Cream Cheese Frosting...YUMMY!

This frosting is great for cake, cupcakes, sugar cookies and any other frosting-related situation you can imagine:)

3 oz cream cheese
6 Tbl softened butter
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
milk (if needed to thin the frosting)

Blend the cream cheese and butter with a mixer.  Add the powdered sugar and vanilla.  Add milk if it's too thick.  Can be spread or piped on.   

This recipe easily frosts a dozen sugar cookies.  

Kylee's Buttermilk Pancakes

4 Cups Flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 C. Sugar

Blend

Melt 1 stick butter (1/2 cup), cool till warm
beat 4 eggs, add one cup buttermilk, combine
Add egg mixture, plus 3 additional cups buttermilk to dry mixture

Beat with wooden spoon. Add melted butter

Batter will be lumpy and thick. cook on 350degree griddle

J Dawg Speical Sauce

• Polish hot dogs
• Soft hot dog buns

Nuke hot dogs in microwave for 1-1/2 minutes. Cut a few slits on the top of the hot dogs. Then finish cooking them in a pan on the stove until they are browned on all sides.

Special Sauce:

• 3/4 cup Ketchup
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 tsp. cider vinegar
• 1 tsp. soy sauce
• 1/2 tsp. onion powder

Bring all ingredients to a boil in a small saucepan. Turn off heat and pour over hot dogs when ready to eat. 

Alternative if you have more ingredients:

For the sauce:
• 3/4 cup ketchup
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon BBQ sauce (I used Sweet Baby Rays)
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 teaspoon cider vinegar
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
• dash black pepper
To assemble:
• large all-beef or Polish hot dogs (Costco has the best!)
• large buns (The ones at Costco fit perfectly)
• butter
• white onions
• sauerkraut
• pickles
• banana peppers

Bottled Beets

BOTTLED BEETS

Janet Hadley             2006 – 1 box 25 lbs. for $16 =   pints

Makes 8 pints

BEETS:

·      Leave about ½ “of stem when you are cutting the tops off.

·      Wash dirt off and leave the peel on

·      Put on stove to cook with peel and stem

·      Put a tiny bit of butter in the water to keep mess to a minimum

·      Needs to cook for about 1 hour – until fork inserted into beat goes into it smoothly

·      Keep the beet water and remove the beats and let cool

SYRUP:

·      1 ½ Cup beat water (don’t throw away remaining water)

·      2 Cups white vinegar

·      2 ½ Cups white sugar

·      1 ½ Cup Brown sugar

·      Put on stove on low heat to melt together

BEATS:

·      Skin the cooled beats now

·      Cut up into pieces and put into pint bottles (heat the seals and lids before putting on bottles)

·      Add ½ tsp. salt into each pint

·      Divide syrup up into the 8 pint bottles

·      If there is still room in bottle add beet water

Put bottles into cold packer – bring water to boil – cook for 20 minutes – (shouldn’t be a roaring boil)

Take out and cool

Frozen Corn

FROZEN CORN

Kaye Moyes/Janet Hadley

·     Husk and wash corn – getting as much silk out as possible

·     Using electric knife – cut corn off the cob

8 Cups of Corn

½ Cube of butter – 4 Tbs.

2 Tbs. sugar

1 ½ tsp. salt

Little bit of water - aprox. 1/3 cup – You want to see it around the corn when it is boiling

·     Cook to boil and boil on low for 5 minutes

·     Cool and put a 1½ Cups into sandwich bags

·     Freeze

2006 I bought (August) 8 dozen ears – It made 30 bags.

2009 = 6 dozen = 19 bags

Green Beans- Canned or bottled

GREEN BEANS

BOTTLING

Janet Hadley       2006 – 1 box - aprox. 25 lbs. for $40 = 37 pints

Around July is best time for beans
2018- 1 box (we thought 25 lbs, but must have been more) $50 = 51 pints!

1 big box of green beans = 37 pint bottles (should try and get tender green or slenderette)

Snip ends and break into 1” pieces

Wash in luke warm water – several times

Put into bottles – pounding down so you fill them completely

½ tsp. salt – Morton salt - iodized or not, doesn’t matter

*While you are filling jars with beans, start your water boiling in your pressure cooker – (3 quarts of water in pressure cooker)

*Heat seal tops and rings also

Fill pint jar with water up to top leaving about 1/8 inch from top

Move jar around to get beans to settle in.

Screw tops on tight and place in pressure cooker – 10 on bottom and 10 on the top of those bottles

*My pressure cooker is 23 quarts. It will fit 20 pint bottles in it.

Bring pressure to 13 lbs. for 20 mins. – 3 quarts of water

After cool down – remove bottles from cooker and let cool.  You will hear the seals popping.

Flank Steak Marinade

Becca Hoffhein's Flank Steak Marinade

1/3 c soy sauce

1/3 c vegetable oil

1/3 c ground ginger

1 T brown sugar

2 T rice vinegar

1 T minced garlic

1 tsp pepper

Combine all ingredients and pour over 1-2 flank steaks overnight. Grill on bbq.