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⋄ Recipes ⋄
⋄ Food Storage Cookies by Anne
This recipe uses many of the basic commodities that store well in long-term storage. This is a double recipe and can be baked as ‘drop’ cookies are as a bar cookie. Bar cookies are pressed into a cookie pan and allowed to cool before cutting. The baked cookies freeze well.
Dry ingredients:
Mix all dry ingredients together with wire whisk. In separate bowl, cream the following:
Combine dry ingredients into creamed mixture. Mix and then add 1 bag chocolate chips. (You can also use raisins, chopped nuts, chopped dates & seeds. For years I added cooked lentils to the mix with the chocolate chips. After a couple of years one of the kids spotted a lentil—they’ve never quite forgiven me!)
If you are in a hurry, just cream the ‘wet’ stuff and then start adding everything else. Stir the salt & baking soda into 1 cup of the flour before adding to remainder of ingredients.
Bake at 350F until just lightly golden brown or to taste. Drop cookies will bake in about 12 minutes. Bar cookies will take about 20 minutes.
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- Pantry Basics -
⋄ Sweetened Condensed Milk
Combine the following and heat to boiling. Cook, stirring frequently, until thick–about 15 to 20 minutes. The recipe equals one commercially prepared can.
⋄ Homemade Pancake Syrup
Bring all to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Turn off burner and leave until bubbling stops. Cool before serving. Store in refrigerator in covered jar. Can be warmed up in microwave.
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⋄ Homemade Chocolate Syrup
Mix the cocoa and water in a saucepan. Heat and stir until dissolved. Add sugar and heat until dissolved. Boil for 3 minutes. Add salt & vanilla, stirring thoroughly. Allow to cool slightly and pour into a pint jar. Store in refrigerator.
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⋄ Hot Fudge Topping
(Perfect for last minute chocolate attacks! You can also use candy bars or stir in some peanut butter for a ‘Reese’s’ style topping.)
Combine all ingredients, except vanilla, in a microwave-proof bowl. Microwave for 1 minute. Stir gently and then heat for another minute. Stir again. Continue microwaving until all of the chocolate is melted. Add vanilla to mixture–it can ‘bubble’ a bit so be careful. Cool slightly and serve over ice cream, cake or whatever! Store covered in the refrigerator.
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⋄ Cream of ???? Soup
Add 1 1/2 c water to 1/3 c mix. For recipes add 1/4 c water to 1/3 c mix. Feel free to then add mushrooms, chunk chicken, celery, broccoli, shredded cheese, etc. Adjust water to mix ratio to increase or decrease thickness.
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⋄ Bisquick Type Mix
Combine flour, dry milk, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Stir together. Mix in oil until the mixture is smooth. Store in airtight container. Refrigerate and use within a month or put into containers suitable for freezing and freeze.
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⋄ Spaghetti Seasoning Mix
Combine all ingredients. Store in a jar and cover tightly. The above recipe makes 8 packets of mix. Measure out 1/4 cup plus 1 teaspoon mix for each 1 lb of meat in your spaghetti sauce. To browned and drained meat, add 2 cans tomato sauce, 1 can tomato paste and 1 bay leaf (remove before serving). Or simply add 1/4 c. plus 1 tsp.mix to 2 cans tomato sauce and one can tomato paste for marinara sauce. Allow to simmer for 20 minutes or longer.
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⋄ Seasoned Salt
⋄ Taco Seasoning
Mix and store in an airtight container. Add 2 tbs to 1/4 c. hot water and mix into ground beef as you brown the meat. You can also simply sprinkle the mixture onto the beef and omit the water.
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⋄ Seasoned Coating Mix
(double or triple recipe if you coat meat often)
Combine ingredients. Store recipe in a tightly covered container. To use, pour 1/4 c. mix into a paper or plastic bag. Add chicken, fish or pork one piece at a time and shake to thoroughly coat. Fry or bake as desired.
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⋄ Instant Buttermilk
To 1 cup milk, add 1 tsp. vinegar (white or cider). Let sit for a few minutes and use in place of buttermilk in any recipe.
⋄ Foaming Hand Soap
To refill your foaming hand soap dispenser without spending a fortune, simply save the empty one and refill with 2 tblspn. regular hand soap. Fill the rest of the container with distilled (this part is important because tap water can grow bacteria), leaving about 1/4″ headroom. Reattach dispenser cap to bottle and shake until well mixed. Soap will now foam and you have made 2 tblspn of soap go further!
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⋄ Pennies-Per-Load Powdered Laundry Soap
Ingredients for this soap can be found in the laundry aisle of nearly any grocery store. You can substitute Ivory, Zote or Sunlight soap for the Fels-Naptha. Do not use heavily perfumed soaps. Washing soda is NOT baking soda though the boxes will look similar.
Mix well and store in an airtight plastic container.
A ‘normal’ size washing machine will require only 2 tablespoons of this mixture! For extra soiled clothes, put 1/8th to 1/4 cup of borax to the wash load. You can also use Oxy-clean to help with heavily soiled clothes.
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