The Raglan Shire Winterfest Cookbook 2012

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Introduction

It doesn’t take long to notice that Tinies like nomming, like thinking about nomming, like talking about nomming, like sharing nomming, like making noms, and dreaming up new noms.

What better way to celebrate that part of Tiny life than a cookbook? And what better reason to celebrate than Winterfest, that most nommingest time of the year!

Thank you all who contributed! Thank you all who make Raglan Shire wot it is!

Rowena Paine, editor

Table of Contents Main dishes Side dishes Breads

Chicken and Noodles...3 Drucilla’s Edible Brussels Chocolate Pumpkin Bread...14 Grape Jelly Meatballs...4 Sprouts...9 Spice Puffs...15 Kath’s Quick and Dirty Soup...5 Grandma’s Famous Sage Dress- Zucchini Bread...16 ing...11 Sheik Al-Mishee...7 Mashed Potatoes...12 Venison Stew...8 Tomato and Leek Tart...13

Cookies Desserts And More!

Candy Cane Cookies...17 Coconut Pound Cake...2 Burphel’s Mocha...35 Keeba’s Banana Chocolate Chip Drucilla’s Goofy Pudding Dad’s Potato Candy...36 Cookies... Cake...26 Spiced Nuts...37 Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies...22 Gypsy Tart...27 Peppernut Cookies...23 Hostess Cupcakes...28 Ring Around the Cookie...24 Kentish Cobnut Cake...31 Rich Lady Cheesecake...32 Ruth’s Pudding Cake...33 Spotted Dick...34

Chicken and Noodles Ingredients Directions

Noodles: For each 3 servings, beat one egg Eggs with half an eggshell of water Water and a pinch of salt. Add enough flour to form a wet dough. Knead Salt with lots of flour on a board. Roll Flour out thin, fold in half, repeat,

flourbetween layers to be sure Chicken: they don’t stick, until very thin. Cooked chopped chicken Cut into strips. Dust with more flour and lay out on waxed paper Chicken bullion to dry. Meanwhile, boil a chicken

in bullion until tender. Cool, No South Beach diet here. This debone, and chop. Save the needs to be served over mashed broth. You need 2 cups broth for potatoes with a side of hot rolls. each 3 servings so you may need This family starch-fest is made additional chicken bullion to get when relatives visit. It’s an afforda- that amount. Heat broth to a sim- Try this egg, it’s shiney! ble way to serve up vats of comfort mer. Dump the noodles into the food to a tribe. broth and cook for 20-30 minutes until tender, stirring frequently. Add chicken to warm through. The noodles will cook best and make their own thickened gravy if cooked slowly and gently. Rowena Paine 4

Grape Jelly Meatballs Ingredients Directions

1 bag frozen meatballs (or a whole In a sauce pan, melt down the mess of home-made, cooked) whole jar of grape jelly. Mix in 1 jar grape jelly (may substitute the ketchup. Add brown sugar to taste. Add water as needed to apricot jelly, or just about any other keep the sauce from getting too fruit jelly) thick. May also add a small 1 small bottle ketchup amount of onion or garlic as de- brown sugar sired. Put meatballs in crock pot and pour sauce over them. Cook

or heat per directions on the

meatball package.

Serves: just one: me. Serving suggestions With a Maybe making it into just one toothpick. Or on sandwiches. Or giant meatball wuz not such a on pasta. It's good, easy, and ver- good idea after all. satile. It's also a comfort food.

Copper Mistral 5

Kath’s Quick and Dirty Soup Ingredients Directions

1 package Ramen Noodles – chick- Crush Ramen Noodles in package en (you may use beef if you are us- and pour into microwave safe ing ground meat) bowl. Add rice, seasoning pack- 2 tablespoons dried veggie flakes. age from Ramen Noodles, veggie ½ cup uncooked Minute Rice flakes , meat, and water. Cook in While it's a wonderful way to 1 tablespoon bacon bits microwave for 3 minutes. Stir, use up left overs, it also is one 2 slices cheese (anything you have then reset timer for an additional of those cost cutting meals is fine) 3 minutes cooking time. Remove that can fill you up without from microwave, place into bowls 2 ½ cups water. (more may be add- emptying your wallet. ed as desired) Place cheese slices on top, then ½ cup chopped chicken or ground sprinkle with bacon bits. Micro- beef. wave for an additional ½ minute For a thicker broth, combine 1 ta- or until cheese is melted. Enjoy! blespoon corn starch into 1/4th cup cold water. Add into soup after The cheese makes a creamy fla- the first 3 minutes and allow to vorful sauce and the bacon adds cook with the soup. just the right amount of savory to It’s a very forgiving soup—what ev- it to warm you though and er left over meat and vegetables through. can slide right in.

Kath McGill 6

Wintertime is soup time in our household- -Ryu and I call it Quick and Dirty because its shamelessly savory and so easy to put together after a long day.

Sheik Al-Mishee (Eggplant for a Sheik) Ingredients Directions

1 large eggplant, diced (peeled or Cook the onions in a drizzle of ol- not, it’s up to you), soaked in salt ive oil until tender. Add beef, salt water for 20 minutes, and rinsed to taste, garlic, and cook until off.* browned and crumbled. Pour off 1 pound ground beef fat. 1 large can diced tomatoes or diced fresh tomatoes. Grease a baking pan and put meat mixture, potatoes, and to- salt matoes in, stir it up. Add plenty 2 crushed garlic cloves of salt and lots and lots of cinna- 2 medium onions, diced small mon. Cover and bake at 350 de- Cinnamon on meat? You bet. Olive oil grees half an hour, then uncover, This is comfort food. 1-2 medium potatoes, diced small stir, and continue to bake until Cinnamon the eggplant and potatoes are tender when poked with a fork, 60-90 minutes total. *Soaking the eggplant before it is used removes any bitterness. I’ve substituted cream of tomato soup for the tomato in a pinch.

Rowena Paine 8

Venison Stew Ingredients Directions

2 pounds venison, cubed Sear venison until brown on all 1 teaspoon seasoning salt sides. Add water. Add celery, carrots, potatoes, onions, and all Stews provide a simple, easy 1 cup onion, diced other ingredients except frozen 1 garlic clove, minced veggies. Cook on medium heat to make, very hearty meal. This particular recipe is from 12 potatoes, diced until vegetables are tender and meat is cooked through. Add fro- my brother, a great man who 1 teaspoon salt zen veggies and cook until hot. hunts to put food on the ta- 6 carrots, diced Remove bay leaf. Serve with ble. Mealtime in our family hard rolls. May need to add addi- 1/2 teaspoon pepper was a time to come together; tional broth. 1 package mixed vegetables, frozen and, growing up, stew was a 1 tablespoon parsley, dry very common dinner. Thick, hearty stew and a table with 1 cup celery, diced family or friends. What more 1 tablespoon beef soup base could you ask for on a cold 1/4 cup barley night? 1 package gravy mix 8 cups water 1 bay leaf

NOTE: Venison can be substituted with any red meat. Copper Mistral 9

Drucilla’s Edible Brussels Sprouts Ingredients Directions

Brussels sprouts In pan on stovetop, saute some ter into the pan and let it all simmer another 5 minutes or so. Re- Diced onion diced onion (for one serving, I use maybe half a small onion, move from pan with a slotted Garlic you may prefer more). I slice up spoon (basically you are just drain- Olive oil some garlic into the onion, cuz I ing the water) and put into a bowl. LOVE garlic. Chili seasoning, garlic and herb sea- Now this is the MOST IMPORTANT soning, or whatever Remove the darkest outer leaves PART! Lemon juice. LOTS and LOTS from each brussel sprout. Cut in- of lemon juice. Squirt it all over. Lemon juice to halves or quarters if they are You can use real lemon juince or large. Make sure you are cutting store bought--personally i keep a into that hard stem center thingy. little squeeze lemon handy at the That's the longest to cook and cutting into it will shorten the table. I dunno what it is, but the cook time. (See? You learned lemon juice does something to the NOM NOM NOM SO GOOD sumthin.) olive oil/garlic, I guess.... and NOT MUSHY!! !! Toss the Brussels sprouts into the onions and olive oil. Now the It also a HEART SMART recipe original recipe said to add some (until you go addin' bacon or chili seasoning. I didn't have any handy so I used a seasoning mix somethin') called Weber Roasted Garlic & Herb Seasoning and I LOVED it. You use whatever sounds good to you. Let this simmer for 5 minutes or so--you are just "blackening" the brussel sprouts a little, not cooking them through. Then pour wa- Drucilla Ferraris 10

I know, right? Did you know you can actually eat those things? Dis real simple recipe, kinda guess as you go...

Grandma’s Famous Sage Dressing Ingredients Directions

2 loaves white sandwich bread, Cook celery and onions in 2 sticks This is still more or less how it is toasted and cut into small squares oleo until it turns yellow. Remove prepared today, just with different tasters, and different bakers. 1 box Jiffy Corn Bread Mix, baked from heat. according to directions on box. Use Beat eggs. Add eggs and celery/ Serving suggestions: Fresh, with only 2/3 of the cornbread. onion mix to bread and mix well. turkey or chicken, with or without gravy. As leftovers, makes a great (Breads can be prepared ahead.) Salt if desired. Use broth from the turkey or chicken until fairly breakfast, lunch, or dinner, alone or 1 bunch celery, chopped moist. Add water or canned with leftover turkey or chicken. Al- 2 sticks (1/2 pound) oleo or butter broth if needed. Add plenty of so makes a great sandwich! 2 large onions, chopped ground sage. Pour into roaster and make 40 to 50 minutes at 8 to 10 eggs 400 degrees, or until slightly Chicken or turkey broth (canned or brown on top. fresh) Makes a large roaster full! Rubbed sage (half to one small can)

Why I chose this: My grandfather and the memories. Thanksgiving dinner started early in the morning with grandma cooking the turkey. A few hours before lunch, she would start mixing up the dressing. Eventually, she would call grandpa in for the taste test. Grandpa's advice was always, always, "Needs a little more sage." So she would add more sage. And more. And more. Eventually, he would announce, "That's fine." and in the oven it went. Holidays were an important time of year for my family. A lot of great memories grew out of our meals together, and I cherish these old recipes for that reason. Copper Mistral 12

Mashed Potatoes Ingredients Directions

Red potatoes This just a extra little thing, not My husband taught me that Milk really a recipe. mashed potatoes are boiled red Butter My daddy taught me that potatoes, with the skin left on, Cream cheese mashed potatoes were peeled mashed up with butter and LOTS of CREAM CHEESE, topped with grat- Grated cheddar cheese red potatoes, boiled then ed cheddar. mashed up with milk and butter.

NOM NOM NOM...HAPPY WOOTMAS EBRYBUDDY!!! Drucilla Ferraris 13

Tomato and Leek Tart Ingredients Directions

2 cups fresh whole wheat bread Mix crumbs, almonds, butter and I’m lazy and have always used store crumbs pat into 8 inch tart pan to form bought seasoned bread crumbs, ¼ ¾ cup blanched almonds, finely crust. Bake at 375* for 10 cup butter, and ¾ cup almond ground minutes. Meanwhile, cook leeks butter to make the crust instead. If ½ cup butter 5-7 min in a drizzle of olive oil, you’ve never cooked with leeks be- 2 cups sliced leeks until tender. Stir in flour and cook fore, make sure you slice them Olive oil 1 minute. Stir in crème fraiche, open and rinse them well; they 1 tablespoon flour boil to thicken for several often have dirt trapped between 1 cup crème fraiche or sour cream minutes. Spoon into crust. Lay the layers (umm, crunchy). 8 oz. peeled, sliced tomatoes tomatoes over the top, sprinkle This is a go-to recipe for holiday ½ cup grated gruyere cheese or with cheese. Bake until the potlucks: a little different and al- swiss cheese cheese is melted and bubbly. ways a winner!

My dad always brings ‘unique’ things home for mom to cook. One day it was faqa’, a truffle that appears in the Dahna desert after rain. They resemble ugly potatoes and, like leeks, have to have the sand cleaned out or else lead to a trip to the dentist. After scrubbing and rinsing and scrubbing and peeling and scrubbing and chopping and rinsing and still not getting all the sand out, my sisters and I decided that only people who had been wan- dering in the desert for 40 years would consider this to be manna from heaven. Its name appropriately sounds like something you yell at another driver on the interstate.

Rowena Paine 14

Chocolate Pumpkin Bread Ingredients Directions

3 1/2 cups flour Sift together the flour, baking so- 2 teaspoons baking soda da, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar. 1 1/2 teaspoons salt Mix together oil, water, eggs, 1 teaspoon cinnamon pumpkin and cocoa. 1 teaspoon nutmeg Combine the wet and dry mix- 3 cups sugar tures. 1 cup oil Grease and flour 2 loaf pans, half 2/3 cup water fill. 4 eggs Bake at 350* for 60 to 90 minutes. 2 cups pumpkin 6 heaping tablespoons cocoa

We iz ready to mix wif chocolate now.

Drucilla Ferraris 15

Spice Puffs Ingredients Directions

1/3 cup butter Cream shortening and sugar to- 1 cup brown sugar gether, beat in egg and vanilla. 1 egg Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with sour milk. 1 teaspoon vanilla A teaspoon of vinegar can be 2 cups flour added to regular milk to sour it. 1 teaspoon baking soda Buttermilk also works. This is a Depression-era 1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon Fill paper lined muffin tin. Bake at recipe used for several 350 degrees. ½ teaspoon ground cloves generations in my family. ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg It was my favorite kind of 1/8 teaspoon salt muffin as a child and 1 cup sour milk one of the very first things

I was taught to cook.

Rowena Paine 16

Baking muffins smell like happiness.

Zucchini Bread Ingredients Directions

3 cups grated zucchini Beat eggs, oil, vanilla, and sugar. 3 cups sugar* Mix dry ingredients together 1 cup chopped walnuts then add in wet ingredients as well as zucchini, which will have 1 ½ cups oil to be added a little at a time until 4 large eggs it's mixed in. 3 cups flour Add nuts then pour in ungreased 3 teaspoons baking powder baking pan. At this point add chocolate chips. 1 teaspoon baking soda Bake at 350° for 1 hour and 15 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon minutes. ½ teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon vanilla I don’t always eat zucchini. (*recipe can also be made with Handful of chocolate chips 1/2 the amount of sugar and still But when I do, it’s baked tastes good) with chocolate chips.

Karmagirl Avro 18

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Candy Cane Cookies Ingredients Directions

½ cup shortening Cream butter, shortening and Bake at 375 degrees for about 10 ½ cup butter or margarine, sugar; beat in egg, vanilla, and minutes. softened extract. Makes 30. 1 cup powered sugar Stir together flour, salt and baking powder then stir into 1 egg creamed mixture. 1 teaspoon vanilla Divide dough in half. Stir food 2 ½ cups flour coloring into one half. Cover and 1 teaspoon slat chill for 30 minutes. ¼ teaspoon baking soda Divide each dough into 30 balls; keep half of each dough chilled 1 teaspoon red food coloring until ready to use. 1 ½ teaspoon almond extract With hands, roll each ball to a 5 Optional ideas: 1/3 cup coconut inch rope. For each cane pinch stirred into white half of dough together one end of a red rope ½ teaspoon peppermint extract in and one end of a white rope: place of the almond extract twist ropes together. Pinch together remaining ends. Sprinkle with crushed peppermint candy instead of sugar Place on greased cookie sheet: curve to form cane. ¾ cup granulated sugar in place of the powdered sugar Sprinkle with granulated sugar. Repeat with remaining balls. Tipsy Cerulean 20

This recipe reminds me of my childhood. Every December my mother would bake them for my birthday. To this day I still get a craving for them this time of the year.

Keeba’s Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients Directions

2 1/4 cups sifted flour Combine flour, sugar, baking 1 cup sugar powder, baking soda, and salt. 2 teaspoons baking powder Cream shortening, add eggs and vanilla. 1/4 teaspoons baking soda Combine with flour mixture and 3/4 teaspoon salt add banana and chocolate chips. 2/3 Cup shortening or butter Bake on un-greased cookie sheet 2 eggs 400* 12 minutes. 1 cup mashed banana These are a soft cakey style of 1 teaspoon vanilla drop cookie. Remove from oven when you see edge turn slightly 1 package chocolate chips golden. I use a small cookie

scoop, but a teaspoon works as well. These are Keeba's FAVORITE cookies! I makes 'em for her all da time, but especially at Wootmas!

Drucilla Ferraris 22

Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies Ingredients Directions

1 cup peanut butter Mix dry ingredients together 1 cup sugar, plus additional for roll- (flour, baking soda, salt) in large ing bowl. 1 cup margarine Mix wet ingredients together (peanut butter, 1 cup sugar, mar- 1 cup light brown sugar garine, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla) 2 eggs in separate bowl. 2 teaspoons baking soda Cream wet ingredients, then add 2 teaspoons vanilla small amount of dry mix and stir and continue adding and stirring 1 teaspoon salt until dry mix is gone. 3 1/2 cups of flour Form medium sized cookie dough 2 bags of Hershey Kisses balls and then roll them in sugar. Put da rest of the Place dough balls on non-greased cookie sheet. cookies over dere. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes. I already had a dozen.

Place Hershey kisses on cookies right AFTER they are baked. Yields 6 dozen cookies.

Karmagirl Avro 23

Peppernut Cookies Ingredients Directions

3 cups brown sugar Heat sugars, oleo, eggs, syrup, 3 cups white sugar and water until oleo melts, then cool. In a large mixing bowl (at 1 cup oleo (margarine) least two gallon), combine all dry 2 eggs ingredients with the sugar/oleo 1/2 cups white (corn) syrup mixture. Mix very well. Mixture should have a sticky dough con- 1 cup water sistency. Refrigerate. Roll into 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon small ropes. Cut into 1/2 inch slic- 1 teaspoon ground clove es. Bake at 375F for about 8 1 teaspoon ginger minutes. They will be chewy while warm, and will become 2 teaspoon anise oil (may use lico- very crunchy as they cool and rice oil) harden. They start to really get 1 teaspoon baking powder good a few days after baking. 1 cup very finely chopped nuts My grandfather used to eat these (pecans, walnuts, or almonds) all winter long: sitting in his chair, 8-9 cups flour drinking coffee, and crunching away on peppernut cookies after You makes da cookies Warning: Makes A LOT. In the high dinner. You could hear the crunch NAOW. hundreds to low thousands. all the way across the house. It (Expect to fill 2 1-gallon containers) was funny to hear him crunching so loudly, but the cookies were so Best served with coffee or hot tea. good and the love in that house Copper Mistral was overflowing. 24

Ring Around the Cookie Ingredients Directions

3/4 cup soft shortening Mix together shortening, marga- 1/4 cup soft margarine rine, and confectioner sugar. 1 cup sifted confectioner sugar Mix in vanilla, flour, salt, and oats. 2 teaspoon vanilla Divide dough in half. Shape each 1 1/4 cups sifted flour half into a roll 1 1/2 inches in di- 1/2 teaspoon salt ameter. 1 cup rolled oats (quick cooking) Coat each roll with chocolate shot. Wrap in waxed paper. Chill l hour or more. Slice 1/4 inch thick. Place on UNGREASED cookie sheet. Yummy. OPTIONAL: Sprinkle more chocolate shot on tops my favorite :-) Bake 12-15 minutes in moderate oven (350 degrees)

Kayak Kuu 25

Coconut Pound Cake Ingredients Directions

For cake: Sift flour, salt, and baking pow- 3 cups sifted flour (don’t skip shift- der; this will be the second time ing) to sift the flour. 1 teaspoon baking powder Cream sugar and shortening for 10 minutes add eggs, one at a 1 cup milk time, beating after each one. 1 ½ cups shortening Add dry ingredients alternately 2 ½ cups sugar with milk and beat until smooth. 5 eggs Stir in vanilla and coconut. 1 cup coconut Bake in greased and floured An- gel Food cake pan. Place cake in a 1 teaspoon vanilla cold oven and bake at 325 de- ½ teaspoon salt grees for 1 hour and 25 minutes. When cake comes from the oven, wrap it in aluminum foil until For glaze: Please, please, let there cool. 1 stick of margarine be pound cake! 1 cup sugar There is a glaze for this but we 2 tablespoons Karo syrup never used it. Combine the ingre- ½ cup buttermilk dients and cook over low heat, spoon warm over cake. 1 teaspoon vanilla

This was my grandmother's recipe, we had it for special times and holidays, love it! Ertina Loopen 26

Drucilla’s Bizarre Pudding Cake Ingredients Directions

Batter: Mix and pour into cake pan 3/4 3/4 cup sugar cup sugar, flour, milk, butter, salt, baking powder, 2 tablespoons co- 1 cup flour coa, vanilla. 1/2 cup milk Top batter with 1/2 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons melted butter brown sugar, 1/4 cup cocoa. 1/4 teaspoons salt Pour water over the entire thing, 2 tablespoons baking powder (dis da part where you gotta trust me). 2 tablespoons cocoa Bake at 350* for 45 minutes. 1 teaspoon vanilla A soft brownie type of cake with

a rich gooey "pudding" on the Topping: bottom. My friends loved this Waiting for cake to cool: 1/2 cup sugar warm, topped with ice cream, I know this recipe sounds 1/2 cup brown sugar used the runny warm pudding to top ice cream. Let the cake cool weird, trust me on this, 1/4 cup cocoa and the pudding gels into a pud- just follow directions. ding. Either way, this is an OSSM 1 1/2 cups water. cake!

Warning--the pudding is like LAVA

right from the oven. Give it a few minutes or you be really sorry! Drucilla Ferraris 27

Gypsy Tart Ingredients Directions

400 grams (14 oz.) tin evaporated 1. Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees milk C, 400 degrees F, or Gas 6. 340 grams (12 oz) dark mucovado 2. Whisk evaporated milk and sugar sugar together for approximately 10 inch pre-baked shortcrust pastry 10 minutes. Until light and fluffy case and coffee coloured. Pour the

mixture into the pastry case. 3. Bake for 10 minutes. 4. The surface will appear slightly sticky but will set completely when left to cool.

This is best served cold.

Traditional recipe from the county of Kent, England. Was a great favourite for school dinners.

Boots Shamrock 28

Hostess Cupcakes Ingredients Directions

FOR THE CUPCAKES Sift together the flour, baking so- 1 1/4 cups unbleached, all-purpose da, baking powder and salt in a flour bowl. Place sugar and water in a 2 teaspoon baking soda saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring 2 teaspoon baking powder until the sugar dissolves, about 3 1/4 teaspoon salt minutes. Pour into a large bowl. 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar Add the chocolate and butter and 1 cup water let sit, stirring occasionally, until 4 oz unsweetened chocolate, the chocolate is melted and the chopped mixture has cooled slightly. Stir in 1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted the vanilla. Add eggs, beating un- butter, cut into pieces til well combined, then gently 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract mix in the dry ingredients until 2 large eggs, lightly beaten the batter is smooth. Divide evenly between the prepared Muffin tins -(18 20 muffins) sprayed pans, filling each muffin about with non-stick baking spray (or line 1/2 way. Bake until a toothpick with paper liners). inserted in the center comes out clean, about 18-20 minutes. The cupcakes will sink in the middle Where’s the cream filling? slightly. Cool in the pans for 25 minutes, then transfer to a rack and cool completely.

Hostess Cupcakes, cont. Ingredients Directions

FOR THE FILLING MAKE THE FILLING: While cup- 4 tablespoon unsalted butter, at cakes are cooling, make the fill- room temperature ing. Using a mixer, cream the 1 cup powdered sugar butter until light and fluffy. Beat 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract in 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar. 3 tablespoon heavy cream Add the vanilla and 1 Tbsp. heavy 1 cup marshmallow creme cream and beat until smooth. Al- ternating between batches, beat in the remaining 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar and 2 Tbsp. heavy cream. Beat in the marshmallow creme. Refrigerate until ready to use.

FILL THE CUPCAKES: Put the cream filling into a pastry bag fitted with a medium star tip. In- sert the tip into the center of each cupcake top; fill until the Vanilla marshmallow cream! cupcake is heavier (do not over- fill). It's OK if some of the filling peeks out, it will be covered by the ganache.

Hostess Cupcakes, cont. Ingredients Directions

FOR THE GANACHE MAKE THE GANACHE: Place the 6 oz bittersweet chocolate, chocolate in a stainless-steel chopped bowl. Heat the cream and butter 1/2 cup heavy cream in a saucepan until just boiling, 1 tablespoon unsalted butter then pour over the chocolate. Let 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract stand for 5 minutes. Whisk until smooth. Add vanilla; let stand un- FOR ICING til cool but still glossy and liquid. 4 tablespoon butter, softened 1 tablespoon milk FROST THE CUPCAKES: When the 1 cup powdered sugar ganache has cooled enough to 1/4 teaspoon vanilla work with, spoon a tablespoon of ganache onto each cupcake and lightly spread with an offset spat- ula or a knife. Chill at least 15 minutes.

PREPARE THE ICING: Beat the butter, vanilla, milk and sugar un- Now that’s the stuff! til smooth, adding more milk if needed. Spoon into a pastry bag with a small tip. Pipe the trade- mark curly Q's onto the cupcakes to decorate. In memoriam 31

Kentish Cobnut Cake Ingredients Directions

225 grams self-raising flour 1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F/ concluded that this was how it 1 rounded teaspoon of ginger Gas 4. Grease a baking tin of ap- was supposed to be. 110 grams butter (at room temper- prox. 9" by 4". I used a loaf tin 7. If using a shallow cake tin, cut ature) instead as my shallow (square) the cake into squares. 110 grams brown sugar tin was too large. 50 grams Kentish cobnuts, roasted 2. Sift flour into a bowl with the and chopped* ginger. Rub in the butter until the 1 large egg, beaten mixture resembles breadcrumbs. 3. Add the sugar and the nut and mix well. *Cobnuts are a type of hazelnut 4. Stir in the beaten egg. The mix- with a coconutty flavor. ture will remain fairly dry and crumbly. 5. Put the mixture into the prepared tin and pat down gently with a fork. This is a traditional recipe 6. Bake for 20 - 30 minutes. I took mine out after 20, but after from the county of cutting a slice I put it back in the Kent, England oven for another 15 minutes. This was because the centre of the cake was very moist looking; however, after further cooking it still looked exactly the same so I Boots Shamrock 32

Rich Lady Cheese Cake Ingredients Directions

8 oz cream cheese 1. Mix first two ingredient togeth- 1 cup sugar er very well until no lumps. 8 oz sour cream 2. Mix in third ingredient together very well until no lumps. 8 oz whip cream 3. Mix in fourth ingredient to- 9 oz graham cracker crust gether very well until no lumps. 1/3 cup of frappuccino or 1/2 can 4. Put mixture into graham crack- of Starbuck's energy coffee er crust. (Optional) 5. Refrigerate till ready to eat. If you are a coffee-holic, don't use Frappacino, it only gives it a mild Tips: coffee flavor that coffee-holics 1. Best if eaten slightly frozen. can't taste. Starbucks extra strong 2. Recipe makes 1 large or medi- energy drink mixed into batter um pie, and six tiny pies. gives it an extra coffee kick. 3. I usually like to make it one

day ahead and put it in freezer All my friends love dis! over night and on the day we eat Why you chose it: All my friends love it. it, I take it out an hour ahead of Photo: in attachment if a photo of me in sl. time to let it defrost in the refrig- erator.

Kitty Huang 33

Ruth’s Pudding Cake Ingredients Directions

1 package of Jello Pudding Mix (not Cook pudding mix according to instant) directions. milk While hot, stir in cake mix and 1 package Pillsbury Plus Devils margarine. Food Cake mix Pour into a greased 9 x 13 cake 2 tablespoons margarine (or pan. butter) Top with chocolate chips and 1 cup chocolate chips nuts. 1 cup chopped walnuts (or pecans Bake 350* 30 - 45 minutes or whatever nut you prefer) My husband's favorite, because Ruth was his mother and made him this cake every year on his birthday.

Happy Birfday!

Drucilla Ferraris 34

Spotted Dick Ingredients Directions

50 grams butter 1. Soften half the butter and use basket set over boiling water. Cover 350 grams plain flour to grease a 1.4 litre pudding ba- and steam for about 1 - 1 1/2 hours 3 teaspoons baking powder sin. until cooked. Check the water level 140 grams shredded suet 85 grams caster sugar now and again to make sure it 115 grams currants 2. Combine the flour, baking doesn't burn dry. finely grated zest and juice of powder, suet, sugar and currants 2 lemons in a large bowl, mixing well. 75 ml milk 75 ml whipping cream 3. Melt the remaining butter and

stir into the flour mixture. Stir in Serve with custard or, if you're feel- the lemon juice and zest. ing wicked, a big dollop of clotted cream. 4. Combine the milk and cream in a small jug. Slowly stir enough into the mixture to bring it to a dropping consistency.

5. Pour the mixture into the pudding basin. Cover with a double layer of greaseproof paper (make Traditional recipe of a pleat in the middle to allow for the U.K. expansion), tied in place with string. 6. Place the basin in a steamer Boots Shamrock 35

Burphel’s Mocha Ingredients Directions

1-2 paper/styrofoam disposable 1) Fill the first cup a little over let it go too long and make a mess coffee cups halfway with bad coffee (eyeball in the microwave. You want it melt- 1 plastic spoon (a fork or knife will it and figure out how much room ed, but you don't want to have to work, swizzle sticks are a waste of your ice cream will take). If it is clean the microwave! time) cold leftover stuff from day shift 3) While the ice cream is melting, or you like scalding yourself, nuke 1 thingy of vanilla ice cream (or a stir a packet of hot cocoa into your it for 30-45 seconds. Err on the scoop from a bigger container) bad coffee. side of this being hot so your 4) Pour the melted ice cream on 1 hot chocolate package chocolate dissolves better. top of the coffee/chocolate, and Bad coffee 2) Nuke ice cream about 30-45 give it a little stir. There should be a A microwave seconds. Watch the ice cream as little foamy action on the top, if you it nukes, it can foam over if you stir too much you'll lose this.

Here's a quick and easy one, but it has the benefit of producing something almost as good as an espresso shop mocha with supplies probably available in your breakroom at work! We all know the trick about mixing hot chocolate mix in coffee, right? But we also know that it comes out pretty harsh and usually a tad bitter, especially if it was industrial-grade workplace coffee to begin with. And really, who does this to good coffee anyway? So, I made a discovery one night at work. Melt and add one of those little styrofoam cups of vanilla ice cream (I work at a hospital, we have these — you may need to stick a carton of cheap vanilla ice cream in your staff freezer). Great stuff for picking yourself or a co-worker up, especially if you wind up working through lunch and need caffeine AND calories (this ain't a skinny mocha, it weighs in at about 275 Calories). Burphel Recreant 36

Dad’s Potato Candy Ingredients Directions

1 small potato (unless you want Peel & boil potato, drain well, and spread on top. Stick in fridge, enough to feed the whole world, mash in large bowl. You can get after a couple hours cut into pieces. then make it a big potato & buy all more candy with less potato by It will last almost forever in the the confectioner’s sugar in the starting the next part while the fridge. If you’ve got kids another store) potato is very hot. In which case way is to roll small amounts of can- 2 pounds confectioner’s sugar (the buy more sugar and chocolate. dy into a ball and dip ½ in the melt- ‘powdered sugar’) more or less Start adding sugar (about ½ ed chocolate. 1 teaspoon vanilla pound first time, it will melt). Stir with fork. Add vanilla while still 2 squares Baker’s chocolate (semi soupy, stir in. If you wish, you can sweet) more or less color the candy this is when to add the color. Remember, it will This is a confection; all confections lighten as more sugar added. have a starch base, in this case, po- Keep adding sugar, working it in tato. It doesn’t taste like potato. It with the fork. Until…. has been made in many countries You can’t stir in more. Then with (Iceland & Ireland I’ve heard) & in very clean hands work more sug- many different receipts (old word ar in until extremely stiff. This for recipes). In the South US it in- part is good for kids to do, we cludes peanut butter filling). This is loved it. my family’s receipt. Now you can take the ball of candy and flatten on a plate, to your desired thickness. Melt chocolate Wolfling Winterwolf 37

Spiced Nuts Ingredients Directions

1 cup sugar Mix all but the nuts in a large 1 teaspoon salt pan. Boil until the syrup forms a soft ball in cold water. Add nuts, 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg remove from heat, and stir until 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves sugary. Pour onto oiled paper or 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon buttered pan. Spread and cool. Break apart when cooled. 1/4 cup water I have very fond memories of my 1/2 pound nut meats (walnuts or grandfather when I was little. pecans) Around Thanksgiving, grandma would start making candies. Pea- These are a wonderful, addictive nut brittle and spiced nuts were treat. Be careful when eating, as plentiful. While my young palette over-doing it can make your tongue could only manage a few spiced sore. But they're oh so good! nuts, my grandfather would eat these, one at a time, until his

tongue was sore and his mouth Just one more nut! was blistered. And then he'd have some more. "Grandpa, why do you eat them if they make your mouth hurt?" we would ask. He would always answer, “They're so good!" Copper Mistral 38

Credits

The Raglan Shire Winterfest Cookbook is a collaborative project by the Raglan Shire Community of Second Life, collected and edited by Rowena Paine. Individual contributors retain joint rights to the use of their own recipes and personal photos. Other photos are public domain images. The Raglan Shire Winterfest Cookbook is © 2012 by Row- ena Paine. Inquiries may be directed to [email protected].

Rowena Paine, editor