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Croatian Honey Pie

12/29/2017

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Dough Ingredients:

2 cups flour

2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp butter
2 tbsp honey
2 tbsp milk
1/2 c sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon


Filling Ingredients:


1 1/4 c milk
1/2 c sugar
1 tsp vanilla 
3 tbsp cornstarch
1 c butter

plum jam

powdered sugar for dusting


1) Make the cream filling by combining most of the milk with sugar and vanilla, heat until it boils. Combine remaining milk separately with cornstarch. Add to the boiling milk and cook on low heat constantly stirring, careful not to burn milk in this process. Heat until thick. Cover and let cool.
2) Beat butter until fluffy and add to the cooled cream.
3) In a separate pan combine one egg, butter, honey, sugar, and milk and heat until all ingredients have dissolved.
4) In another bowl, mix the flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking soda. Add the melted mixture to the dry flour mix, add the other egg, then knead until it forms a dough.
5) Divide dough into two equal parts and roll as thin as possible on top of parchment paper. Slide the parchment paper with dough onto a flat cookie sheet. Cut each dough in half again, ending up with four equal sized pieces.
6) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake each piece until golden. Do not over bake or it will become to dry. Usually takes 8-10 minutes depending on oven. Let cool.
7) Place the first flat biscuit layer on a serving tray. Spread half of the cream filling on top, place second flat biscuit layer on top, spread this layer with the plum jam, cover with third biscuit layer, spread remaining cream filling on top, cover with fourth biscuit layer.

Best to let stand in a cool place overnight. Then dust with powdered sugar, cut into squares and serve.


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I trim the biscuit layers to be of uniform size, saving the trimmings for a snack.

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Peach Cobbler

11/30/2017

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The basic recipe:

6 peaches, peeled and sliced
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup milk
1 cup butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine peaches and 1 cup sugar and set aside for 10 minutes. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder, and salt. Pour in milk and stir until smooth. Pour melted butter into a 13x9 baking dish. Pour batter over melted butter, then put the peaches on top. Bake for about 1 hour.

WHAT I DID TODAY:

Melted the butter on very low flame in a well seasoned cast iron skillet, was very careful not to burn it. In a separate bowl I combined the flour, 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder, salt and milk, stirring until smooth. Dropped that on top of the butter.  Then topped with 2 pints of home canned peaches. These were already nice and sweet so instead of using the 1 cup sugar I decided to lightly sprinkle brown sugar over the top of them. The butteriness, not sure if that is a word but sure does apply here, is fantastic. It was not too sweet like this, and when I make it again I will probably add a little cinnamon or possibly vanilla also. Would be very easy to alter to use any fruit. 
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Disguising Leftovers - Pork Fried Rice

11/27/2017

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Last night for dinner we had Breaded Pork Chops, Sauteed Swiss Chard, and Chicken Flavored Tarragon Rice.  So for lunch today the leftovers became Pork Fried Rice. Here is how:

1) Add a little oil to pan. Can be any oil you have or prefer. Today I actually used home rendered pork lard. You are just looking for anything so that the rice doesn't stick to the pan. I actually use a cast iron skillet. 

2) Dice up leftover Pork. Add pork and leftover rice to pan and start to fry.

3) In a separate pan cook up some scrambled eggs.

4) Add peas (I used reconstituted freeze dried from my pantry), the scrambled eggs, and a dash of soy sauce to the pork and rice. Stir fry until heating thoroughly. I threw in a little of the leftover swiss chard on this batch. 

5) You can add some Chinese Five Spice powder if you like, I did not on this one as there were enough seasonings already on the items from the previous nights dinner. I like to top mine with Sriracha Hot Sauce.


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Baking Tips.....

4/7/2017

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Made some yummy blueberry pie this morning. Had leftover crust. So instead of throwing it away I rolled it out and used coyote cookie cutters. Dusted the "coyotes" with sugar and cinnamon. Baked in the oven at 425 degrees for ten minutes. We slather a little jam on them and tastes just like having a pie! 
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