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This is for Nell in Va, about the nilla wafer banana pudding, where do I get the recipe for the one you described using sour cream, cool whip and pudding.
thanks, Sally in Pa

To Patricia in Ky: Would you be willing to share your bread starter recipe and the recipes for the bread and any other recipes using the starter?
Thanks! Lynn in Tulsa

Just wanted to say thank you to Billie in FL. Today is my birthday
(44) I have a 9 year old and a 14 month oh yes i said 14 months lol.
Anyway it brought a smile to my face when i read your recipe for the depression spaghetti, my mom made that and as a child i hated it and now as a adult would love to try it but as all her recipes they we all kept in her head and now i wish i had watched and spent more time in the kitchen with her. So ladies write down those recipes or get into the kitchen with your kids time well spent tell them the story of your recipes and what makes them special believe me they will remember it.
Marissa

Sue was looking for this recipe in the 2/23/09 newsletter. These cookies are always a big hit and go quickly.
Robbie In

Chocolate Kiss Cookies
1 c. butter, softened
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 3/4 c. flour
1 c. chopped pecans
1 (9 oz.) pkg. chocolate candy kisses
Powdered sugar

Cream butter and sugar together with vanilla. Add flour gradually until well blended. Stir in pecans. Chill dough for 6 hours. Mold about 1 tablespoon of cookie dough around each chocolate kiss, covering candy completely. Bake on cookie sheet at 375 degrees for 12 to 14 minutes or until just turn golden around the edges. Let cool slightly before removing from cookie sheet. When completely cool, dust with powdered sugar. Store in air-tight container. Yields: 60.
Robbie IN

Hi Nancy! Wish I could help you sort through all your mail. WOW! What a compliment to you with all the replies!

Yolonda, who is looking for fried chocolate pies, Dennis from Prepared Pantry gave us all this recipe for turnover fried pies not too long ago. You can use any flavor filling for these. We love the lemon ones! These are like those Hostess “fried” pies.
http://www.nancys-kitchen.com/making-pies.htm

You only need three things to make these scrumptious little pies . . .

You’ll need a filling. Most cooked pie fillings work. Fruit pie fillings work. Cream pie fillings work. Uncooked pie fillings such as custard, including pumpkin, do not work.

You’ll need a dough for the crust. Any pie crust recipe or dough will work. Our favorite was a recipe for a sour cream crust and we’ll include that recipe later. (Dennis has his recipe for sour cream crust just after the instructions for fried pies.)

And you’ll need a dough press. Actually, you can get by without a dough press but it helps, especially when using puddings for fillings. The dough press cups the dough leaving a bowl in which to place your filling. And it makes folding and sealing easy.

Step 1—roll and cut the dough: Roll the dough out until it is no thicker than 1/4 inch—a little thinner is perfect. Using your dough press or a lid from a pan, cut the dough into six-inch circles.

Step 2—Add the filling: For the filling, use either a fruit filling—a commercially canned one works fine—or pudding for a cream filling. We used Jell-O® brand pudding mixes in both instant and cooked varieties. Both worked. The cooked pudding seemed to set up a little more. The cooked pudding is less likely to leak during baking if you cool it for an hour before using it.

We made lemon turnovers, banana cream turnovers, and chocolate turnovers as well as fruit-filled turnovers.

Place a dough circle on the dough press. The dough will follow the bowl-shaped contour of the press. Place 1/4 cup filling in the formed bowl. Brush the edges of the dough with a little water to help create a seal. Using the dough press, fold the dough over to make a turnover and press firmly to seal. (A good seal is necessary so that the filling does not leak out.) Repeat with the other circles.

Step 3—Bake the pies: Place the turnovers on a lightly greased baking sheet and bake in your preheated oven at 375 degrees for 15 minutes or until lightly golden. Remove the pan from the oven and remove the turnovers to a wire rack to cool for 15 minutes.

Step 4—Glaze the pies: Make a glaze from powdered sugar and water. One cup powdered sugar is about right for this size recipe. Add enough water, about 1 1/2 tablespoons, to reach drizzling consistency and brush the glaze on the tops of the turnovers while still warm.

Fruit filled turnovers can be served warm. Cream filled turnovers should be cooled to let the filling become firmer. Most cream filled turnovers should be refrigerated. Chris in NM

You can use your own pie crust recipe for these.

Chocolate Fried Pies
1-1/4 cup sugar
3 tablespoons flour
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups sweet milk
1/2 stick margarine
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 (5 count) Hungry Jack canned biscuits
Crisco

Mix first three ingredients. Then add eggs and milk. Stir well. Cook in a double boiler or real slow on stove top till thick. Add to mixture margarine and vanilla, then cool mixture. This is enough mix for 5 canned biscuits. Roll out a 5 count can of biscuits real thin. Add about 2 tablespoons of filling onto 1/2 side of rolled biscuit. Fold over and go around edge with fork. Heat about 1/2" Crisco shortening in skillet. Have Crisco medium hot and brown pies on both sides. (Fix all pies before you start to fry the first pie, that way Crisco stays the same temperature.) Original recipe sent in by Tona in the 2/23/08 newsletter
Chris in NM

Nancy, I broke my replies up this morning because of the long one for turnover pies. By the way, they are also called "hand pies."

Yolonda, I found this recipe doing a search on Nancy’s newsletter page.

Chocolate Vinegar Cake
1-1/2 c sifted flour
3 tb baking Cocoa
1/2 ts Salt
1 tb Vinegar
1 c Water
1 c Sugar
1 ts Baking Soda
1 ts Vanilla Extract
5 tb Butter Or Regular Margarine

MOCHA CHOCOLATE FROSTING
1-3/4 c Confectioners' Sugar
3 tb Butter Or Regular Margarine
1/2 ts Vanilla Extract
3 tb Cocoa; Baking
3 tb Coffee; Brewed, Hot

Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt together into a mixing bowl. Make 3 wells in the dry ingredients. Pour vanilla into 1 well; vinegar into 1 well and melted butter into the third. Pour water over all. Beat with a wooden spoon until well blended. Pour batter into a greased 9-inch square baking pan. Bake in a preheated 350 degree F. oven for 25 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool in pan on rack. Frost with Mocha Chocolate Frosting. Cut into squares.

MOCHA CHOCOLATE FROSTING: Combine confectioners' sugar, cocoa, softened butter, coffee, and vanilla in a mixing bowl. Beat, with an electric mixer set at medium speed, until smooth.
NOTE; This recipe came from a very old church cookbook that the woman found and is typical of many of the recipes of the 1800's. The vinegar was used to keep the cake from spoiling. Try this and I think that you will like it. 3/16/06 newsletter by Chris in California
Chris in NM

Sylvia, Scotland, we make stuffed jalapenos quite a bit down here in the SW. They are very good!

Stuffed Jalapenos SW Style
1 lb. jalapenos
8 oz. cream cheese
California style garlic powder

Slice in 1/2 lengthwise, all jalapenos and clean all seeds and membranes out! Make sure you use latex or rubber gloves doing this recipe! Mix cheese and garlic powder well. Stuff pepper halves. Serve.

If you want a little twist on these, place 2 halves cheese filled sides together and wrap a bacon slice around each. Bake or broil till bacon is done. Serve! Both are yummy!
Chris in NM

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Dear Nancy, Can someone tell me what Sylvia, Scotland said about the name Kellen? My grandson's name is Kellen also.
Thanks, Dee in W Lafayette

Thanks, Billie, for the kale recipe!
Athena in DE

This is a main dish Kale recipe that I like very much. It is very simple and easy to put together.

Boil 1 smoked turkey leg submerged in enough water to cover it. Cook covered about 30 minutes. Remove turkey leg, cool and shred.
In the meantime, into the hot turkey broth place one bag of pre-washed and cut Kale and 1 chopped small onion. Cover pot and allow to cook until tender. Add the shredded turkey leg meat back into the pot along with 1 tsp hot pepper flakes and s/p (if necessary) to taste.

Also, add 1 can drained/rinsed cannelli beans and stir altogether to simmer 5 minutes. Serve with a hearty bread for mopping up the broth in this dish.
Judy/Buffalo

Hi Nancy
Today is Ash Wednesday and it's time for me to eat fish often during the week. I am looking for various ways in making Haddock, Sr imp and Scallop meals. I would love to see what your readers have for recipes. Hope all is well with you!
God bless, Fran, Upstate New York

Good Morning Nancy,
I'm glad you're feeling a bit better, shame about all the back-log. After all the spam comments I got about checking them just in case, in all those weeks of checking them I never yet found 1 that wasn't spam. I am now going to go back to deleting them all without checking them. One word of warning, the spam folks are now using Christian names, hoping to draw you in and hook you.

Doris, S. Indiana, I have tried a few of Sandy's bread recipes and they have all turned out great. There has been a lot of talk recently on "No-Knead" bread, would the contributors consider copying them to the Bread or Bread Machine Message Boards. There's some great recipes and tips that can definitely be useful to the new bread maker and the experienced in some ways. Having your recipes on the message boards also guarantees that you have insurance against losing your treasured recipes. If you are completely new to bread machine baking check out Chris' post "Tip for Bread Machine Bread" on the site:
http://whatscookin.proboards4.com/index.cgi?board=RecipesforBreadMachines

There are also some great "from scratch" bread recipes on this one:
http://whatscookin.proboards4.com/index.cgi?board=Breads

My cousin bought a bread machine recently, I thought I had managed to convince her not to. She really doesn't have a spare minute in the day, but she saw one cheap and bought it. Her first comments were nice, but heavy. She was using tap water, bread flour/mixes stored in her built on garage, once I explained to her about the warmth needed to grow the yeast - she is now delighted with her lovely light bread and getting a bit adventurous.
Happy Baking, Sylvia <Scotland>

For Frances, Wesley Chapel... dishwasher problems

These instructions might help Frances.. also check to make sure your dishwasher detergent has chlorine it.. good luck.

Step1
First, check the water in other places in your kitchen and house and make sure it doesn't smell. Sometimes a smelly dishwasher is the product of some chemical found in the water. If you water smells funny in other areas of your house, call your local water department and ask about the water - there may be a bacteria or pH imbalance that is causing the odor (and could be potentially harmful to you!)

Step2
Clean out the food filter. This is usually located in the back bottom of the washer and is used to trap food during the cleaning cycle. Sometimes food particles get stuck there and can cause odour over time.

Step3
Give your dishwasher a baking soda bath. Clean out any dishes from the inside and put baking soda in the spot where detergent usually goes. Set it to a normal wash cycle and let it air dry. This will both cleanse and deodorize the unit, and eliminate any persistent odors.

Step4
You can also run the step above using white vinegar as well, but this is a more extreme remedy and comes with the price of needing to run through the wash cycle twice to remove the vinegar smell.

Step5
Consider calling an appliance repair man if the smell persists. There maybe food caught in an area of the unit you are unaware or cannot get to, and this may be causing the foul odour.
Laurel (Sydney Australia)

February 24, 2009 Newsletter

To Yolanda

Chocolate Fried Pies
1/2 c. cocoa
1 c. sugar
1 stick butter
1 can flaky biscuits (or) home-made crust
oil for frying
Combine sugar & cocoa. Roll out biscuits, put a dot of butter in center. Put 2 tsp. of sugar/cocoa mixture on butter. Fold over, crimp edges of crust together. Fry in oil.
My mother's recipe
Doris in Tn.

Frances in Wesley Chapel asking about dishwasher smell. Some dishwashers have a trap in the bottom that catches food particles. Have you tried taking it out and cleaning it? If you have the manual and serial number, I would suggest calling the mfg. company and explaining the situation to them and asking them about it. Maybe yours isn't the first to have this problem. Or you could also call a plumber and ask if it is common for something like this to happen and a good remedy. Good Luck!
CJ in Ohio

Good evening!
To Chris in NM and Betty in Canada--thank you so much for the pyroghy and ravioli recipes--I made a trip into town today for the ingredients and plan to try them both this week! They both look wonderful!
Sheryl in AZ

This recipe is for Yolanda who wanted the Chocolate Cake with no eggs, and vinegar in it.
Here is one I use for my Grandson, who has so many allergies.

Eggless Chocolate Cake
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 cups water
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 tablespoons vinegar (white)
10 tablespoons Wesson Oil

Mix dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Make a well in center. Add liquids. Mix together, really well. Bake in a 9X13 inch pan, at 350° for 35-40 minutes.

You can use your favorite icing, or just measure out some powdered sugar, a little butter, and some pet milk. Makes a real good icing.
Louisiana Lady

Yolanda---Re: Chocolate cake with vinegar and no eggs. Heres a recipe we have been using for years. The best thing about this cake is you can frost it when it's still hot and you use fudge for the
frosting!!

Wackie Cake
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 tsp baking soda
6 T cocoa
2 T white vinegar
2 T vanilla
1 stick melted margarine
2 cups water

Mix flour, sugar, baking soda and cocoa in a bowl. Mix in white
vinegar and vanilla. Add margarine and water. When mixed well,
pour into a 9x11 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Frosting
Quick Nut Fudge
1 lb domino powdered sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
1/4 tsp salt
6 T margarine
4 T milk
1 T vanilla
1 cup copped pecans (opt)

Combine all ingredients (except nuts) in top of a double boilder. Place over simmering water and stir until smooth. Add nuts and mix.

At this point you can frost cake with this. If you want fudge spread this quickly into a greased 5x9 inch loaf pans. Cut into
squares when cool.
Dawn/IL

I have a non food request. I think I read in this newsletter of a site that I could trade my used books for other books, does anyone know of such a site? I recently got some books from a local thrift store and ended up with a duplicate of one book and there were a few others I won't read again and thus do not want to keep, I would rather trade them for something else if I can. Thanks for any help you can give me. I am finely caught up on the newsletters but for how long I don't know. Nancy B LOL.

This the original Secret (Hershey) Kiss Cookie
! cup soft butter or margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 3/4 cups sifted flour
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
1 pkg Hershey kisses
Powdered sugar

Cream butter, sugar, vanilla--add flour and nuts. Blend on slow speed. Chill dough about an hour. Roll about 1T. of dough around an unwrapped kiss. roll to make a bal--cover kiss completely. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet about 12 minutes, until set--not brown. Cool slightly--while warm, roll in powdered sugar. Rol in sugar again, before serving.
Makes 36 cookies
Norma

LAZY DAZY CAKE
1 cup sifted flour
1 t. baking powder
1/8 t. salt
2 eggs
1 cup sugar 2 T. butter
1/2 cup scalded milk
1 t. vanilla

Sift dry ingredients. Beat eggs until thick and lemony colored. Fold dry ingr. into egg mixture.

Combine scalded milk butter, and vanilla. Add to batter and blend.
Pour into greased pan, 9x9, bake at 350 about 25 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes.

Spread with the topping:
1/2 cup brown sugar,(firm packed)
4 1/2 T butter
3 T cream
1 1/2 cup coconut
Cook sugar, butter, & cream on low heat, until sugar is melted, Add coconut and spread on cake, Place under broiler and brown lightly.
Norma

Hi Nancy, This is for Yolanda 2-24-09 N/L regarding Chocolate Fried Pies. I searched for this and searched Nancys-kitchen it is in the 2-23 or 25-08 N/L. right under Yolanda's comment about not being able to print recipes.
Or:
www/123-free-recipes.com/print.php?id=728.
Margaret, Tulsa

Hi Nancy,
I don't remember the name of the lady who's doctor put her on a salt free diet, but when my doctor put me on a salt free diet, I wasn't to happy with that. I'm a saltaholic. So I went online looking for a salt substitute. Most salt substitutes that I bought from the stores around here were downright nasty tasting.

I came across a site www.alsosalt.com that I am very pleased with. It tastes like the real thing and has NO SODIUM in it. One can use it for baking and cooking or on the food that you eat. The only thing they recommend is that you don't taste it directly from the shaker.

I am on my second bottle and it's almost all gone. Will soon be odering another shaker full. They also carry 2 other flavors. I would suggest the lady check the product out at the above link. I am sure she would be very pleased with it.

Secondly, would like to say Howdy Neighbor to Dianne from Wisconsin. I am about 38 miles down the road from her. You can see our Hobby Farm from I-94.

Nancy, THANK YOU so very much for the best Recipe Newsletter on the Web. I live every day just for your Newsletter. Give Ditto a Catnip mouse, and a pat on the head.

Hope you are feeling better Nancy. Take Care & God Bless
Karen from Wisconsin

This is in response to Judi in Mass's question regarding using an egg instead of Egg Beaters in the pancakes made from muffin mix. By the way, Judi these pancakes weren't made from "cake mix" . I have only made them with Martha White Brand Muffin Mix so far. And yes--I think if you fixed the ENTIRE package of mix, that one small egg would work. If you are wanting to make only a couple of pancakes then I would suggest using just the 1 tablespoon of Egg Beaters. I hope you enjoy the pancakes!
Pam in Ohio

In regards to Banana bread, the last time I made it, I tried a new recipe. I think I got it from allrecipes.com. Anyway, the thing that was so different about it, was that you sliced the ripe bananas into the batter, instead of mashing them. The result was a very moist banana bread with a more intense burst of banana flavor. I don’t know why you couldn't use that method with any of the recipes. I will look up the recipe I used, if anyone is interested.
Sandy in Iowa

Cinnamon Crunch coffee Cake (Make Ahead)
2 cups flour, plus additional for the baking dish
1 t. baking powder
1 t. baking soda
1 t. ground cinnamon
1/4 t. salt
2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup buttermilk

For the Topping:
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 t. ground cinnamon
1/4 t. grated nutmeg

For the cake, butter and flour a 9 x 13 inch glass baking dish and set aside. Sift together 2 cups flour, the baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Using an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugars in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, to the batter, beating well after each addition. Add the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk to the butter mixture, beating well after each addition. Spread the batter in the baking dish. For the topping, stir together the brown sugar, walnuts, cinnamon and nutmeg in a small bowl. Sprinkle over the batter. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

The next day, Preheat oven to 350 and remove cake from refrigerator. Bake the cake, uncovered, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Serves 12 to 16
Frances Schmidt This is very good

Hi All,
Can anyone guide me how I could make a Taco pizza similar to what you can get at Taco Bell. I have not a clue even how to start.
Carolyn, Rochester, New York

Nancy and Ditto , hello.
In the newsletter , 2-21-2009, Sandi sent in recipe for making
buttermilk with milk powders just wanted to say thank you. I lost the
recipe. This is all I use to use. Great.

In 2-21-2009 newsletter , Louise from Oregon sent in " Jacks Fruit
Salad" recipe. It is a keeper. I changed the recipe some by using sugar free pudding mix , lite cool whip, skip the mandarin oranges ,added  some coconut and chopped pecans. Could not believe Buttermilk could change a taste so much. This is good for diabetics since fruit is packed in own juice.
Louise in Alabama

I'm having a ball going through the archives. Yours is really a great site. I received a TN ham at Xmas and have no idea how to prepare it. It's hanging on my enclosed porch.

Hope some of you in TN can help me. I really need step by step instructions.
Dee in Ohio

Yesterday I submitted a Miniature Gumdrop Fruitcake recipe to the
newsletter for Jane Lexington, N.C. and said I did have a delicious TNT recipe, but hadn't been able to find it at that time. Well, I did come across it this morning, and is different from the recipes others sent in (they look good too!) but this is one my mother made every Christmas, when I was growing up, and everyone loved it. She made her own
applesauce, but I buy it in a jar at the store. Enjoy!

Holiday Candy Cake
4 cups flour, divided
4 cups (about 2 lbs.) large gumdrops (not black)
1-1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
2 cups raisins
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. allspice
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1-1/2 cups thick, sweetened applesauce

Line bottom and sides of a 10 inch tube pan with waxed paper.
Coarsely chop gumdrops and put in large bowl with , walnuts and raisins.

Add 2 cups flour and mix in well to coat. Set aside. In large bowl,
cream sugar and shortening until creamy. Beat in eggs. Combine remaining 2 cups flour with baking soda and spices, and add alternately to the creamed mixture with the applesauce, adding flour mixture last, and beating well after each addition. Pour batter over candy mixture and mix thoroughly. Turn batter into prepared pan. Bake at 275º for 2 hours and 45 minutes to 3 hours, until tests done. Allow cake to cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan. When thoroughly cooled, wrap well in plastic wrap and foil and store in the refrigerator. Will keep for a
long time, and gets better with age, if you can keep it around for very long!
Judy (in Alaska)

For Kay and Eina regarding the frontloading washers (February 24), I have had my Kenmore set for 5 years. The appliance manual suggests using regular detergent, just less of it, as an alternative to the HE powder. However, friends have recently had problems with their washers as a result, and the repairmen have strongly suggested using HE powder. It may be more expensive, but you will more than pay the difference with time and money if you don't use the correct detergent. You use such a little amount of it, and I put a small amount of Oxy-clean powder in with it. Just a suggestion from my experience.
Paula in Orlando

Old Fashioned Pumpkin Butter
1 cup canned pumpkin
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1/4-1/2 cup sugar (brown or white)

Add pumpkin and sugar together, add cinnamon. Simmer over low heat, stirring constantly just long enough to dissolve sugar and cinnamon thoroughly. When done taste and add more sugar or cinnamon until you like the taste of it. If too sweet just add more pumpkin. Great on toast or for a glaze.
Annette M Edmonton, Alberta

Old Fashioned Cinnamon Toast Put 2 tbsp. butter, 3/4 cup brown sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon in small saucepan until all melted together. Adjust to taste. Sweet but great on toast
Annette M Edmonton, Alberta

I made a crockpot Italian Beef that everyone went nuts over yesterday.

Crockpot Italian Beef
4-5 lb. bottom round roast
12 oz. jar pepperoncini peppers (I used Mt. Olive brand from Jewel)
1/2 jar of the pepper juice
1 pkg. dry au jus mix (in the section with gravy, sauce mixes)

Place roast in crockpot on low. Sprinkle dry au jus mix over roast. Spread peppers over roast, then add half or more to taste of the jar juice. Cook 8-10 hrs. Serve on hard hoagie rolls or whatever bread you desire and add some shredded pizza cheese or mozzarella. I like my bread with alot of juice so I spoon some of that on first. Enjoy!
Donna in Illinois

How to Make your Own Pancake Mix

I just received a Magic Bullet for a present. Are there any
TNT good recipes, out there??
Thanks, Sue

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