The Best Pumpkin Bread Recipe

This Pumpkin Bread Recipe is wonderful all year. The recipe makes two loaves of rich, moist pumpkin bread. Enjoy one loaf and freeze the other for unexpected company or as a special treat!

The spicy aroma fills the house as this flavorful pumpkin bread is baking. This pumpkin bread recipe is wonderful just the way it is but you can also add cream cheese frosting for an added touch of sweetness. Enjoy

Rich, Moist Banana Bread

This Banana Bread recipe has been in my family for years. It is very moist and heavy, just the way I like it.

The Banana Bread is simple to make and it freezes well. I cut it into slices and freeze them individually. All I have to do is take a slice out of the freezer and have a delicious slice of homemade banana bread...much better than a donut.

Take a look at the banana bread recipe and enjoy!

How to Boil an Egg Perfectly

Boiling the perfect egg is not as easy as it seems. Many people have tried and failed! The egg either comes out too soft and runny or too hard and firm. The following instructions on how to boil and egg give the perfect boiled egg every time.

Boiled Egg Recipe

1. Place the egg in a small pan of cold water.
   


2. Cook the egg until the water comes to a full boil.
   


3. Immediately set a timer for 2 ½ minutes.
   


4. Remove the egg from the water as soon as the timer goes off because the egg keeps cooking even after you remove it from the stove.
   


5. Cut the top off the boiled egg and enjoy.
   

The time for the boiled eggs remains the same no matter how many eggs you put in the pan. I usually boil 2 for myself. There's nothing better in the morning than two perfectly boiled eggs! Yum…

Home Canning Recipes

Home Canned Tomatoes:
Use ripe tomatoes for canning. To loosen the skins on the tomatoes, dip into boiling water for about 1/2 minute and then dip into cold water. The peels will crack and you can remove them easily. Cut out the stem ends and peel the tomatoes.

In glass jars: Pack the tomatoes to 1/2 inch from the top of the Mason jar, pressing gently to fill any spaces. Don't add any water.

Add 1/2 tsp. salt to pint jars and 1 tsp salt to quart jars.

Adjust the lids and process in a boiling water bath. Pint jars take 35 minutes and quart jars take 45 minutes.

As soon as you take the jars out of the canner, tighten the seals.

Home Canned Peaches

Wash the peaches and remove the skins. To make peeling easier, dip the peach in boiling water and then into cold water. Cut the peaches in half and remove the pits. Slice if desired.

To prevent the peaches from darkening during the canning process, drop the peaches into a gallon container of water mixed with 2 TBS salt and 2 TBS vinegar. Drain the peaches before heating or packing raw.

Raw Pack - Prepare peaches as above. Pack the raw peaches to 1/2 inch from the top of the Mason jar. Cover with boiling syrup and leave 1/2 inch space from the top of the jar. Adjust the lids and process in a boiling water bath for 25 minutes in pint jars or 30 minutes in quart jars.

Hot Pack - Prepar the peaches as above. heat the peaches in hot syrup. if the fruit is juicy, you can heat it with sugar and don't need to add any more liquid.

Pack the hot fruit into the jars, 1/2 inch from the top. Cover with boiling liquid, leaving 1/2 at the top. Adjust the lids. Process in teh canner 20 minutes for pints and 25 minutes for quarts.

Canning pears is done with the same method as peaches.

Home Canning Plums

Wash the plums and prick the skins to can the plums whole. Larger plums can be cored and pitted. Prepare in the jars as for the peaches.

Process pints with raw fruit for 20 minutes, quarts for 25 minutes.

Process pints with hot fruit for 20 minutes, quarts for 25 minutes.

With all canning, tighten seals after removing from canner.

Complete insructions for: How to Can Fruits and Vegetables.

Cherry Pound Cake Recipe

Turn your pound cake into something delightful with delicious, colorful maraschino cherries. This cake adds color to a party table or luncheon. I bake the cherry pound cake as a dessert after Sunday Brunch and it's a great springtime cake. This is the recipe mentioned in the Easter Sunday Brunch Menu Plan I posted earlier.

Cherry Pound Cake:

10" tube pan (well greased and floured)
3 C. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 pkg. confectionery sugar
1 C. shortening
1 tsp. vanilla
4 eggs
1 C. milk
1 C. maraschino cherries (diced or halved)

Cinnamon and sugar for topping.

Sift together: flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.

Add the confectionery sugar to the shortening and blend well. Add the vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.

Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk. Blend well.

Fold in the cherries.

Turn into the tube pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for 65 minutes.

Remove from the pan while still warm and sprinkle with a cinnamon/sugar mixture.

This is a large, rich cake. Hope you like it as much as I do!

Springtime Pineapple Squares Recipe

If you like pineapple, you will love this pineapple squares recipe. It is a crowd pleaser!

1 can (1 lb. 4 oz.)crushed pineapple
1 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp. salt
2 TBS. butter
1 TBS. sugar
1 egg

Topping:
1 C. sugar
2 TBS. soft butter
1 egg
1 C. coconut
Beat sugar, butter and egg. Then stir in coconut.
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Turn pineapple into a wire strainer and drain well. Sift flour with baking powder and salt.

Cream butter, sugar, and egg together
Blend in flour mixture.

Spread into an 8” square pan.

Spread drained pineapple over batter.

Sprinkle with topping, using fingers to level the mixture.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Cut into 16 2” squares

Easter Sunday Brunch Menu Plan

Easter Brunch is a tradition in my house and I thought you might enjoy a menu plan list of all the Brunch foods that I serve to my family. Everything on the list is a favorite of someone and I wouldn't omit any of the recipes from my Easter Brunch. If you're thinking of having an Easter Brunch or a Sunday Brunch anytime of the year, check out this menu plan. Your guests will love it!

Included in the menu plan is a Blueberry Muffin recipe that makes the best blueberry muffins I have ever tasted. Check the following link for the brunch menu plan: Easter Sunday Brunch Menu Plan