Author Archives: Carol and Bruce Miller

Mushroom Supreme

1 lb mushrooms
2 beef or vegetable bouillon cubes
½ stick butter
½ c hot water
2 T flour
½ c cream
1/8 t salt
Dash pepper
½ c bread crumbs
1 c parmesan cheese

Saute the mushrooms in butter. Dissolve beef cubes in water. Melt butter and blend with flour. Add cream, salt, pepper, and beef broth. Add this to mushrooms. Top with cheese and bread crumb mixture before baking. Bake in buttered casserole for 30 minutes at 350.

Chocolate Sodas

In tall glasses, add 2 T Hershey’s Syrup and a tiny bit of milk or half and half (about 1-2 t). Mix thoroughly. Add cold soda water until glass is about ¾ full. Add a scoop or two of chocolate ice cream. Good stuff!

Chocolate Mint Dessert Drinks

4 oz vanilla ice cream
1 ½ oz chocolate mint liqueur (Hiram Walker)
Blend in blender, add one ice cube for a very cold drink. Serve in brandy snifter.

Cocoa Mix for the Winter by Bruce and Carol

8 quart box of instant nonfat dry milk
12 oz jar powdered cream
2 lbs cocoa mix
1 c powdered sugar (optional)

To use, add ¼ c of the above mixture to one cup hot or boiling water.

Honeybear Brownies by Carol

1/3 c butter
¾ c sugar
½ c honey
2 t vanilla
2 eggs
½ c flour
1/3 c cocoa
½ t salt
½ c nuts
½ to 1 c raisins

Cream butter, sugar in small bowl. Blend in honey and vanilla. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Combine flour, cocoa, and salt. Add to mixture. Stir in nuts and raisins. Pour into a 9x9x¾” pan, well greased. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes, or until done. Brownies are very moist and flavorful.

Cinnamon Raisin Bread/Rolls

Put 1 c warm milk and one package yeast in mixing bowl and let stand five minutes. Stir. Add ¼ c sugar, 1 t salt, ¼ c soft butter and 2 eggs. Beat thoroughly with mixer and add 1 ½ c flour. Remove beater and let dough rise 40 minutes. Mix in 1 c flour. Use enough more flour to make the dough barely firm enough to handle. Cover and chill ½ hour. Knead and roll out into rectangle ½” thick. Spread with softened butter, sprinkled with ¼ to ½ c cinnamon sugar, heavy on the cinnamon. Press raisins into dough. Roll up like a jelly roll. Slice into about ½ to 1” slices. Place on buttered cookie sheet. Allow to rise. Bake at 400 for about 10-12 minutes, until delicately browned. Frost with confectioner’s sugar and cream. These freeze well.

Rye Bread

2 pkg dry yeast
½ c light brown sugar
1 T + 1 t salt
¼ c oil
2 c warm water
2 ½ c rye flour
4 ½ c white flour
1 T caraway seed

Put yeast, sugar, salt, oil and water into bowl and stir. Add rye flower and beat three minutes. Add caraway seeds. Add three cups white flour and beat three minutes. Spread board with one cup flour and knead bread 10-20 mi nutes until dough is only slightly sticky and quite bouncy. Shape into two buttered loaf pans, smooth ragged edges. Cover with greased foil or wrap loosely. Allow to rise until double or place in refrigerator overnight. Bake in 375*  preheated oven. If dough was refrigerated, take pans from refrigerator immediately before placing in oven. Bake, middle shelf, one hour.

2 pkg dry yeast
½ c light brown sugar
1 T + 1 t salt
¼ c oil
2 c warm water
2 ½ c rye flour
4 ½ c white flour
1 T caraway seed

Put yeast, sugar, salt, oil and water into bowl and stir. Add rye flower and beat three minutes. Add caraway seeds. Add three cups white flour and beat three minutes. Spread board with one cup flour and knead bread 10-20 mi nutes until dough is only slightly sticky and quite bouncy. Shape into two buttered loaf pans, smooth ragged edges. Cover with greased foil or wrap loosely. Allow to rise until double or place in refrigerator overnight. Bake in 375*  preheated oven. If dough was refrigerated, take pans from refrigerator immediately before placing in oven. Bake, middle shelf, one hour.

French Loaves

Dissolve 1 envelope yeast, 1 T sugar, 2 t salt in 2 c water. Let stand 10 minutes. Stir in 4 c flour, turn onto floured surface. Use pastry scraper to lift and turn dough, which is very soft, until it coheres enough to knead. Add more flour if necessary. Knead ten minutes. Place in clean bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let rise 45 minutes. Turn out, pat flat, dust with flour, fold in half to form half-circle and again to form quarter-circle. Let rise 30 minutes. Turn out, cut into four equal pieces, form into balls, let rest five minutes. Flatten into oval, roll up, form into long, thin loaves. Let rise 30 minutes in oiled pans or on cookie sheets dusted with cornmeal. Brush with egg white and slash three times. Bake in a 425-450 oven for 20 minutes.

Lemon Chicken

Rinse one 2.5-3.5 lb chicken. Place breast side down in baking pan. Sprinkle liberally with garlic powder. Add about ½ c white wine and about ¼ to ½ c lemon juice (“Real Lemon” will do). Place in 425 oven. Baste at twenty minute intervals for an hour to an hour and a half, depending on the size of the chicken. Chicken will be moist and flavorful. Thicken drippings with 2 T flour and add half and half to make a good gravy.

Quellzone by Bruce and Carol

Dissolve 1 T yeast in 1 c warm water. Let stand 5 minutes. Add 1 T sugar, 1 ½ t salt, and 2 T margarine and stir well. Beat in 2 c flour, and add 1 c flour. Knead, adding flour as necessary. Allow to rise 30– 45 minutes. Divide into 4-6 sections. Roll out each into a thin 9” circle. On half the circle, layer one piece mozzarella, chopped and cooked Italian sausage or pepperoni, and any or all of the following, chopped: mushrooms, peppers, onions. Top with ricotta cheese. Ladle seasoned tomato sauce over top. Fold into half-moon like a turnover and crimp edges. Bake at 400 for 20 minutes or more until crust is done. Serve hot with sauce on the side. One serves two people if you aren’t starving.