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Kitchen to Kitchen Recipe Swap
Watkins Five Spice Gingerbread
Lemon Sauce
Hawaiin Wedding Cake
Microwave Sponge Candy
Plantains
Tostones
Scotch ShortBread
Scalloped Potatoes
Cheesecake Brownies
Ginseng info

Betsy, NY (07:45:02 am) :
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 08:33:10 CDT
From: Elizabeth Stevens CCCAMPER@MIZZOU1.BITNET
Subject: Watkins:5 Spice Gingerbread
(This is a cake type gingerbread, not the cookie kind that makes
little houses)
After a couple years of my longing, my husband unwittingly found a
cobweb covered basket that contained the clipping from a Watkins
brochure with the Five Spice Gingerbread recipe. :) I made it
yesterday, the first thing my new KitchenAid ever produced. My husband
is a cookie not cake fan(atic). But he loved this extremely
flavorful stuff! It would be good with cinnamon ice cream and some
cooked, spiced apples on top, too.
Watkins Five Spice Gingerbread
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp Ginger
3/4 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Allspice
1/2 tsp Nutmeg
1/2 tsp Cloves
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 cup molasses
2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 cup hot water
Combine first 8 ingredients and mix well. Gradually blend in sugar.
Beat in egg. Add molasses alternately with flour. Add hot water, a
little at a time, beating after each addition. Turn into a well-
greased, lightly floured 9"x9"x2" pan. Bake in preheated moderate
oven (350 degrees F) 55 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted
in the center comes out clean. Serve warm or cold, topped with
whipped cream and lemon sauce, or fruit and whipped cream, or serve
plain.
Lemon Sauce (from America Cooks )
3/4 cups sugar
2 tbsp cornstarch
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 cups water
1 tsp lemon zest
3 tbsp lemon juice
In saucepan combine sugar, cornstarch, and salt. Gradually stir in water.
Stir in egg. Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until thickened,
but do not boil.
Remove from heat and stir in lemon zest and juice. Serve warm over
Five Spice Gingerbread.
(ps if a bit of egg cooks independently, just pour through a strainer
for a clear sauce).
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Betsy, NY (10:09:05 am) : Charlie - your e-mail address you gave me last
night didn't work - here's the recipe again:
Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
From: rubyd@wam.umd.edu (teresa marie Cannon)
I found this recipe in an old church cookbook of mine. I have never tried
it, but all the recipes out of this book that I have tried have been
excellent...
HAWAIIN WEDDING CAKE
1 box yellow cake mix
8 oz. cream cheese
1 lg. pkg. instant vanilla pudding
2 c. milk
1 lg. can crushed pineapple (drained)
2 envelopes Dream Whip
1 can Angel Flake Coconut
Mix cake mix according to directions on the box. Bake in 12x18x3
inch or 11x15x3 inch pan for 15 to 20 minutes (or as shown on the package
for that size cake). Let cool.
Mix until creamy: 8 oz. cream cheese, pudding, and milk. spread
this on top of the cooled cake.
On top of this, spread 1 large can crushed pineaplle, drained well.
Whip 2 envelopes of Dream Whip according to package directions
and Spread this on top of the pineapple.
Spread 1 can Angel Flake coconut on top of Dream Whip. You can also add
chopped maraschino cherries or nuts.
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Teresa, KS (10:46:31 am) : Microwave Sponge Candy
1 cup sugar
1 cup dark corn syrup
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tabalespoon soda
Combine sugar, syrup and vinegar in 2-quart mixing bowl or casserole. Cover
and microwave at HIGH 3 minutes; stir well. Microwave uncovered on high 4
1/2 to 10 minutes, until thickend (300F). Test by dropping small amount in
cold water. Remove threads from water. If threads bend, microwave a little
longer. Candy is done if threads are very brittle. Quickly stir in soda; mix
well. Mixture will foam up as soda is stirred in. Pour into buttered
foil-lined 8 x 8 or 9 x 9-inch dish, allowing mixture to spread itself. Let
stand until firm. Remove from dish and bareak into pieces.
Makes about 1 pound.
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Grace, FL (4:26:39 pm) : you buy green plantains and
let them ripe to the point where they are totally
black and about to be rotten. Then you peel the
skin, cut the plantain in half and then slice through
getting three slices and fry them in very very hot
oil. turn them around when they are brown but not
burned, and they taste good.
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Grace, FL (4:30:49 pm) : the tostones, the same
plantain, peel the skin, cut in coins 1 inch thick,
fry them in hot oil medium fire, the oil must cover
them to cook through, then take them out of the oil,
use a plastic lid and push it down until it gets a
little flat, and then you fry it again for 15 seconds,
and they are ready to eat.
the plantain has to be green for this one though
tostones is the name for the green fried plantain,
and fritos is the one that tastes sweet.
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Rli (4:56:39 pm) : Scotch ShortBread - Beat 1 lb butter to a cream. Mix
together and gradually sift in 2 lbs flour, 1/4 lb cornstarch. Then add 1/4
lb granulated sugar, 1 ounce almonds, blanched and ut in small pieces. Work
the paste qute smooth.
Cut small pieces off and roll in 3" squares about 1" thick. Pinch up the
edges and prick well with a fork. Ornament with a strip of orange peel. Bake
in moderate oven 25 or 30 minute
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Judy/AZ (6:43:45 pm) : Scalloped Potatoes
2 cups of heavy cream
1 package of herb & garlic Boursin cheese
3 lbs of red spuds, sliced very thin and not
peeled
salt & pepper
Heat oven to 400 F. Put cream and cheese in
saucepan over med low flame until cheese
melts. Layer 1/2 of sliced spuds in 9" x 13"
dish, putting salt and pepper on ea. layer.
Pour 1/2 of cream over. Repeat. Bake for
one hour.
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John, UK (7:05:55 pm) : Cheesecake Brownies
(Mesurements are in US terms.)
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup veg. oil
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 eggs, sorted
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup flour
3/4 cup + 2 tsp. sugar
1/2 cup usweetened coca powder
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup semisweet chips
nuts 1/4 cup (optional)
4 ounces neufchatel cheese, softened
preheat oven to 350 F (gasmark 3) Spray
square pan with cooking spray.
2. Mix milk, oil, applesauce, 1 egg and vanilla.
3. In another bowl combine flour, 3/4 of sugar, cocoa, and baking powder.
Stir in chocolate morsels and nuts.
Add, milk set aside 1 cup of batter. Pour the rest into pan.
4. In a small bowl combine cheese, and remaining egg, and sugar. Drop over
the top of batter in pan. Spread with a knife.
5. Bake until toothpick comes out clean about 25-30 minutes.
This is not for anyone concerned about calories! Yummmy!!! Enjoy. Found this
while looking for good advice on other stuff. :)
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Judy/AZ (7:46:42 pm) : ginseng
ginseng [JIHN-sing] The Chinese name for this sweet licorice-flavored root
is "human-shaped root" and indeed some have extraordinarily human shapes.
This rather amazing plant has been credited for centuries with being
everything from an aphrodisiac to a restorative. Recent scientific
discoveries
have linked ginseng to the treatment of high blood pressure. It's referred
to
as white ginseng when simply sun-dried. When steamed and dried over a
fire or with other heat, it takes on a reddish tinge and is called red
ginseng. Ginseng is used in soups, for tea and as a medicinal. It's
available
in Asian markets and some health-food stores.
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