Recipe Swap Tuesday

SummerLove21

What is your favorite recipe to make that has been passed down from a family member, or maybe given to you by a close friend?

SummerLove21

Creamy Potato Cheese Soup (from my mom):

2 cups boiling water

2 cups chopped potatoes

1/2 cup sliced celery

1 & 1/2 tsp salt

-Combine, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes

1/4 butter

1/4 cup flour

2 cups half and half

-Combine in saucepan over low heat, stir until smooth (white sauce)

-Slowly stir white sauce into vegetable mixture; turn off heat when finished

2 & 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese

-Stir cheese into soup just prior to serving

*We like to top with additional grated cheddar cheese and bacon.  :-)

colinsfebmommy

My Grandma's apple pie, everything from scratch. Best thing ever. I am at work so I can't post recipe as it is at home.

Meggiemuggins

Brown Sugar Shortbread, the easiest cookie recipe EVAR.  I usually halve the recipe because I don't want to use a full pound of butter:

1 pound good-quality, fresh, salted butter, at room temperature

1 cup fine textured medium brown sugar, i.e. not Demerara

4 cups all-purpose flour

 

With one hand, squish and stir brown sugar into well-softened butter until evenly mixed. Work in two cups of flour, then add more, 1/2 cup at a time, until the dough holds together and is no longer sticky, about 4 cups.

 

Form into a ball and knead maximum four or five times until it just smooth. Lightly flour work surface and rolling pin and roll out to 1 cm (3/8") thickness.  

Using a ruler as a guide, cut with a knife or pizza wheel into 4 cm x 4 cm squares. Lift each onto a cookie sheet and dock with a fork three times.

 Alternatively, use cookie cutters in simple decorative shapes. (The shortbread dough is too buttery to hold fine detailed shapes when baked the way sugar cookie or gingerbread dough will.)

 Re-roll scraps sparingly, as cookies will turn out increasingly crisp with each successive re-rolling. 

 Bake in upper two-thirds of a 350 degree oven 5  - 7 minutes until they appear set in the middle and faintly golden brown around the bottom edges. Let cool on cookie sheet for a couple of minutes and finish cooling on a baking rack.