Grammie Beas Blueberry Feather Cake Food

GRAMMIE BEA'S CRISCO YELLOW CAKE

Steps:

• Mix thoroughly by hand 300 strokes or 2 minutes at med. speed with mixer. Scrape bowl frequently during mixing.
• Add eggs and vanilla, and again mix by hand 300 strokes, or 2 minutes at med speed with mixer.
• Pour batter into greased and floured 9x13" or two 9" round pans, and bake in 350 oven.
• Bake 9" layer pans 30-35 minutes.
• Bake 9x13" pan 40-45 minutes.
• Let cakes cool for 10 minutes in layer pans, then remove onto a cooling rack until cool.
• If you use the 9x13" pan keep the cake right in the pan and frost when cool.

GRAMMIE BEA'S BOSTON BAKED BEANS

Steps:

• Clean beans of pebbles and rocks.
• Put cleaned beans in pot. Set aside.
• Mix sugars, molasses, and mustard. Add salt and pepper. Mix into beans.
• Add enough water to cover beans.
• Place salt pork down into beans. You can opt to cut it up, or leave it whole, like my gram used to do.
• You can also put the onions in whole, or opt to chop them up. She used to keep them whole, so us kids could fight over them lol.
• Bake in bean pot, at 200 degrees, all night or 8 hours If not done, finish in the morning.
• When beans are ready to be eaten, turn oven up to 450 until beans start to boil, then turn back to 200, until ready to serve.
• Note: If beans look like they are drying out, just add water as you are cooking.

GRAMMIE BEA'S LAZY DAISY OATMEAL CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cake:.
• In a shallow bowl, combine rolled oats and boiling water. Let stand for 20 minutes.
• Using a mixer, cream butter until creamy.
• Gradually beat in sugars, and beat until light.
• Blend in eggs and vanilla.
• Mix flour, baking soda, salt, and spices.
• Remove beaters from creamed mixture.
• Stir in rolled oat mixture.
• Fold in flour mixture. Blend well.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 9" square cake pan.
• Bake for 45-55 minutes Remove from oven, but DO NOT REMOVE CAKE FROM PAN.
• Topping:.
• Combine all melted butter. brown sugar, canned milk and nuts. Spread over the hot cake.
• Return the cake to the oven, under the broiler. Broil until the topping is bubbly and tinged with gold. Watch it as it will burn easily.

BLUEBERRY CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Butter a 22cm cake tin, line the bottom with baking parchment. Put a third of the frozen blueberries aside, sprinkle the rest with flour, set aside (do not defrost).
• In a large bowl, beat the sugar and eggs until smooth, add the vegetable oil, lemon zest and juice and yogurt. Combine the wet ingredients with the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt using a whisk. Don't worry if a few lumps remain. Add the blueberries mixed with flour.
• Pour the cake mixture into the prepared tin. Sprinkle the remaining berries on top. Put the tin in the oven, reduce the temperature to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Bake for 1 hr 10 mins-1hr 20 mins or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Remove from oven and set aside to cool. After removing from the baking tin, sprinkle the cake with icing sugar, if you like.

GRAMMIE BEA'S CHOCOLATE CRACKLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Blend Crisco/margarine and sugar.
• Add vanilla, eggs, milk, and cocoa. Beat well, and add nuts.
• Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to first mixture. Beat well.
• Chill for 1 hour.
• Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 350, for 8-10 minutes Keep an eye on the cookies at 8 minutes as you don't want them to burn.
• Roll in confectionary sugar when still warm. Let cool.

GRAMMIE BEA'S FRIED SMELTS

Steps:

• Buy as many fresh water smelts as you need. They are smaller and sweeter than sea smelts.
• Clean the smelts in cold water, cutting off the heads, and snip down the belly with scissors, to remove the bellies.
• Rinse out the bellies of each one, as you cut and snip the heads.
• Soak in cold water, until you are ready to cook them, or put in fridge.
• When ready to cook you will need:.
• Eggs, beaten in a lg. bowl, enough to dip all your fish in,(depending on how much you are making depends on how many eggs you.
• need).
• I use about 3 eggs for 2 lbs. of smelts.
• Jiffy corn muffin mix, (if you are cooking 2-3 lbs. of smelts 1 box will do. If you are doing more, then you will need at least 2 boxes).
• oil, enough to fill the frying pan up about 2".
• salt, to taste.
• Beat the eggs well, and put them in a bowl.
• Put Jiffy corn muffin mix in a lg. plate, and mix in salt, about 1/2 teaspoons per box.
• Put oil in frying pan to get hot. Cook on high heat, letting the pan get hot, before putting in your fish, then turn down the heat to med-high.
• Dip your fish in the egg, and then in the muffin mix.
• Deep fry in at least 2" of oil in a heavy frying pan, until golden brown.
• You can also use this corn muffin mix to cook any other sweet fresh water fish, such as horn pout, or what you may call catfish, bass, white perch etc.

GRAMMIE BEA'S DANDELION GREENS

Steps:

• Pick 2 lg. brown bags full of dandelions, or buy 3 lbs., as they shrink a lot during cooking.
• Wash dandelions well 2-3 times in changes of water, to remove bugs and dirt. Inspect leaves and stems as you go, to make sure they.
• arent wilted or rotted or anything, and break off any that are.
• Add about 6" of water to a lg. pot.
• Add cut up pieces of salt pork into the water.
• Once washed well, add the greens to the pot.
• Add 1 teaspoons salt. on top of the greens.
• Cook on high until water comes to a boil, then turn down to medium heat.
• Let greens cook, until reduced, and tender.
• Make sure salt pork is cooked through, at least 45-50 minutes.
• Drain well, and serve with butter, vinegar, salt, and pepper.
• Note: Preparation time varies, depending on how dirty the dandelions are and how well you clean them.

GRAMMY MAE'S BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• I have a sneaking suspicion she added vanilla to this as well!
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Flour berries and set aside.
• Cream sugar, eggs and margarine until light.
• Add milk and mix well.
• Sift flour, salt, cream of tartar and baking powder.
• Add flour mixture to creamed mixture.
• Fold in berries last and fill greased muffin tins.
• Bake 12-15 minutes.

GRAMMIE BEA'S MAYONNAISE CAKE

Steps:

• Sift first 5 ingredients together.
• Add mayonnaise, water, and vanilla. Beat together well.
• Grease a 9x13" baking pan, and dust with flour.
• Pour in cake mix, and bake at 375 for 30-40 minutes, checking at 30 minutes and every 5 minutes after, until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.

GRAMMIE BEA'S SPECIAL VANILLA FROSTING

Steps:

• In a bowl mix solid Crisco, salt, vanilla, and about 1/3 of the sugar.
• Add milk and remaining sugar alternately. Mix until smooth and creamy.
• Add more sugar to thicken, or milk to thin frosting, if needed, for a good spreading consistency.
• Frosts 2 8 or 9" layers OR 1 13x9x2" cake.

BLUEBERRY BUTTERFLY CAKES

Steps:

• Line the tin and weigh the ingredients: Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and put a paper case in each space in the fairy cake tin. Next, take the large mixing bowl and weigh in the flour, baking powder, butter, sugar and lemon curd.
• Add the eggs: Break the eggs into the small bowl, then add them to the other ingredients, making sure that there isn't any eggshell in the bowl.
• Get whisking: Whisk everything together really well until creamy with the electric hand whisk. Then carefully stir in the blueberries with a metal spoon or spatula.
• Spoon into the cases: Use the ice cream scoop or spoon to spoon the mixture evenly into the paper cases. Make sure you get the mixture inside the cases. Now put the cake tin in the oven and bake for 15 mins until the cakes are golden (to check they are ready, see the tip box, left). Cool for a few mins, then lift the cakes onto a cooling rack.
• Make the topping: Clean the large mixing bowl and dry well. Then put the mascarpone and lemon curd into the bowl and beat together with a wooden spoon until well mixed.
• Now decorate: Carefully cut a circle out of the top of each cake - ask an adult to help you. Lift off the circle and fill the space with the lemon filling followed by some blueberries. Halve the circle of the cake that you have cut out and place on top to create butterfly wings. Put some icing sugar in a tea strainer and dust over the cakes.