This is one of the recipes that Kaylynn Mansker, 2011 Texas Honey Queen, told listeners during her January 8, 2011 interview on Food! Glorious Food! Listeners have commented that it sounds great!
1 - 8 oz. cream cheese - softened
1/4 cup honey
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
Using an electric mixer, mix cream cheese and honey together. Add cinnamon and ground cloves. Mix until creamy and smooth. Chill. Serve with crackers, bread or bagels.
Kaylynn Mansker, 2011 Texas Honey Queen, emailed this unusual honey based salad recipe to Food! Glorious Food! The recipe calls for mandarin oranges, my tangerine tree has oodles of tangerines this winter. I'm going to try them as a substitute and will let you know how it tastes.
3/4 cup water
1 1 lb. bag of Fresh Cranberries
1 cup of Honey
1 15 oz. can of mandarin oranges
1/2 cup of coconut
1/2 cup of chopped pecans
Put water and honey in a sauce pan. Heat and stir well until the honey is dissolved. Add cranberries. Gently boil until cranberries "pop." Remove from heat. Cool. When cool, add mandarin oranges, shreded coconut and pecans. Mix. Chill. Serve.
Episode 77
Ingredients
3 envelopes (.25 ounce) unflavored gelatin
1 cup water
1/2 cup light corn syrup
2 cups sugar
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup confectioners sugar or candy sprinkles
Utensils: Candy thermometer; electric mixer
Spray an 11 x 17 x 2 inch baking pan with non stick baking spray with flour. Set aside.
Whisk together in a medium bowl gelatin and 1/2 cup water. Let mixture stand to soften gelatin.
Combine sugar, corn syrup and remaining 1/2 cup water in a small saucepan. Stir constantly over medium heat until sugar disolves. Continue to cook without stirring until temperature registers 240 degrees on a candy thermometer.
While the sugar mixture is heating, in a large bowl beat egg whites, vanilla and salt at high speed. Beat until stiff peaks form. Slowly add the hot syrup mixture to the gelatin mixture stirring until all the gelatin is dissolved.
With the mixer running slowly add the hot syrup mixture to the egg whites. Continue to beat [...]
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Brenda practices what she preaches, and here she is just a week ago with just a portion of the tomatoes she's grown in her backyard garden. Plenty of pests, but no pesticides. Every morning she gets up early -religiously - and goes out to tend her "babies". She has discovered a LOT of information about the most common insects that invade and demolish the tomatoes. The tomato hornworm is the worst, but she carefully picks them off and takes them to an undisclosed location to let them fend for themselves at someone else's expense.
She is also growing cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, watermelons and beets. Unfortunately, the lack of rain has not been kind to the other vegetables, but she's staying on top of that too and hoping for the best. Of course, the watermelon vines are rapidly taking over the backyard, and they are displaying scores of blossoms, so we shall see.
She'll be offering tips based on her own hard-won experience, so stay tuned to Food! Glorious Food!, home of [...]
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4 oz. butter at room temperature
4 oz. caster sugar (fine)
Grated zest of one clementine
1 egg
9 oz. flour
pinch of salt
1tbsp. coca powder (optional)
Beat the butter, sugar and zest together until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and a pinch of salt. Add the flour and work in gently. Shape the dough into a log about 2 inches thick and wrap in saran wrap. Place the dough in the fridge for at least an hour.
Preheat oven to 350 F. Line a baking sheet with non-stick baking paper. Cut the dough straight from the fridge into 1/4 inch slices. Place on baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Lift hot biscuits from the pan onto a rack to cool and crisp up.
Enjoy!
