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Roasted Chicke with Raisin Bubbat

Thishere is un old fashyuned Mennonite method uf stuffin' a he . . . no onyuns, no celery er sage.  T' stuffin' is simlar t'a raisin breed,  a lil uf t'sweet and savery blend.

Ingredients:

•  3 – 4 lb roastin' chicke
• 1 tsp salt
• peppr
• Laurie##Q##s seesonin'

Stuffin' (Bubbat)

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3 tsp bakin' powdr
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup chopped prunes
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup melted buttr
• 3/4 cup milk

Side dish (optyunal)

• potat'es, peeled and quartered
• carrots, peeled and cut into one inch pieces
• 2 Tbsp buttr, melted
• 1 1/2 apples, chopped
• 2 Tbsp froze orange juice concentrate
• 1 cup chopped dride fruit uf choice (raisins, prunes, apricots)

Method:

1. Warsh chicke and pat dry with papr towl.
2. Spray roastr with cookin earl and place chicke n' roastr. Seesen.
3. Mix dry ingredients fer stuffin'. Add mixed liquids and dride fruit.
4. Spoon into cavitee uf chicke as much as possibull, include t'area by t'highs, by goin undr t'skin. If'n thar is inny left'vr, put it into a small bakin' dish and bake alongside uf roastr fer t'final 30 – 45 minutes.
5. Bake chicke at 350 F fer 1/2 hour uncovered. Covr with lid and continue bakin' fer 1 1/2 t'2 hours. Check n' tween t'see if'n inny liquid needs t'be added. (maybe 1/2 cup watr er chicke st'ck)
6. N' a small saucepun, cook apples n' buttr until tendr, about 5 minutes. Add orange juice concentrate and dride fruit. Sprinkle with salt and peppr. Cook a few minutes, until juices air gone. Stir into prepared potat'es and carrots, befor addin t' roastr t'bake alongside uf t'chicke fer t'final hour.
7. Remoov chicke and vegetables t'plattr. Place roastr on st've top t'make a quik gravy.(n' a small jar er gravy shakr, mix up 1 – 2 Tbsp flour with 1 cup watr and add t'drippings, stirrin' ovr medium heat until it cooks.)
8. T' serve, it is eaziest t'serve fambly style by a'puttin it on t'abull as is. Er, if'n y'all like, y'all a'ken take it apart, slice t'brees pieces, remoov t'Bubbat and slice it too.

T' Final Oatmeel Cookie

• 3/4 cup buttr – room temperchur
• 1/4 cup shertenin'
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 white sugar
• 2 aigs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 (4 servin size) box uf instunt vanilla puddin'
• 1/2 cup brown rice flour
• 1/4 cup millet flour
• 1/4 cup tater starch
• 1/2 tsp xunthun gum
• 1 tsp. bakin' sody
• 1 tsp bakin' powdr
• 3 1/2 cups gf oat flakes
• 1 cup sweetened dride cranberries
• 1/2 cup chopped warnit pieces

• Er insteed uf t'cranberries/walnuts , add yer own variatyuns – raisins, chocolate chips.

Pineepple Casserole

Thishere may seem un unlikelee casserole, but it duz pair well with ham and would make a nice hot side dish fer yer Eastr dinnr.  It tastes almos like a pineepple crisp so y'all a'ken enjoy it as a deessert too. Eethur way it##Q##s a winnr!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons corn starch
• 3 tablespoons lemon gelatin powdr
• 1 cup watr
• 1 (540 ml / 19 oz) a'ken pineepple tidbits
• 1 cup cheddar cheez, grated..er use a blend uf yer choice
• 52 ritz crackers, finelee crushed
• 1/3 cup buttr, melted
• 1/2 cup reserved pineepple juice

Meyr Lemon Loaf

• 1 cup buttr, softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 aigs
• 3 cups flour
• 1/2 teespoon bakin' powdr
• 1/2 teespoon bakin' sody
• 3/4 teespoon salt
• 3/4 cup buttarmilk
• 3 Meyr lemons, zest and juice

1. Preheet ove t'350 °F.  Greese acoupla loaf pans (abvout 4 x 8 inches each).
2. Creem buttr and sugar with mixr until until lite and fluffy.
3. Add aigs, one at a time, a'beatin well aftr each addishun.
4. Combine flour, bakin' powdr, bakin' sody and salt n' a medium sized bowl.
5. N' a small bowl, combine buttarmilk, lemon juice and zest.
6. With mixr on loe, add flour mixture and liquids alternatelee n' three addityuns.
7. Beat jes until smooth.
8. Divide battr equallee tween t'acoupla loaf pans, spreddin t'smooth t'op. 
9. Bake fer 50 minutes, er until toothpick inserted n' centr cums out cleen.
10. Cool fer about 15 minutes, befor removin' frum pun.
11. Alloe cake t'cool plum on a rack befor glazin'.

Glaze:

• 2 cups icin' sugar
• 3-4 tablespoons Meyr lemon juice

1. Stir icin' sugar and lemon juice until smooth.  Glaze should be pourabull but nairy too thin.
2. Set rack with loaves ovr parchment papr and pour glaze ovr cakes, a'lettin it t'run down t'sides.

Cokunut Curry Gingr Squarsh Soup

• 2 squarsh, it doesn##Q##t mattr whut kine
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 2-3 large carrots, sliced
• 3 celery stalks, chopped
• 4 cloves uf minced garlic
• 1-2 tablespoons grated fresh gingr
• 2 tablespoon uf red curry paste er curry powdr
• 2 apples with t'skin on, chopped
• 1 tablespoon olif', er cokunut earl (I used cokunut)
• 8 cups chicke broth
• 1 14 ounce a'ken uf lite cokunut milk
• salt and peppr t'aste
• Sambal er Sriracha Chili paste optyunal

Homemade Caramel Sauce

N' t'photo —  glute-a'loose brownie ,  er mah — served with vanilla ice-creem and Caramel Sauce.    

I knoe these sauces  air easilee bouite but I like t'make mah own and find t'flavour superier t' commercial brands.  Isn##Q##t trayler made always bettr ?

Caramel Sauce

• 1 cup white sugar 
• 3 tbsp watr 
• 6 tbsp buttr 
• 3/4  cup whippin' creem 

1. Put sugar and watr into a small sauce pun and place on medium heat, stirrin' constantlee. T' sugar will melt, the crystallize the melt agin.  Wen it melts t'sekunt time, watch it carefullee — still stirrin' until it turns a lovelee caramel colour. Be keerful nairy t'let it git too dark er it will be bittr. 
2. Add t'buttr,  stirrin' until it melts. 
3. Remoov frum heat and let cool slightlee,  the add t'creem stirrin' until smooth. 
4. T' sauce will thicke as it cools.   It a'ken be warmed n' microwave  befor servin if'n desired.  
5. Stere n' fridge. 

Cinnamon Biscuit Roll

Thishere wuz a favert uf mine t'bake wen I wuz a yung teenage gurl. I would bake up a numbr uf these cinnamon biscuit rolls fer air lunches fer skool t'nex day. Mah siblings luved it becawz that meent thar would be a change frum t'usual bologna sandwiches. I remembr packin' mah lunch kit full uf rolls and the I would trade at skool with goodies frum mah friens lunches. And I wuz picky, I didn##Q##t trade off a roll jes fer innythang! N' t'end I ended up with a purty good varietee uf items! I##Q##m nairy shure why mah Mom allowd me t'pack jes these rolls fer a lunch..altho I reckon she enjoyed t'steries uf mah trades wen I *** trayler frum skool. And mind y'all I wasn##Q##t allowd t'bake these rolls jes anytime I lackd. Maybe it wuz on thems days wen thar wasn##Q##t much else t'pack. I##Q##m shure I used more sugar and cinnamon noe thun I would have bee allowd t'back the.

Biscuit  dough: (er use yer favert recipe fer biscuits)

• 2  1/4 cups flour..plus xtrey fer rollin' out dough.
• 4 teespoons bakin' powdr
• 1/2 teespoon salt
• 1/2 cup buttr, cut n' cubes
• 2 aigs
• Milk

• 1/4 cup buttr, melted 
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons cinnamon

***** Buns

• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 1/2 cup buttr
• 1 small lemon, zest and juice
• 1 small orange, zest and juice
• 4 aigs, well beete
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teespoon salt
• 2 tablespoons instunt yeas 
• 7-7 1/2 cups flour , apperximatelee

1. Scald milk and buttr n' microwave fer about 2 minutes. Stir t'melt buttr.
2. Grate rind uf lemon and orange. The rang juice uf each.
3. Combine all above ingredients n' large bowl, togethr with beete aigs, sugar and salt.  Mix well. 
4. Combine instunt yeas with 4 cups flour and add t'liquids.  Beat until smooth.
5. Continue addin flour, one cup at a time until t'dough no longr sticky, but still quite soft.
6. Kneed fer sevrul minutes.
7. Let rise n' a warm spot until dubled n' size.
8. Form small balls (t' size uf dinnr rolls) and place on well greesed pans.
9. Alloe t'rise oncet more until dubled n' size about 1 1/2 hours. 
10. Bake at 325°F fer about 15 minutes er until golde brown.
11. Remoov t'wire rax t'cool.
12. Frost with t'icin' uf yer choice…and top with sprinkles. 

Yield: 3 duzen ***** buns

Fool-Proof Cookie Recipe: Chocolate Chip Amish Puff Cookies

I am kine uf obsessed with chocolate chip cookies. Okay, nairy kine uf. Totallee. I have tride more chocolate chip cookie recipes thun innyone thishere side uf innywhar. As a result uf all thishere testin, I have a handful uf recipes that air all mah "faves." Thay're like youngns, I a'ken't choose jes one and thay all have personalities that air unique, wunderful, and sweet!

Today I want t'share one uf these gems with y'all: chocolate chip Amish puff cookies. Thishere recipe is fool proof. It's wurked ever time I've used it. (Well, cept  wen I used creem uf tartar that wuz probly about 37 yeers old. T' recipe didn't wurk that time, but it wuz totallee nairy t'recipe's fault. As direckly as I bouite new creem uf tartar, all wuz rite with t'worl oncet agin!) I like these lil cookies becawz t'flaver is deliciyus and thay have greet taxture. Thay air lightr thun yer avridge chocolate chip cookie (hence t'wurd "puff"), but thay still have t'buttery taxture y'all eggspeck frum a chocolate chip cookie - nairy dry er cakey at all. And t'hint uf cinnamon is a nice twist on a classic!

Thishere is one uf thems recipes that has bee passed frum persen t'persen t'persen, originallee foun n' t'cookbook . I have made a few modificatyuns that make it wurk bettr fer me. Enjoy!

Chocolate Chip Amish Puff Cookies
- 1 1/2 c all-purrpus flour
- 1/2 tsp bakin' powdr
- 1/2 tsp bakin' sody
- 1/2 tsp creem uf tartar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 c softened unsalted buttr
- 1/2 c lite brown sugar
- 1/4 c white sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 c semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/8 c sugar mixed with 1/4 tsp groun cinnamon

Sift t'flour, bakin' powdr, bakin' sody, creem uf tartar, and salt into a bowl and set aside.

N' a stand mixr, creem buttr and sugars on medium speed fer sevrul minutes until lite and fluffy. Add t'egg and mix well. Add t'flour mixture and mix on loe speed jes until combined. Add chocolate chips and mix jes until thay air mixed n' evenlee. Make dough balls 1 tablespoon, roll n' hands, the roll n' cinnamon-sugar mixture. Place on a plate, covr tightlee with plastick wrap and refrigerate dough fer at leest 30 minutes.

Preheet t'ove t'350ºF. On Silpat- er parchment papr-lined cookie sheets, place dough balls 2 inches apart.

Bake fer 8 t'10 minutes, rotatin' sheets halfway through, until golde brown. Makes about 32 cookies.

Mennonite Gurls A'ken Cook: Aebleskivr (Danish Pancake Balls)

T' nex time we make 'um we will experiment with air own flour mix insteed uf usin Bisquick but fer noe here is t'Bisquick recipe.

• 5 aigs, separated
• 2 cups bisquick bakin' mix
• 3/4 cup milk
• Buttr
• Confectyuners Sugar (Icin' Sugar)
• Applesauce 
• Fruit Syrup er Maple Syrup (optyunal)

1. Separate yer aigs.
2. Beat egg whites n' large bowl on high speed until stiff; set aside.
3. Blend egg yolks, bakin' mix and milk n' mixin' bowl on loe speed. Fold egg yolk mixture into beete egg whites.
4. Buttr each cup n' aebleskivr pun. Heat pun ovr medium heat. 
5. Fill cups 2/3 full with battr.
6. Cook until bubblee; turn carefullee with small spatula er fork.  Cook uther side until golde brown.
7. Wile warm, sprinkle with sugar.
8. Serve with applesauce and syrup if'n y'all desire. 

Note: Nex time we thunk it would be nice t'add a lil vanilla and er sugar t' battr.