Bubble Bread

1 cup scalded milk
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. salt

Mix and cool

1/4 cup water and 2 Tb. yeast - dissolve

Add:
2 beaten eggs
4 1/2 - 4 3/4 cups flour

Make soft dough and kneed for 8 minutes. Let dough rise. Punch down and let rise.

Mix together:
1 cube melted butter
1 - 2 cups sugar
1 - 2 Tbs. cinnamon
1/2 cup nuts (chopped finely)

Make dough into about 1 inch balls and drop in butter and roll in cinnamon, sugar and nut mixture. Put balls in greased angel food cake pan. Let rise until almost to top of pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

If you want to make it ahead of time and reheat it for the next day, leave it in pan, cover with foil and bake at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes.

Source: My mom, Diane Earl

ORIGINAL CHEX PARTY MIX

1/4 C. margarine or butter, melted
4 1/2 Tsp. worchestershire sauce
1 1/4 Tsp. seasoning salt (Lawry's)
8 C. or your favorite Chex brand cereals (Corn, Rice and/or Wheat)
1 C. mixed nuts or peanuts
1 C. pretzels

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Follow steps 1 & 2 above. Pour contents of bag into open roasting pan. Bake 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Cool and store as directed above.

New Year's Day treat every year in the Earl family home

Holiday Ham with a Yummy Glaze

Slice ham about 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick; place in small roasting pan with lid. Heat oven to 250 degrees.

Add all of the following ingredients together. Mix well with electric mixer.

1 can jellied cranberries
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup orange juice (1/2 can frozen)
1/2 tsp. cloves
1/4 tsp. cinnamon (round on top)
1/4 tsp. allspice

Pour between ham slices in pan. Pour remaining mixture on top. Bake at 250 degrees for 3 hours with lid on.

Source: Miriam B. Loo from Current Company

This is the ham that we have for every holiday.

My Mom's Lasagna Recipe

Diane Earl’s Lasagna

1 lb. hamburger
3 sweet Italian sausages
1 tsp. basil
1 tsp. oregano
½ tsp. garlic powder
1 sm. can tomato paste
water measured in can (½ to ¾ of can filled with water)
1 can stewed tomatoes


1 pkg. Lasagna noodles
1 carton ricotta cheese
Mozzarella cheese
Parmesan cheese

Brown hamburger & sausage. Add rest of ingredients. Simmer. Boil pkg. of lasagna noodles. Rinse noodles & drain well. Layer a 9 x 13 dish with noodles, meat mixture then ½ carton on ricotta cheese. Sprinkle with grated mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Repeat layers.

Bake 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

From: Diane Earl

My Mom's Christmas Cheese Ring

My mom has made this pastry cheese ring for Christmas morning since I was in about 2nd grade. She got the recipe from her friend, Ann Flemming. It has always been a favorite of ours.

CHEESE RING RECIPE

1/2 C milk
1/2 C sugar
1 tsp. salt
l cube butter or margarine
1/2 C warm water
2 pkgs. yeast
2 eggs beaten
4 1/2 to 5 C flour

Scald milk, stir in sugar, salt and butter. Cool to lukewarm. Measure warm water into large bowl. Sprinkle in yeast; stir until dissolved. Stir in lukewarm milk mixture, beaten eggs and l C. flour. Beat until smooth. Add enough additional flour to make a soft dough. Turn onto a lightly floured board. Knead until smooth and elastic about 8 min.
(I use my Kitchen Aid machine.) Place in greased bowl turning to grease top. Cover and let rise in warm place, free from draft, until double in bulk (about 1 hour.) (I put mine in my oven that I have slightly heated and turned back off.) Punch down and let rise again until almost doubled, about 30 min. Turn dough onto lightly floured board and divide for rings.

Cheese Filling

2 8 oz. pkgs cream cheese
1/2 C. sugar
6 T. flour
2 egg yolks
1 tsp grated lemon peel (optional)
2 T. lemon juice

While dough is rising, soften cream cheese. Add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Stir in flour, egg yolk, lemon peel and lemon juice. Roll dough into three equal rectangles. Spread filling over 2/3 of surface.

Overlap to center making a roll. Join ends in a circle. Make cuts from outside edge 2/3 of the way to the center edge. Turn each section over on its side.

Bake in 350 degree oven until nicely browned (about 25 minutes.) Then cool and glaze with powdered sugar and water mixture.

My mom said: "It is so delicious! The family just loves this. I've been making it for years."

Baked Beans from Diane Earl

BAKED BEANS

2 cans (15 oz.) pork and beans
1/2 lb. bacon (cooked and crumbled)
3/4 C. brown sugar
1/2 C. catsup
Dried minced onions, to taste
2 Tsp. worchestershire sauce

Mix all of the above ingredients in your casserole dish or crock pot. The secret of these baked beans tasting so good is letting them sit in your refrigerator, uncooked, the night before you serve them to marinate. Then, let them cook in your crock pot on low for most of the day. YUM! These can also be done in a casserole dish and baked at 325 for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

My Mom's Pizza Dough Recipe

My mom is a really good cook. A favorite in our family is her homemade pizza. She has a good recipe for her crust. She makes a thin crust and it does turn out crispy (something that is difficult to achieve in the home oven).

So here it is:

Diane Earl's Pizza Dough Recipe

3 cups flour
1 pkg. yeast
1 1/4 cups warm water
2 T. sugar
2 T. shortening (I use olive oil)
1 tsp. salt

Dissolve yeast in water. Add sugar, salt and oil. I then put it in my Kitchen Aid and add the 3 cups of flour gradually. After mixing it in the Kitchen Aid, I put it in a greased bowl and cover it with a dish towel.

I let it rise for at least one hour, (sometimes it takes a little longer.) Half way through the rising, I punch it down and let it start rising again. I make sure that it gets to the top of the bowl.

I divide it in half so I can make two pizzas with the dough.