Did you know that recipes used to be called receipts? I don't know why and I'm not sure why the change came about. Just some interesting trivia.
I was writing recipes down last night...Stu's mom kindly offered to let me have her cookbooks for a while to get some new ideas (I'm always wanting new ideas for meals) and I love just thumbing through old cookbooks. Stu's mom, like me, keeps almost everything, so she has this book of old newspapers, just the recipe sections. There's a recipe for "Soda Pop BBQ Chicken," which I'm guessing is like "Drunk Chicken," which is pouring a can of beer over the chicken while it grills. (It is so tasty). Anyway, just thought it would be fun to share some recipes for those of you who like to cook/bake/make yummy things.
Here are 2 that I am dying to try:
Cream Cheese Pound Cake
1 8oz. package cream cheese - room temperature
1 c. margarine - room temperature
1/2 c. butter - room temperature
3 c. sugar
6 eggs
3 c. cake flour
2 tsp. vanilla (or 1 tsp. vanilla & 1 tsp. lemon extract)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Grease/flour a 12 c. Bundt pan. Beat cream cheese, margarine, butter, and sugar until smooth. Add eggs 1 at a time alternately w/ flour. Blend in vanilla. Pour into pan. Bake 30 minutes and then reduce oven temp. to 325 and bake until toothpick inserted comes out clean (about 45 min.). Let cool.
Doesn't that sound SCRUMPTIOUS???
Here's another:
Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting
1/2 c. shortening
1/2 c. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
4 c. 10X sugar (what is 10X sugar, does anyone know??)
2 Tbsp. milk
1/2 c. cocoa
Directions:
Cream shortening and butter, then gradually beat in rest of ingredients. (Add a little more milk if the icing seems too thick.)
Yum. Yum. Yum. That's all I have to say.
I was copying down these recipes last night on little notecards and wondering if my daughters/granddaughters will use these someday? Will these be kept in the family, added to, changed over the years and will they trace them back to me? (Pretty vain, aren't I?) Will they like my handwriting? :P That's what I'm really worried about. JUST KIDDING.
Anyway...Have a lovely Easter, everyone!
I'm always up for a little word trivia, so thanks for the tidbit. As it turns out, I was aware of the strange receipts-recipes exchange, but the sad thing is that while you learned it from an old cookbook, I learned it from a mock/humor cookbook. I think it was from a book called "The Gallery of Regrettable Food". Yeah, my wife and I don't really read from the same genres... Thanks for the post.
ReplyDelete*giggles*
ReplyDeleteI would actually like to read that...:P