Brine a Turkey

So how do you get a moist, delicious turkey? According to some research on the internet, many people brine their turkeys ahead of time. This is a method of a soak with kosher or sea salt in ice water along with some spices. Not only does it make a turkey more juicy and helps the gravy come about, it also makes a turkey cook much faster.

How do you brine a turkey

Seven Minute Icing

Seven minute icing is a popular icing that you have probably eaten on several occasions, whether you realized it or not. It's really commonly put onto coconut cakes. It's that fluffy, white icing that is not super sweet. I really enjoy eating it, because I like the lightness of it and the texture. It's really easy to make, and is perfect in those times that you don't have any powdered sugar. Since it made with plain ordinary sugar, it might save you a trip to the grocery when in a pinch. It doesn't require a double boiler and hand mixer though.

7-minute icing is called just that, because it takes 7 minutes of cooking time. Many people also call this icing everything from boiled icing, fuzzy frosting and even sea foam. The sea foam, from my understanding is made from brown sugar instead of white, but I've seen many recipes for sea foam that call for white sugar... so please feel free to comment if you know the difference, if any.

Seven Minute Icing Recipe:

• 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon of cream of tartar
• Dash of salt
• 1/3 cup of water
• 2 egg whites
• 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons of clear vanilla extract

Put all of the ingredients, EXCEPT the vanilla into a double boiler. Beat it with a mixer for about a minute.Cook over boiling water in the double boiler.
*Make sure the water is boiling before you place and don't allow the boiling water to touch the bottom of the pan for best results.
Keep the frosting over the boiling water for 7 minutes, beat on high for the entire duration.Then, mix in the vanilla extract.

Orange Slice Cake

Every fall in my grandmothers grocery store, we would receive huge 30 lb boxes of orange slices for the holiday season. We would have to bag them into individual packages of 1 lb each. Many nights my grandmother would go home, fix my grandfather supper, only to return back to the store to bag candy. She must have really enjoyed that store.

This recipe for cake actually calls for orange slices. A traditional Christmas candy for our family.

Orange Slice Cake Recipe:

4 eggs
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of butter, melted
1/2 cup of butter milk
3 1/2 cups of self rising flour
1 box of dates
1lb of orange slices
1 cup of coconut
2 cups of chopped pecans or walnuts

Mix all of the ingredients together and put in a 9X13" cake pan. Bake slowly at 200 degrees for 2 1/2 hours.

Topping:
1 cup of fresh orange juice
powdered sugar

While the cake is still warm, pour the orange juice over it. Then dust it with powdered sugar.

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Cookbooks

The best cookbooks to have on hand is those sold with local organizations as fundraisers. The church ones are especially good, because many woman will put their potluck specialties in the books. Usually these recipe books have great home cooked recipes, that call for items we can actually find in our local grocery stores. Since we live in rural Kentucky, the cookbooks we find around here will usually have some canning recipes and tips as well.

Of course I do have some more fancier cookbooks for when I want to try something new or from a different region.