Crites Family Stuff

Description

I used to make this all the time for my kids.
Jill Prince: I use this same recipe.

Ingredients for 1 serving

• 2 cups water
• 2 tbsp oil
• Drops of food coloring
• 2 tsp cream of tartar
• 1 cup salt
• 2 cups flour

Steps

1. Combine in medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir continually while scraping bottom of pan with a heavy spoon. When dough becomes very lumpy and most of the moisture is gone and is forming a ball, remove from heat. Scrape dough out of pan onto counter and to a smooth consistency. Cool and store in airtight container, not in fridge.

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Ingredients for 1 serving

• .5 cup butter
• 2 squares unsweetened chocolate
• .33 cup milk
• 1 lb powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla (sometimes I add a little almond extract too)

Steps

1. Melt butter and chocolate in a saucepan over low heat. When melted, add milk and stir over low heat until the mixture thickens and separates. Pour into a mixing bowl with powdered sugar and vanilla and mix until smooth. Thicken with more sugar and thin with a little milk.

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Ingredients for 1 serving

• .33 cup butter
• .25 cup milk
• .25 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2.5 cup confectioner's sugar

Steps

1. Mix all ingredients except sugar. Mix in 1 cup of the sugar. Beat well. Mix in the rest of the sugar as needed to make icing that will spread well and stay on cake. Put on cool cake. Makes 1 1/2 cups icing.

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This is the recipe I have used to frost the hundreds of angel food cakes I have made. The maraschino cherry version was the favorite of Jack's.

Ingredients for 15 servings

• .5 cup sugar
• .25 cup white corn syrup
• 2 tbsp water
• .25 cup egg whites (2 small)
• 1 tsp vanilla

Steps

1. Stir sugar, corn syrup and water together in a small saucepan. Boil rapidly until the mixture will spin a 6-8 inch thread when a small bit is dropped from a spoon.
2. While mixture is boiling, beat the egg whites at high speed with an electric beater until the egg whites stand in very stiff peaks. Blend in 1 tsp vanilla.
3. Immediately when the sugar mixture will spin a thread, pour the hot syrup slowly in a thin steady stream into the beaten egg whites, beating constantly until the mixture stands in very stiff peaks and consistency to ice a cake. Blend in 1 tsp vanilla
4. To make the maraschino cherry variation, use the juice from the maraschino cherries in place of the water. This is good when used as the icing of a maraschino cherry pecan nut angel food cake.

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Ingredients for 1 serving

• 2.75 cups confectioner's sugar
• 6 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
• 6 tbsp butter
• 5 tbsp evaporated milk
• 1 tsp vanilla

Steps

1. In a medium bowl, sift the sugar and cocoa. Set aside. In a large bowl, cream butter until smooth, then gradually beat in sugar mixture alternately with milk. Blend in vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy. If necessary, adjust the consistency with more milk or sugar.

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Ingredients for 1 serving

• 2 cups buttermilk
• 2 cups mayonnaise
• 1 tsp garlic salt
• 1 tsp onion salt
• 1 tsp accent
• 1 tsp pepper

Steps

1. Mix well and refrigerate. Makes 1 quart. Will last in refrigerator up to 3 weeks.

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Ingredients for 1 serving

• 1 cup dry powdered milk
• .5 cup hot water
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tbsp butter

Steps

1. Blend in blender until mixed well. Makes 14 oz.

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Great in Gyro sandwiches or as a spread on any sandwich

Ingredients for 12 servings

• 4 cups fresh unflavored yogurt
• 1 medium cucumber peeled and grated
• 4 cloves garlic minced very fine
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• Salt
• Pepper

Steps

1. Place a cheese cloth in a colander and pour in the yogurt. Allow yogurt to drain for several hours. Place the grated cucumber in another colander and drain for 2 hours. Mix all the ingredients and chill.

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We gave this out for Christmas one year to the neighborhood. I know you are not supposed to use raw eggs, maybe you could use eggbeaters or a similar product. I have always used raw eggs and never had a problem. But I also eat raw cookie dough!!

Ingredients for 8 servings

• 1 cup butter
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 cup honey
• 1 tsp vanilla

Steps

1. Beat until "fluffyish". This keeps well in the fridge for a long time.

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Ingredients for 8 servings

• 1 cup sour cream
• .5 the juice of a lemon
• 2 tbsp mayonaise
• Salt
• Pepper
• .25 cup zesty bleu cheese
• 3 green onions

Steps

1. Chop green onions finely. Combine all ingredients in a bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste. WARNING - the onions will make the dressing a stronger flavor as it sets longer.

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