Great Grandma’s Texas Teacakes: A Family Favorite This is the recipe for my great grandmother’s teacakes; I am a sixth generation Texan. I made these as a child, baked them with my daughter every Christmas, and this year I made them for the first time with my granddaughter! With a little glass my great grandmother…
Great Grandma Keka’s Traditional Fry Bread Fry Bread recipe Ingredients: 2 cups of Blue Bird Flour 4 teaspoons of baking powder 1 teaspoon of salt 2 Tablespoons of lard 2/3 cup warm water Oil or lard for frying Instructions: Combine dry ingredients, hand cut in lard, add water make a workable soft dough, cover let…
Southern-Style Bacon Tomato Gravy Bacon Tomato Gravy Ingredients: Bacon grease (from cooking bacon) 1-2 cans petite diced tomatoes 2-3 tablespoons drippings Flour (for thickening) Salt and pepper (to taste) Instructions: Cook the Bacon: You have to have bacon grease. That’s key… anything else won’t taste right. I cook my bacon in the oven. Line a…
Orange Creamsicle Fudge recipe ingredient 3 cups of sugar 1/3 cup heavy cream 3/4 cup butter 1 jar (7 oz) of marshmallow cream One 11-ounce bag of white chocolate chips 3 teaspoons of orange juice 12 drops of yellow food color Using 9 drops of red food color instruction Prepare a 9×13-inch pan by greasing…
Swim Biscuits: Bringing Back the Forgotten Biscuits Way Have you ever made “Swim Biscuits”? It’s a very old recipe but I’m not sure just how old. When I first made them, I wasn’t sure that it would work like the recipe said it would work…but it did! Ingredients 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups…
Classic Spaghetti with Hearty Meat Sauce Meat Sauce Recipe for Spaghetti Ground chuck weighing two pounds One can of diced tomatoes One can of crushed tomatoes Two cans of tomato sauce Olive oil, three tablespoons Fresh garlic, five cloves One large or two medium onions One green bell pepper Garlic powder, one teaspoon One sachet…
Classic Hobo Dinners: Hamburger Patties and Veggies Hobo Dinner with Hamburger Patties ingredient 1 pound lean ground beef 1 package dry onion soup mix 4 small potatoes, peeled and sliced 1 teaspoon Tony Chachere’s seasoning 2 cups chopped carrots 1 large (or 2 small) onions, chopped 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon powdered garlic Salt…
Homemade Egg Noodles: A Family Tradition When it comes to comfort food, nothing beats homemade egg noodles. This recipe, passed down from my mom, is simple yet rich in flavor, My Mom was born in 1912 ~ her noodles were simple & perfect ~ and really didn’t have an ‘exact’ recipe Ingredients: Three eggs A…
Caramel pound recipe Cake Recipe (RT- room temp) 3 cups SwanDown 3 cups Sugar 3 sticks unsalted butter -RT 8oz phil cream cheese -RT 6 eggs- RT 4oz Sourcream-RT 1tsp baking powder 1tsp almond extract 1/2tsp butter flavor Instructions: Preheat oven to 335. Spray flute/bundt pan with Pam, Bakers Joy, or oil and flour (I…
Creative Chicken Dumplings: Kids’ New Favorite I noticed I didn’t have most of the items I required for the dumplings when I tried to prepare my chicken and dumplings tonight after boiling the chicken. When my kids pleaded with me to make them, I improvised and devised a recipe using what I had on hand….
