Recipes

Banana Bread
Chocolate Mousse
Ginger Bread Cookies

Banana Bread

Mom October 1980

• preheat oven to 350*
• 2 C flour
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp Baking soda
• 1/2 C Butter or oleo
• 1 1/2 C Granulated Sugar
• 2 eggs (seperated yolks & whites)
• 1/2 C butter milk
• 1 C ripe bananas
• 1/2 C pecans

Cream Butter and Sugar
Add well beaten egg yolks and buttermilk

Sift dry ingredients 3 times together
Add creamed mixture
Then add pecan's, banana pulp, vanilla, and stiffly beaten egg whites

Fill 3 small loaf pans or 1 nice larger cake 12x8 

Bake 300  - 325 - 350 depending on recipe for 45 minutes to an hour

:: To make buttermilk:
add 1 T vinegar to 1/2 C Milk or powdered Milk

 

 

 

 

Chocolate Mousse

• 4 oz dark sweet chocolate
• 3 Tbls unsalter butter
• 2 egg yolks (beater)
• 3/4 Cup whipping cream
• 1 Tbls powdered sugar
• grated orange
• 2 tsp Grand Marnier
• 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Melt Chocolate and butter (80 seconds in the microwave, Take out and stir)

Beat together egg yolks and sugar until thick 
add Grand Marnier & 1/2 tsp vanilla extract and orange zest

Fold in melted butter and chocolate and whipping cream.
Put in fridge

 

 

 

 

Ginger Bread Cookies

Mom 1985

• 2/3 C Butter (Margarine)
• 1 C Sugar
• 1 beaten egg
• 1/4 C Mollases
• 2 C Flour
• 1 t salt
• 1 t soda (baking)
• 1 t cinnamon
• 1 t ginger
• 1 t clove

create margarine and sugar
Add egg and mollases and beat well.
Add sifted dry ingredients.
mix well.
Set in refrigerator for awhile - easier to then rollout - dust with flour.

Bake 10 Minutes 350 * far-left
This recipe i used to make for you when you were very young.