This buttery, nicely sticky topping can be used with any of our sweet roll doughs, but you’ll probably have to double it if your dough makes more than 8 or 10 rolls. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Pour melted butter into 9 x 9 square pan; grease sides of pan. In small saucepan, combine brown sugar, corn syrup and cinnamon – heat slowly until it … Continue reading Butterscotch Pecan Roll Topping
There had to be a recent German branch of the family somewhere in Grammy’s France-Luxembourg background; there are just too many family recipes that are identical to the ones found in Pennsylvania Dutch or Mennonite cookbooks. But Grammy was a teenager during World War I, and her children’s generation fought in World War II; Germany and German heritage was deeply unpopular then, and many German-Americans … Continue reading Mennonite Cinnamon Rolls
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Generously butter two loaf pans. Combine all ingredients in bowl, then pour into pans. Bake at 350 degrees for about 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Told you this one was easy. Continue reading Easy Banana Bread
Rob and Hallie If this bread isn’t on the table, it isn’t St. Patrick’s Day dinner. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and generously butter an 8- to 9-inch round pan. Stir dry ingredients together, then add currants. Add milk until mix resembles biscuit dough. Pour into buttered pan, and immediately* bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Cool 10 minutes and remove from pan; cool … Continue reading Irish Soda Bread
This is the bread that made one of Carla’s roommates come running through the front door yelling, “What are you cooking? The whole house smells amazing!” Carla varies this recipe from time to time, adding cinnamon or nutmeg if she feels like it. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter and flour a tube or Bundt pan, or two loaf pans. Mix flour, sugar and baking … Continue reading Banana Sour Cream Pound Cake Bread
There are three kinds of people in this world – those who like cornbread savory, crumbly and dry, those who like a sweet, cake-like cornbread, and those who like a cornbread with the best attributes of both. This is for the third group. Heat oven to 400 degrees; generously butter a 9×9 pan. Mix dry ingredients together in bowl. Beat eggs until frothy, then add … Continue reading Millionaire Cornbread
Mom liked to make this braided bread for Christmas breakfast. Continue reading Apricot Braid
Our holiday menu was inflexible: on Christmas Eve, beef vegetable soup to give us some protection against the effects of the next day’s treats, and on Christmas morning, before we were allowed to set foot in the room with the tree and the presents and the stockings, a breakfast of orange juice, scrambled eggs, the tiny smoked sausages called “little smokies,” and these soft and fluffy cinnamon rolls Continue reading Christmas Morning Cinnamon Rolls
We learned these the hard way. You don’t have to. Continue reading Breadmaking Tips and Tricks
Dazzling. If you serve it to friends or co-workers, they’ll ask for a copy of the recipe. Save time and hand out a copy of the recipe along with the bread. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix flour, salt, baking soda, spices and sugar in large bowl. Add rest of ingredients one by one, mixing after each. Butter three loaf pans or one 9×13 pan, … Continue reading Pumpkin Bread
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