Christmas Horns

Bohemian Horns
5 cups flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 pound butter
1 cake yeast
3 egg yolks beaten

Filling
3 egg whites, whipped
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 pound ground nuts (walnuts)

Combine flour sugar and salt. Cut in yeast and butter as for pie dough. Add milk and egg yolks. Refrigerate for a few hours and then divide dough into 8 balls. Roll out the dough thin and cut into triangle. It's easy to make eight  from each ball of dough.

Put a nice amount of filling on the wide end of the triangle and roll up. Bake at 375 for 25 minutes.

Notes: I used dry yeast and proofed it in 1/4 cup water. I cut in the butter with the sugar and salt. I added the yeast and eggs and milk together.  When I rolled out the dough I used a ruler as a guide for the size of the circle. I made a 13 1/2 inch circle almost intuitively each time. That made for a decent crescent. For the filling I used about 1 teaspoon per crescent.  This recipe makes 64 pastries.

Thanksgiving Table 2015

Carl Sandburg's Chicago

Pineapple Layer Cake

Ingredients:
1/2 cup shortening
2 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
1/2 t. salt
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1 t. vanilla
1 1/3 cups sugar
2 1/2 t. baking powder
3 egg whites, whipped
1/2 cup water
Cream the shortening with the sugar. Add the mixed dry ingredients alternately with the liquid. Fold in the beaten egg whites. Bake in two 8" pans at 325 for 35-40 minutes. Cool on rack

Pineapple Filling:
1/2 cup pineapple juice
34/ cup sugar
3 T. cornstarch
1 T. butter
3/4 cup crushed pineapple
1/4 t. salt
1 T. lemon juice
Cook all ingredients except the lemon juice and butter in a double boiler, for about 15 minutes. Add lemon juice and butter last. Beat well. Cool before spreading between cake layers.

 Ice top and sides with 7 Minute Icing or White Mountain Frosting:

White Mountain Frosting:
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup light corn syrup
2 T. water
2 egg whites
1 t. vanilla
Mix sugar, corn syrup and water in saucepan. Cover and heat to rolling boil over medium heat. Unvocer and boil rapidly to 242 F. on candy thermometer or until small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water forms a firm ball that holds its shape until pressed.
While mix boils, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Pour hot syrup very slowly in a thin stream into egg whites, beating constantly on medium speed. Add vanilla; beat on high speed until stiff peaks form.

Notes: This recipe is from The State Fair Blue Ribbon Cookbook prize winning recipes by Opal M. Hayes 1976.
When I made this cake I halved the ingredients of the cake. I then split the one 8" cake into two. I filled it with almost the whole recipe of filling. Then I frosted it with the White Mountain Icing because I do not have a hand held mixer which is what you need for the 7 Minute Icing recipe in Opal's book. I used Betty C rocker's Old Fashioned Cookbook, 1990, for the White Mountain Frosting. I was happy to find that recipe that called for lesser amounts of sugar and resulted in just the right amount of icing for the half a cake recipe. This is the cake I made for Randy.

Happy Birthday Dear Husband

Randy at 66!

Love, Love, Love.....

Teacher, what must I do . . .?"

2052 "Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?" To the young man who asked this question, Jesus answers first by invoking the necessity to recognize God as the "One there is who is good," as the supreme Good and the source of all good. Then Jesus tells him: "If you would enter life, keep the commandments." And he cites for his questioner the precepts that concern love of neighbor: "You shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother." Finally Jesus sums up these commandments positively: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."¹

^{I have my work cut out for me!}

Welcome Little Time Travelers, Liam Gamache and Cora Joan Foege

The Greatest Commandment

To live well is nothing other than to love God with all one's heart, with all one's soul and with all one's efforts; from this it comes about that love is kept whole and uncorrupted (through temperance). No misfortune can disturb it (and this is fortitude). It obeys only [God] (and this is justice), and is careful in discerning things, so as not to be surprised by deceit or trickery (and this is prudence).⁷⁵

Mom with Oliver and Cain

                   

                        Elizabeth Bidlo, the best mom I could ever have. Love you forever, forever you'll be.

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.  It seems to me most strange that we men should fear death, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

(William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar) 

St Teresa's Words of Wisdom

My little sugar Cain

Happy birthday Clara Anne!

Welcome to the family clara anne!
Congratulations Aaron and Stephanie!

Happy Birthday Cain !

Welcome to the great big world! 

Oh the things you will do!