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Grandma Kingston's Raisin Bread and Ginger Cookies Recipes
From Mary Weissler
 

Raisin Bread

2 yeast cakes dissolved in 1/2 cup warm water and 2 teaspoons sugar
1-1/2 cups warm water
1/2 cup molasses
1 tablespoon shortening
3-1/2 (approx) cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 nutmeg, grated
1 package muscat raisins (regular ones work too if you can't find these)

Mix wet ingredients together.
Mix dry ingredients together.
Add 2 cups flour mixture to yeast mixture and beat until incorporated.
Add 1 to 1-1/2 more cups flour.
Knead 10 min. kneading in the raisins.
Let rise until double.
Make into loaves, put in buttered pans and let rise until double again.
Bake at 350* for 45 min.

Note:  Muscat raisins are very moist and sticky making them difficult to
incorporate into the dough.  What really helps is to separate them all and
dust them with flour until all individuals are lightly coated before
kneading them into the dough.
 

Ginger Cookies

3/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger

Cream shortening.
Add 1 cup sugar and continue until creamy.
Add egg and molasses.  Beat well.
Stir in flour with salt, soda and spices.  Mix well.
Shape into balls about 1-1/2 inches in diameter.
Roll in sugar.
Place 3 inches apart on baking sheet.
Bake at 350* for 15 minutes.

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How to Make Grandmother's Rolls
Contributor: John Vickers (With editorial direction from his mother)
 

If you have been to the Miramichi over the years, there is a good chance you can recall seeing home made rolls.

This Kingston recipe is the best!

Two Cups Milk
1 teaspoon Salt
2 Tablespoon Sugar
2  tablespoons of Butter / Margarine (some like "heaping")
Feel free to use a little extra salt and butter if no one is looking!

Combined above over medium heat stirring occasionally.  Once butter melts and you can see steam frailing off of your stir spoon (when you hold it up in the air) remove mixture from heat and set aside.

Yeast Packet (or one heaping tablespoon of yeast could be better) / one half cup of warm water / teaspoon of sugar - combine and set aside

Slightly beaten egg - set aside

Once milk mixture is cool enough to easily run your hands through, add yeast and egg.  (To ensure rising, you may wish to also add a half teaspoon of lemon juice.)

Then add six cups or so (sometimes more) of white flour and stir until mixture begins to form a ball.  Pour dough out onto floured counter and knead adding more flour as required.  After five minutes or so when dough begins to form a large ball (sort of), return dough to pot, cover with a dish cloth and put in unheated oven with the inside light on.

An hour and a half later, remove dough and spread out over counter with a rolling bin, keeping thickness at about an inch or so.  Take a large mouthed cup, glass, etc. - cut out circle.  Take circle and fold in half, pinching sides together.  Set on its side on slightly greased cookie sheet - you should get about three across.

Place cookie sheet back in oven with light on and let stand for another half hour.

Then, turn your oven heat on to about 350 degrees (middle rack or higher) and remove when tops brown.  Stand guard after about eighteen minutes or so!

Hmmmmmm!

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Aunt Carmel Leslie's Oatmeal Cake (AKA Lazy Daisy)
Contributor: JoAnn Kingston-Reichers

Combine and put aside to cool a little:
1 1/2 c. boiling water
1 c. oatmeal

Combine:
1 c. white sugar
1 c. brown sugar

Combine:
3/4 c. mazola oil
2 eggs, beaten

Combine all the above.   In a separate bowl, then combine:
 1 1/2 c. flour
 1 t soda
 1 1/2 t baking powder
 1/4 t salt

Combine the two mixtures.  Then combine half a " t " of vanilla and stir.
Place in a 9 x 13 pan.  Top with:
1 1/2 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. chocolate chips
1/2 c. nuts
1/2 c. nutmeg

Bake at 325 for about 30 to 35 minutes.

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Grandmother's Mayo
Contributor: John V

One egg
One cup of milk
One tablespoon of butter
One to two tablespoons of sugar
One to one and a half tablespoons of flour
One teaspoon of dry mustard
Two tablespoons of vinegar
Low Heat

(I love this stuff with fish!)

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