Apple Slices, Grandma Rampke
Old Fashioned Ice Cream, Grandma Zehner
Killer Chocolate Cake, Gene's
Pumpkin Cheese Pie
Rhubarb Pie, Grandma Rampke
Rice Pudding, Norwegian
Strawberry Pie w/ Butter Crunch Crust, Billie Fenton
Wine Cake
Zabaglioni
Foamy Sauce
Apple Slices by Grandma Rampke
My mom has told me that this dessert was traditionally
served at my father's boyhood home by his mother.
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup shortning
2 egg yolks
1 Tbsp lemon juice
8 Tbsp cold water
8 sliced apples
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup raisins
2/3 cup confectioner’s sugar
milk (added to desired consistency)
dash vanilla
1. Sift 2 cups flour with 1/2 tsp salt, cut in 1/2 cup shortening. Mix well 2 egg yolks, 1 tbsp lemon juice and 8 tbsp. cold water. Add gradually to dry ingredients. Fluff and toss until flour is moistened, divide into two parts.
2. Roll dough as thin as pie crust and line 7 by 12 inch pan, fill with apple mixture made by sprinkling 8 sliced apples with mixture of 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tbsp flour, 1/2 tsp each of cinnamon and nutmeg and 1/2 cup raisins.
3. Roll second portion of dough to fit top of the pan, and lay over the apples. Press edges of dough firmly together, bake in moderate oven 350 degrees for about 45 min. or until apples are tender and crust is nicely browned.
4. When cool drizzle a think confectioners frosting over the top and cut into slices, frosting made with confectioner's sugar, milk and a dash of vanilla.
4 eggs
2 1/3 cups sugar
sprinkle salt
1 quart half and half
1 quart whole milk
3 tsp vanilla
2 tsp lemon extract
Take eggs, add sugar and beat well (important). Add a sprinkling of salt. Combine with half and half and whole milk; to this add vanilla and lemon extract. Mix well and freeze in ice cream freezer. Makes one gallon.
Gene’s Killer Chocolate Cake
Gene Breshears
1 package of commercial chocolate cake mix (any kind, really)
4 eggs
3/4 cup brown sugar
8 ounces of unsweetened baker's chocolate
1 stick of butter
1/2 cup cooking oil
Water (amount should be specified on the cake mix box)
In a medium saucepan on low heat, melt the stick of butter and the eight ounces of chocolate.
In a large mixing bowl combine cake mix, eggs and water. Mix. add melted butter/chocolate mixture to batter. Mix until smooth. Add brown sugar and 1/4 cup of oil (reserve 1/4 cup). Blend until smooth.
Pour the remaining oil into your baking dish (if you are using two square or round pans, increase the oil slightly). Swirl the oil around until the inside of the dish is evenly coated. DO NOT pour off excess oil. Add batter immeditately.
Bake according to package instructions, checking cake with a toothpick. The cake usually takes 10 minutes longer to bake that the mix instructions say, but check the cake frequently.
Frosting: 2 sticks of softened butter, 1 tablespoon baking cocoa, 3 cups powdered sugar. Cream butter in mixing bowl. Add cocoa powder and mix until and even color is acheived. Add 1/4 cup powdered sugar, blending with a fork until smooth. Repeat this process, 1/4 cup at a time, until all the sugar is used. Spread the frosting on the cake while the cake is still warm.
Variation: Chocolate Snowball
Prepare Killer Chocolate batter as above, with the addition of 1/2 cup shredded or flaked coconut. Prepare frosting, substituting 2 teaspoons vanilla for baking cocoa. Bake the cake in a large glass bowl (be certain that the bowl is oven safe!). Let cake cool, then invert over a plate or serving dish and shake gently. Heat the frosting either by lowering the bowl into warm water, or for 10 seconds in a microwave. Spread warmed frosting on cake. Sprinkle with additional coconut.
Pumpkin Cheese Pie
From sister Terry
2--8oz. cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar
3 tbl flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 can PUMPKIN PIE MIX (not solid pumpkin)
1 can sweetened milk
3 eggs
2 unbaked pie shells
Preheat oven to 375 In large bowl w/mixer at med. speed, beat cream cheese and the first five above items until blended. Add pumpkin, sweetened milk, and eggs, just until blended. Pour into pie shells, bake 45 minutes or until knife comes out clean. Top with whipped topping and enjoy!!
Dick Rampke's Favorite Rhubarb Pie
From Grandma Rampke's recipe
1/2 pie crust
1 1/2 cup cut rhubarb, in 1-inch pieces
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup sugar (yes, another 1/2 cup)
1 cup milk (I guess these days the most we can ask for is 2%)
cinnamon
Place 1/2 pie crust into pie plate. Put the rhubarb in the crust and cover with 1/2 cup sugar.
Add the other 1/2 cup sugar to the milk and beaten eggs, and pour mixture over rhubarb. Sprinkle top with cinnamon.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
Norwegian Rice Pudding - Grut
2 cups milk
1/2 cup uncooked rice
1/8 tsp salt
2 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup cream
1/3 cup sugar
Heat milk in double boiler. Stir in rice. Cook and cover over boiling water. Stir occasionally. (Add more milk if necessary, until tender.) Cook 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Stir in cream, salt, sugar, and butter. Remove from heat and allow to stand over hot water until ready to serve. This mixture will thicken as it stands. Sprinkle top with cinnamon and sugar when ready to serve.
Strawberry Pie with Butter Crunch Crust, by Billie Fenton
This is my friend John's favorite pie (Billie is his mom), and I have to agree that it's wonderful! The crust would go well with other pies, too.
1 Qt strawberries-Fresh or frozen
1 1/2 cup water
3/4 C sugar
2 T cornstarch
3 oz pkg strawberry jello
whipped topping (Dream Whip works fine)
1 baked butter crunch pie shell (recipe follows)
Cook water, sugar, cornstarch over med. heat until the mix boils. Continue cooking 2 more minutes until thickened & clear. Add strawberry jello, stirring until dissolved. Add berries & pour into baked pie shell. Sets up in 1 1/2 hrs.
After it is set top with whipped dream whip and some of the reserved crumbs from butter crunch crumbs.
1/2 C butter- softened a little
1/4 C brown sugar
1 C sifted flour
1/2 C chopped nuts
Heat oven to 400 F. Mix all ingrdients with hands. Spread in oblong pan 13"X 9"X 2 Bake 12 to 15 min. Take from oven & immediately stir with spoon. Save 3/4 C for pie topping. Quickly press rest of mix into 9" pie pan. Cool-pour in pie filling and let set. Top with whipped topping and then reserved crumbs after it sets up.
Wine Cake
Simple, but wonderful!! This was my favorite cake when I was little... for that matter, since I wasn't really that fond of cake (same as now), it's probably the only reason I ever ate any cake (except perhaps at church potlucks - you know how it is).
Mom, you can make this for me any time!
1 pkg yellow cake mix
4 eggs
3/4 cup oil
3/4 cup cream sherry
1 tsp nutmeg
1 pkg vanilla instant pudding mix
Cinnamon mixture:
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tbsp cinnamon
1 Tbsp cocoa
Drizzle frosting:
1/2 to 1 cup powdered sugar
milk
Combine above ingredients. Mix for 5 minutes in mixer on medium speed.
Put oil on sides and bottom of Bundt or angelfood tin. Sprinkle part of cinnamon mixture into pan covering sides and bottom. Then pour batter into pan in three alternating layers, with cinnamon mixture, ending with cinnamon mixture.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
Let cool. Place on serving plate.
Mix together powdered sugar and enough milk to make a "drizzly" consistancy of frosting. Then drizzle over the sides (both inside and outsides). Let frosting set before serving.
Zabaglioni
This is my all-time favorite dessert. If you've never had it, and you're in the Seattle area, go immedately to the 13 Coins Restaurant and try it! Very simple, but unbelievably rich and wonderful.
One serving:
3 egg yolks
4 Tbsp sugar
½ cup of Marsala
Beat the egg yolks and the sugar with a wire whisk until creamy.
Place in the top of a water-filled (about 1.5") double boiler, over high heat. Add the Marsala and continue to whip (don't stop whipping, or it will get lumpy!) until the zabaglione thickens.
Serve hot!
Foamy Sauce
My mom
For steamed pudding. Delicious! A tradional treat our our family's Christmas.
3 Tbs butter (or marg)
2 eggs, separated
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup cream, whipped
Cream the butter and sugar together. Add the well-beaten egg yolks and beat thoroughly over hot water in a double boiler. Remove from the heat and fold in the stiffly-beaten egg whites, then the vanilla and the whipped cream. Pour over your favorite steamed pudding.
This is one of our family's favorites!
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