A Pleasant taste...different from what you are expecting when reading the ingredients

DEVIL'S THUMBPRINT COOKIES

I adapted this from an idea, a bit of online searching, combining two recipes, resulting in , well this

INGREDIENTS

1 jar Red Pepper Jelly
1 ¼ cups all purpose flour
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup softened / unsalted Butter (softened)
1 large Egg
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 ½ tsp Black Pepper (fine ground)



DIRECTIONS

Pre heat to 350 degrees
Mix Flour and Baking Soda and Black Pepper
Cream together Butter, Sugar, egg, Vanilla
Stir in flour mixture to butter mixture 1/3 of flour at a time. Dough will be dry, I finished combining flour using my hands.

Shape dough into a ball, cover in plastic wrap and cool in refrigerator for 30 minutes.


Two ways of doing this (1) roll dough into 1 inch balls. Flatten using the bottom of a glass ( dip glass in ¼ cup additional sugar to keep glass from sticking. Then using your thumb make a dent in the cookie and fill dent with about a half teaspoon of the Red Pepper Jelly. OR (2) roll out cookie dough to about ¼ inch , Cut your cookies with round cookie cutter. Use your thumb to dent center of the cookie. Fill dent with about a half teaspoon Red Pepper Jelly.

Bake 11 to 15 minutes , until lightly browned on the edges. Cool on wire rack

I promise the taste will pleasantly surprise you.

Mincemeat cookies

 Ruth's Mincemeat cookie recipe is taken off a much older box of NONE SUCH Condensed Mincemeat. New boxes have a totally different recipe.

This cookie tastes like Christmas.  Honest, just try it one time!

You CANNOT use the stuff in a jar. If need be you can order online at Pepperidge Farm.

Makes about 3 Dozen

Unless like me you like large cookies

2 ½ Cups Flour

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 tsp Cream of Tarter

1 Cup of Butter softened

1 ½ cups Sugar ( Ruth's modification original called for confectioners sugar)

1 Egg

1 Package of None Such Condensed Mincemeat

1 tsp Vanilla

Pre heat oven to 375 F

Mix dry ingredients. Into the dry ingredients finely crumble the mincemeat. Stir to evenly distribute.

Stir in egg, butter, vanilla.

At this point this is very dry, I always incorporate by hand so all the dry flour is mixed in and buttery.

Roll dough into 1 ¼ inch balls, place on cookie sheet and flatten slightly. Place cookies 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Just till edge of cookie starts to brown up.

This is a gift from my sister Charlotte.  And I employee her suggestion; Never tell the person trying this the ingredients or the name of the bread until after they have tried some.

PORK & BEAN BREAD

Yep you read that right

Ingredients

1 Cup Raisins

1 Cup Boiling Water

2 Cups Sugar

3 Eggs (beaten)

1 Cup Vegetable Oil

1 tsp Vanilla

1 15oz can of Pork & Beans

3 Cups flour

1 tsp Cinnamon

½ tsp Baking Powder

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 Cup chopped nuts ( your choice of nuts)

2 greased and floured loaf pans

Oven preheated to 350 degrees

Putting it together

Add Raisins to boiling water and set aside

In a large bowl, mash pork & beans with a fork until very smooth. (remove pork, and do NOT drain beans)

Add Sugar, Eggs and Oil and Vanilla to beans and stir together

Sift all dry ingredients together , and stir into Bean mixture

DRAIN Raisins, discard water. Stir Raisins and Nuts into mixture

Divide mixture between the two loaf pans.

BAKE at 350 degrees on middle rack for 35 to 45 minutes .UNTIL

Bread top is cracked or toothpick inserted into the middle of the loaf comes out clean.