Chocolate Chip Pie (again)
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Oh no! Before you make your chocolate chip pie you might want to make these changes in the recipe -- drop the amount of butter down to 1 - 1 1/2 sticks of butter and bake at 325 degrees instead of 350 degrees. It will take AT LEAST 45-50 minutes to bake. Mike and Denise followed the recipe and found the crust was burning before the center of the pie had set. This is a gooey pie, but we don't want a burned crust! Allow it to cool before you serve it. I was following my friend's recipe, but when I searched and found my own old recipe, it called for 1 1/2 sticks of butter (instead of 2 sticks) and said to bake at 325 degrees. I don't remember having trouble with the crust, so...hopefully these changes will solve the problem.
Dad and I are off to Las Vegas for the weekend. Dad has a meeting on Monday, but we are going to take advantage of the trip and go look at our property in St. George again. There is still some uncertainty about whether "this is the place" or not. It will be fun to see it when the temperature is below 100 degrees!
posted by Carolee at 7:47 PM
Speaking of old family recipes...
Chris wrote and asked if I had Grandma Stout's recipe for Swiss Braid. Panic...do I still have it? YES! Grandma Stout was a fantastic cook and it was hard to be her daughter-in-law, having maybe four recipes I could sometimes successfully make when I married Dad (creamed eggs, Spanish Rice, Swiss Steak, and great bologna sandwiches). She made many wonderful Swedish dishes and this is one of them. It is as beautiful to look at as it is to eat. Here's to Grandma Stout!
Swiss Braid
2 T. dry yeast dissolved in 1/4 c. warm water
1 stick butter, melted
2 slightly beaten eggs
2 1/2 T. sugar
2 1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. scalded milk, cooled
Mix all the above together and add 4 1/2 to 5 c. flour. Knead well. Place in a well-oiled bowl and turn to coat with oil. Let rise 2 hours. Divide into 3 balls and set aside to rise about 15 minutes. Roll each ball into a long rope and braid.
Let rise, covered, for about 1 hour. Brush with slightly beaten egg and bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
posted by Carolee at 6:54 AM
Chocolate Chip Pie
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
So...I was chatting with a friend the other day and we were sharing good recipes when she mentioned Chocolate Chip Pie as being one of her favorites as a child. I remembered making Chocolate Chip Pie myself and it was yum! I thought I would share it with you. It's so easy the kids can practically make it themselves! Talking to my friend reminded me of a talk I heard a few weeks ago in which the speaker decried the fact that we don't pass on old family recipes anymore, which is an important way of linking us to our ancestors. In fact, we don't even cook at home much anymore! No good smells when kids come home from school, no home-cooked meals around the dinner table every night. (No dishes to wash... oh, shame on me.) Anyway, try this recipe with your kids and build a memory. Just call it Grandma's Chocolate Chip Pie and you've killed two birds with one stone!
Chocolate Chip Pie
Melt 2 sticks of butter and allow to cool (that's right, 2 sticks!)
In a bowl, stir together 1/2 c. brown sugar, 1/2 c. white sugar, 1/2 c. flour, 1 c. chopped pecans, 1 c. chocolate chips.
Beat two eggs with a fork and mix with the melted butter, then stir into the dry ingredients. Pour mixture into an unbaked 9-inch pie shell (just buy one in the freezer section of the grocery store) and bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes.
Thinking of you often.
posted by Carolee at 3:17 PM
Here we gooooooo!
Monday, February 23, 2004
Do you feel like you're riding on the Peter Pan ride at Disneyland? Good! Lot's of good memories come back when I hear those three words.
Thanks to Chris for setting me up -- cool design! And it's purple! Old ladies like purple, right Chris?
So, I'm not going to blog as much as I am going to share fun ideas and stories and recipes and crafts (and maybe a thought here and there). Perhaps that is blogging, in a different sort of way. So...stop by every now and then and see what has caught my fancy!
Today, a little spiritual thought--
Is Your Hut Burning?
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. A lone shipwreck survivor on an unihabited island managed to build a rude hut in which he placed all that he had saved from the sinking ship. He prayed to God for deliverance, and anxiously scanned the horizon each day to hail any passing ship.
One day, he was horrified to find his hut in flames. All that he had was gone. To the man's limited vision, it was the worst that could happen and he cursed God. Yet, the very next day a ship arrived. "We saw your smoke signal," the captain said.
-Walter A. Heiby -
Till the next time...as always, Me
posted by Carolee at 1:20 PM
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