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Tweets From The East

Apple Crisp

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INGREDIENTS
10 cups thinly sliced apples
1 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup water (we don’t recommend this)
1 cup quick-cooking oats (double)
1 cup all purpose flour (double)
1 cup packed brown sugar (double)
1/4 teaspoon baking powder (double)
1/4 teaspoon baking soda (double)
1/2 cup butter, melted (double)

DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2.

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Homemade Oreo Cookies

2009-02-15@07-27-49

I like oreos. There’s something about that dark chocolate with a vanilla cream that just hits the spot.  Why not make oreos from scratch?

And so we did.

Homemade Oreos

Makes 25 to 30 sandwich cookies (or 8 to 10 honkin’ sized)

For the chocolate wafers:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch process cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon

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Russian Tea Cakes

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This is the cookie of many names. Whether you call them Snowballs, Russian Tea Cakes, Swedish Tea Cakes, Mexican Wedding Cakes, Butterballs, or Grandma Huckleberry’s Christmas Cookies, these rich and buttery cookies are holiday favorite.

INGREDIENTS

1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup finely chopped nuts
powdered

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Bomby’s Buttermilk Pound Cake

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This pound cake won a Blue ribbon at the Comal County Fair in New Braunfels – and I’m talking a Texas blue ribbon pound cake – so you know the competition is fierce. The recipe was passed down to my Great Aunt Judy from her Bomby making us the 5th generation to enjoy this pound

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Granny Smith Apple Pie

2008-11-04@17-58-54

This recipe doesn’t call for cinnamon, nutmeg or allspice because the Granny Smith apples are so tart and flavorful.

INGREDIENTS
1 double pie crust
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
8 Granny Smith apples – peeled, cored and sliced (8 apples is

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Cheesecake

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Cheesecake is easy. The only hard thing about cheesecake is carrying in a fortune-worth of cream cheese from a city 5 hours away – but it’s worth the trouble!

INGREDIENTS

15 graham crackers, crushed (20 digestive crackers)
2 tablespoons butter, melted
4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
1 1/2 cups white sugar
3/4 cup milk
4 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon vanilla

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