What's your favorite Traditional recipe?

[commomom]

What is the one thing you or your family makes during the holidays that you just can't do without? Share it with us.

[commomom]

This recipe is one my husband's mother was famous for. His family still makes it every Christmas and Thanksgiving. I also make a couple of them every year for church and my husband's work and one for home too.

Warm:
1 cup of milk with 1/4 cup of margarine or butter, until the butter is melted about half way.

Beat in:
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 eggs

Mix separately:
1 1/2 cups bread flour
2/3 cup dry milk powder
1 package dry yeast

Beat into milk mixture, cover and leave it alone for 45 minutes to an hour. Add another 1 1/2 cups of flour, mix very well, cover and freeze (more or less.) Leave it in the freezer until it is all frozen, then put it into the refrigerator for 3 or 4 hours.

Dump onto floured surface, flour your hands and knead it until it is smooth and waxy feeling, but still cold.

Melt the other half of the stick of butter/margarine.
Mix together 1 cup sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon.

Roll out dough as wide and thin as you can, cover with melted butter, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
Roll it up on the long side, using a spatula to pick it up carefully if it sticks.
Put it into a greased pan, any shape you want, brush with melted butter. Grease scissors and make 1/2 inch cut into the dough (make sure you don't go all the way through, then separate the pieces over a bit. Cover with plastic wrap, let rise until double in bulk.

Bake at 350 degrees until it is nice and brown and you cannot make a dent in the whitish part in the middle.

Turn out onto serving dish, cover quickly with a frosting of confectioner's sugar mixed with just enough water and 1 tsp. vanilla to turn it into a thickish grey paste.

[lightitup]

the one thing my family can not do without. Hmmm I would have to say it would be cookies. I make these chocolate mice that they love too. It is just to easy too.
One bag of hershey kisses half of them melted
One jar of marschiano cherries drained and dried alittle
sliced almonds.
small box of red hots for the eyes

take one cherry with the stem attached for the tail, dip the cherry in the melted chocolate and stick a hershey kiss on the opposite end of the stem from the cherry for the head. Use the almonds for the ears stuck to the top of the hershey kiss with melted chocolate and the red hot for the eyes on the head above the point of the hershey kisss. Wala a mouse for christmas.

[Ervserver]

Cutout cookies decorated with various colors of frostings and sugar sprinkles.

[Snowflake]

Lots of things, but I do like Divinity, and I would have to say cut out cookies with icing.

[commomom]

the one thing my family can not do without. Hmmm I would have to say it would be cookies. I make these chocolate mice that they love too. It is just to easy too.
One bag of hershey kisses half of them melted
One jar of marschiano cherries drained and dried alittle
sliced almonds.
small box of red hots for the eyes

take one cherry with the stem attached for the tail, dip the cherry in the melted chocolate and stick a hershey kiss on the opposite end of the stem from the cherry for the head. Use the almonds for the ears stuck to the top of the hershey kiss with melted chocolate and the red hot for the eyes on the head above the point of the hershey kisss. Wala a mouse for christmas.

I'm not real big on chocolate covered cherries myself but my husband and the kids would love those. I may have to make some for them.

[commomom]

Cutout cookies decorated with various colors of frostings and sugar sprinkles.

I make some great, lightly spiced butter cookies, actually the kids and I make them every year. We have more cookie cutters than you can shake a stick at. Lots of fun to be had by all.:c39:

[Ervserver]

Yes they are a lot of fun to make, my mom has some cookie cutters that have been handed down thru the family.

[commomom]

This summer I gained a whole bunch that used to belong to my mother-in-law. Every time I go to MA to visit my family, my father-in-law gives me a few things to take home. Most of them usually have to do with cooking.

[Ervserver]

You must have quite a collection of them, not only would I like to see them but I'd like a cookie made from each one.

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[commomom]

You'd have close to 3 dozen cookies of various shapes and sizes.

[Ervserver]

one nights worth of eatin

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You'd have close to 3 dozen cookies of various shapes and sizes.

[hollybow]

it isn´t Christmas for me without a german christmas stollen http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa5/19sammy72/stollen.jpg






:c35: and for hollybow

[commomom]

one nights worth of eatin

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[Ervserver]

I've been searching Ebay for some mini ones, got a project going that will require quite a few

[commomom]

Good luck, you could try someplace like Home Goods or a Bed, Bath and Beyond, also might want to try A.C. Moore or Michaels' craft stores in their candy and cake decorating sections.

[Ervserver]

oh I bet Michaels may have them, maybe I can get over there this weekend.

[Ervserver]

All our traditional family recipes don't call for cheese. everything anymore is smothered in cheese it seems like. I prefer good seasonings and basting

What is the one thing you or your family makes during the holidays that you just can't do without? Share it with us.

[commomom]

Amen Erv.

[Snowflake]

Chocolate Covered Cherries. I used to hate them when I was a kid, had to develop a taste for them. My mom loved them. Somehow today's Choc. Covered Cherries, don't seem as good as they did years ago!! But it is not Christmas with out them, or a least a few of them. They are awfully sweet!!

[Twinkle]

Mom's Corn Pudding..
Our Thanksgiving dinner would not be complete without Mom's Corn Pudding. Her recipe has passed down to my three girls. My daughter, Jill, makes this with her Thanksgiving dinner in Maryland every year.
It's a very simple recipe:

4 cans whole kernal corn (not the cream style)
Can of evaporated milk (or enough to cover the corn)
4 eggs beaten
2 T sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
2 T butter cut up to top before baking

Combine all ingredients and bake at 325 for approx 1 hour or when knife is inserted in center, comes out clean.

It's so cute, every Thanksgiving Leigh, my youngest daughter, who is always here with her family at Thanksgiving, reminds me to make Grandma's corn pudding....like she needs to remind me.
Makes me laugh.

When it comes to Thanksgiving leftovers, there is very little corn pudding left. The kids love it as much as the adults.
I hope someone will give it a try this Thanksgiving.
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[Snowflake]

Twinkle, I made this corn pudding recipe and it was delicious. Thanks for sharing