3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 1/2 cup chicken or vegetable broth 1/2 cup milk salt and pepper to taste Melt butter in pan, stir in flour and cook, stirring rapidly until thick. Slowly pour in broth while stirring, then stir in milk. Cook until thickened. Remove from heat and stir in salt and pepper. [...]
Whether I cook a whole chicken or chicken pieces, I save the bones and skin and any liquid and make homemade chicken stock. The other day I cooked a whole chicken in the roaster. I used some of the meat for dinner that night and stripped the rest off the bones and froze it. Then [...]
While cooking some old fashioned oats on the stove, add some peach sauce I canned last summer, some chopped Georgia pecans (thanks to sister Louise!), some brown sugar, dab of butter. mmm good!
After Thanksgiving day dinner, pull as much of the turkey meat as you can off the turkey carcass. Put the bones, skin, fat into a large pot and cover with cold water. Simmer for at least 4 hours. I put mine back into the roaster oven and simmer it overnight. You can add chopped onion, [...]
Whenever I mention to people that I am making bread, they say “oh! you have a bread machine!” NO I do NOT have a bread machine. You do not need a bread machine to make bread for pete sakes! You just mix the dough and then you knead it for about 10 minutes. It is [...]
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 1/4 cup sugar 4 cups milk 1/4 teaspoon vanilla Directions: Blend cocoa powder and sugar in a bowl. In saucepan, bring milk to scalding, stirring frequently. Mix 1/3 cup hot milk into cocoa-sugar mix and pour that into the saucepan. Stir and add vanilla.
If you have a small amount of fruit that you think is going to go bad before it gets eaten, make a jar of jam! It took me awhile to find a recipe for only one jar. 1 cup of prepared fruit (peeled, pitted, cut up) 3/4 cup sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice Let [...]
Quiche is very versatile and you can put all sorts of things in it. Here is a basic recipe to start you out. 1 1/2 cups half and half 4 beaten eggs 1/8 teaspoon salt, dash of pepper 2 cups shredded cheese 2 tablespoons flour 8 slices broken up cooked bacon, or some chopped ham [...]
4 cups milk, plus 1/2 cup non-fat powdered milk 2 tablespoons plain store bought yogurt Directions: Let the store bought yogurt sit at room temperature while – warm the milk to 180 degrees and let cool to 110 degrees. Stir frequently while warming so it doesn’t scorch. Stir a little of the 110 degree milk [...]
We like this bread for our everyday bread. We add chopped walnuts to it for our own version of OatNut bread that usually cost $3 and more a loaf at the store. 3 cups boiling water 1 1/2 cup rolled oats 3/4 cup honey or molasses (or a combination of) 3 tablespoons butter 3 teaspoons [...]
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