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2 weeks AFTER Easter 2026
I brought the left over ingredients for Easter Bread from Florida to Walworth. I also had a container of Candied Friuit that I wished I'd had for the Easter Bread. It was calling, calling to me!
I decided to make a double batch of Easter Bread. This would be for ourselves and our kids. (We delivered a loaf to Jeneve's family and to Jered. We froze one for Denielle too).
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Easter Bread——2026
Joan and I were in Florida for Easter this year. A group of friends who we play Bocce with wanted to have an Easter pot luck. Joan made Chicken Saltambaca from the 'Applehood and Motherpie' cookbook. Joan wanted Easter Bread but I didn't feel it was appropriate for a 3PM dinner.
I decided to make small breads that friends could take home for the next days' breakfast. I made two recipes from the cookbook but I baked them in 3 inch time foil bags. We were at Detwillers Market in Bradenton the days before Easter and I bought a package of Quail eggs. We died them on then baked them on top of the small loaves. I also spread some jelly-beans in the cellophane bags before sealing them closed. We passed them out after Easter dinner and then also to some friends who don't play Bocce. I should have taken a picture of the finished loaves, but any least I have the dyed eggs.The picture is in the gallery. We ended up with 12 loaves.
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December, 2025….Pasta Extruder Demo with brother Jim
My brother Jimmie has expressed an interest in the Philips Pasta Extruder machine that I sometimes use. I use it to make short macaroni shapes like shells,rigatoni or elbows. It is very quick and easy to use. The pasta is thicker than I like, but to make short pasta by hand, like penne, is meticulous and time consuming. I've been experimenting with several pasta extruder machines and have settled on the Philips 7000,
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Spritz---Martha Stewart recipe
Use this instead of any other spritz recipe:
1 1/2 cups butter (3 sticks)
1 cup sugar
2 large egg yolks
3 3/4 cups sifted cake flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon vanilla
sanding sugars
1. Cream butter and sugar
2. Mix in yoiks, flour, slat vanilla
3. Put through cookie press
350 degrees for 7 to 10 minutes
Christmas 2025–Adjustment to ‘Basic Dough’ recipe
I wasn't happy with the first batch of 'Basic Dough' so I made a second one but differently.
In the bowl of the KitchenAid with the paddle
1/2 pound of butter (2 sticks)
6 Tablespoons sugar
Rind and juice of one orange
1/4 cup Milk
2 to 21/4 cups flour
1 Tablespoon baking powder
2 eggs
1. Cream butter (not melted) with sugar
2. Add orange juice and rind
3. Reduced milk to 1/4 cup
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Christmas Cookies (and kitchen clean-up) 2025
I sent a message to Gina, Geriann and Maria that we could back Saturday the 20th, but first I needed help doing a complete kitchen take-down and clean-up. Gina and Geriann answered that they couldn't make either event.
Maria showed up on the 18th with Mary. Maria and I took everything apart and did a really good clean-up. The problem was really just a lot of 'dust?' from all the pasta making the previous year. Maria is a real worker. I couldn't have done it without her. The kitchen looks and feels wonderful.
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How to find a previously saved cookbook……HURRAY!!!!!!!
I knew, of course, that I'd created two cookbooks. I had to fool around to them tho after this site went crazy.
Here's what I did:
Sign in
Click on 'searc' at the top
Put in a search word, like your family name that you most likely included in the title of the cookbook
i did that and found both of the previously saved cookbooks.
Thank goodness.
Christmas Baking 2024
Dec 19
Maria and Gerald Anthony came over. She brought a double batch of Cornstarch already mixed..we let it sit out for a while to come to room temperature. She rolled them into fingers, just like Mom used to do. Then she flattened them with a fork. She decided not to ice them to make them travel home easier.
I had already mixed a double batch of ButterBalls. Gerald used a scoop to make them, but the scoop was too big. We didn't get very many.
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Thin Pizzelles for Rainbow Ice Cream Social///3/12/24
I made the thin pizzelle recipe and used the small, 4 cookie iron. I ended up with 14 dozen (168) cookies.
A final note on Thanksgiving 2023
Overall:
7 bags of Caputo Semolina Flour weighing about 2 pounds each
2 and 1/2 dozen eggs
Olive Oil
Salt
We cooked 3 pounds of hand-cut spaghetti for dinner.
The rest of the pasta was packaged in 8 ounce clam-shell containers for families to take home and cook later.
Families with small children were given 8 ounce packages of bow-ties.
Mary, Jimmy and Griffin were given specialty containers as noted in the full Thanksgiving 2023 blog.
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