Wassail

By: Julie Randall

8 cups apple juice or cider
2 cups orange juice
1 cup fresh lemon juice
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp all spice
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Combine all the ingredients in a large pot; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 15 min. Keep hot in a thermos. Makes about 12 cups. Alternately, it can be made in a crock pot, covered and heated on high for 1 - 1 1/2 hours. If doubled, 2-3 hours.

Harvest Apple Muffins

Apple Muffins
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
Cream ingredients together. Add:
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp bakin powder
2 cups of flour
Mix together and then fold in:
1/2 cup sour cream
3 apples peeled and coarsely chopped

optional crumb topping:
1/4 cup sugar
3 T flour
1/4 tsp cinnamon
2 Tablespoons butter
sprinkle on top of muffin batter
Bake at 350


When cooled frost with Maple Brown Sugar Frosting
I usually half the recipe
2 sticks of butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/3 cup of whipping cream (I usually use a dash of milk)
Heat all ingredients to boiling while stirring constantly
Remove from heat and add:
2 1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla

Cinnamon Breads

Cinnamon Breads

1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 Tablespoon of cinnamon

4 Tablespoons of butter

Roll bread dough into a triangle. Spread 4 tablespoons of butter (room temperature) on bread dough. Sprinkle cinn. sugar on top. Can sprinkle chopped nuts if desired.

Can be baked as a loaf for cinnamon swirl bread at 310 for 50-60 minutes.

Can be sliced into cinn rolls an baked at 325 or 350 for 20-30 minutes.

Can be baked as cinnamon pull apart bread. For this use only brown sugar and mix sugar and cinnamon with butter. Form rolls into balls the size of a frozen roll dough. Line a bread pan with two rows of 4 rolls (8 on the bottom). Put sugar mixture over rolls. put 2 rows of 5 rolls (10 total) on top. Top the rolls with more cinnamon sugar mixture. Bake for 60 minutes at 310 for big loaves and 38 minutes for small loaves. Don't let dough raise before putting it in the oven.

Cinnamon Breads

Cinnamon Breads

1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 Tablespoon of cinnamon

4 Tablespoons of butter

Roll bread dough into a triangle. Spread 4 tablespoons of butter (room temperature) on bread dough. Sprinkle cinn. sugar on top. Can sprinkle chopped nuts if desired.

Can be baked as a loaf for cinnamon swirl bread at 310 for 50-60 minutes.

Can be sliced into cinn rolls an baked at 325 or 350 for 20-30 minutes.

Can be baked as cinnamon pull apart bread. For this use only brown sugar and mix sugar and cinnamon with butter. Form rolls into balls the size of a frozen roll dough. Line a bread pan with two rows of 4 rolls (8 on the bottom). Put sugar mixture over rolls. put 2 rows of 5 rolls (10 total) on top. Top the rolls with more cinnamon sugar mixture. Bake for 60 minutes at 310 for big loaves and 38 minutes for small loaves. Don't let dough raise before putting it in the oven.