Grandma's Boiled Raisin Cake

Description: This is a glorified fruit cake with out the candied fruit which you can add if you want too.

Ingredients:
2 cups of raisins
2 cups water
1 cup Crisco shortening (white)
2 cups sugar
4 tsp cocoa

Bring all of the ingredients to a full rolling boil in a pot. Let it boil for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.

Sift together the following ingredients:
3 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp allspice
1 tsp cloves

Directions:

Combine the flour mixture with the raisin mixture making sure it is mixed well. Grease and flour a 9x13 baking dish . pour cake mixture into the pan and bake at 350 for about 45 minutes or until done

Daughter's Note: This cake traditionally is served with a Chocolate-Peanut Butter frosting, but I think the cake also lends itself well to a Cream-Cheese based frosting. I have a Cream-Cheese frosting recipe in mind, and I will try it this year. If it is good, I'll post that recipe later. My mom will also post the original Peanut Butter frosting too.

Enjoy

Melt in your mouth Caramel

Melt In Your Mouth Caramel
Description:
This is not on any weight watcher's diet.
Ingredients:
1 stick of Unsalted butter or margarine
1 Cup granulated sugar
1 Cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
1 Cup clear Karo corn syrup
1 can of Borden's Sweetened Condensed Milk

Directions:

Place the ingredients into a heavy non-stick pan beginning with the butter.
Slowly bring all ingredients to a rolling boil. About 15 minutes on low heat until it reaches the soft ball stage.
Place caramel into a 9x13 pan sprayed with butter flavored crisco

This recipe can also be used for Caramel apples

More holiday recipes

Hello again I'm back with more holiday recipes for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The first recipe comes from my mother. She had left over apple pie filling and pumpkin pie filling and decided to make a new pie that is a family favorite not only for Thanksgiving but for Christmas as well. It is always the firsat pie to go at Thanksgiving.
PUMPPLE PIE
Description: A nice change from your average pumpkin pie
Ingredients:
1 deep dish unbaked pie shell
1 can of apple pie filling
1 can of LIBBY'S pumpkin pie filling (I use the one that has the pumpkin spices alread in it)
evaporated milk as per the instructions on the can of pumpkin.

Directions:
Place thje apple pie filling into the pie shell. prepare pumpkin as per instructions on can.
Pour the pumpkin pie filling over the apple pie filling and bake as it instructed on the can.

There will be left over pumpkin to make a small pumpkin pie.

Make sure you have plenty of Cool Whip on hand.

Number of servings: don't know family eats it to fast

ENJOY!!

Grandmother's Marshmallow Fudge

It works. Sorry for not writing in this as I should forgive me. I will try to do better.
I haven't done anything dumb lately. I thought I would put some family recipes in this for your holiday cooking. The first is my Grandmother's Marshmallow fudge
A smooth and fudgy treat perfect for the Christmas Holiday
Ingredients:
1 cup margarine (2 sticks)
4 cups of sugar
1 can of evaporated milk
1 (12 ounce) package milk chocolate chips
1 (12 ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 (7 ounce) jar marshmallow creme
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Directions:

Melt margarine in a large sauce pan. Add sugar and evaporated milk. Bring to a boil;stir constantly for 9 minutes. Remove from heat; add milk chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate chips, marshmallow creme, vanilla and nuts, if desired. Stir well. until mixed. Pour into a buttered 9" x 12" pan. cool completely.

Number of servings: A LOT

Preparation time: about 30 minutes

ENJOY

Sorry, It's been awhile

Hey gang I'm back!!! I almost forgot how to do this but I got it now.
My sweetheart and I went to Idaho Falls to visit our grandchildren and our son too. We took them to the zoo there in Idaho Falls where we got rained on and hailed on. All in all it was fun. My sweety bought our grandchildren some new clothes and our son a new hoody with a skeleton on it when you zip up the hood. At the zoo we were standing outside the lions cage, my son zipped up his hoody and the lion started to charge the fence , then he turned and went on top of the rocks and just stared at us. We thought we were going to be dinner. (ha ha)
The weather here has started to turn cold. Which is something I couldn't wait for. So now I'm a happy camper now.
My sweety has to take my wheelchair in to be fixed. So I have to walk more instead of "riding" It's okay I need the exercise. So to speak.
As soon as I figure out how to put pictures on this web page I will put my grandchildren in my blog.
No new "dumb" things lately.
until next time.

new adventures i've had

Two weeks ago my husband forgot to put my booster seat on the toilet, when I went into the bathroom to do my business, I stumbled and fell onto the toilet. I was there for five long hours and couldn't get off the pot so to speak. While I was there I was counting the ceiling tiles and then the floor tiles until my sweetheart came home and helped me off. Needless to say we had the cleanest toilet in town. If I needed to use the bathroom, I was already there. (daughter's note: What she neglegts to tell you is that she normally keeps a phone in her apron that she wears all day long, just for this same situation... When this happened, she had taken her apron off prior to going into the bathroom, leaving the phone where it was... But, I guess that gives her something to talk about on her blog, and gives us a new christmas gift idea...)

Needless to say we never lack for entertainment at my place with me in the house.

My other adventure happened two days ago. I thought I was doing well and was putting the washed clothes away, and as I was leaving my bedroom, I missed my wheel chair and fell again. I called my son who I thought was at work only he was in his room sleeping. He answered and I asked him if he could help me. He started to drag me into his room. While he was doing that he kept saying "right cheek, left cheek" strying to make me "walk with my butt". We were laughing so much at the time trying to get me onto his bed that while doing so I fell on him hurting not only his back but mine also To make a long story even longer he called one of his friends to come over and help me get verticle again and in my wheel chair. When I was in my wheel chair he told me to STAY AND NOT GO ANY WHERE. Which I did.

Boy am I glad summer is almost over!!!

Boy am I glad summer is almost over and school starts soon. There should be floaters on the river trying to get in that last float before school. It is starting to get cooler here in Montana if you count being in the 50's cooler. That's a start. I haven't had to turn my air conditioner on today. I really like it when it starts to get cool. That means Christmas is just around the corner.
I seem to be doing well when it snows. I still trying to figure out how to put skiis on my wheelchair. Maybe a snow plow on the front would be better. Until next time