20 February 2021

 Blood Orange Cheesecake (Cheesecake Bible, George Geary)

Crust:

1 1/4c butter cookie crumbs [31 gingersnaps, 213g, 1 2/3c]

3T butter, melted

Bake 10 minutes at 350°F.

Filling:

1 1/2# cream cheese

1 1/2c small-curd cottage cheese, drained [340g]

1/2c sour cream [120g]

1 1/2c sugar [300g]

4 eggs

1/4c flour

1T blood orange zest [cara cara]

1/3c blood orange juice [cara cara]

1tsp fresh nutmeg

1tsp vanilla

350°F 45-55 minutes. Add topping & bake 5 minutes more

Topping:

1/2c sour cream

1/4c sugar

1T blood orange zest

2T blood orange juice [cara cara]

1/2tsp vanilla

Gingerbread cookie crust didn't really work for me, but my parents loved it. Topping was too liquid--skip the juice next time.

24 January 2021

 Ice Cream Pretzel Cake (inspired by Taste of Home)

1 1/4c crushed pretzels [150g]

6T cold butter

Combine & press into pan(s). [(8)-3"] Bake 8 minutes at 350°F, cool, and freeze.

Whizz 8.5oz package chocolate covered pretzels (set aside 8 for garnish) & mix into [coffee] ice cream. Spread about a tablespoon fudge topping [Sue's] on each crust & freeze. Top with freshly churned ice cream and freeze. Garnish with reserved pretzels and caramel sauce.

17 January 2021

 Refrigerator Bran Muffins (KMOT 1972, halved)

Pour 1c boiling water over 1c All Bran. Cream 1/2c Crisco [butter] with 1 1/2c sugar [100g]. Add 2 eggs, 1 pint buttermilk, 2c All Bran, 2 1/2c flour [350g], 2 1/2T* soda [2 1/2 tsp], and 1/2 tsp salt. Add water/bran mixture. 350°F 20-30 minutes. Keeps in fridge about 3 weeks.

*this has got to be a misprint.

I don't notice any difference between this one where only part of the cereal is soaked and the one we got from Dan's mother where all of the cereal is soaked. I thought there might be nubbly bits, but there weren't.

10 January 2021

 Hopetown Delight (The Great British Book of Baking)

200g butter

100g sugar

260g flour

40g ground rice

Doubled, 300°F fan, 20 minutes, 12 hole muffin tin.

110g cream

20g Scottish oats [Bob's Red Mill]

15g vanilla sugar

1T Jim Beam Rye

Halved, too much strong whiskey. Otherwise quite good.

29 December 2020

 Special K Bars (handwritten in Gma Elaine's REC cookbook)

1c sugar [200g]

1c white sirup [340g]

1 1/4c peanut butter [330g Jif Natural Creamy]

6c Special K [170g corn flakes]

6oz melted chocolate chips on top [definitely needs more chocolate on top!]

9x13 makes thin-ish bars, which I think I might like better.

28 December 2020

 Make Ahead Meatballs (Quick Cooking)

3 eggs

1 1/2c breadcrumbs [170g]

1/2c finely chopped onion

2T salt

1T Worcestershire

1 1/2# ground venison

1 1/2# ground pork

213 MA meatballs for the freezer.

27 December 2020

 Meatballs (Alex Guarnaschelli)

1.5# ground venison

1.5# ground pork

1 1/2c bread crumbs [170g]

2T kosher salt

4oz Parmesan [90g]

1 1/2c chopped flat-leaf parsley [15g =1/2c - 3/4c?]

3 eggs

9 cloves garlic [1/2 head]

190 total AG meatballs for the freezer.