My best friend loves coconut though I am not a big fan, so this one is for you T! If you can get certified gluten free corn flakes, this would be a gluten free dessert too.
Cocoanut Macaroon
1 cup cocoanut
2 egg whites
2 cups Corn Flakes – not crushed
1 cup sugar
Vanilla
Bake at 275
Let cool before removing from pan
Who doesn’t like chocolate chip cookies? They are my go-to when I bake in the winter for our soldiers via Operation Baking GALS. Of course you can make substitutions – white chocolate chips, M&Ms, add nuts, etc. Take it and make it your own! This is not the original Toll House recipe. It appears to yield fewer cookies as it’s about 1/2 the amount of flour.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
3/4 cup sugar, brown & white
1/2 cup butter
Cream
1 egg
1/2 tsp soda
1 1/4 cup flour
1/2 lb Nestles semi-sweet chocolate
Drop and bake 10 min in 400 oven
This recipe calls for scalded milk. I did a little reading about scalded milk, and it’s possible that it won’t be necessary using modern milk. Scalding milk “in the old days” was the process of heating milk to about 180 to kill harmful bacteria, and to destroy the enzymes in milk that would prevent it from thickening in a recipe. According to Ochef.com, modern milk has been pasteurized – essentially the same process – and probably does not need to be scalded again before making this pudding – or any other heirloom recipe. You may do so if you want to.
I sort of feel like I posted this in the past, but I think I’m remembering the Chocolate Upside Down Pudding I posted in April. I’ve not made any puddings that didn’t come from the Jello box, so this is a field I need to try. I bet it’s a darn sight better than the over processed stuff we get at the grocery. You may want to top this with a dollop of whipped cream, or even reserve a dollop of the white pudding to put on top, or you could top with a raspberry, strawberry, mint sprig, etc.
Black & White Pudding
1 pt milk – scald
1 tbsp heaped cornstarch wet with a little of the milk
1/3 c sugar
3 beaten egg yolks
Salt
Cook about one minute and put in sherbet glasses
Melt 1 square bitter chocolate – add 1/3 c sugar. Beat 3 egg whites & put on top of 1st mixture
This one is only a mystery because the top of the paper has worn off over time, if there was a name there at all. Gram certainly loved to cut up these slips of paper, probably advertisements, to use as scratch pads. I finally figured out that these ones that have the big blue writing on them are for a car inspection service, maybe for emissions. My guess would be that puts these notes later in her life, simply because people didn’t seem worried about emissions until the 60s or 70s.
If you think you know what this recipe is for, let us know in the comments.
Mystery Recipe
Juice of 2 lemons
2 cups sugar
2/3 cup flour
2 egg yolks
1 whole egg
2 cups cold water
Make meringue of 2 whites, beaten w. 2 tbsp water. Sweeten w. 2 tbsp sugar
So as I was browsing a certain major news outlet’s website – one that sorta sounds like See Ben Ben – I saw that they are starting up a new food blog. One featuring heirloom recipes.
They are even asking their readers to submit a scan of their granny’s apple pie recipe card, the more spotted up the better! I’ll let that sink in for you for a minute.
Just you remember that they are the copycats and this is the original.
Well, sort of. I found another heirloom recipe site while I was researching the idea for this one, but that’s beside the point.
Do me a solid, my friends, and when See Ben Ben starts taking the credit for the revival of old recipes, point out that my archives go all the way back to March 2010.
Peach pie out, yo.
Gram's Recipe Box 