Bless This Little Kitchen

Hush Puppies recipe

Delicious with fish! Or anything!

1 cup corn meal

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

3 tablespoons onion, very finely chopped

1 tablespoon flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 egg, beaten

3/4 cup buttermilk

oil, for frying

In a medium mixing bowl, mix together dry ingredients. Add onion, egg, and buttermilk; blending well. Drop by rounded spoonfuls into hot, deep, oil; fry until golden brown--turn only once as needed.

Serves: depends on the size of spoonfuls--! 

 

Classic Spoon Bread recipe

An old-time favorite and so easy to make!

2 cups cold water

1 cup corn meal

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup milk

3 eggs, well beaten

2-3 tablespoons butter, melted

Preheat oven to 400-degrees F. In a medium saucepan, boil water, corn meal, and salt together for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat then add milk, eggs, and butter; mix well. Pour into a well greased 8 x 8-inch baking dish. Bake for 50 minutes, or until top is firm and well browned.

Serves: 4-6

Scotch Cookies recipe

Tasty little sandwichs...tart jelly makes them extra good!

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 egg
• 1 cup flour
• 1 tspn ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tspn allspice
• 1/2 tsp baking powder

tart jelly in desired flavor

Preheat oven to 350-degrees F. Cream butter and sugar together and add egg, beating until well blended. Sift dry ingredients together. Mix with creamed butter mixture. Roll out to 1/4-inch thick and cut into small rounds. Bake until slightly gold around the edges; cool on wire rack. When cool, put together 2 cookies, sandwich style, using tart jelly. Finish off by drizzling with icing made from powdered sugar and lemon juice.

Yield: 2 dozen cookies

Easy Herb-Buttered Rolls recipe

Brown-and-serve rolls make this brown-and serve easy!

1/3 cup softened butter or margarine
1 tbspn lemon juice
1/4 tspn garlic salt
2 tbsons finely chopped parsley
1/2 tspn thyme

1 package brown-and serve rolls

Combine all ingredients. Top brown-and serve rolls with butter mixture and bake as directed on package.

Mayonnaise Muffins recipe

Quick and impressive! Tastes more like a moist biscuit!

1 1/4 cup self-rising flour
3 tblspns mayonnaise (the 'real' kind)
1 cup milk

Preheat oven to 400-degrees F. Mix ingredients in order listed. Spoon into large, greased mufin tins. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until done.

Serves: 6-7 cupcake-size muffins

English Muffin Loaf recipe

Like little round English Muffins--but in a loaf--slice and toast!

5 1/2 to 6 cups all-purpose flour
2 tbspns (or 1 package) yeast
2 tbspns sugar
1/4 tspn baking soda   

2 tspns salt
2 cups milk
1/2 cup water
cornmeal

Preheat oven to 400-degrees F. Combine 3 cups of flour, yeast, sugar, salt, and soda. Heat liquids until very warm; add to dry mixture and beat well. Stir in enough more flour to make a stiff batter. Spoon into 2 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch pans that are greased and floured with cornmeal. Sprinkle tops with cornmeal. Cover; let rise in a warm place 45 minutes. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from pans immediately and cool on wire rack.

Yields 2 loaves.

Old Fashioned Baked Donut recipe

Baked! Not fried!

1 1/2 tblspn shortening (plus extra for greasing)
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg, well beaten
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tspn baking powder
1/2 tspn nutmeg, grated
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 400-degrees F. Cream shortening and sugar, add egg; beat. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk. Fold in nuts. Grease small cup cake pans, and drop a large spoonful of dough in as round a shape as possible. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove and dip in melted margarine, then roll in sugar and cinnamon:

2 tbspns melted margarine
1/4 cup (or more) powdered sugar
1/2 tspn ground cinnamon

 

Mayonnaise Muffin recipe

Different and easy!

2 cups self rising flour
1 cup milk
2 tblsns mayonnaise (not salad dressing)
2 tspns sugar

Preheat oven to 350-degrees F. Combine all ingredients and divide into a lightly greased muffin pan. Bake for 20-30 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool 5 minutes, remove from pan.

Yield: 1 dozen

Cornmeal Muffins from Scratch recipe

These muffins are so simple to make...you'll want to make them from scratch everytime!

1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
4 tspns baking powder
3/4 tspn salt
1 cup cornmeal, yellow or white
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/4 cup shortening

Preheat oven to 400-degrees F. Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt; stir in cornmeal. Add eggs, milk, and shortening. Beat just until well blended and smooth (do not overbeat). Fill greased muffin pans 3/4 full. Bake for 20-25 minutes.

Yield: 12-14 muffins.

Quick Cheese Coffee Cake recipe

So fast...make it fresh for breakfeast!

2  tubes refrigerated cresent rolls
2  8oz packages cream cheese, room temperature
3/4  cup sugar
1  tspn vanilla extract
1  egg yolk
3/4  cup powdered sugar
1  tspn ground cinnamon
2-3  tbspns milk 

Grease a 9 x 13-inch baking dish. Pat 1 roll of cresent rolls down the center of pan, patting together the cut marks. Beat cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and egg yolk until well blended. Spread over the dough in the pan. Top with the second tube of cresent rolls, patted in a similar fashion. Pinch seams closed. Bake at 350-degrees F (325-degrees if using a glass baking dish). Allow to cool. Mix powdered sugar, cinnamon, and milk to form a glaze, adding more milk, if necessary, and drizzle over pastry.

Serves: 6-8