Coffee Sauce Recipe by Ruth Paget

Coffee Sauce Recipe by Ruth Paget 

Makes 1 ½ cups 

Ingredients: 

-1/2 cup softened butter 

-1 cup confectioner’s sugar 

-2 teaspoons instant coffee 

-1/4 cup water 

Steps: 

1-Mix softened butter with confectioner’s sugar. 

2-Dissolve 2 teaspoons instant coffee in ¼ cup water. 

3-Beat the butter mixture with the instant coffee mixture. 

Use this sauce to frost cakes, cover steamed puddings, and frost warm gingerbread. 

Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s 

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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Baked Coffee Custard Recipe by Ruth Paget

Baked Coffee Custard Recipe by Ruth Paget 

Serves 6 

Ingredients: 

-3 eggs 

-1/3 cup sugar 

-1/4 teaspoon salt 

-2 tablespoons instant coffee 

-1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

-2 ¼ cups milk -6 custard cups for baking 

Steps: 

1-Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. 

2-Beat eggs lightly 

3-Mix sugar, salt, and instant coffee together. Stir in vanilla extract and mix till smooth with no lumps remaining. 

4-Add coffee mixture to the eggs and blend well. 

5-Heat milk until a film shines over the surface. Add egg and coffee mixture to the milk and stir to blend well. 

6-Pour custard into the custard cups and place in a high-rimmed baking dish. Fill the baking dish with water up to halfway on the custard cups.  

7-Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. 

8-Carefully remove the baking dish with hot water. Cool custard dishes on a rack. Once cool, cover with plastic or aluminum and chill overnight in the refrigerator. 

Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s 

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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Baked Cottage Cheese and Egg Noodles Recipe by Ruth Paget

Baked Cottage Cheese and Egg Noodles Recipe by Ruth Paget 

Serves 4 

Ingredients: 

-1 ½ quarts water 

-1 teaspoon salt 

-4 ½ cups egg noodles 

-1 beaten egg 

-1 cup creamed cottage cheese 

-1 tablespoon poppy seeds 

-1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

Steps: 

1-Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. 

2-Bring water to a boil and add salt. Add egg noodles and cook according to package instructions. 

3-Add beaten egg to an oven-safe casserole dish. Mix cooked egg noodles with beaten egg in the casserole dish. 

4-Mix creamed cottage cheese, milk, poppy seeds, and vanilla extract together in a bowl. 

5-Add cottage cheese mixture to the egg noodles in the casserole and blend well. 

6-Bake for 20 minutes. 

Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s 

By Ruth Paget, Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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Carrots with Brown Sugar Recipe by Ruth Paget

Carrots with Brown Sugar Recipe by Ruth Paget 

Serves 4 

Ingredients: 

-2 tablespoons butter 

-2 tablespoons brown sugar 

-1 (15-ounce) can drained, whole tiny carrots 

Steps: 

1-Melt butter and brown sugar in a skillet. 

2-Add carrots and roll them in the brown sugar mixture until they are completely glazed. 

Serve with roast ham. 

Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s 

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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Cucumbers with Sour Cream Recipe by Ruth Paget

Cucumbers with Sour Cream Recipe by Ruth Paget 

Serves 4 

Ingredients: 

-2 cucumbers 

-1 cup sour cream 

-1 teaspoon salt 

-4 lettuce leaves 

-2 tablespoons cut-up chives 

Steps: 

1-Slice skin off the cucumbers. Then, cut the cucumber into 1/8-inch slices. 

2-Combine cucumbers, sour cream, and salt. 

3-Place lettuce leaves on a plate. Spoon cucumber mixture on top of the lettuce leaves evenly. 

4-Sprinkle cut-up chives evenly on top of the cucumbers and serve. 

Serve as a side dish for roast ham. 

Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s 

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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Buttermilk Coffee Cake Recipe by Ruth Paget

Buttermilk Coffee Cake Recipe by Ruth Paget 

Serves 6 to 8 

Ingredients: 

-2 ½ cups flour 

-1 teaspoon salt 

-2 teaspoons baking powder 

-1 teaspoon baking soda 

-2 cups brown sugar 

-1 teaspoon cinnamon 

-1 teaspoon nutmeg 

-1 cup buttermilk 

-2 beaten eggs 

-2/3 cup softened butter 

Steps: 

1-Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. 

2-Place flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a large bowl and mix well. 

3-Mix buttermilk and beaten eggs together. Add buttermilk mixture to dry ingredients and thoroughly mix.  

4-Add butter to batter and thoroughly mix to blend. 

5-Grease a 9-inch square pan and shake flour in it to coat bottom and sides. Pour batter into the pan and bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. 

Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s 

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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Jam-Top Coffee Cake Recipe by Ruth Paget

Jam-Top Coffee Cake Recipe by Ruth Paget 

Serves 6 to 8 

Ingredients: 

-3 ¾ cups flour 

-1 teaspoon salt 

-1/3 cup sugar 

-1 (0.25-ounce) yeast cake dissolved in ¼ cup lukewarm water 

-1 cup scalded milk 

-2 beaten eggs 

-1/2 cup jam 

Steps: 

1-Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. 

2-Place flour, salt, and sugar in a bowl and mix thoroughly. 

3-Add yeast water to flour mixture. 

4-Add scalded milk to beaten eggs and mix well. Add flour and yeast mixture to milk and egg mixture and blend till a dough forms. Form dough into a loaf. 

5-Grease and flour a loaf pan. Place dough in the loaf pan. Spread jam along the top of the dough. 

6-Bake coffee cake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Then, lower the heat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for 30 minutes. 

Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s 

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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