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Kenny’s Perfect Cookie Recipe
Summary: From Kenny
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter melted
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Raw granulated sugar
Instructions
- Blend sugars and butter.
- Add egg yolk, corn syrup, and vanilla
- cream into butter and sugar mixture for about 15 seconds
- Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda
- Add flour mixture to wet ingredients in 3 increments, blending well with each added increment
- Spoon out small scoops of dough and roll in raw, sugar granules, then chill in refrigerator for 15 minutes or until firm (can use freezer)
- Place on parchment-paper-lined baking sheet and place in 375 degree oven until dark brown on top – 10 to 15 minutes.
- Should come out crunchy/crispy on the edges, bottom and top, yet very ooey-gooey and chewy in the middle :]
Meal type: dessert
Beef & Fruit Pie
Based on a recipe from Guenievre
Ingredients
- 1 medium onion finely chopped
- 2 pounds ground beef
- 1 1/2 teaspoon Bonnefons Good spice mixture
- 1 medium apple finely chopped
- 1/2 cup raisins, chopped
- 1/2 cup beef stock
- 1/4 cup sherry or port
- 3 Egg yolks
- Cooking spray
- 3 store bought prepared pie crusts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Carmelize the onion then remove from the pan and set aside.
- Brown ground beef adding spice mixture as it cooks.
- Add apple and onion to beef and cook for another minute.
- Add the raisins, stock, sherry and egg yolks and cook until just begging to boil..
- Remove beef mix from heat and let cool.
- Coat a pie dish or a spring form pan with cooking spray.
- Line the pie dish / spring form pan with pie crust.
- Fill the pie dish with the meat mixture.
- Cover the pie pan with the remaining pie crust, crimp edges with a fork, and cut a couple of small vent slots.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until golden brown and delicious.
- Cool before serving.
Cooking time (duration): 45
Number of servings (yield): 12
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Corn Bread
Ingredients:
- 1 cup(s) uncooked cornmeal, yellow
- 1 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp table salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 14 3/4 oz cream-style corn, canned
- 1/2 cup(s) buttermilk
- 2 large egg white(s)
- 2 tsp corn oil
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 400ºF.
- Coat an 8-inch square cake pan with cooking spray.
- Combine cornmeal, flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda in a large bowl.
- Mix well with a fork, then make a well in the center; set aside.
- Combine creamed corn, buttermilk, egg whites and oil in a medium bowl; mix until blended.
- Fold wet mixture into dry ingredients; mix until blended.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth the top.
- Bake until a wooden pick inserted near the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
- Allow to cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
- Remove from pan; cool completely before cutting into 8 squares.
- Servings: 8
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- WW Points: 3