Crites Family Stuff

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This is Jim's brother, Roger McFarland's recipe from his mission to England.

Ingredients for 15 servings

• 1 torn up angel food cake
• 2 small packages of strawberry jello
• 2 packages raspberries or strawberries, thawed
• 2 packages vanilla pudding
• 6 peeled and sliced fresh peaches
• 1 pint whipped whipping cream
• Sliced almonds

Steps

1. Prepare jello as directed on box. Prepare pudding as directed on box. This all goes into layers. It is beautiful served in a clear glass bowl with straight sides. First layer is the cake covered with jello, either strawberry or raspberry to match the fruit you are using. Let this set up and then add raspberries or strawberries. The next layer is pudding, which has been made and cooled. Next layer is fresh peaches. You can substitute sliced bananas if peaches are not available. Last layer is whipping cream garnished with sliced almonds.

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Left overs can be refrigerated if there are any! So easy and as good as pecan pie!!! Have fun with it!

Ingredients for 15 servings

• 2 cups flour
• .5 cup powdered sugar
• 2 cubes butter
• 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
• 1 egg
• Pinch of salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 bag toffee chips
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Steps

1. Toffee chips are to be without chocolate. Use only real butter, not margarine or shortening. Mix first 3 ingredients together and press into a 9x13 pan and bake 350F for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, mix remaining ingredients and pour over hot crust and bake for an additional 20-25 minutes - until the topping is set. Cool and top each square with whipped cream if desired.

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This was Jack's favorite!! A Christmas could not go by without making it. I found this recipe when I was a bride, so it has been around for many years. Jack liked it because it was so full of the candied fruit.

Ingredients for 24 servings

• 1.75 lbs candied fruit
• 2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts
• .5 lb chopped dates
• 1.5 cups raisens
• .25 lb coconut
• .5 lb margarine
• .5 cup sugar
• .5 cup honey
• 5 eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 6 tbsp orange juice

Steps

1. Make cake batter by creaming together margarine, sugar, honey. Add beaten eggs. Sift together the flour, cinnamon, baking power and add alternately with the orange juice. In a large container put the candied fruit, walnuts, dates, raisins, and coconut. Pour batter over the fruit and mix together. Makes two loaf pans, or can be baked in a well-greased bundt cake pan or an angel food cake pan. Bake at 250F 3-1/2 to 4 hours. Put a small pan of water in the bottom of the oven for a glazed and moist texture. Can decorate the top of the cake with red maraschino cherries and green fruit from the fruit mix.

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The most important step of this recipe is that after these balls are made and frozen, you sneak them out one at a time and secretly eat the whole batch before they get served.

Ingredients for 24 servings

• 1 box crushed vanilla wafer cookies
• 3 (8 oz) melted Hershey with almonds candy bars
• 24 oz thawed cool whip

Steps

1. Quickly add melted Hershey bars to cool whip by folding in. Drop by spoonsful onto cookie crumbs and roll around to coat. Set on wax paper and freeze. Serve frozen or partially melted.

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This recipe is Daniel's favorite childhood dessert!

Ingredients for 12 servings

• .75 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• .25 tsp salt
• 4 eggs room temperature
• .667 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 3 tbsp sugar
• Strawberries

Steps

1. Use a jelly roll pan that has been sprayed with Pam and then lined with wax paper and then spray the paper too. Preheat oven to 350F, Beat room temperature eggs in a chilled bowl until thick and lemony. Gradually add sugar until thick. Stir in vanilla and fold in dry ingredients. Spread batter in pan. Bake at 350F for 10 minutes. Barely cook this cake. If it is too done it will not roll. When cake is done sprinkle powdered sugar in a towel and turn cake out onto the towel, roll it up, and let cool. While the cake is cooling whip 1 cup heavy cream and 3 tbsp sugar until stiff. Slice strawberries (can use peaches or whole raspberries). When cake is cool spread out cake and ice with whipped cream and berries and roll the cake back up again. Frost top with additional whipped cream and garnish with berries.

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Dorothy Farmer: Jim has made this pie for me and it is DELICIOUS especially when made from the blackberries grown in their back yard.

Ingredients for 8 servings

• 3.5 cups of blackberries
• .25 cup flour
• 1 cup of sugar or to taste
• 3 tbsp tapioca
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 uncooked pie crust

Steps

1. Put the first five ingredients in a uncooked pie crust and bake at 450F for 10 minutes, then reduce baking temperature to 350F and bake for 35-40 minutes or until filling is bubbling and pie crust just starts to turn tan. Good served warm or cold, with vanilla ice cream.

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Jim's Scouting Recipe!

Ingredients for 15 servings

• 1 yellow cake mix
• 1 can pineapple rings
• .5 cup brown sugar
• .5 cube margarine

Steps

1. Mix the yellow cake according to directions, using the pineapple juice as part of the liquid. Do not bake. Line dutch oven with foil, melt margarine, add brown sugar and melt. This needs to be stirred while melting, but be careful not to tear the foil. Drain pineapple, reserving the juice to add with the liquid while making the cake mix. Pour pineapple in the dutch oven over the melted margarine and brown sugar. Add the mixed cake batter over all. Cook 25-30 minutes. A 12-inch oven needs 12 briquets below and 12 briquets on top.

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Ingredients for 8 servings

• 4 oz cream cheese
• 1 tbsp milk
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1.5 cups cool whip
• 1 cup milk
• 2 small pkg instant vanilla pudding
• 16 oz can pumpkin
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 graham cracker crust

Steps

1. Mix cream cheese, 1 tbsp milk, sugar, and cool whip together. Put into the graham cracker crust.
2. Mix the remaining ingredients together and pour over the top of the cream cheese mixture. Chill for at least 1 hour before serving.

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Ingredients for 8 servings

• 2.5 cups milk
• .25 cup heavy cream
• 2 egg yolks
• .66 cup sugar
• 4 tbsp cornstarch
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 tsp butter, softened
• 1 baked pie shell

Steps

1. Whisk together milk, cream, and egg yolks. Combine the sugar and cornstarch in a medium saucepan. Whisk in egg yolk mixture and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally for 5 minutes. Then stir mixture constantly until it comes to a boil. Boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and butter. Pour into cooked shell.
2. For banana cream pie: Add 1-2 bananas before pouring into the pie shell.
3. For coconut cream pie: Add 1 1/2 cups coconut flakes before putting in the pie shell.

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Ingredients for 8 servings

• 3 eggs
• .25 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup pecans
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• 1 cup sugar
• Dash salt
• 1 unbaked pie crust

Steps

1. Mix egg, sugar, corn syrup, salt, and butter. Stir well. Add nuts. Pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake at 350F for 35-45 minutes until a knife in the center comes out clean.

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