Oatmeal Raisin Drop Cookies

 

Our day started by hauling the Rpod and tow vehicle in to see the mechanic.  Tow vehicle to make sure fluid, belts etc. are in good shape and ready for our next trip.  The Rpod to have the brakes and wheel bearings looked at, not because we have had problems, this was a proactive maintenance visit and we are glad we did.  

There was a major problem developing with the right brake and we were able to get it looked after before the problem sidelined a vacation.  

Time and money well spend.

After dropping off we went out for breakfast and a great cup of coffee.

Followed by a quick stop at the post office to mail Happy Mail.

Our granddaughter came over and started baking with her grandfather while I finished up some crafting that will need to be posted before we leave.  While looking out the kitchen window I noticed how beautiful the hollyhocks are.  All the kitchen window this time of year look out on beautiful flowers vistas.

These two had too much fun making cookies for our trip.  

They make quite the pair in the kitchen and they want to share this family favourite with you.

Oatmeal Drop Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup shortening

1.5 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 ¾ cups flour

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 cups rolled oats

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ cup sour milk

1 cup raisins

Directions:

Cream shortening and sugar together.  Add eggs and beat until fluffy. Sift flour, salt, soda, baking powder and cinnamon together.  Add dry ingredients and milk alternately into sugar and shortening.  Mix thoroughly.  Fold in raisins.  Drop onto a greased baking sheet and bake at 350 F for 15 minutes.

Thank you for coming along today

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2019 twosnydergirls

Mini Pizza Quiche

The best suppers don’t need long recipes, or hours of preparation sometimes all you need is what is in your refrigerator, imagination and grandchildren.

Mini Pizza Quiche is just such a recipe. 

We had made pizza with the girls the previous weekend and so we had leftover pepperoni in the freezer, eggs, shredded cheese, and green pepper in the refrigerator.

Mini Pizza Quiche

Ingredients

16 slices of peperoni

1 ½ cups shredded Swiss cheese

1 cup diced green pepper

Oil enough to grease 4 ramekins

6 eggs

½ cup milk

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 teaspoon turmeric

1/8 teaspoon salt

Pinch of salt

 Directions

Grease 4 ramekins

Place 4 pieces of pepperoni in each ramekin

Next divide the dices green peppers among the four ramekins

Top each ramekin with Swiss cheese

Beat the eggs, milk, spices, salt and pepper together and pour equally into greased ramekins

Bake at 350 degrees F. for 25 minutes or until cooked through.

From Our Table To Yours

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2017 twosnydergirls 

Apple Pops Children and Pinterest

Pinterest has too be the best antidote against boredom and a great way to get children (even teens) to put down their devices and join in.

Having been to pick apples the previous week we were looking for an apple treat and found Apple Pops.

All the ingredients were readily available in our kitchen: chocolate chips, caramel treats, apples and candy making sticks.

The recipe and directions provided by Mom Loves Baking is very easy to follow.  

  

We made the following changes:

1. 1   We melted our caramels in the microwaves as directed and then kept is soft and easy to apply by placing it in a hot water bath.
2. 2.     We also used sucker sticks and cut some of the apple slices in ½ making a nice treat for us older people who appreciate less sweet.

We also recommend that you make and eat your Apple Pops as our grandchildren call them all in the same day.  Making them in the morning and refrigerating for an hour is perfect for eating.

We found that by day two the chocolate slides off the apple slice.

Here is the link to Chocolate Turtle Apple Slices 

what our granddaughter affectionately call Apple Pops

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2017 twosnydergirls

Watermelon Rice Cereal Treats

Pinterest and children go together like peanut butter and jam and 

they are  just as much fun.

After just 15 minutes on Pinterest we had a list of 10 foods, crafts or activities that they would like to do.

Here is #1 only because we had all of the ingredients at hand on a Canadian Thanksgiving Saturday.

Watermelon Rice Cereal Treats

There are numerous posts dedicated to making a rice cereal treats that look like  watermelons.  We have included a few at the bottom of this post.

We used food colour only because we do not enjoy the taste of Kool Aid powder in our rice treats and many of the recipes include this drink powder to help colour the cereal.

Other recipes use chocolate chips or raisin on top of the cereal treat to create watermelon seeds and we expanded on this adding a ¼ cup of chocolate chips to the warm marshmallow batter to add a little chocolate treat to the inside.

Watermelon Rice Krispie Treats by YoYomax12  

Kraft Watermelon RICE KRISPIES TREATS® 

Penny Pinchin Mom Watermelon Rice Krispie Treats 

Grandma Snyder

 

©2013 – 2017 twosnydergirls 

Christmas Peanut Butter Crisps

One of the many memory treasures we have come across in the distribution of Great Grandma’s earthly belongs has been a plastic bag stuffed full of handwritten recipes.  The recipes are not written on new sheets of paper, they were written on scraps of paper recycled into recipe cards and these windows into Great Grandma’s life are a treasure equal to the recipes themselves.

Christmas is almost here so we decided to start with an easy none bake recipe, one with ingredients we had on hand.  This recipe did not have a title and taking some literary licence Emily has titled them Peanut Butter Crisp.

This recipe has been written on a Dear Reader advertisement for Maclean’s magazine.  As a child I can remember this magazine sitting on the side table beside my mother’s chair in the living.  The large photographs on the covers capturing my imagination.  As I hold this yellowed piece of paper a memory floods over me and I share it with our granddaughters.  I am sitting on the hardwood floor captivated by the Maclean’s cover picture a skydiver which resulted in an afternoon of imaginative play.  I am that skydiver and for the rest of that afternoon I jumped from airplanes, tumbling in the air until I am caught by the wind and soar high above the earth in search of wonderful things.  With a smile I can remember my father calling upstairs “what is all the jumping about?  Nothing Dad I reply” and continue my play.  I was jumping from my bed onto a soft landing of blankets and pillows.

I have googled Maclean’s magazines and found the issue that resulted in that wonderful day it is the December 2, 1964 cover and was 8 years old.

 Christmas Peanut Butter Crisps

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Rice Krispies
• 1 cup peanut butter
• 1 cup icing sugar
• 2 tablespoons margarine or butter
• Candy sprinkles

Directions:

1. Mix everything together except for the sprinkles in a large bowl. 
2. If you are working with children butter their hands and let them have some fun mixing.
3. Form into small balls (again children love doing this)
4. Roll the balls in the candy sprinkles
5. Refrigerate for one hour and eat. 
6. Store in a container in the refrigerator or a cool area of your home.

From Our Table to Yours 

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2016 twosnydergirls

Beet Muffins

Our granddaughters love looking through the old scrapbook cuttings and handwritten recipes that have been handed down to us over the years.  We have become the repository for these well used scrapbooks, boxes and notebooks from both sides of the family and today's recipe comes from this treasure trove of recipes.

What is unique about this recipe is that you use shredded beets and the taste is wonderful, much like a Morning Glory Muffin with just a hint of beet flavour.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup wheat germ
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp salt
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup oil
• 3 cups shredded beets
• 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 cup shredded coconut
• 2 tsp baking soda

Directions:

1. Mix all of your dry ingredients together (flour, wheat germ, sugar,cinnamon, salt, soda, raisin, walnuts, coconut)
2. Mix all of the wet ingredients together (eggs, oil, beets)
3. Slowing pour the wet into the dry mixing as you pour
4. Spoon into muffin tins
5. Bake at 350 F for approx 25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean

From Our Table to Yours

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2015 twosnydergirls

Christmas Cookies Gluten Free

No Bake Frying Pan Dainties

Frying Pan Dainties

Grandma is anyone born in 1959 still alive?  This question was asked with such seriousness that Grandpa and I broke out laughing.  Emily also laughed when she realized that both of us were born before 1959 and so our cookie making adventure started with laughter.

The girls wanted to go to Great Aunt Marjorie’s recipe box and find a new Christmas cookie to make.  It was there that we found “No Bake Recipes” a handmade cook book but together by the Friendship Group Pioneer Memorial United Church Ipswich Road Hamilton, Ontario 1959.

Frying Pan Dainties was picked because we had all of the ingredients on hand.  This is a very sweet cookie and so make your balls small or cut back on the sugar used.  Here is the recipe from  “No Bake Recipes”

Frying Pan Dainties

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups chopped dates
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs beaten
• 1 cup gluten free Rice Krispies
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups shredded coconut

1 cup sugar

Directions:

1. Cut dates in half
2. In a heavy frying pan add dates, eggs, sugar and cook stirring constantly for 15 minutes on medium heat. The mixture will thicken.
3. Then add the Rice Krispies and vanilla and stir
4. Set aside until cool enough to handle
5. Place shredded coconut in a shallow dish and spoon small portions of the cooled mixture on the coconut.  With a spoon roll the batter in the coconut until covered enough that you can roll into a ball.
6. Store in a covered container.

A rich sugary inside

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2014 twosnydergirls

Apple Cinnamon French Toast

Breakfast at Grandpa’s house is never dull and often includes ice cream and candy from Grandpa’s candy drawer.  Today we are sharing with you a family favourite, Sautéed Apples on French Toast.

Ingredients:

• 4 pieces of bread
• 3 eggs
• ¼ cup almond milk
• 3 apples peeled and sliced
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 2 Tablespoons cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 Tablespoons coconut oil
• Maple Syrup
• (ice cream, and a candy drawer)

Directions:

• Beat your eggs and milk together adding the vanilla
• Dip your bread into the egg mixture, be careful not to over soak the bread
• Fry the bread in a little coconut oil until brown on both sides and place in a warming oven.
• While the French toast is cooking have someone peel and slice the apples.  We like using the press slicer because we do not have to worry about little fingers getting cut.

• Toss the apples in the lemon juice to prevent browning
• Once the French toast is done sautéed the apple in the remaining coconut oil until brown
• Place the apples atop the French toast sprinkle liberally with cinnamon and top with maple syrup.

Alternatively, make a rabbits face or add ice cream, jelly beans and one large marshmallow

Regardless if you have it plain for with candy enjoy!

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2014 twosnydergirls

Raisin-Apple Baked Breakfast Gluten Free

Raisin-Apple Baked Breakfast

Gluten Free

This recipe was inspired by and adapted from Gooseberry Patch’s Fall Favorites Apple-Raisin Oven Pancake.  I came across the Fall Favorites recipe book in a local thrift shop paying 25 cents for what has turned out to be a wonderful little cookbook. 

The recipe itself is also dairy free and when Grandpa and the girls sat down to breakfast they added ice cream and maple syrup.  I enjoyed it as made and you can decide for yourself how your family will eat this wonder breakfast treat.

Ingredients:

2 apples cored and sliced (we did not peel our apples)

½ cup of raisins

1 tablespoons brown sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

4 eggs

2/3 of cup Almond milk

2/3 of cup gluten free flour mix (for this recipe I used Robin Hood gluten free flour and you can use your favourite gluten free flour blend)

2 Tablespoons melted coconut oil

Directions:

1. Mix the apple slices, raisins, brown sugar and cinnamon together and place them in a greased pie plate and place in a 350 degree F. oven for about 10 minutes.

2. Blend together the eggs, flour, almond milk, coconut oil.

3. When the apples and raisin are cooked take the plate out of the oven and increase the temperature to 450 degrees.

4. Pour the liquid mixture over the apples and raisin and return it to the oven for a further 10 to 20 minutes.  Keep checking the pie after 10 minutes once the pie is set and starting to turn brown remove from oven and serve hot.

This also works well with Pears instead of or with apples and currents instead of or with raisins.

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2015 twosnydergirls