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Holiday Cooking Blogger Style
Overwhelmed With Joy is Hosting the 2nd annual Holiday Cooking Blogger Style extravaganza!
You are not going to want to miss out on this! It is a great way to share your favorite holiday recipes and to learn some new ones! So post your favorite recipes, then fill out Mr. Linky at Overwhelmed With Joy's post. Then read other recipes there so you can add some new holiday cooking to your menu this year! Have fun!
Kay's Baked Beans
These beans are really good and a nice twist on a staple side dish! I make them often for family gatherings and church events.
Ingredients:
1 pound ground hot sausage
2 12-14 oz cans pork n beans
2 cup ketchup
2 cup brown sugar
1 10 oz bag frozen onions
1 10 oz bag frozen green peppers
(You can also use a stir fry mix with the two together or use fresh onions and peppers)
Directions:
Brown sausage. Add onions and peppers until cooked. Drain if necessary. Add in sugar and ketchup. Remove from heat. In large pan, dump beans in and add cooked mixture. Stir. Bake at 325 for 1 ½ hours
Grandma's Molasses Cookies
These are some of the best cookies ever and the recipe makes about a kazillion so you have plenty to share (if you want to). We also like to use gingerbread men cookie cutters and then decorate them with raisins and cinnamon hearts....yummy!
Ingredients:
2 pint bottles of Brer Rabbit Molasses (green label if they have it)
1 pint melted lard
1 pint buttermilk
2 eggs
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp ginger
2 tbsp soda
1 cup white sugar
5 pounds flour (won’t need all of it, but have it on hand)
THIS MAKES LOTS OF COOKIES!
Directions:
1. Cream sugar and eggs. Add salt, ginger and soda, mixing well after each addition.
2. Then add lard, molasses and buttermilk, beating after each. Then, add flour (a couple of cups at a time) until you have a soft sticky dough. Do not get the dough stiff or the cookies will be dry.
3. Flour board and roll out dough and cut with juice glass or small cutter (we like to use gingerbread men shaped cookie cutters) We also like to decorate with raisins, cinnamon hearts and icing.
4. Bake at 350 degrees. 10-12 minutes, begin watching.
GREAT WARM and dunked in milk or coffee!!! Freeze well.
