Grandma’s Egg Bread (Orange Rolls )

Orange Rolls or Cinnamon Rolls

(Grandma’s Egg Bread) (A Family Favorite)

Mix and set aside:

•  ½ cup warm water
• 2 T Dry yeast
• ½ cup sugar

Beat 3 eggs in a large bowl.

Add to eggs and mix:

• 2 ½ c. milk (room temp.)  Best if brought to a boil then cooled.
• 1 cube butter (room temp.)
• 4 t. Salt
• 5 cups whole wheat and/or unbleached flour
• yeast mixture

Add and knead in about 2 ½ more cups of flour to make a soft and smooth dough. (Use wet hands to knead.)  Let rise. (double in bulk)  Punch the air out.

Mix in a small container:

•  1 cube soft butter,
• ½ cup sugar
• the zest from one orange.      (grated peel)

Roll the dough into a ½ in. thick rectangle.  Spread the zest/butter mixture on dough except for a 1 inch strip on the edge to seal the roll.

Roll up the dough and seal with the non-buttered edge.  Cut the roll with dental floss or a knife.

Put the rolls in a greased baking pan.  Let rise until double in bulk again.

Bake in a preheated 375 oven for 20 minutes.

Make the glaze while the rolls are baking.

Glaze

Cook 1 cube butter with 1 cup brown sugar until it boils 1 minute.  Take off the stove and beat in the juice from 1 orange, and 1 cup sifted powdered sugar.  As the rolls come out of the oven, spoon on the glaze.

Optional Cinnamon Rolls

After the dough is rolled out, butter the dough except for a 1 inch strip on one of the longer sides, so you can seal the roll. Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar (1 cup brown sugar mixed with 2 teas. cinnamon) only on the butter.  Continue like for Orange Rolls.

Glaze

Cook 1 cube butter with 1 cup brown sugar until it boils 1 minute.  Take off the stove and beat in ½ teas. vanilla, 1 T. milk and 1 cup sifted powdered sugar.  As the rolls come out of the oven, spoon on the glaze.

Marshmallow Treats

1. Microwave for 2 minutes:

• ¼ Cup Butter
• 40 Large Marshmallows

2. Stir and add:

• 5 cup Crispy Rice Cereal

3. Stir and pat it down in a buttered dish.

4. Let them cool, cut and serve.

5. Add M&M’s  (Each child counts 5 M&M’s to put on their piece.) and eat.

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Fruit Salad

Take an assortment of fruits (fresh and canned).  It is fun to let children bring a fruit to add to the salad.  With help they can help to cut the fruit.   Here are some suggestions of fruits to use.

• banana
• apple
• pear
• peach
• strawberries
• blueberries
• grapes
• Mix it all together with canned pineapple canned in its own juice.

Recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies

1.  Beat 2 eggs.

2.  Add and Mix:

• 1 cup butter
• 1 and  ½ cups brown sugar
• 1 t. vanilla

3.  Add and Mix:

• 2  and 1/4 cups flour
• 1 t. soda
• 1 t. salt.

4.  Add and Mix:

• 100 or more chocolate chips
• 100 or more M & M’s

5.  Drop by spoonfuls on a cookie sheet.

6. Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.

7. Eat and enjoy.

Enjoy making with children when you teach the CH or a review of digraph sounds.

Have the children help count, crack eggs, and measure.

Tortillas

Tortilla

• 1 T.  Butter
• 1 C.  Unbleached Flour
• 1/2  t.  Salt
• 1/2 t.  Baking Powder
• 1/3 c.  Water

• Mix with a fork and by hand just until it holds together.
• Use wax paper on a tortilla press and press a ball of dough with the tortilla press.
• Brown each side on a griddle or frying pan.
• Serve with butter!

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Microwave Caramel Popcorn

This is a fun easy recipe to do with children.  This can be used when teaching:

• the sounds — OR, AR, Short O, or P.
• the word family -op.
• farms, seeds, plants, or heat.  

Caramel Popcorn

1.  Melt in the microwave in a large glass bowl on high for 2 minutes:

• 1 cube butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup corn syrup
• ½ tsp. salt

2.  Stir then microwave for 2 or 3 more minutes.

3.  Stir in ½ tsp. baking soda.

4.  Pour over 4-5 quarts of popped popcorn.

5.  Stir to mix then pour in a large brown paper grocery bag.

6.  Fold down the top then cook in the microwave for 2 minutes.

7.  Take out the bag then shake it and cook again for 1 ½ minutes.

8.   Pour out on a cookie sheet to cool.

9.  When cool break apart.

ENJOY!

Ranch Dressing- Simple and Tasty

Ranch Dressing

•  1 tsp. dry parsley
•  ½  tsp. garlic powder
•  1 tsp. salt
• 1 ½  tsp. instant minced onion
•  1 tsp. pepper
• pinch of oregano

Mix spices with 2 cups of buttermilk.  Then add 1½ – 2 cups of mayonnaise. Chill in the refrigerator for 30 min. (Will keep refrigerated for several weeks.)

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Strawberry Tart (Fun to make with the AR sound.)

       Strawberry Tart

Crust: (no shortening)  (can us gluten-free flour)

• 1/3 c. whole wheat flour or unbleached flour
• pinch of salt
• 1 c. unbleached flour
• 1/3 c. oil
• 3 tbsp. milk or water

Mix flours and salt together. Mix milk and oil in a separate bowl. Add oil mixture to flour mixture and mix with a fork until mixed.  Mix as little as possible.  Roll out between wax paper. Take off wax paper on one side.  Line muffin cups, tart pans. custard cups or a pie pan with crust, then take off the wax paper.  Poke crust with a fork, then bake at 475 for 10-15 minutes.

Filling:

Wash and cut strawberries and fill pastry crust.

Cook:     

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1  1/4 cups raspberry juice
•  4 t. cornstarch

Mix cornstarch with 1/4 c. cold juice. Bring the rest of the juice and sugar to a boil. Stir in cornstarch mixture. Cook on low for about 2 minutes or until clear and starts to thicken.  Spoon over fruit making sure to cover all the fruit.

Optional Topping:

• 1 c. whipping cream
• 1 T. vanilla instant pudding
• 2-4 T. powdered sugar
• 1/4 t. vanilla

Whip cream in a glass or metal bowl.  When the whip cream forms soft peaks, add pudding, sugar and vanilla.  Whip just until mixed.  Serve on cooled tarts.

Soft Boiled Eggs

Put eggs in pan of hot water.  Bring water to a boil.  Turn to low and cook for 3 minute at sea level.  (Add 1 minute for every 2000 feet you are above sea level.)

Toast 1 piece of bread for each egg while the eggs are cooking.  Butter the bread and tear apart the bread into individual bowls.

When the eggs are cooked, cool for 1 minute in cold water.  Break open over the broken up bread.  Scoop out the eggs.  Mix the eggs into the bread.  Salt and Pepper to taste.

Serve with Bacon and sliced oranges for a yummy simple meal.

This is one of my husband’s and grandchildren’s favorite meal.

Brownies

       BROWNIES

•  3 cubes of butter (up to ½ can be applesauce)
• 1/2 c. cocoa
• 3 c. brown sugar (C&H or organic)
• 6 eggs
• 2 ½ c. unbleached or whole wheat flour
• ½ tsp. salt
• 1 Tbsp vanilla
• ½ cup chopped nuts (I prefer pecans) (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 .  Cream together butter, cocoa and sugar.  Add eggs, flour, salt, vanilla, and nuts.  Mix only until blended.  (Don’t over mix.) Spread in a jelly roll pan that has been sprayed with non stick spray.  Bake 25 minutes. Don’t overcook.

Serve with whipped cream.  Whip 1 cup whipping cream.  Add 1 Tablespoon Instant Vanilla Pudding, 1/2 teas. vanilla, 2 Tablespoons powdered sugar.  Mix just until blended.

It is fun to garnish with fresh raspberries and mint leaves.

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