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Cream Cheese Pastry Dough
Cream Puffs
Crepes
French Silk Pie
Fresh Fruit Crème Cru lee
Tart
Ham & Cheese Quiche
Holiday Ribbon Pie
Oreo Ribbon Pie
Pecan Pie
Pie Crust
Pizza Crust
Popovers
Smoked Salmon Quiche
Vegetable Deep Dish Pizza
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CREAM CHEESE PASTRY DOUGH
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 – 8 oz. package cream cheese
2 cups flour
Directions:
- Put ingredients in food processor and mix till it forms a ball
- Refrigerate at least one hour
- Roll out
Variations:
- Roll out in circle shape and sprinkle with preserves, raisins or cinnamon sugar
- Cut in pie wedge shapes and roll up to form crescents
- Bake at 375° for 10 – 15 minutes
- Roll out and make circles or ovals
- Fill with cream cheese & chopped mushrooms, or meat sauce
- Fold over and crimp edges with a fork
- Bake at 375° for 15 – 20 minutes
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Ingredients:
½ cup shortening
1 cup boiling water
1 cup flour
¼ tsp. salt
4 eggs
whipped cream
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 450°
- Bring water and shortening to boiling point in sauce pan
- Add flour and salt to water
- Beat vigorously until mixture is thick and smooth
- Remove from heat and add eggs, one at a time
- beat thoroughly after each addition until mixture is thick and blended
- Drop mixture from spoon onto greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart
- Mixture should hold it's shape
- Bake in very hot oven at 450° for 10 minutes
- Reduce heat to 400° and bake an additional 35 – 40 minutes
- Remove from oven and sprinkle powdered sugar over top
- Cool and split each puff in half
- Fill with whipped cream and replace top
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Ingredients:
1 cup flour
¼ cup sugar
1 ½ cups milk
2 eggs
1 tsp. cooking oil
Directions:
- Combine all ingredients and beat until smooth
- Pour 1/3 cup of batter onto hot griddle
- Cook until golden brown on bottom
- Flip and continue cooking until golden brown on other side
- Makes about 8 crepes
Optional:
- Place cut fruit, jelly, or other desired filling along center Θ
- Roll up and serve
- May sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired
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Ingredients:
1 ½ cup butter
1 ¼ cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 square melted unsweetened chocolate
4 eggs
20 Oreo cookies, crushed
Directions:
- Mix cookies and ½ cup softened butter
- Press into 9 inch deep pie pan
- Cream together 1 cup butter and sugar
- Add vanilla and chocolate beat
- Add one egg and beat 5 minutes
- Add second egg and beat an additional 5 minutes
- Pour into crust and refrigerate
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FRESH FRUIT-CRÈME BRU LEE TART
Ingredients:
½ cup packed brown sugar
3 Tbs. butter, softened
½ cup chopped pecans, if desired
2 Tbs. sugar
1 Tbs. flour
3 egg yolks
2 cups whipping cream
¼ cup orange marmalade or currant jelly
1 Tbs. orange flavored liqueur or water
2 cups fresh fruit, sliced (bananas, kiwi, peaches, strawberries, etc.)
Crust Ingredient:
1 ½ cups flour
2/3 cup butter, softened
1/3 cup powdered sugar
Directions:
- Heat oven to 375°
- Mix crust ingredients together until crumbly
- Mix with hands until dough forms
- Press in bottom and 1 ½ inches up side of a ungreased springform pan
- Bake 11 – 14 minutes, until crust is set and light brown
- Heat brown sugar and butter over medium heat until butter is melted
- Spoon over crust
- Spread carefully
- Sprinkle with pecans, if desired
- Bake about 5 minutes, until brown sugar mixture begins to soften and melt
- Mix sugar and flour
- Stir in egg yolks
- Beat with a wire whisk until thick
- Heat whipping cream to scalding in 2 quart heavy saucepan
- Stir 2 – 3 Tbs. of the cream into egg yolk mixture until smooth
- Stir egg yolk mixture into the cream
- Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens, about 3 minutes
- Cool slightly
- Pour over brown sugar mixture
- Cover and refrigerate until chilled, at least 2 hours
- Heat marmalade and liqueur over low heat until melted
- Cool slightly
- Just before serving, arrange fruit on dessert
- Spoon warm marmalade mixture over fruit
Makes 8 – 10 servings
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Ingredients:
1 cup chopped, shaved, fully cooked, smoked ham
¾ cup shredded Gruyere cheese (may substitute with another cheese if desired)
3 Tbs. chopped onion
3 eggs
1 ¼ cups half and half
½ tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
Pastry Ingredients:
1 cup flour
½ tsp. salt
1/3 cup plus 1 Tbs. shortening
2 – 3 Tbs. water
Directions:
- Make pastry by mixing flour and salt
- Cut in shortening until particles are size of small peas
- Add water and mix, using a fork, until all flour is moistened and pastry almost cleans side of bowl. Can add 1 – 2 tsp. water if necessary.
- Gather pastry into ball
- Shape into flattened round on lightly floured surface
- Roll pastry 2 inches larger than inverted 8" quiche dish
- Fold pastry into quarters and place in dish with point in center
- Unfold and ease into dish, pressing firmly against bottom and side
- Trim overhanging edge of pastry 1" from rim of dish
- Fold and roll pastry under, even with dish; flute edges if desired
- Sprinkle ham, cheese and onion into pastry-lined quiche dish
- Beat eggs slightly in bowl
- Beat in remaining ingredients
- Pour into quiche dish
- Bake uncovered at 425° for 15 minutes
- Reduce heat to 325° and bake an additional 20 – 25 minutes (until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean
- Let stand 10 minutes before cutting
Serves 4
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Ingredients:
1 – 8 oz. pkg. semi-sweet chocolate
⅓ cup water
1 – 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
¼ cup sugar
1 – 12 oz. tub Cool Whip, thawed
1 Graham Cracker pie crust
1 cup crushed peppermint candy (or any filling desired)
Directions:
- Stir chocolate with water over low heat until melted
- Cool
- Beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth
- Add chocolate and mix
- Fold in 3 ½ cups whipped topping
- Spoon half the mixture into crust
- Sprinkle with filling, pressing down gently
- Spread remaining chocolate mixture carefully over filling
- Chill 3 hours
- Garnish with remaining whipped topping
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Ingredients:
1 – 8 oz. pkg. semi-sweet chocolate
⅓ cup water
1 – 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
¼ cup sugar
1 – 12 oz. tub Cool Whip, thawed
1 Graham Cracker pie crust
1 cup crushed Oreo cookies (or any filling desired)
Directions:
- Stir chocolate with water over low heat until melted
- Cool
- Beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth
- Add chocolate and mix
- Fold in 3 ½ cups whipped topping
- Spoon half the mixture into crust
- Sprinkle with filling, pressing down gently
- Spread remaining chocolate mixture carefully over filling
- Chill 3 hours
- Garnish with remaining whipped topping
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Ingredients:
4 eggs, beaten
1 cup sugar
1 ¼ cup dark corn syrup
1/8 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
¾ cup melted butter
1 cup pecans
Directions:
- Add sugar and syrup to beaten eggs.
- Add salt, vanilla and melted butter.
- Place pecans in bottom of unbaked pie shell.
- Add filling and bake at 350° for 45 – 50 minutes.
- Nuts will rise to the top.
- Cool completely before cutting.
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Ingredients:
2 ½ cups sifted flour
1 tsp. salt
¾ cups shortening
¼ to 1/3 cup water
Directions:
- Mix flour, salt and shortening together with pie crust cutter or fork.
- Add water till mixture holds together.
- Do not overwork after adding water.
- Roll in a circle about ¼" thick.
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Ingredients:
½ pkg. active dry yeast
½ cup warm water
1 Tbs. oil
dash of salt
1 ½ cups flour
Directions:
- Dissolve yeast in water
- Add remaining ingredients
- Mix by hand till blended
- Let stand 15 minutes
- Roll out and place on pizza pan
- Add desired toppings
- Place on lower rack in oven
- Bake at 375° for 20 – 25 minutes
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Ingredients:
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
3 lg. eggs
2 Tbs. oil
½ tsp. salt
Directions:
- PREHEAT OVEN TO 450° (very important to preheat)
- Beat together
- Fill greased muffin tins ¾ full (batter will be thin)
- Bake at 450° for 20 minutes
- Reduce heat to 350° and bake an additional 20 minutes
- Do not open oven till done
- Remove from oven and cool on wire rack
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Ingredients:
¾ to 1 cup flaked smoked salmon
1 cup shredded Swiss cheese
2 Tbs. chopped green onion
3 eggs
1 ¼ cups half and half
2 tsp. snipped fresh dill
½ tsp. salt
Pastry Ingredients:
1 cup flour
½ tsp. salt
1/3 cup plus 1 Tbs. shortening
2 – 3 Tbs. water
Directions:
- Make pastry by mixing flour and salt
- Cut in shortening until particles are size of small peas
- Add water and mix, using a fork, until all flour is moistened and pastry almost cleans side of bowl. Can add 1 – 2 tsp. water if necessary.
- Gather pastry into ball
- Shape into flattened round on lightly floured surface
- Roll pastry 2 inches larger than inverted 8" quiche dish
- Fold pastry into quarters and place in dish with point in center
- Unfold and ease into dish, pressing firmly against bottom and side
- Trim overhanging edge of pastry 1" from rim of dish
- Fold and roll pastry under, even with dish; flute edges if desired
- Sprinkle salmon, cheese and onion onto pastry
- Beat eggs slightly in bowl
- Beat in remaining ingredients
- Pour into quiche dish
- Bake uncovered at 425° for 15 minutes
- Reduce heat to 325° and bake an additional 20 – 25 minutes (until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean
- Let stand 10 minutes before cutting
Serves 4
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Ingredients:
1 pkg. active dry yeast
1 cup warm water
1 ¼ cups all purpose flour
1 ½ cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
3 Tbs. vegetable oil
1 tsp. additional vegetable oil
4 medium tomatoes, chopped
1 small zucchini, chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
¼ cup onion, chopped
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
½ pound Italian sausage, cooked and drained
1 ½ cups sliced fresh mushrooms
½ cup pitted ripe olives, sliced
1/3 cup green pepper, chopped
6 oz. shredded Fontina, Gorgonzola or Muenster cheese
Directions:
- Dissolve yeast in warm water
- Pour ½ cup of the yeast mixture into food processor
- Add all-purpose flour, ½ cup of the whole wheat flour, sugar, salt and 3 Tbs. oil
- Process 5 quick on/off motions
- Add remaining yeast mixture and whole wheat flour
- Process 5 quick on/off motions
- Scrape sides and continue processing about 30 seconds, till dough cleans side of bowl
- Dough should be sticky but not wet
- Press dough in bottom and 2" up side of 12 X2 pizza pan or 9 X 13 cake pan
- Brush with 1 tsp. oil
- Place oven rack in lowest position
- Heat oven to 500°
- Distribute remaining ingredients evenly over dough
- Place pizza in oven and reduce heat to 425°
- Bake 25 – 30 minutes, until crust is brown
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