Spiced Pumpkin Bread

          

A pumpkin loaf spiced with cinnamon, ground cloves, and nutmeg. I came up with this recipe after many failed attempts at pumpkin loaf. I adapted a favorite banana loaf recipe and this was the result. Yum! This recipe yields 3 loaves. Stock your freezer!

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Irish Whiskey Muffins

The best place to shop for ingredients is at the liquor mart. If you want to try a slight variation, try leaving out the whiskey and milk and just adding a cup of Baileys® instead. It’s really good.

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Vaselopita

Traditional Greek New Year’s Day bread. Served as a coffe cake for breakfast. Each person in the family gets a slice starting with the youngest and progressing to the oldest. The person who recieves the slice with the quarter in it will have good luck for the whole year!

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Limpa Bread

This is a traditional Swedish rye bread. Be sure that the seeds you use for this bread are fresh. You may substitute rye flour for the whole wheat flour, however, it will affect the taste. I prefer whole wheat. Also, gluten, a very important ingredient in this recipe, may be found in most gourmet food stores or health food stores. Barley malt can be substituted for molasses. Enjoy!

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Sweet Easter Quick Bread

A delicious Easter favorite from the islands. The time it takes to make this dish is worth it when you bite into a tantalizing piece. It tastes even more excellent served warm with butter or cheese.

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Candied Fruit Bread

This is a great bread for tea at Christmas time when you don’t like to make fruitcake. It is an old recipe that belonged to my mother, and really good.

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Betty’s Famous Cinnamon Rolls

Absolutely the best cinnamon rolls, ever. So good, you can’t NOT make them, let alone, stop eating them. A little hard work but totally worth it in the end. Substitute walnuts or raisins for pecans if you desire. Very good right out of the oven, or right out of the fridge, place a pat of butter on top and microwave for 20 seconds!

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Christmas Lefse

This is a Norwegian-style lefse, that our family makes together every Christmas Eve morning. The potato dough is refrigerated overnight to make the lefse more tender. Delicious spread with butter and either white sugar or brown sugar!

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Kneecaps

          

This small, sweet fried doughnut has an indent in the center, rather than a hole. It’s then covered with powdered sugar and filled with whipped cream. Add a few sprinkles or sugars for a decorative touch.

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Grandma Olga’s Kolacky

My great-grandmother talked very little English. She spoke through her cooking and baking. One recipe I always loved that my grandmother would make of hers was Kolacky. You can use any filling you like, but the apricot were my favorite. My grandma hasn’t baked for years and I so missed these cookies. I was always intimidated by dough, but I found these to be so easy to work with. Now, I can taste Grandma’s cookies anytime. Yum.

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Easter Bird’s Nest Bread

This decorative, tasty bread looks like a bird’s nest when finished. Use raw eggs that you’ve colored to put in the center. They cook right along with the bread! This is a favorite in my family, and we have it for breakfast every Easter Sunday with the eggs we’ve colored. This Easter bread is especially tasty because it has a faint hint of lemon in it. My favorite way to eat it is warmed up, with butter spread on top.

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Polish Egg Bread

This recipe came from a friend and it is fantastic. I was in Poland in August and enjoyed the bread there so I was glad when I received this recipe. Everyone asks me for the recipe.

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