Old Settler Baked Beans

Old Settler Baked Beans- Aunt Carolina Wahlquist
3 15 oz. cans of beans, 1 black, 2 white- can use pintos, or butter beans
31 oz. can  Bush's Baked Beans 
1/2 lb. ground beef, cooked, drained, rinsed, and crumbled
1/4 C.  pre-cooked bacon pieces- (buy at Sam's club) 
1 lrg. yellow onion chopped
3/4 C. loose brown sugar
1/4 C. Ketchup
1/4 C. BBQ sauce
2 T. prepared mustard
1 1/2 T. Molasses
I Cook the ground beef in my electric skillet,  drain, rinse through a colander, and crumble, saute the onion-open the cans of beans, rinse well in a colander then add everything together and cook on 350 till hot throughout- 15 minutes or so.
You can put this in a crockpot, or in a pan in the oven to heat through.
a few changes I made from the Original recipe below-
(I ommited the salt,and chili pwd. and reduced the amount of molasses and brown sugar)




Original recipe- serves 10-12 (main course)
3 C. cooked raw beans- or use 1- 16 oz. kidney beans,  1-16 oz. Butter beans
1 31 oz. Pork n' beans
add:
1/2 lb. bacon, cooked, crumbled
1/2 lb. ground beef, cooked, drained, crumbled
1 lrg. yellow onion, diced
1 C. Brown Sugar
1/4 C. catsup
1/4 C. BBQ sauce
2 T. prepared mustard
2T. Molasses
1/2 tsp. chili pwd. (optional)
1 tsp. salt (optional)
may put in a sprayed 9 x 13 pan cook 1 hour at 350


Great for BBQ's, potlucks, or at home with your cornbread and "honey" 
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Buttermilk Scones

1 Qt. buttermilk hot -( I use 1 Qt. Hot water and 3/4 C. Pwd. Milk, mixed well-
add 1 T. of white vinegar, or lemon juice let sit in mixer bowl.
Add 2 T. cooking oil, 2 T. instant yeast, 4 T. Honey, (or 1/2 C. Sugar), 2 eggs, 1  1/2 tsp. Salt, 3 tsp. B. pwd., 1/2tsp. B. Soda, and 4 C. Bread Flour. Mix well, add flour about 4 C. till dough pulls away from the sides of mixing bowl- not too dry. Let raise in pan, or turn out into a greased bowl covered to rise.. till double-
Heat oil in electric skillet or fryer to 375○- 400○
 Roll dough out on a lightly oiled counter top to about 1/4 inch thick, cut into slices with a nylon pizza cutter or plastic knife so you don't scratch your counter . I use oil because flour makes the oil yucky:)
The dough can raise a little after it is rolled and cut, or not, it really isn't important! If it is looking too thick, stretch it out before slipping it into the hot oil- to test the oil I cut a tiny piece and try it out!
Fry about a minute or so till golden then flip over to fry the other side.
Serve with honey, butter, honeybutter, jam, peanut butter, Chili and grated cheese, pwd. sugar, cinnamon sugar- or plain... they are pretty delicious!
We have made this recipe countless times in the past 25 years! I used to make the dough when we lived in Vernal and Robert's secretary would come and pick it up, and she would cook the scones at the Institute for the College kids! We make it when we have big groups of kids over for Family Night and when we have a huge gathering of people, or when we need comfort food! They go great with a bwol of Chili or with soup!

Vanilla Sour Cream Wedding Cake (white)

2 boxes white cake mix - Duncan Hines works great

2 C. all-purpose flour

2 C. Sugar

2  2/3 C. water

1  1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 Veg. oil

2 tsp. vanilla

2 C. Sour Cream

8 large egg whites

Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl, whisk together and add remaining ingredients mix 2 min. (low if using a electirc mixer)

Bake at 325 degree until cake tests done- I start out at 20 min. and check every 5 minutes.

Makes   4 - 9inch pans ( with enough left over for a 2 dozen mini cupcakes) , one 12x 18 sheet or 2  9x13 pans one 12" round and one 8 "round and one 6 "or

one 12" round and one 10" round or one 16" round or one 14" round and one 6" round

 (recipe may be cut in half)

Cool on a rack when cool, put on a plate and put in freezer 40 minutes or so. 

I like to wrap the frozen cake up in several layers of saran wrap and put back in the freezer till I am ready to frost it- it is so much easier to frost a frozen cake! and I leave cake that is extra in the freezer-to have on hand. Trim cake to be flat, use a little regular frosting to fill between the layers and then-

Put frozen cake on a cake plate and put wax paper around the edges (cut off little strips and stick them under to keep the plate clean while frosting:)

Frost with Vanilla buttercream frosting:

6 T. Soft Butter

1 lb. Pwd. Sugar

4 T. Milk, half and half or Cream

1 tsp. mexican vanilla- of course!

tiny dash of salt

Mix up, take a small amount( 3/4 C. ) 

and add a little more milk to make thinner-

use this to lightly frost the cake- this keeps the crumbs from being a problem.

Then frost the cake with the rest of the buttercream frosting. to get the frosting smooth-

run the knife under hot water and smooth over frosting:)

Just for fun....We like to decorate ours with a few flowers cut from large marshmallows- just cut the end with kitchen shears into petals, or to make longer petals cut them lengthwise use a bit of frosting to hold down petals, and a candy for the center- I used red  skittles.

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Almost Krispy Kremes- Aunt Amy Torgersen

Almost Krispy Kremes

1 1/2 C. Warm Milk

2 T. yeast

1 1/2 C. cold mashed potatoes

1/2 C. sugar

1/2 C. oil

2 tsp. salt

2 tsp. vanilla

 1/2 tsp. Baking soda

1/2 tsp. baking powder.

2 eggs

 5 1/2- 6 c. flour

Dissolve yeast in milk, add potaotes, sugar, oil salt, vanilla, b.soda, b.pwd., and eggs, 

mix well, add enough flour to form a soft dough. 

Place in a greased bowl, turnign once to grease the top.

Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.

 Punch down. roll out on a floured surface 1/2 inch thick. Cut with a 3" donut cutter- (I use a glass) use a pop cap to cut out the center:)

Place on greasead baking sheets and let rise until almost doubled, about 45 minutes.

Meanwhile, make cinnamon sugar with 1 C. sugar and 2 tsp. cinnamon. 

Heat oil to 350 Fry donuts until golden , flip over. Drain on paper towels,

 roll in cinnamon sugar or drizzle with a pwd. sugar glaze.

Yeild about 2 1/2 dozen

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Cinnamon Sheet Cake- Breakfast, Dessert, or snack!

Cinnamon Sheet Cake- From Aunt Kaylene 

Mix together-

 3 C. flour      ½ C. melted butter

2 eggs             2 tsp. vanilla

 In a separate bowl mix:

1 ½ C. Milk

½ C. melted butter

2 Eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

add to dry ingredients and mix. Pour onto a greased 10x 15 pan.

in another bowl, m ix:

½ C. melted butter 2 T. flour, ½ C. brown sugar, 2 tsp. cinnamon

Mix and drizzle up and down cake so that it is in rows. Then take a knife and run it through the cake back and forth, swirling as you go, then go the other direction.

Bake at 375°, 15-20 minutes, till golden.

Glaze:

1 ½ C.  Pwd. Sugar, 2 T. milk, ½ tsp. vanilla- mix and drizzle over warm cake- serve warm or cold.

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Banana Sheet Cake- from Denise Rigby Hibbard 4th Ward

Banana Sheet Cake- A favorite!

1 ½ C. Sugar        2 tsp. vanilla*

1 C. sr. cream or plain yogurt

1 C. butter ( can use imperial margarine for ½)

2 eggs

 1 ½ C. mashed ripe bananas

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking soda

2 C. flour

 Combine and spread into a  Pam sprayed, 10x 15 pan. Bake at 375°

25 minutes (until golden) on the middle rack of oven. 

Icing: Melt 1 cube butter on stove top, take from heat and ad 2 C. pwd. sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, and 3T milk, stir until smooth, spread on slightly warm cake.

Enjoy!

* I use Mexican Vanilla from a Mexican grocery store- there is one across from Arctic Circle in Rexburg
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Fruit Pizza- Kristin's Recipe

Fruit Pizza- Kristin's favorite!

1/2 C. butter (soft)  1/2 C shortening (don't substitute)

1 1/2 C. sugar         2 tsp. Cream of Tartar

2 3/4 C. flour          1/4 tsp. salt

1 tsp. soda

2 eggs

mix all together and spread into a greased 10 x 15 jelly roll pan. 

Bake at 400 degrees for 10 min.

Let cool

sauce: 8 oz. cream cheese 3/4 C. sugar, 2 T pineapple juice, spread evenly on top of crust.

 Top with fruit of your choice: mandarin oranges, sliced bananas, strawberries, kiwi, blueberries, peaches, pineapple, etc.

score into squares before decorating and make each piece the same, or make them all different.

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