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.

Coffee Cake

Hey everybody -

I just got back from Key West... I know, I know, life is so hard...

REMINDER... someone has a birthday coming up. What do you get for the Grandma who's got it all? I'm not entirely sure, but I recently procured an authentic Key Lime Pie recipe... maybe it will make its way into the recipe box!

On to today's recipe. It's Friday (technically), so let's do something sweet to end the week:

Sour Cream Coffee Cake

(recipe by Barbara Fickling)

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 cups flour

1 ts baking soda

1 ts baking powder

pinch of salt

1 1/2 cup sour cream

1 ts vanilla

-Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time and beat into cream.

-Sift in dry ingredients gradually, alternating with sour cream.

-Stir in vanilla.

-Pour half the batter into a greased 10" tube pan. Cover with 3/4s of the filling (below).

-Add remaining batter, and cover with remaining filling. Press it lightly into dough.

-Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.

Filling

1/2 cup sugar

1 ts cinnamon

1 cup chopped nuts.

Quiche Lorraine

Happy Monday everyone,

Grammy's recipe collection includes this one for Quiche Lorraine. Though the recipe itself has instructions for how to make the pie crust, I'm going to leave that part out. You can double click on the recipe if you really want to know... but remember, Grammy used to occasionally cheat with store bought pie crust :)

Quiche Lorraine

6 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled

1 cup Swiss cheese, shredded

3 lg eggs

1 TB flour

1/2 ts salt

1/8 ts nutmeg

2 cups milk

1 TB butter or margarine

-Preheat oven to 425.

-Roll pie crust/pastry into 11" circle. Fit into 9" pie plate, fill with weights, and bake for 12 minutes.

-Reduce oven temp to 375.

-Sprinkle bacon and cheese evenly on pastry shell.

-Whisk eggs together with flour, salt, nutmeg and milk. Pour into crust.

-Melt butter in saucepan until browned, and drizzle over top.

-Bake 30-35 minutes.

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