Thursday, March 18, 2010

Chocolate Sheet Cake

1 cube butter
 4 Tbsp cocoa
 1 cup water

 Bring to a boil.


 Add 2 cups flour and 2 cups sugar, sifted together. 
 Add 1 cup milk
 1 Tbsp vinegar
 1 tsp soda
 2 eggs
 1/2 tsp cinnamon

 Bake at 350 for 20-25 mins. 


 Frosting

 1 cube butter
 6 Tbsp milk
 3 Tbsp cocoa

 Bring to a boil.

Add 2 cups powdered sugar
 1 tsp vanilla
 1/2 cup chopped nuts

 Make about 5 minutes before cake is done and add to the cake while still hot. 

Crazy Cake (Jean)

3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
3 cups oil
1/2 cup cold water
1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
2 tsp vanila
2 Tbsp vinegar

 Mix all dry ingredients add remaining and blend well.  Flour cake pan and pour in.  Bake at 350 for 40 mins.

Mandarin Orange Cake

4 eggs
1 cake mix
3/4 cup oil
1 can mandarin oranges with juice

Mix and bake as directed on cake mix

Frosting

1 8 oz carton of cool whip
1 pkg vanilla pudding mix
1 small can pineapple (crushed)

Sourdough French Bread

1 cup HOT water
1 Pkg (1 Tbsp) dry yeast dissolved in 2 Tbsp warm water
3 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp margarine
1 1/2 cup Sourdough starter
5 cups flour
1 Tbsp salt

Pour hot water over sugar and butter.  Cool to warm, add yeast mixture, starter, salt and 2 cups flour.  Beat till smooth.  Add rest of flour to make moderately firm dough.  Knead until smooth.  Cover, rise until double in size, punch down and let raise 30 mins more.  Turn on to lightly floured board and let rest 10 mins.  Grease cookie sheet and dust with cornbread.  Form dough into one, two or four loaves, or as desired into rolls or bread sticks.  Place on cookie sheet.  Slash loaves several places.  Brush with mixture of 1 egg and 1 Tbsp water now and throughout baking. (add generous sprinkling of sesame seeds after last brushing)  Cover and let raise 30 mins to 35 mins for two loaves, 20-25 mis for four loaves, 15 to 20 mins for rolls.  Bread sticks don't brush with egg mixture brush with melted butter and sprinkle with onion or garlic salt as soon as removed from oven.  Bake at 400 10-15 mins

Sourdough biscuits

1 cup sifted flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup shortening
1 cup starter
1/4 tsp soda

Mix dry ingredients together.  Put in shortening.  Add starter and blend well.  Knead lightly for rolled biscuits or drop in muffin tins.  Roll 1/2 in thick.  Put in pans and raise, covered, about an hour.  Bake at 425 for about 20 mins

Sourdough Starter

2 cups flour
2 cups warm water
1/4 cup powdered skim milk
1 Tbsp yeast

Combine and let set in warm place 2-3 days.  (covered)  Stir 3 times a day.  To keep, place in fridge in anything but metal container.  To keep starter alive use at least once a week.  If not add 1 tsp sugar to starter.    (Put 2 cups of starter in fridge and use the rest to make something.)

Sourdough English Muffins

1 Cup Sourdough Starter
4 Cups flour
2 Cups milk

Combine Sourdough starter, flour and milk.  Mix well and allow to sit.  Loosely covered, overnight or at least 8 hrs at room temp. 

2 Tbsp Sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup flour

Add to sourdough mixture; sugar, salt, soda and enough flour to make moderately stiff dough.  Mix or knead till smooth.  Roll or press dough to 3/4 inch thickness.  Cut circles out with tuna fish can.  Place on cookie sheet, sprinkle with cornmeal.  Let rest 45 mins.  Fry on lightly greased griddle about 10 mins on each side at about 275 degrees.  Split and toast before serving.  Makes 20-24 muffins