Country Fried Apple Pie

Come on folks...lets get the old school, cooking with real fat, recipe moving!

Remember when people used the real fat/lard for cooking, and it was usually kept in the refrigerator.

An alternative for this recipe would be to use Butter Flavored Crisco for frying.  Yum Yum

Ingredients:

Double Pie Crust
Stewed (dried) apples
Deep fat

Directions:

Roll crust on a floured board.  Cut with a large, round cookie cutter.  Put about 1-1/2 tablespoons sweetened, seasoned (a little vanilla, a little cinnamon), chunky cooked apples  in each round.  Moisten edges with cold water, fold to make semi-circle and press edges together.  Fry in hot fat and drain well on paper towels when crispy brown.

Some folks like to sprinkle a little powdered sugar on top for visual appeal, but I like mine just the way they come straight out of the hot fat.  Add a dollop of ice cream on the top, while they are still hot!!!

If you don't like apples, try this with peaches, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries or any like fruit of  choice.

Hoe Cake Bread Biscuits

Some people consider HoeCake Bread to be fried dough bread or fried cornbread. To me those are just what they say they are... Fried Bread. HoeCake bread is what my grandmother and great-grandmother used to make after a days labor and the desire to put a home cooked meal on the table.

HoeCake bread is made just like homemade biscuits, but instead of cutting them to shape, you just roll out your dough and bake on a bread pan. When done, you bread off the desire amount, slit open and slather with more butter. Yum Yum

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tbs baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/3 cup Crisco Shortening
¼ cup milk

 

*I just use self-rising flour and omit the baking powder and the salt

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425.

Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Cut in Crisco using pastry blender (or two knives) to form coarse crumbs. Add milk. Mix with fork until particles are moistened and cling together. Form dough into a ball.

Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface and knead gently 8-10 times. Roll dough to a ½ inch thickness. Cut with floured 2-inch round cutter and place on ungreased baking sheet.

*At this point I roll my dough out with a rolling pin, into a oblong oval shape and place it on a the baking sheet. Sprinkle the top with a little flour and bake. About 2 minutes before I remove from oven, I will slather butter all over the top and return to oven.

 

Bake at 425º degrees for 12-14 minutes.

Make 12-16 biscuits or 1 big beautiful Hoe Cake Bread

This is a simple and basic recipe. Once you do the simple steps a couple times, you will quickly be able to throw it together for any meal.

Malasadas (Portuguese Doughnuts) Mylasados

The recipe that I have is an old one and spells this as Mylasados instead of Malasadas. None-the-less these are Portuguese doughnuts. My recipe says that this can be made the day before Lent, and used instead of pancakes.  Simple recipe with only a few ingredients.  My Kinda Cooking!!

 

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1 cup flour
½ heaping tsp. baking powder
1 egg
Pinch of salt

Beat all together until blended. Wait 10 minutes before frying. Heat oil in small pan, 3-4 inches of oil. Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls, 3 or 4 at a time. After they brown, turn over with a fork to brown other side.

Remove and put in a bowl lined with paper towels. Then place in a paper bag with 3-4 tablespoons of sugar and shake. Serve hot. Can be eaten with syrup.

The recipe doesn't specify Regular or Powdered sugar. I think powdered sugar with a little cinnamon would be delish!