I'm lucky, DH will eat anything I serve him - even the experiments. Never a complaint and some things have been a little 'different'. If I ask him he liked something new - oh yeah, it's really good.
But tonight - "WOW, THIS IS REALLY GOOD!!!" I used to make this dessert when my kids were little - from the Alberta Farm Women's Cookbook. I saw it again when I was looking for that marshmellow thing for Smoodgie. It's called Lazy Days, Lazy Daze, Lazy Daisy, Lazy Dorie Cake. You may know it by some other name. Simple ingredients that we all have in the house - except I didn't have any coconut and even then I debated if it was sweetened or not - it just said flaked. :)
The other thing I was missing was a 9'x9' cakepan. This was a staple in everyone's kitchen years ago.
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my mom has been baking this cake for years that sounds alot like the topping you made for yours.........only this one was called porridge cake and i believe its because it had oatmeal in the cake...........but the top was crispy and brown and gooey from the coconut and brown sugar
Jeep, your recipe for sweet and sour sauce is much like the one i use which was passed down from my girlfriends mom......i use it for meatballs....the only thing that is different is the use of soya sauce.
smiles
janetc
I decided to take the recipe and the flaked unsweetened coconut with me to Ont. I had decided not to make it because I bought a pie at a weekend craft sale. On the table right next to it was a Lazy Dazy cake for $7. Turns out new DSIL loves coconut so a couple of days later I made the Lazy Dazy cake anyways - DSIL loved the cake. So easy, so cheap, so good.
I feel like baking today and I remembered this thread I think I'll make the Lazy Dorie cake. When we visited DS and FDIL she was baking the Worlds greatest Carrot cake according to DS and it was from the Unifarm book, hers is the newer version than mine. She also got it as a wedding present but that was from her first wedding not to DS.I told her the marriage may not have been good but at least she got a good cookbook.
Oh I just LOVE recipe books with recipes sent in by real people! I had always wanted to buy all of the recipe books made my my son's first school. They made a book every year with recipes sent in by the parents. Today I just bought one by the Rotary District, called "Heartprints" - A Collection of Recipes for The Children of Africa.
Any little cookbook with the spring binding that I see, I just have to have a look through because it just might be a collection of recipes by real people.
Now you ladies know that I just have to go to Ebay and search out the book title you have blurted out dontcha know!
I wonder what the real "title" for those types of recipe books is?
Smoodgie - I've probably had this latest copy for a half dozen years, probably alot longer. Since 1928 they've reprinted 11x because of demand. As they say - tried, treasured and true recipes handed down from generation ....
Country Classics includes recipes for the microwave. This third printing that I have was done in 1991. I sent $25 to someone who knew someone and they mailed it to me. I didn't care about cost and shipping. I just wanted a replacement of my lost original.
The address of the publishing company was
Plains Publishing Inc
15879 - 116 Ave
Edmonton
T5M 3W1
Catalogue info - ISBN 0-920985-41-6
I couldn't find them on a 411 search. Maybe someone like Oreocookie, or other Edmonton members, could look them up in the paper phone book. They were probably a small company and may be long gone.
Oh gads I had forgotten all about that sauce. I used to make it all the time for meatballs or just about anything over rice as well as for hor d'oureves (sp?). It's really good. BTW I've even made it with Splenda instead of sugar and it's still good.
Apparently among cookbook collectors, the community, church, etc. type little books are the most collectable because the recipes are always so good.
I have no idea if it is still in print. they were recipes sent in by the farmers wives and mostly easy plain good food. Now I hve to go over it again and look up some I used before I hae made the S&S Sauces hundreds of times and it is always so good. I never use any other than that. My book is falling apart and the pages stick together from use.
Yum!! These recipes sound so good!!!! Where can I find this cookbook?!
My Favourite from the book is Sweet and Sour Spareribs. It just gives the sauce recipe but that is the one for my sauce and I use it all the time the page is so splattered and messy you can tell it is well used.
Sweet and Sour Spareribs
Brown 1 1/2 lbs spareribs( cut small) in saucepan. Then turn down heat and cook slowly until very tender. Drain off any excess fat. ( DH puts his in oven for about 6 hours at 200)
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup vinegar
1/4 cup ketchup
1 tbsp soya sauce
1 tbsp cornstarch
Combine above ingredients and pour over spareribs and simmer for 1/2 hour. Pineapple chunks maybe added.
I double this recipe and cook it separate on the stove and use the Sweet and Sour Sauce for many things over spareribs or with Meatballs very good sauce and so easy to make.
page 32 of the book.
thanks for sharing. the recipe looks yummy and know bb will love it...thanks again.
Mine was a wedding present in 1971. We moved to Grande Prairie for the year. Ex hubbie had relatives there.
I was just flipping through this copy. I used to make the Favourite French Dressing - it was considered so sophisticated to be making my own dressing for a few years. People actually wanted to buy it. As I recall that recipe was near the end of the original book.
The other thing I remember was making cookies - I had thought they were Billie Goats - but looking at the book I think it was the one above them, Banana Oatmeal Cookies. I almost think these would be considered Health food nowadays - well maybe not the shortening. :biglol: I haven't bought shortening in years.
Everything in here is so simple and quick and back then I would have had almost any of these ingredients as a staple. I really do have to start using this book more. Good food for cheap - and easy.
Do you still have favourite recipes?
Oh & I also use it for converting amounts - like the recipe today called for 8 T of brown sugar - looked it up at the back of the book - that's 1/2 C
That's the one I got it as a wedding present and I was married in 73. That's to funny same book mine is falling apart the cover is gone but I use it for many recipes.
Jeep - OH MY Gawd - do you have the turquoise green one from the early 70s? Mine was in tatters. I think it went in the wrong pile when I moved in 1990 and I couldn't find it. I literally turned everything upside down looking for it. Yes, it was called Unifarm - I had forgotten that. It was falling apart I used it so much. The one I'm using now is the upgraded version. I had searched every online site I could find to replace it with the original and was lucky to find this newer version, - just saw it's now called Canadian Farm Women's Country Classics. Yes, this is the Lazy Dorie Cake.
for Cathie
1 C brown sugar
1 C flour
1 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
Stir together and add to
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs, beaten
To above, Pour in
1/2 C milk
3sbsp butter, boiled together
Batke in moderate oven (~335) for 25 minutes
While cake is cooking
Boil together for a minute:
1/2 C brown sugar
3 T butter
4 T milk
1 C coconut ( flaked, unsweetened)
Top cooked cake with the coconut topping and cook until lightly browned, ~ 5 minutes.
I have a cookbook from Alberta Farmers Wives it is called Unifarm and it has a Lazy Dorie cake that is so yummy haven't made it for years thanks for reminding me. I'll give it a try soon.
we're all looking for simple recipes that taste good....please share....i bake alot for my bb & always looking for new simple recipes. i love the old fashioned recipes...i have my moms old church recipe book...you know the ones...the congregation would put them together for fundraisers and such...and there's dandy recipes in there...but not one for lazy days.