Family Recipes

A Work in Progress.

Fran Ellsworth's Fresh Apple Cake with Frosting

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees
baking time 40-45 minutes
2   8" cake pans
Ingredients:
2 cups Flour
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp Cinnamon
3/4 tsp Soda
1/2 Baking Powder
2 cups Finely chopped Apples
1/2 cup of vegetable oil or apple sauce (I use olive oil)
1/2 cup Milk
2 tsp Vanilla (pure Vanilla is best)
2 Eggs beaten until frothy
1 1/3 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup walnuts

Mix together the dry ingredients.  Add next four ingredients and mix well.  Fold into the batter the frothy beaten eggs.  Add the sugar and walnuts and mix well
Pour into baking pans, and bake for the allotted time.

Cream Cheese Frosting for Fresh Apple Cake

Ingredients
1/2 Cup Butter (I always use butter not margarine)
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla
4 1/2 C Powdered Sugar
1/4 C Milk

Cream butter  and vanilla.
Add powdered sugar alternating with the milk
Beat until light and fluffy.
Frost the cake.

This cake I made for  the first time when the Hero and I were visiting with a some close friends Dave and Pat Thatcher.  Pat, a nurse, was working 3pm - 11pm shift at the hospital.  I made supper to lighten her load.  The fragrance of the cake cooking, and the melt in your mouth taste was a hit with all of the family.
Dave and the Hero are gone now. Pat was institutionalized for Dementia at 55.  I miss them all.

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Peanut Butter Cookies

Mattie (Mathilda Roberts) Whitson
375 degrees
Bake time: 10 min.
Ingredients:
1 C butter
1 C granulated sugar
1 C brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs beaten
1 C peanut butter
3 C Flour
2 tsp soda
Cream butter, sugars, vanilla
Add eggs beat well
Stir in Peanut Butter
Sift dry ingredients together, stir into PB mix.
Roll into balls and put on cookie sheet. .
When taking out of the oven drop the cookie sheet this flattens.
I took this recipe with me when I went off to college.
The Hummer

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Cooked Peaches

Lillian Sherman
6 small whole ripe peaches
(do not peel or remove the pit)
6 C sugar
1/3 C water
Pour Sugar over the peaches, pour water over the sugar.  Simmer 3-4 hours.  (Pit will give and almond like flavor)