Kelley.

This was a favorite of my late husbands. He adored her and her cooking. And she adored him right back :)

Nanny Kelley's Bread Pudding

1 1/2 cups of stale bread cubes
3 cups of milk
1/3 cup of sugar (you may alter this to taste)
2 eggs
pinch of salt
vanilla (I usually go with two tsps)

Scald milk and soak bread in it till soft.
Add sugar, beaten eggs, salt and flavoring.
Bake in moderate oven. The paper shows 325 degrees but there is a note in the margin that
says "I use 360 degrees.)
Note: She also wrote: You can add raisins if you like them.
Bake for 45 minutes.

I can tell you that I have always had to double this recipe. It disappeared too fast otherwise!