Rye Bread

Claire Dineen Fitzsimmons via Betty Fitzsimmons Seymore

(Sponge)

  • 1 cup lukewarm water
  • 1 tsp. sugar
  • 2 pkgs. dry yeast
  • 1 cup white flour

Dissolve yeast in water, add sugar. then flour. Let rise while mixing other ingredients.
Melt ½ cup shortening (crisco) in 2 cups hot water

Add:

  • 1 good Tbsp. salt
  • 1 Tbsp. molasses
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup dark Karo syrup

When cool, add sponge. Add 4 cups medium rye flour. Add about 4 cups white flour. Knead. Let rise until double. Roll and cut into 4 loaves. Put into bread pans and let rise until double.
Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes, then at 325 degrees for 30 minutes. Makes 4 loaves.

by Tim Dineen

(Almost) Better Than Sex Cake

Kate Kelly Hodsdon

This dessert is best served at church potluck dinners with many priests and religious present. My friend, Sr. Joan persistently asks, “Is it? Is it?”

  • 1 pkg. Chocolate butter cake or deep chocolate cake mix
  • ½ C toasted, chopped pecans
  • 12 oz semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1 – 4oz pkg. Instant chocolate pudding
  • 1 c sour cream
  • ½ c oil
  • ½ c water or part coffee
  • 1 t vanilla
  • 4 large eggs
  • Dark Chocolate Glaze

Grease well and flour a tube, bundt or 13x9x1½” pan. Coat nuts and chips with 1 T cake mix and set aside.

Combine cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, eggs, oil, water and vanilla and beat at medium speed for 3 minutes. Fold in chocolate chips and nuts.

Turn into pan and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until cake tests done with cake tester. Cool for 15 minutes and, if tube or bundt pan is used, turn onto a rack. Cake should be cool before glazing.

Dark Chocolate Glaze

  • 1 lb. Semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1 C water
  • 1 t vanilla

Combine chips and water in top of double boiler over simmering water. Stir until smooth, shiny and well blended. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Cool to room temperature or chill until slightly thickened. Pour over cake or apply with spatula.

by Tim Dineen

Grandma's Brownies

Debbie Barnett Dineen

  • 3/4 c butter or margarine (1 1/2 cubes)
  • 1 c sugar
  • 2 eggs, well beaten
  • 2 sq unsweetened chocolate, melted
  • 1 c flour
  • 1 c walnuts
  • 2 t vanilla

Mix all ingredients. Bake 350 deg for 25-30 min or until that old inserted toothpick comes out clean.

I always think of my Grandma when I make these brownies. It’s the recipe we grew up on – they are cake-like, not fudgey.

Very good to double – then put in a 13×9 pan and slightly increase the baking time.

Also very good with fresh raspberries (placed in what would be each square after it is baked.) Put the batter in the pan, then place one raspberry “per square”, then bake.

by Tim Dineen

Apple Brunch Bake

Peg McCaslin Dineen

Topping:

  • 1 cup Oatmeal
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 4 tbsp. butter
  • 2 tbsp. flour

Filling:

  • 4 apples, sliced
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup frozen orange juice, thawed
  • ½ cup raisins (if desired)
  • Cinnamon, nutmeg as desired

Combine topping ingredients – set aside. Combine filling ingredients, stir, spoon into baking dish. Sprinkle on topping. Bake 30-35 minutes at 350. Add cool whip or ice cream.

by Tim Dineen

Ginger Snaps

Debbie Barnett Dineen

If you don’t already have a good recipe for gingersnaps, this is a good one.

This recipe always comes out even when all the new ones you have tried for Christmas cookie-giving have failed! Believe me, I’ve been there.

  • 1 c sugar
  • 3/4 c shortening or margarine, softened
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 c molasses
  • 2 c unsifted flour
  • 2 t soda
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 1/2 t cinnamon
  • 1/4 t cloves
  • 1/4 t ground ginger

Preheat oven to 375°. Cream sugar and shortening. Beat in egg and molasses.

Stir in remaining ingredients until well mixed. If desired, chill dough for easier handling. Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Roll balls in sugar. Place 2 inches apart on greased baking sheets. Bake 9-12 minutes or until edges are set.

by Tim Dineen

Girl Scout Cookies

Peg McCaslin Dineen

  • 1 cup margarine
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tbsp. milk
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2½ cups flour
  • 2 tsp. baking powder

Cream margarine and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating well. Add milk and vanilla. Beat until light and fluffy.

Combine flour and baking powder. Gradually add to creamed mixture, and mix well. Chill 2 hours or overnight. Roll out dough. Cut with cookie cutter. Sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 350 for 8-10 min. Cool. Makes 4 dozen 2½ inch cookies.

by Tim Dineen

Jerry's Birthday Cake

Claire Dineen Fitzsimmons via Betty Fitzsimmons Seymore

My mother – Claire Dineen Fitzsimmons – always made this cake for my brother Jerry’s birthday… July 4th!

  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 squares Baker’s Chocolate, melted
  • 1 ½ cups buttermilk
  • 2 tsp. soda
  • 2 ½ cups flour
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Cream butter and sugar, beat eggs in one at a time. Add melted chocolate. Put soda in buttermilk and add alternately with flour until well mixed. Add vanilla. Bake at 300 degrees for 35 minutes in 9″ round pans. Frost with chocolate icing or whipped cream.

by Tim Dineen

Old-Fashioned Fudge

Peg McCaslin Dineen

  • 3 cups sugar
  • 2/3 cup cocoa
  • 1½ cups milk
  • dash salt
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 tbsp. butter
  • nuts

Mix sugar and cocoa. Add milk and salt. Bring to soft ball stage. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and butter. Cool. Beat until loses gloss. Add nuts. Pour into pan. Cut into squares.

by Tim Dineen

Cherry Cobbler

Claire Dineen Fitzsimmons via Betty Fitzsimmons Seymore

  • 2 cups canned red pitted cherries (drained, save juice)
  • 1 tsp. flour
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ cup cherry juice (from above)

Cobbler topping:

  • 1 cup flour
  • 1½ tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ cup crisco
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1 tsp. sugar

Place cherries in greased 6″ x 10″ baking dish. Sprinkle the 1 tsp. flour over cherries. Combine ½ cup sugar, ½ tsp. salt, and ½ cup cherry juice. Pour over cherries. Meanwhile, make cobbler dough. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together. Cut in crisco. Add milk. Spoon dough onto cherries. (Don’t roll dough.)

Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes or until puffy and golden.

by Tim Dineen

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by Tim Dineen

Jessica's Gooey Gram Treats

Jessica Parker

Jessica’s Gooey Gram Treat’s

  • 2 gram crackers
  • 2 marsh melos
  • 1 Hersys Bar
  • mash all together.

Put in a microwave for three minits.

by Tim Dineen

Chex Mix

Justin Joseph Erwin

I was fooling around eating cereal and I saw Chex Party Mix so I made it.

Ingredients

  • a bag of pretzels
  • 1 box of chex
  • a bag of peanuts
  • Chezze its

take any kind of soup and crack them over your soup.

by Tim Dineen