Rum Cake

Mmmm, Mmmmm Good!

1 yellow cake mix                                          
¾ c. cold water

1 sm. Pkg. instant vanilla pudding                    
½ c. vegetable oil

4 eggs                                                            
¼ c. rum

Beat above ingredients 4 minutes.  Pour into greased bundt pan that has been lined with chopped pecans.  Bake 1 hr. at 325.

Right before cake is finished, mix 1 stick butter, 1 c. sugar, ½ c. cold water and bring to boil.  Remove from heat and add 2 T. rum.  When cake is removed from oven, pour this mixture over the cake and along the edges so it will soak into the cake.  Remove cake from pan after all glaze is absorbed into cake.

Cranberry Salad

This is my late mom's recipe for cranberry salad.  We can't have Thanksgiving without it.

Grind:

1 bag cranberries

1/2 orange with peel still on

1 apple

Mix 1 to 1-1/2 c. sugar, 1-1/2 c. hot water and a small pkg. orange jello.  Add to cranberry mixture.

Add a handful of chopped pecans and mix all together and refrigerate overnight.

Tupperware Bread

This "No Knead" bread can be made into loaves or rolls.  It is quick and easy.  I've used this recipe since 1976 and won't even consider trying a different one.  This recipe makes three loaves of bread or a lasagna pan full of rolls.

Use Tupperware Fix N Mix bowl.  Mix 3-3/4 c. warm water and 3 pkg dry active yeast.  Add 6 T. sugar, 4-5 tsp salt, 5 c. flour, 6 T margarine or butter and 2 eggs.  Mix well with spoon.  Add 5 more cups flour and mix well.  Put seal on bowl and burp bowl.  Let set until seal pops off or bread has risen and covered the entire inside of the lid.  Grease and flour hands.  Divide into 3 loaves and put in greased pans.  Cover and let stand 30 min.  Bake 350 for 40 minutes.  Can also be used for dinner rolls.

Fried Cabbage

I love fried cabbage and decided to try an easier and faster way to make it today.  It worked out great!

I used one small head of cabbage, about 2 Tbsp bacon drippings, 2 Tbsp vegetable oil and salt and pepper.

Cut the head of cabbage into approximately 8 pieces, then put it in the food processor to chop it.  The cabbage looks like coleslaw when you do it this way and it cooks really fast.

Put cabbage, salt, pepper and bacon drippings into skillet.  Cook on medium heat, stirring occasionally until cabbage begins to brown and the bottom of the skillet is dry of bacon drippings.  Add the vegetable oil, turn heat to medium high and continue cooking until cabbage is cooked to desired degree of brown.

This is so much faster than parboiling large chunks of cabbage then frying and trying to get it all the same degree of done.

Orange Slice Fruit Cake

This is not like a regular fruitcake.  It has orange slices in it and has a glaze of frozen orange juice concentrate mixed with confectioners sugar and is my youngest son's favorite cake.

Mix 3 c. flour and 1/2 tsp salt (save 1/2 c. of mixture)

Coat the following with the 1/2 c.flour/salt mixture:
1 lb orange slices cut into pieces a little bigger than a pea
8 oz. diced dates
2 c. chopped pecans

Mix 1/2 c. buttermilk and 1 tsp. baking soda

Cream 2 c. sugar and 1 c. unsalted butter.  Add 4 eggs beaten and one at a time.  Add the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture.  Add the orange slice mixture to the batter and pour into a floured angel food cake pan.  Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hr. 45 minutes.

Just before cake is done, mix 1 c. frozen orange juice concentrate with 2 c. confectioners sugar.  As soon as cake comes out of the oven, pour the orange juice mixture over the cake while still in the pan.  Once the juice mixture has marinated into the cake, remove the cake from the pan.  Refrigerate when cooled.

You can also make this in mini loaf pans to give as gifts or in a bundt cake pan (but it is a little hard to remove from the pan).  The mini loaf pans require only 1 hr. 10 minutes of baking time.