Thanksgiving Tradition

It has long been a tradition in my family to share a recipe that will
be made for Thanksgiving with another family. I would like to share my
recipe with my "Cat Family". I hope that others here will share their
special recipe too!

Creamcheese Pound Cake with Mandarian Oranges

Ingredients:
3 Sticks unsalted butter
8 oz of cream cheese
6 Eggs
1 pound of sugar (about 3 cups)
2 teaspoons of salt
1-1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
1 pound of flour (about 3 cups)
Large can of Mandarian Oranges.

Directions:
Let Creamcheese and butter stand at room temperature for 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350F Degrees (180C). Cream together. Add eggs one at a
time, mixing well after each. Add sugar one cup at a time, again mix
well after each. Add salt and vanilla, mixing well. Add flour one cup
at a time, mixing well after each cup. Pour into two (2) 8x4 loaf pans
sprayed with baking spray. Bake for 60-70 minutes. Serve slightly warm
topped with Mandarian oranges.

Hope you all enjoy this recipe as much as my family does. You can top
this with any sort of fruit or eat plain.

Skritches,
KittyLady

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KittyLady wrote:
It has long been a tradition in my family to share a recipe that will
be made for Thanksgiving with another family. I would like to share my
recipe with my "Cat Family". I hope that others here will share their
special recipe too!

Creamcheese Pound Cake with Mandarian Oranges


It sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing.

I will be joining my sister and her family for a going-out dinner
on Thursday. It's a nice restaurant, very acceptable when she can't
cook. She will be doing the full throttle cook-thing on saturday, but
I won't be joining them at that time.
It's a very long story, and I won't bore y'all with it.

Jane
- owned and operated by Princess Rita

On 22 Nov 2005 05:39:48 -0800, "KittyLady"
wrote:

It has long been a tradition in my family to share a recipe that will
be made for Thanksgiving with another family. I would like to share my
recipe with my "Cat Family". I hope that others here will share their
special recipe too!

I've been baking all afternoon for thanksgiving... I said I'd make
pies for twenty And I'm sure I've made way too many but it was fun
(if exhausting).

I almost copped out and bought premade pastry but then I looked at the
ingredients listing and entirely lost my appetite! So I made my own
from scratch. It's not hard, I'm just lazy and hate rolling it out!
I've made apple and blackberry, peach, homemade fruitmince, pecan
cheesecake, and regular pumpkin pies... and tomorrow I'm going to make
a chocolate marshmallow pie with a peanutbutter crumb crust.

Here's my recipe for the fruitmince pie.

1 pie crust
1 grannysmith apple
1/2 cup raisins
1 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup currants
1/4 cup cherries
couple tablespoons brown sugar
cinnamon
apple pie spice.
water or applejuice

Chop the apple finely and put it and the fruit into a saucepan. Chop
the cherries and add them to the pan. Add about a quarter cup of water
and the spices and sugar, and simmer till the apple is soft and the
fruit is plump and the liquid is thickened. Put it in the pie shell
and bake at 350F for half an hour. I topped mine with a twisted pastry
lattice but you can put whatever you want on top.

--
~Karen aka Kajikit
Crafts, cats, and chocolate - the three essentials of life
http://www.kajikitscorner.com
Online photo album - http://community.webshots.com/user/kajikit

That is a good one I going to add that to my book


"Karen AKA Kajikit" wrote in message
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On 22 Nov 2005 05:39:48 -0800, "KittyLady"
wrote:

It has long been a tradition in my family to share a recipe that will
be made for Thanksgiving with another family. I would like to share my
recipe with my "Cat Family". I hope that others here will share their
special recipe too!

I've been baking all afternoon for thanksgiving... I said I'd make
pies for twenty And I'm sure I've made way too many but it was fun
(if exhausting).

I almost copped out and bought premade pastry but then I looked at the
ingredients listing and entirely lost my appetite! So I made my own
from scratch. It's not hard, I'm just lazy and hate rolling it out!
I've made apple and blackberry, peach, homemade fruitmince, pecan
cheesecake, and regular pumpkin pies... and tomorrow I'm going to make
a chocolate marshmallow pie with a peanutbutter crumb crust.

Here's my recipe for the fruitmince pie.

1 pie crust
1 grannysmith apple
1/2 cup raisins
1 cup golden raisins
1/2 cup currants
1/4 cup cherries
couple tablespoons brown sugar
cinnamon
apple pie spice.
water or applejuice

Chop the apple finely and put it and the fruit into a saucepan. Chop
the cherries and add them to the pan. Add about a quarter cup of water
and the spices and sugar, and simmer till the apple is soft and the
fruit is plump and the liquid is thickened. Put it in the pie shell
and bake at 350F for half an hour. I topped mine with a twisted pastry
lattice but you can put whatever you want on top.

--
~Karen aka Kajikit
Crafts, cats, and chocolate - the three essentials of life
http://www.kajikitscorner.com
Online photo album - http://community.webshots.com/user/kajikit

"KittyLady" wrote in message
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Creamcheese Pound Cake with Mandarian Oranges

Ingredients:
3 Sticks unsalted butter
8 oz of cream cheese
6 Eggs
1 pound of sugar (about 3 cups)
2 teaspoons of salt
1-1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
1 pound of flour (about 3 cups)
Large can of Mandarian Oranges.


*Sigh* I thought I knew a lot about American or English measures, and how to
convert them, but obviously not enough... How much is a "Stick" of unsalted
butter? It doesn't even give me the slightest hint on how much it is. Help
meout, please!

Hans

16 oz to 1 lb

one stick of butter = 4 oz or 1/4 lb or 113.4 grams

"Hans Schrøder" wrote in message
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"KittyLady" wrote in message
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Creamcheese Pound Cake with Mandarian Oranges

Ingredients:
3 Sticks unsalted butter
8 oz of cream cheese
6 Eggs
1 pound of sugar (about 3 cups)
2 teaspoons of salt
1-1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
1 pound of flour (about 3 cups)
Large can of Mandarian Oranges.


*Sigh* I thought I knew a lot about American or English measures, and how
to convert them, but obviously not enough... How much is a "Stick" of
unsalted butter? It doesn't even give me the slightest hint on how much it
is. Help meout, please!

Hans

KittyLady wrote:

Hope you all enjoy this recipe as much as my family does. You can top
this with any sort of fruit or eat plain.

Skritches,
KittyLady


A tradition I would like to see...
we did this 2 Christmas' ago

We baked a real heavy dry walnut cake.
Then we reduced a buttery bourbon sauce (with some sugar in it)
Then pour that over the walnut bunt cake

Will last through end of January. - Daily give it a shot of bourbon.

"Hans Schrxder" wrote in message
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"KittyLady" wrote in message
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Creamcheese Pound Cake with Mandarian Oranges

Ingredients:
3 Sticks unsalted butter
8 oz of cream cheese
6 Eggs
1 pound of sugar (about 3 cups)
2 teaspoons of salt
1-1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
1 pound of flour (about 3 cups)
Large can of Mandarian Oranges.


*Sigh* I thought I knew a lot about American or English measures, and how
to convert them, but obviously not enough... How much is a "Stick" of
unsalted butter? It doesn't even give me the slightest hint on how much it
is. Help meout, please!

Hans


Especially since other ingredients are by weight etd. (and no way do three
cups of sugar weigh about what three cups of flour weigh)

Our butter is sold by the pound, which is divided into four quarters or
sticks. So a stick of butter is 4 ounces or half a cup.

I suspect you can convert from there.

It does sound like a really good cake doesn't it?

Jo

"No More Retail" wrote in message
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16 oz to 1 lb

one stick of butter = 4 oz or 1/4 lb or 113.4 grams

Thank you very much, now it may be possible to try it...

Hans

Hairball Dejur wrote:
Will last through end of January. - Daily give it a shot of bourbon.

One for the cake, one for the cook...?!

Cheers,
PatM