Ingredients

• 3 cups dried fruit: prunes, apricots, mango, peach, apples, flame raisins
• 2 cups boiling water
• ½ cup orange juice
• ¾ cup water
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• Lemon peel
• 1/8 tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

Place the dried fruits in a large bowl and cover with 2 cups boiling water.  Let the fruit sit for 1 hour then drain.  Place the fruit in a medium saucepan with the remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and allow mixture to simmer gently for 50 min to 1 hour.  The fruit should be tender but not falling apart.  Add more sugar or orange juice to taste if needed. Remove and discard the cinnamon stick and lemon peel.

Refrigerate in its syrup overnight before serving.  Serve chilled.

Steamed Bread Pudding

Ingredients

• 2 cups bread cubes
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 cup buttermilk
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon mixed spices
• ½ cup seedless raisins
• 1 tbsp butter

Instructions

Sprinkle bread cubes with buttermilk

Let stand until soaked

Mix well with rest of ingredients

Cook in double boiler 1 ½ hours

Rhubarb Pie

Ingredients

• 1 cup rhubarb (1 lb)
• 2 tbsp cornstarch
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• 1 ½ cups sugar

Instructions

Line a pie plate with pie crust

Cut rhubarb ¼ inch pieces

Sprinkle with cornstarch

Add egg and sugar, mix well, turn into pie crust

Cover with top crust or lattice strips

Bake in hot oven 30 min at 425F

Reduce heat to 325F for 15 to 20 min

Cranberry Apple Crisp

Ingredients

• 2 cups cranberries
• 3 cups large apples unpeeled, cored, sliced thin
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ¼ cup all purpose flour
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• ¾ cup rolled oats
• ½ cup chopped walnuts
• 3 tbsp butter, melted

Instructions

In a large bowl combine the cranberries, apples, sugar, cinnamon and 1 tbsp flour.

Transfer the mixture to a greased 6-cup shallow baking dish.

In the same bowl combine the remaining flour, brown sugar, oats, nuts. Stir in melted in the melted butter and mix well (should be crumbly). Sprinkle the oat mixture over the fruit mixture.

Bake the crisp in a preheated 375F oven for 40 min or until lightly browned.  Let stand 10 min before serving.

Apple / Fruit Turnovers

Ingredients

Mix together

• 1 ½ cups chopped apples
• ¼ cup currants
• 1 ½ tsp Cinnamon
• 2 tbsp Brown sugar or Honey
• 2 tbsp Butter

Instructions

Preheat oven 450F

Roll out pie crust, cut in quarters

1/3 cup of filling in each center

Fold edges, seal with milk

Bake 10 min at 450F

Bake 25-35 min at 350F till golden brown

Banana Nut Bread

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 2 eggs
• 5 tbsp butter
• ¼ cup buttermilk or yogurt
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• ¼ tsp orange flavor
• Cinnamon
• 6 small bananas
• ½ cup sugar and/or honey
• 1/3 tsp salt
• 1 cup walnut halves
• Oatmeal on top

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F

Grease and flour a 9 x 5 metal loaf pan

In a large mixing bowl sift flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda.

In blender add eggs, butter, buttermilk, lemon juice, orange flavor, bananas, sugar, salt

Mix or blend until smooth. Slowly add dry ingredients.  Fold in nuts.

Pour batter into pan and bake 1 hr 25 min or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Pear Bread

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (2 sticks)
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3 jumbo eggs room temperature
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 4 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp nutmeg
• 2/3 cup plain yogurt
• 3 cups diced pears (four medium pears)
• 2/3 cup orange marmalade
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F

Cut butter in chunks

Let eggs stand in room temperature

Grease and flour pans

In medium bowl combine flour, power, soda, salt, nutmeg

In large bowl with electric mixer cream butter and sugar.  Beat in egg and vanilla

Add flour mixture to butter sugar mixture.  Add yogurt and marmalade.  Mix well.

Add pears and chocolate chips.  Stir until combined.  Pour into prepared pans.

Bake 45 min for mini-loafs, 70-75 min for glass loaf.

Cool in pan 10 min, then turn out of pan onto rack to complete cooling

Makes 2 8x4-1/2 loaves or 3 mini-loaves plus 1 8x4-1/2 loaf

Pear Custard Pie

Ingredients

• 4 cups sliced Bartlett pears
• 1 unbaked pie shell
• 2 jumbo eggs
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• ¼ cup flour
• Butter, nutmeg, cinnamon

Instructions

Slice pears into unbaked shell.

Combine beaten eggs, sugar, vanilla, flour and mix

Pour over pears and dot with butter.

Dust with nutmeg and cinnamon.

Bake at 350F until custard is set (about 15 min)