Most Recent Recipes Below
The last few recipes I have added show up below, but you can use the categories or the search bar to find all the recipes on this site.
TING A LINGS
December 26, 2010 
Ingredients:
1 cup salted ground nuts (peanuts)
2 cups chow mein noodles
2 cups chocolate chips
In bowl, mix ground nuts and noodles. Melt chocolate in top of double boiler; remove from heat. Pour melted chocolate over chow mein noodle mixture. Stir gently. Drop from tsp. onto waxed paper. Chill for 2 hours.
can also add 1 cup (6 oz.) butterscotch chips.
CHOCOLATE LOG
Ingredients:
4 squares semi-sweet chocolate
2 tbsp. Butter
1 egg
1 cup sifted icing sugar
1/2/cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup coconut
1/4 cup maraschino cherries chopped
1/4/cup chopped almonds
1/2 lb.coloured marshmallows, cut up
Melt chocolate and butter over hot water. Add egg and beat well. Cook a few minutes longer, remove from heat. Add rest of ingredients. Shape into a thick roll on waxed paper sprinkled with coconut. Refrigerate. When well chilled, slice to serve.
MINCEMEAT CHEESECAKE
This recipe was sent in by Roberta Robb and she said this has been a family favourite for many years. She has also been a family favourite for many years.
Ingredients:
1 c. graham cracker crumbs,
1/4 cup melted butter,
14 to 16 oz Cross & Blackwell Mincemeat,
4 cups small marshmallows,
1/2 cup orange juice,
2 tsp orange zest,
1/2/ pint whipped cream,
16 oz cream cheese.
Crust:
1 cup graham crackers, crumbs
1/4 cup melted butter – mix & press into pan. Bake 10 min at 325 F. and set aside to cool.
In bowl 1:
whip 1/2 pint whipping cream
In Bowl 2:
soften 16 oz cream cheese with 2 tsp grated orange rind (zest)
In bowl 3:
mix 14-16 oz Cross & Blackwell Mincemeat with 1/2 cup each of apples and orange (finely chopped). Reserve 1/2 cup for decorative topping.
In a double boiler add 1/2 cup orange juice and 4 cups small marshmallows. Melt until smooth.
Once crust is cool, spread the mincemeat mixture over crust.
Mix together marshmallow and cream cheese mixture. A mixer does a good job to get it lump free. Fold in the whipped cream and then pour over the mincemeat. Chill at least one hour and decorate the top with the reserved mincemeat mixture.
ALMOND BUTTER CRUNCH
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cup white sugar
1 tbsp. Light corn syrup
3 tbsp. Water
pinch of salt
1 cup coarsely chopped blanched and toasted almonds
Melt butter, add sugar, syrup and water. Cook, stirring occasionally to hard crack 300 deg.
Stir in nuts. Spread in ungreased pan. 13×9. Cool. Turn out on brown paper.
PEPPERMINT CREAMS
Ingredients:
2 oz. Stork marg.
2 tbsp. Milk
few drops green colouring
1 lb. Icing sugar
few drops peppermint essence
icing sugar for kneading and rolling
4 oz. Melted choc. To decorate, if liked.
Place marg, milk, essence and colouring in a saucepan and heat gently until marg.is melted.
Do not boil. Cool slightly. Pour over icing sugar in a bowl and mix well to form a soft ball. Knead well on a board sprinkled with icing sugar. Roll out 1/4 inch thick and cut into rounds with a plain 1 inch cutter. Decorate with melted chocolate
.Makes about 100 peppermint creams.