New Year's Eve Desserts
It's New Year's Eve, time to get rid of a rough year and welcome in a new one. And what can help us celebrate that better than New Year's Eve Desserts?!
Today's desserts are from my online cookbook (Off the Wall Cooking), including Egg Nog Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Cream Pie.
By the way, I'm in the process of updating the cookbook, and eventually, plan to have a hard copy edition for sale. I'll keep you posted.
In the meantime, Happy New Year's!
SQUASH PIE
This is from Grandma Hallock. She wrote, "I was given several large yellow winter squash by Grandma Carpenter & Grandma said, 'Make pumpkin pie' & I did. They were our favorite from then on."
Ingredients
2 T butter
3/4 C sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp.cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ginger
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1 C mashed yellow winter (hubbard) squash
1-1/4 C milk
Directions
Cream butter. Add sugar & eggs. Mix well. Add rest of ingredients. Line 9” pie plate with crust. Pour filling into unbaked pastry shell. Bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour. Serve with whipped cream
CRANBERRY PIE
My dad sent this in a letter dated "18 No 79". He wrote, "Here is a recipe for a pie. 1st the way it was in the paper and the way I made it."
Note: The recipe calls for one crust (the top photo), but you could also make it with two crusts (bottom photo).
Ingredients
2 T cornstarch
1 C sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1-1/4 C hot water
1 C raisins
1 T butter
2 C cranberries
Pie crust
Directions
Blend 1st four ingredients and cook in double boiler until thick. Add next 3 ingredients and cook 10 minutes. Put in pie shell and bake at 450 degrees for 20-30 minutes, covering pie with foil for the first 10-15 minutes. (Crust can be any kind you want.)
Variation
Ingredients
2 T cornstarch
1/4 C honey + 1/4 C molasses
1/4 tsp. salt
1 C raisins
1 T margarine
1-1/2 C cranberries + 1 C canned cranberries (kind with berries in sauce)
1-1/4 C hot water
Pie crust
Directions
Make as above.
EGG NOG PUMPKIN PIE
I'm not quite sure where this recipe came from; just another one of those good recipes collected by family members.
Ingredients
1 C canned eggnog
1 egg
18 oz. can pumpkin pie filling
9" pie crust
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. In large bowl, combine egg nog, egg and pie filling; blend well. Pour into crust. Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees; bake 50 minutes longer or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Garnish with whipped cream.
PEACH PIE
Ingredients
4 C peaches, cut up
1 - 1-1/4 C sugar
3 T unbleached flour
dash salt
2 T butter
1 unbaked pie shell and lattice top
Directions
Arrange peaches in unbaked pie shell. Mix sugar, flour and salt. Sprinkle over peaches. Dot with butter. Cover with lattice top. Bake at 425 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
One of Grandma Hallock’s cookie recipes.
Ingredients
1/2 C butter
1/2 C peanut butter
1/2 C sugar
1/2 C brown sugar
1 egg, well beaten
1-1/4 C flour
3/4 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
Directions
Cream butter and peanut butter together. Add sugar and brown sugar gradually and cream thoroughly. Add egg. Sift flour once before measuring. Sift flour, soda, baking powder and salt together and add to creamed mixture. Chill dough well, then form into balls the size of walnuts. Place balls on lightly greased baking sheet. Flatten with fork dipped in flour, making criss-cross pattern. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
OATMEAL COOKIES
Another one of my grandmother's recipes. When it came to baking, cookies were her specialty.
Ingredients
1 C flour
1 C brown sugar
3 C quick cooking oatmeal (NOT the instant oats!)
1 C butter or margarine
1/4 C boiling water
1-1/2 tsp. baking soda
Directions
Mix flour and brown sugar. Add oatmeal; stir. Melt butter; add to dry ingredients. Mix baking soda into boiling water; add to other ingredients, stirring well. Place batter into loaf pan, lined with aluminum foil and place in freeze for several hours. Slice and bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes.
Oatmeal Cookie dough, taken from the freezer; showing first cuts before baking
Then cut down the center, like so:
Placed on parchment paper-covered baking sheet, for easier handling
CHOCOLATE CREAM PIE
The first time I made this pie, I was 15 and wanted to impress a boyfriend. I did, but not the way I’d planned: the crust came out tasting like under-cooked pizza dough, I burned the chocolate pudding, and the whipped cream came out almost to butter. Hmmm...
Ingredients
9 " pie crust
1 large package chocolate pudding(not instant)
whipped cream
Directions
Cook pudding according to package directions. Pour into baked pie crust. Whip cream and place on pie. Chill.
NOTE: Now, what could be easier?
Today's desserts are from my online cookbook (Off the Wall Cooking), including Egg Nog Pumpkin Pie and Chocolate Cream Pie.
By the way, I'm in the process of updating the cookbook, and eventually, plan to have a hard copy edition for sale. I'll keep you posted.
In the meantime, Happy New Year's!
SQUASH PIE
This is from Grandma Hallock. She wrote, "I was given several large yellow winter squash by Grandma Carpenter & Grandma said, 'Make pumpkin pie' & I did. They were our favorite from then on."
Ingredients
2 T butter
3/4 C sugar
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp.cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ginger
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1 C mashed yellow winter (hubbard) squash
1-1/4 C milk
Directions
Cream butter. Add sugar & eggs. Mix well. Add rest of ingredients. Line 9” pie plate with crust. Pour filling into unbaked pastry shell. Bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour. Serve with whipped cream
CRANBERRY PIE
My dad sent this in a letter dated "18 No 79". He wrote, "Here is a recipe for a pie. 1st the way it was in the paper and the way I made it."
Note: The recipe calls for one crust (the top photo), but you could also make it with two crusts (bottom photo).
Ingredients
2 T cornstarch
1 C sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1-1/4 C hot water
1 C raisins
1 T butter
2 C cranberries
Pie crust
Directions
Blend 1st four ingredients and cook in double boiler until thick. Add next 3 ingredients and cook 10 minutes. Put in pie shell and bake at 450 degrees for 20-30 minutes, covering pie with foil for the first 10-15 minutes. (Crust can be any kind you want.)
Variation
Ingredients
2 T cornstarch
1/4 C honey + 1/4 C molasses
1/4 tsp. salt
1 C raisins
1 T margarine
1-1/2 C cranberries + 1 C canned cranberries (kind with berries in sauce)
1-1/4 C hot water
Pie crust
Directions
Make as above.
EGG NOG PUMPKIN PIE
I'm not quite sure where this recipe came from; just another one of those good recipes collected by family members.
Ingredients
1 C canned eggnog
1 egg
18 oz. can pumpkin pie filling
9" pie crust
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. In large bowl, combine egg nog, egg and pie filling; blend well. Pour into crust. Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees; bake 50 minutes longer or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Garnish with whipped cream.
PEACH PIE
Ingredients
4 C peaches, cut up
1 - 1-1/4 C sugar
3 T unbleached flour
dash salt
2 T butter
1 unbaked pie shell and lattice top
Directions
Arrange peaches in unbaked pie shell. Mix sugar, flour and salt. Sprinkle over peaches. Dot with butter. Cover with lattice top. Bake at 425 degrees for 30-40 minutes.
PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES
One of Grandma Hallock’s cookie recipes.
Ingredients
1/2 C butter
1/2 C peanut butter
1/2 C sugar
1/2 C brown sugar
1 egg, well beaten
1-1/4 C flour
3/4 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
Directions
Cream butter and peanut butter together. Add sugar and brown sugar gradually and cream thoroughly. Add egg. Sift flour once before measuring. Sift flour, soda, baking powder and salt together and add to creamed mixture. Chill dough well, then form into balls the size of walnuts. Place balls on lightly greased baking sheet. Flatten with fork dipped in flour, making criss-cross pattern. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
OATMEAL COOKIES
Another one of my grandmother's recipes. When it came to baking, cookies were her specialty.
Ingredients
1 C flour
1 C brown sugar
3 C quick cooking oatmeal (NOT the instant oats!)
1 C butter or margarine
1/4 C boiling water
1-1/2 tsp. baking soda
Directions
Mix flour and brown sugar. Add oatmeal; stir. Melt butter; add to dry ingredients. Mix baking soda into boiling water; add to other ingredients, stirring well. Place batter into loaf pan, lined with aluminum foil and place in freeze for several hours. Slice and bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes.
Oatmeal Cookie dough, taken from the freezer; showing first cuts before baking
Then cut down the center, like so:
Placed on parchment paper-covered baking sheet, for easier handling
CHOCOLATE CREAM PIE
The first time I made this pie, I was 15 and wanted to impress a boyfriend. I did, but not the way I’d planned: the crust came out tasting like under-cooked pizza dough, I burned the chocolate pudding, and the whipped cream came out almost to butter. Hmmm...
Ingredients
9 " pie crust
1 large package chocolate pudding(not instant)
whipped cream
Directions
Cook pudding according to package directions. Pour into baked pie crust. Whip cream and place on pie. Chill.
NOTE: Now, what could be easier?
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