Delicious Sweet Potato Pie - Country Recipes Style

One of the best country recipes you are going to find is the sweet potato pie. This is a popular country food that has people looking to make their own delicious recipes. There is no doubt that this dish is full of depth and flavor and will be one of the most popular items you can make for your family.

Because the best approach for making country recipes comes from taking a basic country food and adding your own personal touch to it. This will give an essence of you in your recipes and will let people know that it truly is a homemade selection that they can enjoy. To begin this process, take a moment to look at this delicious choice that you will have. This will be a basic recipe that you can turn into a dessert that everyone is going to remember for a very long time. Country Sweet Potato Pie…

Ingredients
* 1 pound sweet potatoes
* 2/3 cup softened butter
* 1 1/4 cups sugar
* 1/2 cup milk
* 2 eggs
* 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 1 pie crust

How to Make It: This process is best started by boiling your sweet potatoes. Allow them to sit in boiling water for about an hour and then rinse them off with cold water. The skins should now easily peel off and you should have access to the softened potato inside. Now, begin to mash the sweet potato and butter until well blended. Then add in your milk, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg until they are smooth. This can either be done by hand or you can use a mixer on a low setting. Be sure that you do not over mix your pie filling.

When this is done, you are going to fill the crust you have with the mixture. Make sure that you smooth the mixture to ensure that it bakes evenly in your shell. Then place it in an over that has been preheated to 350 degrees. Then allow it to bake for about an hour or until you can stick a toothpick in the center and it comes out clean.

Once done, you can serve it warm with a helping of whipped cream on top or you can choose to serve it chilled. The choice is up to you, but you are going to find that in terms of country recipes this is going to be one of the most delicious country foods that you are going to end up serving to your family. In fact, you might even consider making it during the holiday season in place of your traditional pumpkin pie since it holds a lot of the same flavors.

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Fast and Easy Christmas Yule Log Cake - Country Recipes Style

A Yule log is a traditional cake that was made for many years for the Christmas holiday. Christmas cakes can look incredible and do not have to be the kind of cake that takes hours and hours to create. It can still be beautiful for your guests and reflect credit on you. Get quick and easy access to dozens of name brand.

There is a quick way to make a Yule cake using this delectable sponge cake recipe that has been adapted from an old Pennsylvania Dutch cake recipe, then spreading the inside with whipped topping which has been whipped with one quarter cup of unsweetened cocoa.

SPONGE CAKE
* 3 eggs
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 cup flour
* ½ tsp. salt
* 1 tsp. Baking powder
* 3 tblsp. Warm water
* 1 tsp. lemon juice

Beat the eggs until thick and creamy: Add sifted sugar and beat well. Add water and lemon juice Christmas Yule LogCake Country Recipes Style and beat once more. Sift the flour, Country Recipes Style add salt and leaven and sift once more. Mix dry ingredients with the egg mixture, to a small degree at a time, folding in gently. When well mixed, pour into an unlubricated pan and Country Recipes Style with center tube. Bake in moderate oven (350-f) for 50 minutes. Remove from oven and hang till cool. There are two ways you may bake and handle this cake. You may bake it traditionally, then cut it in half and fill it, then frost the top. Alternatively, you may turn it into a Yule log, which we have also given directions for below.

For the Traditional cake: Take away it from the pan and cut the cake in half, lay the top half aside. Spread the cake with fruit pie filling in the flavor of your choice or with chocolate whipped cream. Garnish with chocolate curls or other garnish of your choice.

For a Yule Log cake: To make the yule log from this cake, lay parchment paper on a baking sheet and bake it in this fashion. Cranberry Thanksgiving Tea, Remove from oven and roll the cake up, Unroll when cool, very gently and remove the parchment, and spread with flavored whipped topping. Roll it back together again and dust with sifted cocoa or powdered sugar, or frost with additional whipped topping. Top with chocolate curls, crushed mint candy or the garnish of your choice to make it look festive and seasonal.

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Easy Blueberry Muffins - Country Recipes Style

Perfect for a holiday or a weekend breakfast, blueberry muffins are one of those things that no one can resist. These make great coffee break foods as well, and if you’re looking for a fast coffee cake, you can use it in a square 8×8 or 9×9 pan and add a bit of stressful to dress it up just a bit.

Coffee cake recipes or blueberry muffin recipes make great gifts. Dress it up in a tin and offer it for Christmas, adding all of the dry ingredients to a jar with a pretty topper, then add a recipe card to the mixture to get a great canning jar gift. For this one you can substitute dried apricots, fresh apples, or other ingredients instead of blueberries get the taste that you want for breakfast.

To Make Blueberry muffins you will need:
* 1/2cup butter
* ¾ cup sugar
* 1 egg, beaten lightly
* 1 cup milk
* 2 level cups flour
* 4 level teaspoons baking powder
* ½ teaspoon salt
* 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

How To make Blueberry Muffins, Cream butter Country Recipes Style and sugar along Country Recipes Style. Add the egg and beat slightly by hand on Country Recipes Style. Add lueberries. Sift the flour and leavening along Country Recipes Style and add the milk to the mixture. Easy Blueberry Muffins make Country Recipes Style Gently fold the milk and flour mixture into the blueberry Country Recipes Style easy Muffins and egg mixture fastidiously, taking it slowly to forestall breaking the blueberries in Country Recipes Style. Bake at 375 degrees for about 15-18 minutes in quick bread tins, or if you produce a coffee cake Country Recipes Style, bake at a similar temperature for regarding half-hour.

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Chocolate Cake - Country Recipes Style

Looked high and low to find a good chocolate cake recipe and one that is also a country old-fashioned type one. The recipe coming up has been called rich, real and devil’s food cake. I chose this one since it is an easy recipe to follow and does not require all types of utensils. Why not try your hand at this sometime soon?

devil cake Ingredients you will need:
1.      Two and ¼ cups of flour.
2.      Two and ½ teaspoonfuls of baking soda.
3.      ½ teaspoonful of salt.
4.      ½ cup of butter or light butter.
5.      Two and ½ cups of firmly packed brown sugar.
6.      Three eggs.
7.      Three or four 1-ounce squares of unsweetened chocolate.
8.      ½ cup of buttermilk.
9.      Three teaspoonfuls of vanilla extract.
10.   One cup of boiling water. *Important for its moistness.*

Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 350F or 375F.
2. Grease the bottoms and sides of three 8″ cake pans the sprinkle with flour.
3. Beginning working the butter in a bowl with your clean hands until it is soft and fluffy.
4. Add the sugar and then the unbeaten eggs one at a time.
5. Beat the cake batter hard after the addition of each egg.
6. Place the chocolate into a measuring cup and melt over boiling water.  When it’s melted, mix it in with the rest of the batter.
7. Add 1/3 of the flour into the batter and ½ of the buttermilk and stir gently and repeat.
8. Add in the vanilla extract and boiling water.
9. It’s time to pour the batter into the cake pans and don’t be alarmed at the batter’s thinness.
10. Bake for twenty five to thirty minutes.
11. Remove from oven and turn cakes gently upside down onto a cooling rack.
12. When it has cooled down you can then add the frosting.

You can choose to make your own frosting or go with one of your favorites at your grocery store. If you would like to try your hand at making your own frosting there are just a few more ingredients you will need.

Ingredients for making your own chocolate frosting:
1. One and ½ cups of heavy cream.
2. ¼ cup of sugar (regular or powdered.)
3. Two to three tablespoons of cocoa.
4. One teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Mix all of the above ingredients in a bowl then sit the bowl of frosting in your refrigerator for a minimum of two hours.  Beat until it holds its shape. You can whip this with an old-fashioned hand mixer for about ten to fifteen minutes and you will get a nice little workout in for your arms. Remember not to frost your cake until it has thoroughly cooled unless you want a crumbled messy cake.

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Cool Summer Salads - Creamy Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad

The tastes of raw broccoli and cauliflower were just made for summertime. As quickly as this salad can be created and as creamy and delicious as it is you may have just found a way to ensure that your kids eat their veggies, even in the summer time.

The creamy taste of the salad comes from the slight amount of sour cream, but if you’re concerned with calories, you’ll get the same taste from a low fat sour cream that you will from any other variety. In order to create this salad, a small amount of milk can be used to thin the dressing slightly if needed.

To make creamy Broccoli and Bacon You Will Need:
One bunch of broccoli- chopped (not the stems)
One head of cauliflower, cored and chopped
1/2 pound of bacon, (about six slices) fried and chopped or crumbled
1/8 cup chopped green onion
1/2 cup frozen green
1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
1 cup mayonnaise or  salad dressing
1/2 cup sour cream

To Make: Combine sour cream andSalad Dressing and thin, slightly with milk till consists of a thick salad dressing. Combine all remaining ingredients and toss together in bowl. Pour salad dressing over and toss lightly. Allow to sit in refrigerator for flavors to blend slightly before serving.

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Cheesy Green Bean Casserole - Country Recipes Style

A new twist on an old favorite, green bean casserole is one of the favorite Thanksgiving day side dishes. We’ve taken the old favorite and changed it just slightly. Cheese goes great with anything at all but with green beans, cheese is a total hit.

Try using a different kind of green bean casserole this Thanksgiving day and see if it doesn’t become a new family favorite. We love our cheesy green beancasserole and those new french fried onions with cheese are a perfect combination of the cheesy flavor. Our Green Bean casserole with a twist is remarkable and as easy to make as the original.

To Make Cheesy Green Bean Casserole You Will Need
3 can french cut green beans
6 slices of Kraft Deluxe American Cheese
1 can Campbells  Cream of Chicken Soup
1 small can french fried onion rings with cheese.

To Make the casserole: Drain the green beans and empty into an oven save casserole dish,  crush one half of the can of french friend onions and mix them into the green beans. Stir one half can water and one full can of cream of chicken soup together and pour over the green bean mixture, stirring lightly to avoid breaking your green beans. Tear the cheese into strips and mix into the casserole. Top with the remaining french fried onions. Bake at 350 for approximately 25 minutes Country Recipes Style or until heated through Country Recipes Style and bubbling and the cheese has melted CountryRecipes Style.

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Chicken and Dumpling Recipes - Country Recipes Style

If there were a recipe out there more American country recipes in nature than chicken and dumplings, you would be hard pressed to name it. Perhaps apple pie would be a strong contender, but there are precious few others that say down home country cooking like chicken and dumplings. And isn’t that what America has always been about? The pace of life may quicken, technology expands and cities grow larger, but this recipe will always bring to mind a simpler time filled with family, love and the American way. There are many ways to make chicken and dumplings, as country recipes go this is one of the most diverse meals you can fix. Onions, vegetables and even a hint of garlic are all perfectly acceptable additions to the basic recipe.

3 Lbs. Chicken- you can use any type of chicken for this. Breast meat is the best, however thighs, backs and even an entire broiler is fine.
2 qts water
Chicken Bullion- (optional)
2 cups Self-Rising Flour
3/4cp Milk
2-Eggs
Salt and pepper to taste

Your first order of business is to prepare your chicken. Boil 3 pounds of chicken in two quarts of water until done through. Bone in chicken will begin separating. If you are using an entire broiler or similar bone in chicken you will need to remove it from the stove, allow it to cool completely and then remove chicken from the bones. Shred or chop chicken into bite-sized pieces. Discard any skin and all excess bones. SAVE the broth! You may need to remove a bit of white froth from the top of your broth, particularly if you have used chicken with skin on. A slotted spoon or cheesecloth can be helpful to this end. At this point taste your broth, if it lacks flavor season with chicken bouillon to taste. Place boneless chicken in broth and return to the stove and high heat. Bring chicken and broth to a rolling boil, and then drop your dough mixture by the spoonful into the broth. Reduce heat to medium low and allow all to simmer for approximately 8-10 minutes.

Dough: Some recipes will call for creating a dough by kneading, rolling and cutting, but in today’s world who has the time? This is a much simpler method and results in tasty dumplings the way grandma used to make them! Mix self-rising flour, eggs and milk together in a large bowl. Stir until all flour is completely mixed in, do not over mix your dumplings. Remember they do not have to be perfect! For added flavor, you can use your chicken broth in place of milk.

Final Thoughts: As stated above, you can dress this recipe up in many different ways. Some people enjoy adding different vegetables to the mix as well as onion or even a bit of garlic. This is a recipe you can enjoy experimenting with! If you are extremely short on time, you can skip the dough-making phase by using store bought canned biscuits. Simply tear them into smaller pieces and drop into boiling chicken and broth.

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