Grandmas Poor Mans Cookies Food

POOR MAN'S COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Grease a 9x13 baking pan.
• Combine water, raisins, and shortening in a medium saucepan. Boil over medium heat, covered, for 20 minutes. Remove from heat, remove the lid, and let cool for 10 minutes.
• While the raisin mixture is boiling, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in a large bowl.
• Pour the slightly cooled raisin mixture over the dry ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon until mostly combined and moistened (the batter at this point will have the consistency of a paste). Add the beaten eggs and again stir with a spoon, until thoroughly combined. Stir in the chopped walnuts.
• Spread the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until deeply browned and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean with some moist crumbs attached.
• While the cookies are baking, prepare the glaze by whisking together the powdered sugar and warm water in a small bowl. As soon as you take the pan out of the oven, drizzle the glaze over the cookies and quickly spread into an even layer.
• Cool to room temperature before serving. Store leftovers in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days.

POOR MAN'S COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a mixing bowl, combine oats, sugars,flour and salt.
• Combine soda and water;stir into oats mixture along with shortening and vanilla.
• Roll into walnut size balls.
• Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes or until golden brown.
• Remove from the oven and allow to stand 2 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool.

MY GRANDMA'S POOR MANS CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Start off with cooking the white rice.
• As the rice is cooking start cooking your beef, I like to season it with pepper and mesquite seasonings, but you can also use garlic salt or any other seasonings you prefer.
• Once the meat and rice is done cooking mix together the meat, rice, and soup.
• Top it with the shredded cheddar cheese.
• Bake in the oven on 375 for about 30 minutes or until the cheddar is bubbly and starting to brown,.
• * Sometimes I like to mix corn into it to give it a little more nutrition/flavor.

POOR MAN'S PUDDING CAKE (POUDING CHOMEUR)

Steps:

• In a saucepan melt butter or margarine; stir in brown sugar.
• Add water and vanilla.
• Bring to a boil.
• Meanwhile, make the dough.
• Cream butter or margarine; add sugar.
• In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
• Add to butter mixture alternately with milk.
• Pour syrup into a 9 X 13 baking dish.
• Drop dough by teaspoons over syrup.
• Bake at 350 F for 30 minutes.

GRANDMA'S POOR MAN'S PIE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350º.
• Mix the cream, sugar, and flour.
• Pour into an unbaked 8" pie shell.
• Float several thin pats of butter on top.
• Sprinkle with ground nutmeg.
• Bake at 350º for 30-45 minutes or until top is a nice golden brown.
• Chill, then refrigerate until ready to serve.

GRAM'S POOR MAN'S CAKE (EGGLESS & MILKLESS)

Steps:

• Bring to a boil the fruit, nuts, extract, salt, sugar, shortening and coffee.
• Continue to cook until raisins swell and liquid becomes syrupy; cool completely.
• Stir together the flour, baking soda and baking powder.
• Add to fruit mixture and combine thoroughly.
• Pour into a greased 10-inch tube pan and bake at 325° about an hour (if heavy with fruit). Check with tester to be sure cake is done.
• Remove from pan and cool completely on wire rack.
• At this point I soak a clean piece of cheesecloth in liquor; brandy, rum, even wine.
• Wrap the cake with the cloth and in foil--store in COLD place--check often, resoak as needed.
• There are no exact measurements for the fruit in this recipe--the original recipe stated "fruits, nuts & peels-whatever you have on hand".
• This was done because it was wartime and things for fancy baking were not always available.

GRANDMA'S POOR MAN'S CAKE

Steps:

• 1. In a large sauce pan boil 1 cup water, add first 6 ingredients, boil together until luke warm, stir. Remove from burner
• 2. In large mixing bowl add all dry ingredients, mix together with fork. Sift into the sauce pan. Mix well.
• 3. Grease or spray a 9x9 baking dish. Pour mixture in dish, and spread evenly.
• 4. Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes. Watch it towards end so it doesn't get too dark. Enjoy! (You might be able to make this gluten free by using a gluten free flour, haven't tried it, but it might work.)