Egg Noodles In Brown Butter....

what more do I need to say? :)

The Ice Box Pie....

...was more than a hit! It is much better with the fresh lemon juice, but in a pinch the bottled will work too!

Lemon Icebox Pie

¾ stick butter

½ box vanilla wafers

1 can sweetened condensed milk

4 eggs

¼ C sugar

6 lemons (7 TBL)

Preheat oven to 350˚. Melt the butter, crush the cookies, then mix and press into 8” x 8” baking dish. Place extra whole cookies around the sides of the dish. Zest 2 lemons, and juice all of the lemons. Separate the eggs, and mix the yellows with the sugar and milk, then beat thoroughly. Mix in the lemon juice, zest and pinch salt. Pour mixture over crust. Whip the egg whites with 4 TBL sugar and a pinch salt until stiff peaks form. Spread meringue over lemon mix, and bake for about 10 min, until lightly browned. Let sit for 6 to 8 hours.

The Cup Cheese Results!

I just wanted to let you all know that the Cup Cheese Recipe attempt was a success! I've never tried to make that before and it really turned out well!
Hopefully this coming week I can post more family recipes!
Have a wonderful Sunday!

Nanny Kelley's Black Joe Cake

This cake is the absolute best chocolate cake on the planet! Moist and rich, we usually make some creamy peanut butter icing for it but it is also wonderful with a light and airy cooked icing too!
This is the cake that everyone asks me to bring to any pot lucks, community dinners and get togethers. It has withstood the test of time!
Enjoy!


Nanny Kelley's Black Joe Cake

2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa (I prefer Hershey's, naturally) Suze's note!
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup hot black coffee
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tablespoons mayonnaise

Sift all the dry ingredients and add oil, coffee milk and mayonnaise. Mix for two minutes. Add the eggs and the vanilla flavoring and mix well for two minutes more. This batter will not be thick.
Pour into two greased and floured 9 inch cake pans.
Bake at 325 degrees for 25-30 minutes or longer depending on your oven. Start checking with a toothpick at 25 minutes and take it from there.
Cool the cake for fifteen minutes before removing from the pans. Cool the cakes on wire racks.


Light and Airy Cooked Icing

I cup milk
5 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Combine milk and flour in a saucepan and cook until thick. Cover and refrigerate. In mixing bowl, beat butter, shortening, sugar and vanilla till creamy. And the chilled milk and flour mixture and beat for ten minutes or more. Frost the cooled cake.

Nanny's Cracker Pudding

This cracker pudding is incredible! Sweet, creamy with a little bit of the cracker lumps...Just what I needed after a long, hard day at ........ school! :)

Nanny's Cracker Pudding

1 quart milk
2 eggs
Scant 1/2 cup sugar
Vanilla to taste
1 cup Ritz crackers
Baker angel flake coconut (short kind)

Heat milk but don't scald or burn. Add sugar and dissolve. Crush crackers and add to the milk.
Turn off the heat under the milk. Take a small amount and slowly beat into the eggs, making sure the pudding base is cooled a bit.
Once its well mixed, put it back into the pudding base and cook a bit longer.
Add the coconut, stir.

Nanny's Roly Polys!

There really is no recipe for these treats but I never want to forget them!
My grandmother often made pot pie. Usually chicken, sometimes beef and on rare occasions I can even remember sugar pea pot pie and once made with clams.
When she had leftover pot pie dough, which I remember as being every time, and now I doubt by accident, she would make us these little pinwheels as a treat!
They were so good and to us they were so special!
Play with the level and sweetness and spice that suits you!

Nanny's Roly Polys

Leftover pot pie dough, rolled into a rectangle
Sugar
Cinnamon
Softened butter


Spread the softened butter over the rectangle of dough.
Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar, to taste. (I usually use the ratio that we like for cinnamon toast).
Roll the dough as you would for a pumpkin roll, etc.
Slice into 1 1/2 inch pieces and place cut side down on a lightly greased cookie sheet.
I use Pam, and only use it sparingly since the butter from the polies will melt out onto the sheet.

Bake until light brown and bubbling. I used a 350-375 degree oven.

Enjoy!