Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Sugar Cookies With Chocolate Glaze













Sugar Cookies With Chocolate Glaze

Ingredients

⅔ cup shortening
¾ cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
4 teaspoons milk
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1½ teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt

Method

1.                  Thoroughly cream shortening, sugar, and vanilla.
2.                  Add egg; beat till light and fluffy.
3.                  Stir in milk.
4.                  Sift together dry ingredients; blend into creamed mixture.
5.                  Divide dough in half. *
6.                  Chill 1 hour.
7.                  On lightly floured surface, roll to ⅛ inch thickness.  
8.                  Cut in desired shapes with cutters.
9.                  Bake on greased cookie sheet at 375° about 6 to 8 minutes.
10.              Cool slightly; remove from pan.
11.              Makes 2 dozen.

* Chill other half till ready to use.

Sugar Cookies With Chocolate Glaze were made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman

Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman.

Recipe derived from “Better Homes And Gardens New CookBook, the chapter on “Rolled Cookies”, page 149 of the Third Edition. 



Chocolate Glaze

Make about ½ cup

2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 square unsweetened chocolate
1 cup sifted confectioners’ sugar
2 tablespoons boiling water

Ingredients

1.                  Melt butter and chocolate over hot water.  Remove from heat; let cool.

2.                  In small bowl, combine chocolate mixture with remaining ingredients.

3.                  With rotary beater, beat just until mixture is smooth and well combined.  (Glaze seems thin, but will thicken on standing.)

Recipe was taken from McCall CookBook, the chapter on “Cake Frostings And Fillings” “Glazes”, page 131 an edition of between 1950 – 1960s




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Monday, March 17, 2014

Old Fashioned Jelly Roll













Old Fashioned Jelly Roll

Makes 8 To 10 Servings

Ingredients

4 eggs
¾ cup sifted all-purpose or cake flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1 tablespoons grated orange peel
Confectioners’ sugar
1 cup currant jelly or strawberry or raspberry jam

Method

1.                  In large bowl of electric mixer, let eggs warm to room temperature – about 1 hour.
2.                  Preheat oven to 400F.  Lightly grease bottom of a 15½ -by-10½ -by-1-inch jelly roll pan; then line with waxed paper.
3.                  Sift flour, baking powder, salt; set aside.
4.                  At high speed beat eggs until thick and lemon-colored.  Gradually beat in sugar. 2 tablespoons at a time; continue beating until very thick and light – about 5 minutes.
5.                  At low speed, blend in sifted dry ingredients and vanilla just until combined.
6.                  Turn into prepared pan; spread evenly.  Bake 10 to 13 minutes, or until surface springs back when gently pressed with fingertips.
7.                  Meanwhile, onto clean towel, sift confectioners’ sugar in a 15 by 10 inch rectangle.
8.                  With sharp knife, loosen sides of cake from pan.  Turn out cake onto sugar; gently peel off waxed paper.  Turn off crisp edges of cake.
9.                  Starting with long edge, roll cake in towel; place, seam side down, on wire rack until cool.
10.              Gently unroll cake; remove bowl.  Spread cake with jelly (beaten with fork to spreading consistency), or fill with one Jell-Roll Fillings.  Reroll.
11.              Place, seam side down, on serving plate; cover loosely with foil.  Chill at least 1 hour.
12.              To serve, lightly sift confectioner’s sugar over top.  Slice on diagonal with serrated knife.

Spicecake Roll; Make Old Fashioned Jelly Roll, above sifting ½ teaspoon cloves, ½ teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1 teaspoon ginger with dry ingredients.  Proceed as above.

Old Fashioned Jelly Roll was made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman

Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman

Recipe was taken from McCall CookBook, the chapter on Desserts And Dessert Sauces “Rolled-Up Cakes”, page 241 an edition of between 1950 – 1960s. 








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