Coffee Cake

2 Eggs, well beaten

1 C. Sugar

2 C. Flour

2 tsp. Baking Powder

½ C. Melted butter

½ C. Milk

1 tsp. Vanilla

Spread in a flat pan (8” x 8”) and spread the top with sugar, cinnamon and melted butter.  Chopped nuts may be added.

Divinity

This is a very old recipe as I know it was handed to my mother by her mother. If you like making your own candy for the holidays this is a real winner.

• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup corn syrup
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 egg whites beaten stiff

1. Cook until it will spin a thread.
2. Pour half of it into the whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff.
3. Cook the other half until it will harden in water then pour it into the first half.
4. Beat until creamy.
5. Pour into buttered dish or drop from a spoon.

Graham Cracker Dessert

• 1 cup sugar
• 4 T. Butter

Cream sugar and butter together

Add:

• 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
• 1 ts. baking powder
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts
• 1 tsp vanilla

Put into a greased 8 x 8 pan and bake 350 degrees for 40 minutes.

Fudge Sauce

This is another recipe from Aunt Esther Lee. It is killer over ice cream and a fudge brownie.

Bring to a boil -
1 can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk
1 cup water
1/2 cup corn syrup
1 cube butter or margarine
1/2 tsp salt

Remove from heat and add -
2 cup chocolate chips
1 T. vanilla

Mix well until chips are melted. Stores well in the refrigerator.

Brownies # 2

This recipe uses Mapleine which has a really interesting history. You can check it out at:
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=2006

• 3/4 cup sifted flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 2 squares baking chocolate
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/4 tsp mapleine
• 3 T. milk
• 1 cup chopped nuts

1. Sift flour, baking powder and salt.
2. Melt chocolate over hot water and combine with butter.
3. Beat eggs and blend in sugar.
4. Add flavorings, milk and chocolate mixture.
5. Stir in flour and chopped nuts.
6. Bake in greased shallow pan (about 8 x 11 in.) for 30 minutes in moderate oven (350 degrees)

Fresh Apple Cake

Bless her heart, she had my famous Apple Cake recipe in her box. Following is the best apple cake you will ever eat and it is so very easy. This is the recipe that Kirby and I discovered that we both had when we first met. We felt it meant something special and we still fight over who really had it first!

4-5 baking apples - cubed with skins on
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp. each - nutmeg and allspice
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup walnuts- chopped

1. Cut up the apples and break the eggs over them.
2. Add all the other ingredients and mix well
3. Batter is dry an lumpy and mostly apple.
4. Place in a greased 9 x 13 inch pan and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

Brownies # 1

"Everybody loves brownies, especially the wonderfully fudgy kind you make with Eagle Brand."

375 degree oven
Makes 1 dozen 2' x 2 2/3" bars

6 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup (1/2 15 oz. can) Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk
Dash of Salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup walnuts, chopped

Melt chocolate over hot, not boiling, water.
Stir in Eagle Brand Sweetened Condense Milk and remove from heat.
Stir in salt, vanilla and walnuts
Turn into well-greased 8 x 8 x 2 inch pan
Bake in moderate oven (375 degrees) for 25 minutes.
While brownies are warm, cut into bars; when cool, remove from pan.

Cheese Cake # 1

1 Box lemon jello - dissolve in 1 cup boiling water and then let cool.
1-8 oz cream cheese softened
1 cup sugar and 1 large can cold carnation milk and whip until stiff. Add one tsp. vanilla.

Directions:

• Whip the sugar and carnation milk in a mixer until stiff
• Add cream cheese
• Mix and add vanilla
• Stir in cold lemon jello