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delalluvia:
Honeyed dates
(serves 10, cut down as needed):
1 lb dates (should not be sticky, skins should not come off easily)
walnuts, whole or chopped
salt as needed
honey as needed
Pit the dates by making a cut in one side. Fill each cavity with walnuts. Roll each date in the salt.
Put them in a frying pan and cover them with honey generously (enough to coat the dates and cover the bottom of the pan). Cook them under medium heat until they are carmelized. Remove to a lightly oiled plate to prevent sticking.
Variation: instead of walnuts, use blanched almonds rolled in cinnamon.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: dot-matrix on November 22, 2006, 03:36:45 am ---and this one is a tradition in Bob's family. His Mom told me she'll be baking it in the morning. I can tell you it is delicious.
Pumpkin Cake Roll
Ingredients:
Cake:
3 eggs -- room temp.
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup canned pumpkin
1 teaspoon lemon juice
3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup walnuts, chopped
Filling:
1 cup confectioners' sugar
6 ounces cream cheese
4 teaspoons butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions:
Beat eggs for 5 minutes.
Gradually beat in sugar, pumpkin and lemon juice. In separate bowl mix flour, baking powder, spices and salt. Fold into pumpkin mixture. Spread in prepared jellyroll pan.
Top with walnuts.
Bake at 375'F for 15 minutes.
Turn cake out onto towel sprinkle with sugar and roll up "jellyroll fashion.
Cool.
Prepare filling, beating all ingredients until creamy.
Unroll the cake and spread filling and re-roll; chill.
Serve sprinkled lightly with confectioners' sugar and heavy whipped cream on the side
--- End quote ---
My mother used to make this. She shared the recipe with my ex-fiance's mother who made it and took it to her place of employment. It proved so popular that by demand she now has to make it every holiday season and bring it to work. :)
Brown Eyes:
These recipes all sound awesome! I love that we're coming up with a catalogue of cherry cake (and pie, etc.) recipes. I'll try to come up with something myself and post it... For now I'll act as cake cook-off cheerleader.
8)
What about whiskey cakes...
Penthesilea:
On request, I repost my receipt of "Ausstecherle" (= Christmas cookies)
Here's my receipt for Christmas cookies:
lb and oz measures are in in green
For the dough:
* 500 grams (1lb + 1.5oz) white flour
* 200 grams (7 1/4oz) sugar
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 2 Eggs
* 1 little Pack vanilla sugar (that's about 8 grams (1/4oz))
* grated paring (peel?) of one citron (you can leave this out or substitude with some drops of citron aroma)
* 250 grams (8 3/4oz) butter (should be not too hard, it's easier to make the dough then)
Additionally:
* cookie cutters
* some more flour to powder your table, the cookie cutters and the rolling pin (otherwise the dough will stick to it)
* 2 egg yolks to brush the cookies withThe flour and baking powder should be mixed and sieved. Then make a swale(?/ hole) in the middle and put all other ingredients into it. Mix/knead all ingredients with your fingers until you get a homogenous dough.
Let the dough rest in the fridge for 30 to 40 minutes. The dough should always be cold, so take only a part from it out of the fridge. Roll the dough equally out (should only be some millimeters thick).
Then cut forms out of the dough and put them on a buttered baking tray. Brush the forms carefully and thin with egg yolk. But them into the oven for 8 to 12 minutes (depends on your oven and on how thick you rolled the dough) at 180°C (equivalent to 356° Fahrenheit).
When the dough gets too soft from repeated kneading and rolling, put it back into the fridge and take another (cold) part of it.
Additionally you can decorate the cookies with colored sugar granules or chocolate granules, or put two cookies together with jam between them.
Meryl:
Thanks for the great cookie recipe, Chrissi, and thanks, too, for including the alternate measures. 8)
Lauren, thanks for the TWO cherry cake recipes. How to choose....?! :P
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