Super Christmas Brunch!

Happy Holidays, everyone.
Since next weekend will be spent with family, this will be the last post before Christmas -- but we're making it a big one! If you're still planning your menu for Christmas, perhaps this can serve as a guide. We unfortunately only have the page for two of the items listed (though orange and pear slices, and coffee hardly require a recipe).

From the Treat family to yours, have a very Merry Christmas!


Super Christmas Brunch

Suggested Menu:

• Fresh Orange and Pear Slices
• Marmalade-Glazed Baked Ham
• Beignets with Cinnamon-Maple Syrup
• Custard Corn Pudding
• Coffee & Milk

Marmalade-Glazed Baked Ham
1 ham (5lb)
1/2 10 oz jar orange marmalade
2 TB brown sugar
1 TB ketchup
1 TB soy sauce
1/2 ts garlic salt
1/8 ts pepper

-place ham in 13" by 9" baking dish, insert meat thermometer.
-bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour.
-mix marmalade with remaining ingredients, and brush over ham.
-bake an additional 15 minutes, or until the thermometer reads 140 degrees.

Custard Corn Pudding
3 cups milk
3 TB butter
5 eggs
2 1/4 ts salt
2 ts sugar
1/4 ts pepper
17 oz corn, drained
parsley sprigs for garnish

-In a saucepan, heat milk and butter over low heat.
-In a separate casserole dish, whisk in eggs, salt, sugar and pepper, then stir in corn.
-Slowly pour the hot milk over the corn mixture, and continue stirring.
-Place casserole dish in pan of water. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour until firm.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Ah, the magic of Christmas....

Every year, my family throws a neighborhood Christmas Eve party for our primarily Jewish neighbors. It involves a lot of food, alcohol, and pointed questions, like, "Amanda, I hear that the local film industry is failing. What are you going to do for work now?"

There will be latkes, Christmas cookies, chips, dips, little bowls of nuts, and hot cider on the stove. Our neighbor will tell her adult daughter that she's "had enough to eat", and my sister will be told repeatedly that she's "had enough wine." The three sons of our Irish Catholic neighbors will slyly drink enough to walk into trees/shrubs/telephone poles on the 100yd journey home. Everybody has a great time.

Today's Christmas Eve recipe is actually made by my mother and served at the above-mentioned party. Grammy Gertie liked it so much, that she started making it too.

Ellen's Hot Crab Appetizers

1 stick butter

1 jar Old English Cheese spread (Kraft, 5 oz)

1 1/2 ts mayonnaise

1/2 tsp garlic salt

1/2 tsp seasoned salt

1 can crab meat

6 English muffins

-Let butter and cheese spread soften to room temp.

-Mix both together with mayo, garlic salt and seasoned salt.

-Add crab meat.

-Spread mixture onto English muffin halves.

-Freeze for 10 min.

-Cut each half into 8 triangles and broil until bubbly.

Ginger Snaps

Though I can't recall ever eating ginger snaps, it sounds like a Christmas cookie recipe. Check below for Grammy's tips.

Ginger Snaps

1/2 cup shortening (or butter)

1 cup white sugar

1/3 cup dark molasses

2 eggs

2 1/4 cups pastry flour

2 ts baking soda

1 ts cinnamon

1/2 ts cloves

1 heaping ts ginger

dash of salt

-Mix ingredients into dough. Spoon into drop cookies and place on baking sheet.

-Bake at 350 for 10 min.

"If you want them to be fancy -- when thoroughly mixed, take a rounded ts of dough, roll into ball in hands, then roll that in white sugar. Place on baking pan."

"I just make drop cookies, they taste just as good."

Gingerbread Cake

Good evening,

As we narrow in on the Christmas, it seems a nice time to pull out some holiday recipes.

Gingerbread Cake

1/2 cup oleo (or butter)

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg, beaten

2 1/2 cup flour

1 1/2 ts baking soda

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

1/2 tsp cloves

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup molasses

1 cup hot water

-mix ingredients together

-bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes