New labels for recipe categories

I started changing and adding new labels for the recipe categories last night. I'm going to be adding more today. It may take a couple of posts to do it since it only lets me add a few at a time.

Old Fashioned Rum Cake

Old Fashioned Rum Cake

1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
3 cups cake flour
1 tsp. soda
1/4 to 1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup Rum or 2 tsp. Rum flavoring
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Cream shortening.
Add sugar to shortening gradually and cream together well.
Add eggs and blend well.
Sift dry ingredients together.
Add dry ingredients and buttermilk alternately beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
Beat well after each addition.
Add rum and vanilla.

Bake in slightly greased and floured tube pan for 15 minutes at 375* then decrease oven to 350* and bake for 30 minutes more.
After cake cools, remove from pan and baste with Rum Sauce (recipe follows).

Rum Sauce

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
2 Tbsp. brown sugar
1/2 cup Rum

Combine all ingredients in pan and heat until it boils.
Remove from heat and dip sauce over cake.
Place cake in a box or can and allow to penetrate.

Enjoy!

Honey Butter TNT

Honey Butter TNT

Beat 1/2 cup softened butter or margarine
1/4 cup honey and if desired,
1/2 tsp. grated orange peel until fluffy

Enjoy!!

Casserole Sauce/Cream Soup Mix---TNT

Casserole Sauce Mix--Replacement for cream soups in recipes!

2c. Instant Nonfat Dry Milk
3/4c. Cornstarch
1/4c reduced sodium Beef or Chicken bouillon
1/2tsp. dried crushed Thyme
1/2tsp. dried crushed Basil
1/4tsp. Pepper

Combine all ingredients using blender.
Store in airtight container.

To substitute for 1 can soup stir together-- 1/3c. dry mix and 1c. water--in saucepan. Cook and stir until thickened.

Yield: equivalent to 9 cans soup.

** Note ** I use a little more than a 1/3 cup of the mix for a creamier soup!

Enjoy!,
Brenda