Strawberry Cake

I found this recipe for this strawberry cake on  http://schottofclass.blogspot.com/2010/06/peach-cobbler-and-strawberry-cake.html  It's sooooooo Good!!!!>>>WOW!!!!


Ingredients:
1 (18.25-ounce) box white cake mix
1 (3-ounce) box strawberry-flavored instant gelatin
1 (15-ounce) package frozen strawberries in syrup, thawed and pureed
4 large eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup water
Strawberry cream cheese frosting, recipe follows
Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (10-ounce) package frozen strawberries in syrup, thawed and pureed
1/2 teaspoon strawberry extract
7 cups confectioners' sugar
Freshly sliced strawberries, for garnish, optional

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease 2 (9-inch) round cake pans. In a large bowl, combine cake mix and gelatin. Add pureed strawberries, eggs, oil, and water; beat at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Pour into prepared pans, and bake for 20 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks.
FOR THE FROSTING:

In a large bowl, beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in 1/4 cup of the strawberry puree and the vanilla extract. (The rest of the puree is leftover but can be used in smoothies or on ice cream for a delicious treat.) Gradually add confectioners' sugar, beating until smooth. Spread frosting in between layers and on top and sides of cake. Garnish with sliced fresh strawberries, if desired.

Field Peas And Snap Beans

Field peas cooked with green beans wow how good.. Your guest will smell them all over the house cooking up a storm. These peas are similar to black-eyed peas but has a reddish color and taste deeply than black-eyed peas and more firmer.

1 bag of dry field peas

1 cup raw green beans cut in half

1 Large onion, chopped

1 Toe garlic minced

4 T. bacon dripping

Salt sand pepper to taste

Place dry peas into pot and cover with 2 inches of cold water for 2 hours.
Pour water off...add five cups fresh water.
Add rest of ingredients.
Cook over medium heat until peas are tender. Add more water if peas are not done and if water cooks too low. ADD RAW GREEN SNAP BEANS.. Taste for seasoning add more too your liking.
Cover pot and cook for 15 mins,



Camellia Field Peas 1 LB

Chess Pie

Try This Easy Sweet Pie ( Chess Pie ). It will become the hit for the Holidays. I love this pie with a very good sweet tooth. It's tasty and will melt in your mouth.

Story:

When I was a child going to school,I think I was in the..... 5th grade. the lunch room would serve this chess pie...and ya'll... I could not get enough.

I was friends with a lunch room lady, she gave me the recipe for this chess pie. The recipe had instructions for how made many pies you could make like 1 pie, 6 pies, or 12 and so on.

I went home and made 1 pie and wow...! it turn out wonderful. My cousin Marie could not believe I baked that chess pie like the lunch room at school.

Now this is a very old southern recipe. It's a very sweet, rich pie which I cannot described as anything but marvelous!!

1 stick melted butter


2 cups white sugar


1 teaspoon vanilla extract


4 eggs


1 tablespoon cornmeal


1/4 cup evaporated milk


1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar


1 (9 inch) unbaked pie shell

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees In a large bowl, mix the butter, sugar and vanilla together. Mix in the eggs, then stir in the cornmeal, evaporated milk, and vinegar until smooth.
Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven, then reduce heat to 300 degrees for 40 minutes. Let cool.

Huckleberry Pie

What is Huckleberries? Huckleberries grow wild throughout the Pacific Northwest in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Come mid-August through mid-September adventurous berry pickers scour the sunny slopes just to pick these blue huckleberries. Huckleberries are grouped according to their growth pattern. Some bushes form clusters of berries, while others form single berries on individual stems. The thin-leaf huckleberry is the most sought-after type, according to the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, because of its large, sweet berries.

1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie

 4 cups huckleberries fresh or frozen

 2 1/2 tablespoons tapioca

 2/3 cup white sugar

 1/4 teaspoon salt

 1/2 cup packed brown sugar

 1 tablespoon cider vinegar

 4 tablespoons melted butter


Roll half the pastry out to fit a 9-inch pie plate. Place bottom crust in pie plate and chill for at least 20 minutes before baking. Roll out top crust and set aside.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
Mix together the huckleberries, tapioca, sugar, salt, brown sugar, and apple cider vinegar.

Pour mixture into unbaked pie shell. pour melted butter over berries.  Add top pastry and flute edges. Cut vents for steam and place pie on a baking sheet.

Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake until the crust is golden and the juices are bubbling, 45 to 55 minutes more. You'll need to bake the pie longer if the berries were frozen. Cool pie on wire rack.

Banana Nut Bread

"Sometime" you do not know what??? to give as a gift...I always give this little easy banana nut bread to my friends for the holiday cheer. I wrap the loaf with nice Christmas paper and a bow and I am set for the holiday season.

Directions

5 large ripe bananas

4 eggs, well beaten

1 cup shortening

2 cups sugar

4 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup chopped walnuts


Beat bananas until liquid.

Beat in eggs; set aside.

Cream sugar and shortening until fluffy.

Add dry ingredients and banana mixture *and beaten eggs.

Stir until smooth.

Fold in nuts.

Pour into 2 greased loaf pans.

Bake at 350°F on lowest rack, for 50 minutes or until done.

Easy Pecan Pie

Everyone will enjoy this simple and easy pecan pie for the holidays meals...Let a child fix this pie and get them started in the cooking world.

3 eggs, slightly beaten

1 c. Karo light or dark corn syrup

1 c. sugar

2 tbsp. Mazola butter, melted

1 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 cup pecan halves

1 unbaked pie shell (9 inch)

In large bowl stir eggs, corn syrup, sugar, butter and vanilla until well blended. Stir in pecans. Pour into pie shell. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 55 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean. Cool