Amaretto Cookies Recipe by Julia Greco/The Greco Family “Cook”Book

November 25, 2012 Leave a Comment

Amaretto Cookies

In 1998 my husband, Mike and myself had gone to the First Greco Family Picnic (they have it every 5 years).  Over the next few months, Diane Randesi (one of the children of the Greco clan) had put together a cookbook that everyone who attended the picnic (about 100 people or more) contributed to the cookbook.

Amaretto Cookies Recipe by Julia Greco/The Greco Family “Cook”Book

Amaretto Cookies

4 eggs

2 cups sugar

1 cup Crisco

1 cup orange juice

4 tsp. almond extract

6 hearing tsp. baking powder

5 cups flour

Powdered sugar

In large bowl, beat eggs, sugar and Crisco.  Add juice, almond extract, baking powder and flour.  Mix.  Roll each teaspoonful into a ball and roll in powdered sugar.  Place on greased cookie sheet.  Let stand on cookie sheet a few minutes before baking.

Bake 350 F. for 10 – 15 minutes.

Finished cookie will be light in color.

(Recipe for the Amaretto Cookies was in the Greco Family “Cook”Book, Julia Greco (age 100/2012), 1998.)

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Dark Chocolate Cake Recipe

August 29, 2012 1 Comment

Dark Chocolate Cake

My husband’s mother, Marie Shea, made everything that she baked from SCRATCH.  Believe me there was a lot of cookies and cakes that she made.  Here is her Dark Chocolate Cake that was very good.

Dark Chocolate Cake Recipe

Dark Chocolate Cake

2 ¼ cups sugar

2/3 cup Crisco

2 Tbsp. margarine

3 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

 2 ½ cups flour

¾ cups cocoa powder

½ tsp. salt

2 tsp. baking powder

2 cups water

2 tsp. baking soda

You cream together the sugar, Crisco and margarine in a large bowl, and then add the eggs and vanilla and until blended.   Sift together the flour, cocoa, salt, and baking powder.  Then put the water in a sauce pan, bring it to a boil, remove it from the heat, and add the baking soda.   Alternately add the flour mixture and the water to the CREAMED MIXTURE while mixing.   Once completed and mixed well, pour the batter into a greased and floured 13×9 pan and bake at 300 F for 45 minutes or until a toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean.

Icing  

2 ½ Tbsp. margarine

 ¼ cup cocoa

2 Tbsp. milk

2 cups powdered sugar

4 Tbsp. milk, divided

1 tsp. vanilla

In a small sauce pan, melt the margarine and then add the cocoa and 2 Tbsp. of milk, heating until smooth.  Remove from heat.  In a medium bowl, add the powdered sugar, vanilla, and the rest of the milk and mix until smooth.  Add the heated mixture gradually while mixing and blend the icing until creamy.  Wait until both the cake and the icing have cooled before icing the cake.

(Recipe for the Dark Chocolate Cake is by Marie Shea.)

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Banana Cake Recipe

August 3, 2012 Leave a Comment

Banana Cake with Mock Whipped Cream

My mother-in-law, Marie Shea, made this delicious Banana Cake, mostly for birthdays.  In 1986, we were living in Albany, NY, and I had made this cake for my son, Daniel’s 2nd birthday.  My husband’s family was there, so my son’s birthday was something special because he had most of his family there, and a really good cake.

Banana Cake Recipe

Banana Cake

¾ cup Crisco

1 tsp. salt

¾ tsp. ginger

1 ½ tsp. vanilla

1 ½ cups sugar

3 eggs

3 cups flour

1 Tbsp. baking powder

¾ cup sour milk

½ tsp. baking soda

1 ½ cups mashed bananas

Preheat oven 350F. Cream together first 5 ingredients.  Add eggs one at a time, beating after each egg.

Put 1 tablespoon of vinegar in ¾ cup; then fill it with milk. Give it 5 minutes to curdle.  Then mix the flour and baking powder together; then mix the sour milk and baking together.  Alternately add the flour mixture and milk mixture with the bananas; mix all together.  Bake at 350F. for 25 – 30 minutes.

 

Mock Whip Cream

1 cup sugar

1 cup white Crisco

1 cup flour

1 cup milk

1 tsp. vanilla

Cream sugar and Crisco.  Then, in gravy shaker; shake the flour and milk, when smooth, heat mixture in pot until it becomes thick (barely warm) stir constantly.

Pour flour mixture into sugar mixture while whipping, then add vanilla.  Continue to whip for a long time; until it gets really fluffy like whipped cream.

 

(Recipe for the Banana Cake and Mock Whip Cream is from Marie Shea)

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Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

July 5, 2012 Leave a Comment

Peanut Butter Cookies

For the life of me, I can’t remember where I got this Peanut Butter Cookie recipe.  But I make cookies for Mike’s (my husband) office, and there is a man by the name of Mike McDermott, who is Lactose intolerant, who just loves these cookies.  Unfortunately, I don’t make them that often, but when I do make them, he goes CRAZY for them.

Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

Peanut Butter Cookies

¾ cup peanut butter

½ cup Crisco

1 ¼ cup brown sugar

3 Tbsp. milk

1 Tbsp. vanilla

1 egg

1 ¾ cups flour

¾ tsp. salt

¾ tsp. baking soda

 

Preheat oven to 350F.  Beat peanut butter, crisco, brown sugar, milk and vanilla until it’s well blended. Then add the egg; beat until it’s blended.   Put the flour, salt and baking soda into the bowl; and mix well.

Drop rounded teaspoonful’s 2 inches apart on UNGREASED cookie sheets.  With the fork dipped in flour, make a cross-hatch ( X ) on the top of each cookie.  Bake the cookies on 350F. for 11 to 13 minutes.

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