Ingredients

1 cup( 2 sticks)of butter, softened. I leave mine out over night so its a room temperature

1 cup packed brown sugar

3/4 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 /2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon of cinnamon

2 cups of all purpose flour

3 cups of oatmeal

• optional: you can add a cup of raisins, nuts or chocolate chips or coconut for variety.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F . Using a mixer cream together butter ,sugars,eggs, and vanilla on low speed until smooth. Stir in Flour , Cinnamon, baking soda,baking powder and salt until blended. Add oatmeal an then add any of the optional items last. drop rounded tablespoons onto an ungreased baking sheet, bake for 8-10 minutes . (My oven I need to bake them 10 minutes). Makes about 4 dozen cookies

Ingredients

Instructions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. beat the eggs and milk until they are well blended. Add flour and salt, stirring the batter until it is slightly lumpy.

Set 10″ pie plate in the oven to melt the butter. When the butter is very hot, pour in the batter and bake for about twenty minutes or until the pancake is brown and puffed. Sprinkle with lemon juice and confectioners sugar and cut into wedges.

Serve immediately as it will deflate quickly.

Serves 4

As a kid I made Butter in a Jar it was very easy and just took some time.

Ingredients:

Heavy whipping cream – any amount 6 cups makes about 1 pound of butter
1/2 teaspoon per pound of butter – optional, used for preserving butter

Jar with lid, any size, baby food jars are great for kids to make it with.

Some people like to put a clean marble in the jar and when the marble gets quiet you know it’s starting to thicken. Just don’t forget to remove the marble when you are done.

Have the children shake the jar. A figure-eight motion seems to work best, but let your kids go wild (not so much, if the jar is glass). If you have a plastic container with a tight lid, you can even roll it back and forth.

Pour Heavy Whipping Cream into jars no more then 3/4 the way full. It is best to leave room for the shaking and turning action. Next begin shaking! And Shake and Shake. Some music to shake too makes it fun for the kids and helps pass time. Something with a fun and quick beat. The best way I figured to shake the jar was to hold it length wise in my hands with the lid in my palms and the base of the jar wedge in my forearms.

It takes about 5 minutes before you notice a thickening forming in the jar. This heaviness is the beginning of the fat changing and sticking together. At this point you really just have a thick whip cream in the jar. Keep shaking.

As another 5-10 minutes pass you will notice the jar filling with the foamy cream. It feels as if there is no room in the jar as the thick Heavy Cream is aerated even more with the shaking, but keep shaking. It will look like this:

Serves 8-10

Ingredients

2 lbs sausage link
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 large tart apples , peeled cored and sliced
1/3 cup water
1 large chopped onion

Instructions:

Brown Sausages. remove form heat and drain drippings.

Mix remaining ingredients and cook for 8-10 minutes.

Stir in Sausage and continue to simmer until ready to serve.

Glaze thickens as it cooks and coats the sausage.Serves 8-10

Ingredients:

1/4 cup butter , melted                1 cup Mango

2 tsp baking powder                     2  large eggs

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour         1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup sugar

16 ounce can pears, drained and chopped (if you have fresh pears that is even better)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, mix together the melted butter, mango nectar and sugar. Beat with an electric mixer until the sugar dissolves. While beating, add eggs one at a time. Add the flour mixture and thoroughly blend with a wooden spoon. Stir in chopped pears. Pour into a greased and floured loaf dish.

Bake 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Ingredients

4  eggs                                             2  Tbs  melted  butter

1/2  cup  cream                                 1/2 tsp pepper

pinch of cayenne                               2 tbs grated cheddar  cheese

2  toasted english  muffins                6  slices of  crisp  bacon

Instructions

Melt  Butter with Cream in skillet.  ad  eggs and sprinkle with pepper and  cayenne. when egg whites begin to set , sprinkle with cheese. Finish cooking and place on English muffin half with some of the  hot cream and  butter.  Serve with bacon slices.

serves 2

Ingredients:

3 large eggs

2 tsp vanilla

1 cup oil

3 cups flour

3 cups seeded Concord grapes

3 cups brown sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt 3/4 tsp baking soda

¾ cup chopped walnuts

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Beat eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla until light in color. Mix dry ingredients together and fold the dry mixture into the egg mixture until moist.  Do not beat!

Gently fold in grape skins and nuts.  Pour into two greased and floured pans.

Bake for one hour or until it tests done in the center with a toothpick. Gently remove from pans and cool.

Makes 2 loaves

Ingredients:

6 Tbs melted butter
6 Tbs flour
2  1/2 cups light cream
2 Tbs mustard
2 cups grated cheddar cheese
1 Tbs worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup white wine
3 toasted english Muffins
6 eggs poached
6 slices Canadian bacon, boiled
6 tomato slices
salt and pepper to  taste

Instructions:

Combine Flour and butter in a pot over low heat. IN a  separate sauce pan heat but do not boil cream,  Gradually add cream to flour mixture.  Stir mustard , Worcestershire , wine,  salt and pepper. set aside Place slice of Canadian bacon on 1/2 of an English muffin.  Place  tomato on top of bacon  and an  egg on top of the tomato. Top with the Morning my  way  sauce  that you you  set  aside. Serves 3

Ingredients

2  extra ripe bananas                                         2  eggs

1 cup packed brown sugar                                1/2  cup melted butter

1 tsp vanilla                                                        2 1/4  cups  flour

2 tsp baking powder                                          1.2 cup walnuts  chopped ( optional)

1 tsp  cinnamon                                                 1/2  tsp salt

1 cup  mini  chocolate chips  (  sometimes use normal or  large ones )

Instructions

Preheat  oven to  350  degrees

Peel bananas and  mash to make one cup. (The riper the  bananas , the better the flavor.)

in a bowl  , beat the mashed bananas, egg, sugar , butter and  vanilla until well blended .

In a  larger bowl , combine  flour , baking powder, cinnamon  and salt.

Stir in chocolate chips  and nuts.

Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.  Pour in the  banana mixture.

Mix until just blended.  Spoon into greased  and  floured  muffin pans.
Bake for 25-30 minutes

Makes  12- nice large  muffins.

Ingredients

1 orange
2  Tbs cold butter
1 large egg
1 cup chopped cranberries
1 large egg
1/2  tsp salt
2 cups flour
1-1/2  tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup sugar
1 cup chopped pecans (if you desire)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Using a sharp knife scrape the colored rind from the orange and mix it with the cranberries. Squeeze the juice of the orange into a measuring cup and add enough water to make 3/4 cup. Beat the egg and add it to the juice. Mix together the flour, salt, baking powder, soda and sugar in a large bowl. Cut the butter into the dry ingredients , mixing with two knives until crumbly.

Pour the juice into the dry ingredients and stir just until combined. Gently fold in the cranberries and nut. Pour the batter into a 9″ x 5″ loaf pan.bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool 10 minutes in the pan and then remove from the pan and cool completely.

serves 6-8

XOXO

Love Auntie Cynthia