Raisin And Mixed Peel - Spice Cupcakes

Raisin and Mixed Peel -Spice Cupcakes

Ingredients

2 cups sifted all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon cloves

1 teaspoon nutmeg

½ cup soft butter or margarine

1 cup light-brown sugar, firmly packed

1 egg

1 cup milk

½ cup seedless raisins

½ cup mixed peel (candied)

½ cup finely chopped nuts (optional) 

Optional:  Raisins and Mixed Peel had been soaking in a little black rum.  (Like Fruit Cake) 

Method

1.                  Preheat oven to 375°.  Grease and flour bottoms at 16 (2 ½ inch) cupcake cups.

2.                  Sift flour with soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg; set aside.

3.                  In large bowl of electric mixer, at high speed, beat butter, sugar, and egg until light and fluffy.

4.                  At low, speed, beat in flour mixture (in fourths), alternately with milk (in thirds), beginning and ending with flour mixture.  Beat just until combined.

5.                  Stir in raisins, mixed peel and nuts.

6.                  Spoon batter evenly into prepared cupcake cups, filling two thirds full.

7.                  Bake about 25 minutes, or until surface springs back with gently pressed with fingertip.

8.                  Remove to wire rack; cool completely.  Serve plain, or frost as desired.  

Cupcake Butter Frosting  

Ingredients 

2 ½ to 3 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar

2 tablespoons soft butter or margarine

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract, or ½ teaspoon almond extract  

Method 

1.                  In medium bowl, with portable electric mixer at medium speed, or wooden spoon, beat 2½ cups sugar, butter, egg, and vanilla until smooth and easy to spread.  If frosting is too thin, gradually beat in more confectioners’ sugar.

2.                  Makes 1 cup- enough for 24 cupcakes. 

Cupcakes were made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman  

Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman  

Recipe was taken from McCall CookBook, the chapter on “Cupcakes and Other Finger Cakes”, page 139 an edition of between 1950 –1960s.  The original recipe had 1 cup of raisins, to which I only substituted to this particular recipe 1 cup of mixture of raisins and mixed peel to which I had soaking over the Christmas Season for Fruit Cakes. 

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Vanilla-Nut Icebox Cookies With Mixed Peel And Raisins

Vanilla-Nut Icebox Cookies With Mixed Peel And Raisins

Ingredients

2 cups sifted all-purpose flour

1½ teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

⅔ cup soft butter or margarine

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ cup finely chopped walnuts, pecans, or unsalted peanuts

½ cup of mixed peel and raisins (that had been soaking for Christmas Fruit Cake) 

Method

1.                  On sheet of waxed paper, sift flour with baking powder and salt; set aside.  In large bowl, with wooden spoon, or portable electric mixer at medium speed, beat butter until light.  Gradually beat in sugar.  Add egg and vanilla; continue beating until very light and fluffy.

2.                  At low speed, beat in half the flour mixture; mix in rest, with hands, to form a stiff dough.  Add chopped nuts, mixed peel and raisins, mixing to combine well.

3.                  Turn out dough onto lightly floured surface.  Divide in half.  With hands, shape each half into a roll 7 inches long.  Wrap each roll in saran or foil.  Refrigerate until firm – about 8 hours, or overnight – before slicing and baking.  (Rolls of cookie dough may be stored in refrigerator as long as 10 days.  Slice and freshly bake as many as desired.)

4.                  Preheat oven to 375°F.  With sharp knife, cut as many ⅛ inch slices as desired for baking at one time.  Rewrap rest of roll; refrigerate.  Place slices, 2 inches apart, on ungreased cookie sheets.  Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned.  With spatula, lift cookies from cookie sheets to wire rack.  Let cool completely. Makes about 9 dozen in all. 

Cookies were made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman  

Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman  

Recipe was taken from McCall CookBook, the chapter on “Refrigerator Cookies”, page 180 an edition of between 1950 – 1960s.   

In addition, added to mixture was mixed peel and raisins that had been soaking for Christmas Fruit Cake.  The original recipe called for 1 cup of finely chopped walnuts, pecans or unsalted peanuts.  In this case I used ½ cup of pecans and ½ cup of the soaking fruit, which added a nice Christmas Fruit Cake flavour to the cookies. 

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Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies

Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

4 cups sifted all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon nutmeg

1 cup soft butter or margarine

1 ½ cups sugar

1 egg

½ cup dairy sour cream

1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

Topping:

¼ cup sugar

Raisins or blanched almonds (optional) 

Method 

1.                  Sift flour with baking powder, soda, salt, and nutmeg; set aside.

2.                  In large bowl of electric mixer, at medium speed, beat butter, sugar, and egg until light and fluffy.

3.                  At low speed, beat in sour cream and vanilla until smooth.

4.                  Gradually add flour mixture, beating until well combined.

5.                  With rubber scraper, form dough into a ball.  Wrap in waxed paper or foil; refrigerate several hours, or overnight.

6.                  Divide dough into 4 parts.  Refrigerate until ready to roll out.

7.                  Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375°.  Lightly grease cookie sheets.

8.                  On well-floured surface, roll dough, one part at a time, ¼ inch thick.

9.                  With floured, 2 ½ - inch, round or scalloped cookie cutter, cut out cookies.  Using spatula, place, 2 inches apart, on cookie sheets.

10.              Sprinkle tops of cookies with sugar.  Place a raisin or almond in the center of each, if desired.  Reroll trimmings, and cut.

11.              Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until golden.  Remove to wire rack; cool. 

Cookies were made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman  

Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman  

Recipe was taken from McCall CookBook, the chapter on “Rolled Cookies”, page 175 an edition of between 1950 – 1960s.   

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Dream Bars

 

Dream Bars

Ingredients

Cookie Crust:

½ cup soft butter or margarine

½ cup light-brown sugar, firmly packed

1 cup sifted all-purpose flour

Filling:

2 eggs

1 cup light-brown sugar, firmly packed

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

¼ teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 can (3 ½ oz) flaked coconut

1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans

Optional

1 cup (6 ounces) milk chocolate chips  

Method 

1.                  Preheat oven to 350°.

2.                  Make Cookie Crust:  In small bowl, cream butter and sugar, with wooden spoon, until smooth.

3.                  With hands, work in flour until mixture is smooth.

4.                  Pat into bottom of a 13-by-9-by-2 inch pan; bake 10 minutes, or until golden.  Cool on wire rack.

5.                  Meanwhile, make Filling:  In small bowl of electric mixer, at medium speed, beat eggs until light.

6.                  Gradually beat in sugar.  Add vanilla, flour, salt, and baking powder, beating just until combined.

7.                  Stir in coconut and walnuts.

8.                  Spread evenly over cooled crust; bake 25 minutes, or until golden and firm to the touch. 

9.                  Immediately sprinkle with chips.  Let stand 2 minutes; spread chocolate evenly over top.  Cool; chill to set up chocolate. 

10.              With sharp knife, cut into bars.

Dream Bars were made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman 

Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman  

Recipe was taken from McCall CookBook, the chapter on “Bar Cookies”, page 191 an edition of between 1950 – 1960s.   

In addition, to the original recipe chocolate was added at the conclusion of the recipe. 

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