Raglan Road Guinness Dipping Sauce

Raglan Road located in Downtown Disney makes the most wonderful Guinness dipping sauce. When St. Patrick’s Day comes around people are dusting off their recipes for Irish Soda Bread, well I have the perfect dipping sauce for you. Guinness is reduced down along with sugar and makes a wonderful tangy dipping sauce for [...]

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Denny’s Blueberry and White Chocolate Pancake Puppies

Denny’s is the first restaurant I know that is selling an appetizer for breakfast, those appetizers are pancake puppies. Pancake puppies are crispy balls of pancake that are fried and then rolled in powdered sugar. There are currently two flavors, plain, and then this one, the blueberry and white chocolate pancake puppies. If you like [...]

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Strawberry Cream Cheese like Philadelphia

Bagels for breakfast are one of my favorite types of breakfast. One thing I really enjoy from the bagel places is the wonderful cream cheese spreads they have available. When made fresh they seem to have a flavor that is free from additives, and your cream cheese spreads so nicely over your bagel. [...]

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Starbucks Banana Walnut Bread

It is such a treat to go into Starbucks and enjoy a coffee and something sweet.   It is one of my life’s little pleasures.  Freshly  baked banana bread is hard to beat.  Banana walnut bread isn’t difficult to make, in fact you can make banana walnut bread that will taste just like Starbucks.  I recommend [...]

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Domino’s Cinnastix

These are wonderful to make for a stay at home pizza night, or when you want a little snack.  These are easy to make, and you can save money by making these at home.
1 package pizza mix, or your favorite recipe
1/4 C. melted butter (they don’t use butter, you can use margarine)
1/2 C. sugar
2 tsp. [...]

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Banana Bread – you can make banana bread at home, it is easy to make, and tastes wonderful.

This is my banana bread recipe that I go to anytime I make banana bread.  This is easy to put together, and the nuts are optional.  My recommendation for this banana bread is to use King Arthur Flour because it produces a better bread.
1 3/4 C. flour
2/3 C. sugar 
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 [...]

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North Woods Inn Garlic Cheese Bread – this goes so well with a bowl of home made soup.

This bread is supposed to be rich, soft, and gooey. It is served with green salad with a creamy blue cheese buttermilk dressing and red cabbage salad.
1 pound grated cheddar cheese
2 ounces grated Romano cheese
1-1/2 pounds margarine or butter (at room temperature)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon Hungarian sweet paprika
4 drops Tabasco sauce
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
2 [...]

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Pumpkin Spice Muffins – these donuts take like Dunkin Donuts pumpkin spice muffins.

This is a replica of dunkin donuts pumpkin spice seasonal muffin. They are moist and delicate in texture and stay fresh for days. You have to try these delicious muffins today!!!! Layaley sent us this recipe.  Thanks Layaley.
1 box of spice cake
1 30oz can Pumpkin Pie Mix(puree of pumpkin with spice)
1 3.4 oz box vanilla [...]

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Rhubarb Coffee Cake – you can’t miss this one.

May be served with whipped cream as a dessert. Ethel Eynard. Jefferson City, Mo. 1983.
1 ½ C. brown sugar
½ C. shortening
1 ½ C. rhubarb
1 tsp. baking soda
1 C. buttermilk
2 C. flour
1 tsp. vanilla
Stir all ingredients together. Place in a 9×13 inch pan that has been greased and floured. Sprinkle mixture of ½ C. sugar and [...]

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Mrs. Proctors Rhubarb Bread – this lady could really bake.

This different use of tangy rhubarb is “deeeeeelicious”.  This recipe is from the archives of my grandmother, Ethel Eynard.  Jefferson City, MO.  1971.
Batter
1 ½ C. brown sugar
2/3 C. vegetable oil
1 egg
1 C. buttermilk
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. vanilla
2 ½ C. flour
1 ½ C. finely diced rhubarb
½ C. chopped nuts
Topping
½ C. sugar
½ tsp. cinnamon
1 [...]

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Rhubarb Bread – this old fashioned bread is a real treat in the springtime.

Rhubarb is a favorite of many.  You can make this home made Rhubarb bread with this recipe. This recipe is from my grandmother, Ethel Eynard. Jefferson City, MO, 1978.
1 ½ C. brown sugar
2/3 C. vegetable oil
1 egg
1 tsp. salt
1 C. buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 ½ C. diced Rhubarb
2 ½ C. unsifted flour
1 tsp. baking soda
½ C. [...]

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Yorkshire pudding – a famous English dish you can make easily at home.

In England, as a kid due to food shortage, we were given the choice of having our slice of ‘Yorkie’ on our dinner plate or served as our ’sweet’ with jam on it. Of course we always choose our Yorkie as a ’sweet’ else we did not get any dessert!
1/4 cup of bacon drippings
1/2 cup [...]

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It’s Simple Beer Bread – tastes just like a beer bread mix sold at home parties.

It is our opinion this recipe tastes just like a boxed mixed that is sold at in home parties.  This is an easy, very inexpensive clone for this beer bread. Why pay $5 a box for theirs when this will only cost a fraction to make?
12 oz beer (not light or corona)
3 C. self rising [...]

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Fogo de Chao cheesy bread puffs – hot cheese puffs fresh out of the oven are hard to beat.

Fogo de Chao is a wonderful Brazilian barbeque.  These cheese puffs are like pop-overs but they are softer and much more delicious.  They do use special tapioca flour to make them extra soft and fluffy.
1 1/2 cups whole milk
1 1/2 cups sour tapioca flour (azedo)*
1 cup sweet tapioca flour (doce)
3/4 cup shredded parmesan cheese
3/4 cup [...]

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Date-Nut Muffins – these sweet muffins with bits of walnuts and dates are perfect warm out of the oven.

These hearty muffins are wonderful on Sunday mornings served with butter.  This recipe is from the archives of my grandmother, Ethel Eynard.  Jefferson City, MO.  1975.
1 pkg. (9 oz) pitted dates, coarsely chopped
3/4 C. boiling water
1/2 C. corn oil
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 C. flour
1/2 C. whole wheat flour
1/2 C. sugar
1/3 C. coarsely chopped walnuts
1/2 tsp. baking [...]

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