Orange Cranberry Scones

2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder 1 teaspoon ground cloves 1/2 Tablespoon Orange Peel
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup Craisins
1 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoon butter, melted
1-2 tablespoon granulated sugar for sprinkling on top before
baking

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper, sprinkle with flour and set aside.
In a medium mixing bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, cloves, orange peel and salt with a fork.
Add Craisins to dry ingredient and gently mix.
Pour in the cream and and stir carefully, just until combined. The dough will be quite moist, similar to cookie dough. Do not overwork dough.
Using floured hands, knead dough just a few times then form into 2 balls and transfer to prepared baking sheet.
Gently pat into a circles roughly 1 inch thick
Cut each circle into six equal triangles and separate them about an inch apart.
Brush the scones with melted butter and sprinkle granulated sugar.
Bake for 12 – 17 minutes, or until golden brown on top. Serve warm.


Mom’s 4 Bean Salad


Servings: 4

1 can Wax Beans
1 can Green Beans
1 can Kidney Beans
1 can Chick Peas (garbanzo beans)
You can, also, use lima beans
1 Onion, Thinly Sliced Rings
3/4 cup Sugar
1 cup Oil
2/3 cup Vinegar
1 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Pepper

Drain beans. Mix together 2nd set of ingredients. Pour over beans and onion rings. Let sit in refrigerator overnight.


Scripture Cake



Makes 1 Cake

This cake recipe was popular in the 1800’s. It would appear in the church bulletins. Follow these scriptures for your ingredients:

3/4 Cup Genesis 18:8 (found in the first four words)
1-1/2 Cup Jeremiah 6:20
5 Luke 11:12
3 Cup Leviticus 24:5
3/4 Teaspoon 2 Kings 2:20
3 Teaspoon Amos 4:5
1 Teaspoon Exodus 30:23
1/4 Teaspoon Each 2 Chronicles 9:9
1/2 Cup Judges 4:19 (last part)
1/2 Cup Genesis 43:11 (last part of the verse only)
1/2 Cup Jeremiah 24:5
1/2 Cup 2 Samuel 16:1

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Thoroughly cream butter, brown sugar and eggs. Combine dry ingredients and add alternatively to creamed mixture with milk. Stir in nuts and fruit. Bake in two greased cake pans 30 to 40 minutes.