Almond Cresent Cookies

1/2 pound butter
3/4 C xxxx sugar
2 egg yolks
1 C chopped almonds
1 tsp vanilla
3 C flour sifted

Divide dough in several parts, taking about 1/2 tsp dough and roll in hands to form crescents. Bake on un-greased cookie sheet

Bake at 400 for about 10-12 min until slightly golden

When done, let cool on cookie rack. Then roll in xxxx sugar (sifted)

This is one of the families old recipes

Peanut Blossom Cookies

1 3/4 C sifted flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 C Crisco
1/2 C brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 C peanut butter
1/2 C Sugar
1 egg
1 pkg chocolate candy kisses

Shape dough into balls using a rounded tsp for each. Roll balls into sugar and place on greased baking sheet. Bake at 375 for 10 minutes. Remove from oven. Top each cookie with a candy kiss, pressing down firmly so cookie cracks around edge. Return to oven; bake 2 - 5 minutes, until golden brown.

Iced Fruit Drop Cookies

2 C Flour Sifted
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp clove
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 C soft shortening
1 1/3 C brown sugar
1 egg unbeaten
1 C nuts
1 C raisins (cook in small amount of water)
2 C chopped apples, unpeeled
1/2 C raisin juice

Cream the shortening and brown sugar. Add unbeaten egg. Beat well. Add dry ingredients with raisin juice. Add raisins, apples, and nuts. Bake at 375 for 11 to 14 min. While cookies are still warm spread with glaze.

Glaze

1 1/2 C xxxx sugar sifted
1 tbs soft butter
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp salt
2 1/2 tbs light cream

Cream Filling

1/2 C Sugar
5 Tbs flour
2 C milk
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
dash of salt

Mix sugar, flour and salt together thoroughly.

Add milk and mix well

Add eggs and blend. Place over hot water and cook until thick and smooth. Add vanilla.

Good in cream puffs

Chocolate Filling

1 C Sugar
2 Tbs cocoa
2 tbs flour
2 tbs butter
1 C water

Cook in double boiler until thick

Nutty Coconut Frosting

1/3 C sugar
1/3 C milk
2 tbs plus 1 tsp butter or oleo
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 C flaked coconut
1/2 C chopped walnuts or pecans

Combine first 5 ingredients in top of a double boiler. bring water to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook, stirring in coconut and walnuts; beat until mixture reaches spreading consistency.

Yield: Enough frosting for a 9" cake

Cream Cheese Icing - for apple cake

1 pkg 3 oz cream cheese, softened
1 tbs oleo or butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 C sifted xxxx sugar

Beat cream cheese, oleo and vanilla. Gradually add xxxx sugar, beating until smooth.

If frosting is too thick add 1-2 tsp milk

Spread over cooled cake

Sour Cream Coffee Cake

1 pkg white cake mix
3/4 cup crisco oil
1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 carton sour cream (8 oz)
1 tsp vanilla

Filling Mixture:

1 C brown sugar
1 C chopped nuts
2 tsp cinnamon
Mix together

Beat for 2 minutes only. Use half the batter in pan. The sprinkle filling mixture over batter in pan. Put remaining batter over top and marble.

Using 10" tube pan. Let stay in pan for 30 minutes before removing.

Bake at 350 for 60 minutes

When cooled and removed from pan, place on cake plate and sprinkle with xxxx sugar.

Pudding Cake

1 cake mix (white)
1 pkg vanilla instant pudding
1/2 cup crisco oil
1 cup cold water
4 eggs

Bake in tube pan for 45 min-1 hour at 350

Serve plain or sprinkle with xxxx sugar, or glaze cake

Can use lemon cake mix, orange, yellow, chocolate or cherry, etc. Use instant pudding to match cake mix.

Snackin' Banana Cake

1 Pkg banana cake mix
1/2 cup oil
2 eggs
1 C water
1/4 C sugar
2 Ripe bananas - mashed
1/2 C chopped nuts

Preheat Oven to 350

Pour oil into a 13x9x2 pan; tilt pan to cover bottom. Put remaining ingredients into pan; stir with a fork or spoon until blended about 2 minutes. Scrape sides and spread batter evenly in pan. Bake for 35-45 minutes

Top with xxxx sugar

Alternate

Prepare pan using 1/4 C oil. Add cake mix, 2 eggs, 2/3 C water, 1 pkg vanilla instant pudding (4 oz serving size) and 1 1/3 C drained fruit cocktail (16 oz can). Mix, bake and serve as directed above.

My Upside Down Batter (Apple)

1/2 C Butter
1 C sugar
2 eggs
2 tbs vanilla
3 cups flour
2 tsp salt
1 C milk
6-8 peeled and cored apples, sliced
1 C Sugar
4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 to 1 stick butter

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and cream until fluffy. Add vanilla, flour, salt, milk. Set aside.

Butter bottom of 8" square pan. Set cake mix in pan. Place apple slices close together in row over cake mixture. Then sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over the apples. Dot with butter and bake.

Bake in oven at 325 for 45 minutes or until done.

Cool and serve plain or with whipped cream or ice cream

Snackin' Applesauce Spice Cake

1 pkg. spice cake mix
1/4 cup oil
2 eggs
1 16 oz can applesauce

Preheat oven to 350

Pour oil into a 13x9x2 pan
Slightly beat eggs and mix with applesauce. Add all ingredients into pan and mix together with a fork until well blended (2 minutes). Spread batter evenly over pan and bake for 35-45 minutes.

Cool in pan. Can serve directly from the pan.

Sprinkle with xxxx sugar

Banana Nut Cake

1 1/2-2 Sticks Oleo
2 Cups Sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp baking soda
1 cup can cream
3 cups flour
1 tsp salt
6-8 Ripe Bananas
1 cup chopped walnuts
Dissolve soda in milk

Good with butter cream frosting

Bake at 350 for 30 to 35 min

Snackin Chocolate Chip Cake

1 pkg devil food cake mix
1/4 C oil
2 eggs
1 1/4 C water
1 pkg chocolate instant pudding
1 Chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350

Pour oil into 13x9x2 pan. Swish oil in pan until bottom of pan is covered with oil. Put remaining ingredients into pan and stir with a fork until blended. Scrape sides and spread batter evenly in pan. Bake for 35-45 min. Done when toothpick comes out clean.

May sprinkle top with xxxx sugar

Cut and serve from pan

June's Raw Apple Cake

2 eggs
3/4 C Milk
2 cups sugar
2 tsp soda
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp cinnamon
2 C flour
4 C diced apples with skins
1 C nuts - broken
Pinch of salt

Beat eggs and sugar together, add vanilla, milk, dry ingredients, and oil. Mix well, fold in apples and nuts. Frost and refrigerate.

Frosting: 1 1/2 cups xxxx sugar, 6 oz cream cheese, 3 tbs butter, little salt and vanilla. Sprinkle nuts on top if desired

Tip - You can also shred apples on a grater. I find its much faster and works just as well as the diced.

Bake at 350 for 45 minutes

Snakn' Fruit Cake

1 package white cake mix
1/4 C oil
1/2 C water
2 eggs
1 can pie fruit filling - any falvor
2 eggs

Preheat oven to 350

Pour oil into 13x9x2 pan. Tilt pan to cover bottom. Put cake mix, eggs, and water into pan. stir with a fork or spoon until blended (about 2 minutes)

Scrape sides and spread batter evenly in pan. Spoon pie filling onto batter; use a fork to fold into batter just enough to create a marbled effect.

Bake 35-45 min. Cooled cake may be sprinkled with xxxx sugar. Use a knife to loosen cake from sides. cut and serve directly from pan. Store cake loosely covered

Snackn' Peach N' Strawberry Cake

1/4 cup oil
2 eggs
1/2 cup water
1 can (20-23 oz) peach pie filling
1 pkg strawberry cake mix

Preheat oven to 350

Pour oil into 13x9x2 pan. Tilt pan to cover bottom. Put cake mix, eggs, and water into pan. stir with a fork or spoon until blended (about 2 minutes)

Scrape sides and spread batter evenly in pan. Spoon pie filling onto batter; use a fork to fold into batter just enough to create a marbled effect.

Bake 35-45 min. Cooled cake may be sprinkled with xxxx sugar. Use a knife to loosen cake from sides. cut and serve directly from pan. Store cake loosely covered

Velma's Apple Bread

1 cup oil
3 eggs
2 cups sugar OR 1-1 1/2 cup apple juice
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
3 C flour
1 C chopped nuts
3 C diced apples w/skins

Mix well and bake at 350 for about 45 minutes

Snackin' Pineapple Cake

1 pkg pineapple cake mix
1/4 cup oil
2 eggs
1/4 cup water
1 can pineapple pie filling (20-23 oz)

Preheat oven to 350

Pour oil into a 13x9x2 pan. Tilt pan to cover bottom. But cake mix, eggs and water into pan; stir with a fork or spoon until blended. Scrape sides and spread batter evenly in pan. Spoon pie filling onto batter; use a fork to fold into batter just enough to create a marbled effect.

Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes

Cake can be sprinkled with xxxx sugar

*Cherry or strawberry pie filling can be substituted

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

1/2 cup butter or oleo
1 cup brown sugar
1 can (1lb 4 oz) pineapple slices (drained)
1 pkg yellow cake mix
maraschino cherry halves
Whipped Cream

Preheat oven to 350
Melt butter in a 13x9x2 pan. Sprinkle brown sugar evenly in pan. Arrange cherry halves on the sugar mixture. Mix cake as directed on the label with 1 1/3 cups water. Beat as directed. DO NOT SUBSTITUTE PINEAPPLE JUICE FOR WATER.

Pour batter over fruit. Bake for 50 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes for topping to begin to set. Then turn upside down onto a large platter or cookie sheet.

Serve warm with whipped cream.

Lemon Pudding Cake

1 pkg white cake mix
1 pkg lemon instant pudding
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup crisco oil

Beat for two minutes then add:

4 eggs beating at 1/time. Beat 2 minutes.

Bake in 9x13 greased and floured pan or tube cake pan

Bake at 350 until cake is done - apx 35 minutes

Poke holes in top of cake with tester. Pour glaze overr cake while still hot

Glaze

2 cups xxxx sugar
2 tbs boiling water
1/3 cup lemon juice

Serve plain with whipped cream

Grandma Tweedie's Gingerbread

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup crisco
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp lemon juice
1 egg
1 1/3 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup boiling water

Cream sugar and crisco together. Sift flour and add spice. Add egg to sugar and crisco. Add baking soda to boiling water and add rest of ingredients, boiling water and bake.
Bake in oven 350 30 -35 min

Very Old Recipe

Strawberry / Raspberry Cake (Jello Cake)

1 pkg white cake mix
1 lg pkg strawberry or raspberry jello
1 lg pkg frozen strawberries or raspberries
1 lg container cool whip

Preheat oven to 350

Bake cake as directed. When cake is done, remove from oven. Take a large fork and poke holes close together over the entire cake.

Have jello made (dissolve jello in 1 cup hot water). Cool while cake is baking. Pour jello over hot cake. Refrigerate cake for several hours.

When cake is cool, add topping as follows: Put berries in blender for about 3 minutes. Fold into the cool whip. Spread evenly on cake and return to refrigerator.

Variations: Orange Cake Mix / Apricot Fruit / Orange Jello
Orange Cake Mix / Peaches / Lemon Jello

Banana Pudding Cake

1 or 2 small ripe bananas
1 pkg yellow cake mix
1 pkg banana or vanilla instant pudding
4 eggs
1 C water
1/4 cup oil
1/2 cup finely chopped nuts

Slice bananas into large mixer bowl; beat until well mashed. Add remaining ingredients. Blend, then beat at medium speed for 2 minutes. Pour into well-greased and floured 10" tube pan. Bake at 350 for 60-70 minutes. Cool in pan at least 15 minutes. Remove from pan and finish cooling on cake rack.

Sprinkle with xxxx sugar if desired.

Sock It To Me Cake

1 pkg yellow butter cake mix
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup crisco oil - don't use butter
1 (8oz) carton sour cream
4 large eggs

Combine all ingredients, mix and beat 4 minutes. Pour 2/3 batter into pound cake cake pan. Sprinkle a mixture of 2 tbs brown sugar 2 tsp cinnamon. Pour on remaining batter.

Serve while warm or glaze with 2 cups xxxx sugar and about 3 tbs milk

Bake in 325 oven for 45-55 minutes

Lemon Jello Cake

1 pkg yellow cake mix
1 pkg lemon jello
3/4 cup apricot nectar
4 eggs

Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Beat 4 egg yolks and add to mixture. Beat 4 egg whites stiff. Add to mixture and beat until smooth, then bake for 45 minutes at 350 in a greased and floured tube pan.

Topping

1 cup xxxx sugar
1/4 cup lemon juice

Brush on cake while hot. Let stand until cool and run a knife around the edge

Apple - E - Spice Cake

2 tbs sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 cups canned sliced apples- drain and reserve liquid
1 pkg yellow cake mix
1 cup liquid (see below)
3 eggs
1 tsp cinnamon

Grease 10" bundt or tube pan and sprinkle with mixture of 2 tbs sugar and 1/2 tsp cinnamon. Drain apple slices; add enough water to liquid to make 1 cup. In large bowl, blend dry cake mix. 1 cup liquid, 3 eggs, and 1 tsp cinnamon until moist. beat as directed on package. By hand, stir in drained apple slices. Pour into prepared pan. Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes.

Cool upright in pan for 15 minutes. Remove from pan and cool.

Glaze.

Marble Fudge Coffee Cake

1 C sugar
1/3 lb oleo
1/2 pt sour cream or 1 C
2 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
2 C flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup nestles quick

Grease pans and put in half the batter. Make a large groove and fill with nestles quick. Cover with batter and swirl to make a marble effect. Use cake pans for layer cake and cook less time or use a tube pan.

Bake at 350 for 45 minutes

Smaller pans 30-40 minutes

Corn Bread and Muffin Mix

4 C flour
4 C cornmeal
2 C nonfat dry milk
3/4 C sugar
1/4 C baking powder
1 tbs salt

Combine all ingredients and store in an air tight container

To Cook
Melt 1/2 cup butter, oleo or bacon or sausage fat in 8 or 9 inch pan while preheating oven to 425. Tilt pan to grease bottom and sides. Beat 1 egg and 1 cup water with fork in a mixing bowl until blended. Add 2 1/3 cups corn bread mix and the melted butter. Stir just to blend. Pour into pan and bake about 20 minutes. (9" pan may take a bit longer)

I use crisco for shortening. Also I use skillet with heated crisco and then put batter in heated skillet.

Pancake Batter

5 cups flour
1 1/3 cup nonfat dry milk
1/4 cup sugar
2 tbs baking powder
1 tbs salt

Mix all ingredients well in a large bowl with a wire whip. Store in airtight container in a cool place.

makes about 6 cups

Our Family Waffles

4 eggs
2 1/2 cups milk
3/4 cup melted crisco
2 tsp salt
3 1/2 cups flour
6 tsp baking powder

Put eggs, milk, and shortening in bowl. Beat with french whip for 30 seconds. Add flour, baking powder, and salt together. Then beat this together scraping sides and bottom for 1 minute.

Funnel Cakes

2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups milk
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups cooking oil

In a mixing bowl, combine eggs and milk. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to egg mixture and beat well.

In an 8" skillet heat oil and pour batter into funnel. Hold end of funnel close to the surface of the oil. Hold finger under funnel until you pour your batter in. Release finger and moving funnel in a circular motion or spiral pattern. Fry until golden brown about 3 minutes. Turn and cook 1 min more.

Drain on paper towels and sprinkle with xxxx sugar or hot maple syrup

Refrigerator Bran Muffins

Put in a bowl to soak while mixing the rest of ingredients:

3 cups all bran
1 cup boiling water

In a large bowl add:

1/2 cup oil
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Blend to mix the add to bran mix

You can store in an air tight container in refrigerator for up to 6 weeks

Bake in muffin tins, at 425 for 10-15 min

Bran Muffins

1 1/4 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
p cup sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
1 1/2 cups all bran cereal or bran buds cereal
1/3 cup shortening or vegetable oil

Stir together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Set aside. Stir together cereal and milk. Let stand about 2 min. Add egg and shortening. Beat well. Add flour mixture, stirring only until combined. Fill 12 greased 2 1/2" muffin pan cups.

Bake at 400 for 25-30 min or until golden brown. Serve warm.
Yield: 12 muffins

Variations: In place of all bran cereal use 2 cups 40% bran flakes cereal or use 2 cups cracklin bran cereal and decrease milk to 1 cup

Aunt Alma's Yeast Rolls

1 pkg yeast (I used 2)
1 cup warm water
1/2 cup crisco
1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp salt
1 egg
2 cups scalded milk
6 cups flour

Preheat oven to 425 and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Bake until golden brown.

Rolls Doughboys

2 cups warm water
2 pkg yeast
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup wesson oil
1 egg
2 tsp salt
6 1/2 to 7 cups flour

Bake at 400 for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Serve hot.

EASY AND VERY GOOD

Sweet Buns - Mass Quantity!

6 cups warm water
6 packages yeast
1 cup wesson oil
8 tsp salt
3-4 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
20-21 cups flour

Bake at 400 for 15-20 min or until golden brown. Serve hot.

To Freeze

Bake just until pale golden. Slightly cool. Wrap and freeze. I put my buns in a zip loc.

Biscuits

2 C Flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 C Crisco
1/2 C milk
1 stick oleo

Preheat oven to 450 and place stick of oleo on a sheet pan. Let melt while mixing biscuits. Blend dry ingredients together. Cut in crisco and then ad milk, mixing with a fork just until moist.

Put a little oleo on your hands and put about a tbs of dough. Shape it in hands to a long or round shape. Dip them in melted oleo and bake in hot oven for 10-12 min.

Joans Corn Bread

1 C flour
1 C cornmeal
1/4 C sugar
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 egg
1 C milk
1/4 C melted crisco

Mix 1st 5 ingredients then as the egg and milk. Whilw mixing, heat oven with the shortening in the skillit put it in oven till hot. Pour batter in hot skillet ( this gives it a crispy edge) and bake at 425 for 20 min

Lipton Sun Tea

Put 3 lipton family size bags in a gallon jar filled with cold water.

Set outside in the sunshine for 3-4 hours

Serve over ice

NOTE: Vary the number of tea bags and the duration of brewing time according to preferences
You can also use 9 regular size bags.

Joan's Cocoa Mix

1 large box carnation dry milk
1 large box nestles quick
1 small jar of coffee mate
1/2 cup xxxx sugar

Sift all ingredients together and store in airtight container,

Mix to taste with hot water or milk

Russian Tea

2 cups tang
2 cups sugar
2 cups instant tea
1 pack lemon kool-aid
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground clove

Mix together and store in airtight container

To Serve: mix 3 tsp of mixture into 1 cup of boiling water. Add more or less to taste

You can also ad mix to cold water and ad ice for iced tea

Brocolli Dip

1pk frozen broccoli
1 small finely packed onion
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 pk garlic cheese roll
1 small can of mushrooms chopped
1 stick of butter

saute onion in butter. cook broccoli , ad it along with other ingredients to the onion

serve on melba rounds also good with chips

Crab Dip

1 lb crab meat
1 can she-crab soup or shrimp soup
1 large pk of cream cheese
1 can cream of mushroom soup

Beet cheese until smooth and soft. Add soups a bit at the time and blend well. Then add the crab meat.

Shrimp Dip

2 lb shrimp cooked and diced
1 can cream of shrimp soup
1 -8 oz pack cream cheese
1/2 tsp celery seed
1/2 small minced onion
dash of Worcestershire

Cream the cheese, add soups and celery seed and onion, Mix it up. Lastly, ad shrimp and mix it up

Refrigerate 2 hours

NOTE Be sure to have cream cheese at room temp and whip it until creamy before adding the shrimp soup. OTHERWISE you'll have an unpleasant looking dip.

Seasoned Oyster Crackers

2 boxes small oyster crackers
1 cup oil
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp lemon pepper
1/2 tsp dill weed

Mix it all together and store it in a sealed container

Shrimp Puff Salad

8 oz cream cheese
2 tbs grated onion
2 tbs chopped chives
1/2 cup mayo
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1/4 cup Parmesan
1 cup cooked shrimp (put through blender)

Mix all of above together well

Cut out white bread into shapes. Spread on shrimp mix. Bake for 15 min or a bit longer if you want it crispy

Bake at 350 for 15 minutes

Joan's Party Snack Mix

Sauce: Mix all ingredients well over heat
1 1/2 sticks of butter or oleo melted
8 tbs soy sauce
1 tsp celery salt
1/2 tsp hot sauce

Dry Ingredients- Mix well in a serving bowl
4 cups rice chex
4 cups corn chex
1 pkg pretzel nuggets
1pkg pretzel sticks
1 large can of peanuts

Pour sauce over dry ingredients toss till everything is coated

Bake at 259 for 45 minutes. Toss well every 15 minutes while cooking

Joan's Cereal Party Mix

4 cup corn chex
4 cup rice chex
4 cup wheat chex
4 cup cheddar cheese
3 cup peanuts or mixed nuts
1 stick of butter
1 tsp onion salt
2 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp celery salt

Mix first 5 ingredients in a large pan. Melt butter in a small pan. Then ad seasoned salts to butter and mix well. Pour mixture over cereal and nuts, stiring all the time.

Bake mixture at 250 for 15 minutes. Then stir well and bake for another 15 minutes

Remove from pans and spread out on a large brown paper sack to cool. Store in airtight containers,

Pecan Cheese Ball

4 oz blue cheese softened
1 lb (16 oz) cream cheese softened
2 cups grated sharp cheddar cheese
1 tbs grated onion
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Soften cheeses at room temp. Combine the cheeses with onion until well blended.
Line a 1 1/2 pint mixing bowl with saran wrap. Pack the mixture tightly and let it sit overnight or a minimum of 1 hour. Turn ball out onto serving platter, remove plastic wrap and sprinkle with pecans and parsley

To Make Easy Corn Bread

1 1/2 cup self rising flour
2 eggs
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup milk

Bake at 350 for 45-60 min

Corn Bread Dressing

4 lg eggs beaten
3/4 cup chopped onions
3/4 chopped celery
3 1/2 cups chicken Broth
1/2 cup oleo or butter
1 or 2 tsp. sage
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper

In a large bowl put crumbled bread crumbs. Pour over broth and let set while you beat eggs and get the vegetables ready. Then ass all the ingredients together. Bake awhile before you serve it so it can set.

Who is Joan?

Joan is my fabulous mother-in-law! She raised six kids and a husband :) Susan has a dilapidated cook book that Joan made for the kids years ago (hand typed on a typewriter) and it is falling apart. I thought it would be nice to save her recipes so they are handy to anyone who might want them and were not privileged to get a copy of her book the first time around! She as a TON of recipes so this will be time intensive- bear with me!