Homemade Krispy Kremes

krispy_creme — Yes, this is the actual recipe! 🙂

Donut Recipe:

3 tbsp milk
3 tbsp boiling water
1 tsp dry active yeast
8 oz all-purpose flour (a little under 2 cups – I recommend you measure and weigh. See my note above)
1 1/2 oz sugar (about 3 tablespoons)
1 egg
1 oz butter, cold to room temperature (just don’t melt it, okay?)
dash of salt

Enough oil to cover the bottom few inches of a wok, or a deep fryer.

Directions:
In a large measuring jug, combine the milk and boiling water. Add a teaspoon of the sugar and the yeast. Stir it gently, then leave it in a warm place for the yeast to activate (aka foam).
In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, the rest of the sugar, and the salt. Cut in the butter using your fingers or a pastry blender, until it resembles crumbs.
Add the egg (give it a quick beat) and yeast mixture to the flour mix, and mix into a smooth dough. This usually takes about 5 minutes of mixing.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly-floured counter and knead for about 5 to 10 minutes—it should feel springy and little bubbles should form under the surface. Place it back in the bowl, cover with a cloth or plastic wrap, and let rise for about an hour until double in size.
Once risen, place the dough onto the counter and cut it into 4 pieces. One piece at a time, stretch it into a long rope about an inch to an inch and a half wide. Cut strips about an inch long, ball em up with your hands, and place them on a baking tray or wire rack to wait.
Cover the doughnuts holes with a cloth to rise while you heat the oil to 375F.
Place the doughnuts into the oil and fry until golden brown on each side, about 2 minutes. Be sure to fry only a few at a time so they don’t overcrowd and stick together.
Drain on a paper towel or wire rack over a cloth, before glazing them. Be sure to glaze them warm, or else they won’t get that delicious coverage!

Glaze:

1/3 cup butter
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
4 tablespoons hot water or as needed

A brief note: I recommend a scale, as not all flours (and cup measurements) are made equal.
2 cups of my Canadian flour in my Canadian cups on my scale might be more or less than yours. 🙂
If you don’t have a scale, start at 1 1/2 cups and work your way up from there.

Amish Sugar Cream Pie

Amish_Sugar_PieThanks to Theresa Roebuck for sharing this recipe from Facebook’s Texas Recipes.

Chef assig’s Note:

My whole family loves this recipe, even my husbands family loves it! This came from an Amish family in Indiana.

Ingredients:

3/4 cup white sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 cups half-and-half cream
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/2 cup margarine or 1/2 cup real butter
1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

In sauce pan combine, white sugar, salt, half-and-half and whipping cream.

Bring to a boil.

In another sauce pan, combine brown sugar & cornstarch.

Gradually whisk in hot mixture into brown sugar mixture.

Add margarine/or butter (to me this makes it even better.).

Cook over med. heat, whisk constantly, 5 min or until thick.

Simmer 1 minute and stir in vanilla.

Pour into uncooked pie shell and sprinkle w/cinnamon and nutmeg.

Bake at 375°F for 25 minutes.

Note:
Use commercial pie crust or MAKE YOUR OWN
I recommend “100 Year Old Pie Crust” for this pie.

Red, White and Blue Dessert

  1. Toss 2 C strawberries in 1/2 C sugar
  2. Create egg white nests
  3.  – Beat two egg whites to stiff peaks
  4.  – Near end add in 1/2 C sugar mixed with 1 tsp cornstarch
  5.  – Add 1/4 tsp orange flower water *
  6.  – Add 1 tsp white balsamic vinegar
  7. Makes nests on waxed paper
  8. Bake 275 degrees for 20 minutes
  9. Turn off oven, crack oven door, let remain in oven for another hour
  10. Meanwhile take 2 C strawberries and 1 TBL sugar and puree into “coolie”
  11. Put 1/4 C coolie onto the bottom of a white plate
  12. Place nests onto center of coolie
  13. Top with whipped cream (cream, sugar, vanilla)
  14. Top with strawberries
  15. Sprinkle with blueberries

Fried Won Ton

Types of Pasta Wrappers

  • Won Ton Wrapper – Thin and small – about 30-40 per inch
  • Gyoza – similar to won ton, but round
  • Spring Roll Wrapper – medium sized
  • Egg Roll Wrapper – larger size
  • Mu Shu wrapper – larger and thinner
  • Rice Paper – larger and paper thin
  1. Buy a pack of won ton wrappers from the grocery store.
  2. Your filling should be some kind of protein mixed with sugar, soy, salt, pepper, mirin, sesame oil, chopped water chestnuts, ginger and chives.  Use the below recipe if you desire.  Proteins include hamburger, ground pork, sausage, tofu, etc.
  3. Brown 1/2 LB protein filling, then put in all the additional ingredients
  4. Combine 1/4 C scallions, 1 egg,  1 tsp sesame oil, 2 TBL chopped bell pepper, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp ground pepper, 1/4 tsp Thunder Powder, 2 tsp Worcestershire, 2 tsp ketchup or soy, and 1 tsp mustard.
  5. Mix with cooked protein
  6. Put 1 tsp mixture into center of won ton wrapper
  7. Use flour and water to moisten the edges
  8. Fold into triangle and use a fork to press and seal tightly, getting as much air out as possible.  Pleat final product.
  9. Keep covered with a damp towel as you work.
  10. Fry 8-10 at a time at 365 – 380º

A Nice Dipping Sauce

  1. In 1 TBL safflower oil, brown 4 cloves garlic and some grated ginger.
  2. Remove the garlic and discard.
  3. Stir in 1 C orange juice.
  4. Simmer to reduce.
  5. Add 1/4 C rice vinegar, and 1/2 C brown sugar.
  6. Add in 1 TBL soy sauce and 2 TBL water mixed with 2 tsp corn starch.

 

Urban Farm Grape Juice

Here at UrbanFarm.info we have two grape arbors.  One producing white, the other red grapes.

In Arizona, grapes never get to the size that you can get in the grocery store, but we can produce some very good grape juice.

Here’s how.

  1. Pick your grapes (let’s say enough to carry in the front tail of your shirt or apron)
  2. Wash thoroughly
  3. Remove stem and other stem pieces
  4. Rinse again
  5. Measure out 1 gallon of grapes . Measure 4 quarts of water into a large bowl. That will be the line that will indicate 1 gallon of grapes.
  6. Pulse cleaned grapes in food processor to pulverize
  7. Cook covered on medium heat for 30 minutes, Stirring every 5 minutes
  8. Simmer covered on low heat 60 minutes minutes, stirring every 10-20 minutes
  9. Add 1 CU sugar near the end of the cooking process
  10. Strain and refrigerate . What works well is to find a metal bowl that conforms to the inside of your colander. You can press the juice through. Discard the pulp.
  11. Enjoy the following morning when chilled

Donna’s Brunch Menu

For each individual recipe, visit www.GrandpaCooks.com

Menu

  • Chips and Shopping List Salsa
  • Chile Relleno stuffed with Picadillo
  • Gazpacho
  • Refried Beans topped with Queso Quesadilla
  • Pico de Gallo
  • Guacamole
  • Strawberry Flowers

STEPS:

1. Open up Chips and Salsa. Review Shopping List Salsa

2. Prepare Picadillo – Relleno stuffing
– Set aside for later use

3. Prepare Guacamole – Prepare ingredients and put into large mixing bowl
– Refrigerate so that flavors can meld as we prepare the rest

4. Prepare Pico de Gallo – Prepare each ingredient and place in bowl
– Put in Fridge to meld

5. Blacken peppers – Each person does their own
– Place into bag to separate skins

6. Prepar Gazpacho – Prepare each ingredient and put into blender
– Blend together
– Strain and refrigerate

7. Remove skins from peppers – Each does their own

8. Stuff peppers – not too tightly – leave overlap for toothpick

9. Prepare batter

10. Roll peppers in flour, then in batter, then put on baking sheet

11. Cut strawberry flowers

12. Prepare Refried Beans

Banana Brekkers

TWO SMALL BAKING DISHES

1 TBL Butter and
2 TBL corn meal or mesquite meal, mainly to coat bowl.

FIRST MIXING BOWL (will be emptied early)
1/2 CU (LARGER) bread crumbs

SECOND MIXING BOWL
Left-over corn meal from Step 2
1/2 CU (FINE) bread crumbs
1+ TBL brown sugar
1+ TBL granulated sugar
2 TBL cold butter for the top

KEEP IN FRIDGE UNTIL READY FOR USE

FIRST MIXING BOWL (now empty)
2 ripe bananas, sliced and diced
1/4 cup orange juice
2 tsp Grandpa’s CinnaSugar®

1. Separate your bread crumbs into two equal portions across a FIRST and a SECOND medium sized mixing bowls.
2. Grease two small ramikans or baking dishes with butter, then put corn meal in bottom and toss until coated.
3. Dump remaining corn meal into the “SECOND” mixing bowl with the FINE bread crumbs
4. Add sugars and 1 tsp cinnamon into “SECOND” mixing bowl, then set aside.
5. Sprinkle course bread crumb mixture into bottom of baking dishes. This should empty out the “FIRST” mixing bowl
6. Slice the banans lengthwise, then cut into small pieces across and place into FIRST mixing bowl
7. Add orange juice and second tsp cinnamon and nutmeg in bowl with bananas.
8. Evenly spread fruit mixture over crumbs and rinse FIRST bowl
9. Remove butter from refrigerator and dice as small as you can.
10. Add into SECOND bowl and sprinkle fine crumb mixture evenly over fruit.
11. Bake at 375 F approx 30 minutes
12. Cool slightly, then serve warm.

Notes A colander with large holes works well to separate your bread crumbs.

 

Holiday Beef Tenderloin

The tenderloin is from the back of the cow, just in front of the butt and behind the ribs.  There is not much movement there, so there is not a lot of muscle, so you end up with a very tender cut of meat.

Ingredients

  • 3-4 pound center cut Beef Tenderloin

Step by Step

  1. Put into mixing bowl :: 1 TBL each Grandpa's Thunder Powder or Arghhh Powder, brown sugar
  2. Mix with 1 tsp salt, pepper and corn starch, baking soda
  3. Keep any ground remnants for use the following day
  4. Tie your tenderloin with butchers twine every inch to help with even cooking and help with equal separation
  5. Pat roast dry and cover very well with your ground ingredients
  6. Let rest 1 hour at room temperature or uncovered in the fridge overnight.
  7. Bring up to room temperature the next day – on the counter for about 1 hour
  8. Chop one entire head of garlic, two carrots, two stalks celery and one large onion and saute in a pan.
  9. Toss in 1 TBL paprika and whatever remnants of your rub you might still have
  10. Add 1/2 C water to the bottom of the pan
  11. Dump the pan into the bottom of baking pan
  12. Fill the bed the rest of the way with baby potatoes.
  13. Bake at 425º for about 15 minutes
  14. Remove the baking dish, and put tenderloin on top of the chopped vegetables
  15. Brush lightly with EVOO
  16. Reduce heat to 300º and cook 50-60 minutes
  17. At 25 minutes rotate your pan in the oven – front to back
  18. It is better to cook to an internal temperature of 120 – 125º (for medium rare) rather than just watching the clock
  19. Remove from oven and tent with foil and let rest 15 minutes
  20. Cut medallions and plate before clipping off the string.
  21. Clip off strings and serve with veggies.

Persillade Sauce

  • 3/4 C chopped parsley
  • 2 minced scallions
  • 8 cornichons or gerkin pickles
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 2 TBL capers – chopped
  • 5 cloves minced garlic
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1/4 salt and pepper
  • 1/2 C EVOO

Serve with potatoes

Balloon Wine

24 OZ Frozen Grape Juice Concentrate
4 CU sugar
1/4 tsp Rapid Rise Yeast (about half a package)

1. Mix all ingredients in an empty gallon jug (an empty apple juice bottle works great.)
2. Fill with tap water to about two inches from top of jug. This is necessary for expansion
3. Place 12″ balloon over mouth of the jug
4. As the wine matures, the balloon will expand.
5. When the balloon fails to expand (falls over) the wine is ready to drink

Wine yeast is preferable to bread yeast, but either works equally as well. The taste is a bit better with wine yeast.

 

Baked Zucchini

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 Zucchini
  • 2 pieces of broken bread
    or 3/4 C soda crackers or pretzels
  • 1 clove garlic (minced)
  • 2 eggs
  • salt & pepper
  • 2 oz jar diced pimento (or chopped red bell pepper)
  • 1/4 C sharp chedder cheese – grated

STEP BY STEP

  1. Boil zucchini just until tender (about 10 min)
  2. Drain and toss with broken bread.
  3. Mix w/ garlic, salt, pepper, and egg – mix well.
  4. Pour mixture into greased ramekins
  5. Cover w/ grated cheese
  6. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes.

Baked Beans – COLLECTION

Regular ol’ Baked Beans

2 CU prepared beans – See recipe for Dry Bean Processing
¾ lb fat salt pork or 2 strips bacon
½ tsp salt
3 TBL brown sugar
½ tsp mustard
1/2 onion – chopped small
1 TBL ketchup
1 clove garlic – minced

1 a Put pork on glass plate and cover with paper towel.
1 b Cook in microwave 30 seconds and change towels.
1 c Cook another 30 seconds.
1 d Repeat one more time if necessary – ususally not necessary
2. Put cooked pork in bottom of glass casserold dish (that has a cover available)
3. Strain beans, reserving liquid
4. Add beans into pot, burying pork
5. Mix in all other listed ingredients
6. Add Reserved Liquid (from beans) pouring over top to barely, but completely, cover – use spoon to work liquid through beans
7. Cover with glass lid and bake 2 hours at 300 degrees
8. Uncover and cook 1 more hour

Reserved liquid means the liquid in which the beans did their final soak in, and were subsequently cooked in.

Boston Baked Beans


… From scratch.

Boston Baked Beanss (1)

https://www.grandpacooks.com/recipes/boston-baked-beans/

Boston Baked Beans (2)

https://www.grandpacooks.com/recipes/boston-baked-beans-2/

Backyard Baked Beans

https://www.grandpacooks.com/recipes/backyard-baked-beans/

Kettle Cooked Baked Beans

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Simple Baked Beans

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Bush’s Boston Baked Beans

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Bacon Corn Relish

1/4 CU Cobb smoked bacon (thickly sliced)
1/2 CU fresh corn
1 TBL parsley (chopped)
1 TBL green olives (chopped)
2 TBL olive oil
1/4 CU red onion (chopped)
2 TBL fresh lemon juice
1 TBL of ANY ONE of basil, thyme OR red peppers

1. Cook bacon in olive oil until crispy
2. Break apart bacon and add onion
3. When onion is translucent, add all other ingredients
4. Cook for another 5 minutes, then serve with Pork Tenderloin

Beef Jerkey

1 CU Jerkey Cure (see below)
extremely thin strips of very lean beef tenderloin (trim off fat)

Instructions 1. Marinate 24 -48 hours (use plastic bag for easy agitation)
2. Put in dehydrator for 12-16 hours (jerkey should splinter just a bit when bent)
OR
2. Put in 200 degree oven for 4-6 hours

Special Steps JERKEY CURE:
1/4 cup A1 Sauce
1/4 cup Worcestershire Sauce
1 TBSP Soy Sauce
1/4 cup Red Wine
1 TBSP salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 TBSP cayenne pepper (red pepper)
1 tsp Tabasco Sauce
1 tsp Garlic Salt
1 TBSP Celery Salt

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