akingSUNDAY MEMORIES
Judy Wills
PIES – PART 1
Okay…I said pies, but I have one more cookie recipe that I want to share. It’s a favorite of mine even if I don’t make it very often. It is soooo easy! Got the recipe from an old friend of my Mother’s from Dallas, Texas days. I’ve just always known them to be called “White Cookies.” There are probably other names for them, but that’s what I call them. Here they are:
WHITE COOKIES
Ingredients:
2 egg whites
⅔ cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts
1 package butterscotch morsels
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350̊ Put aluminum foil on the oven rack.
Whip the egg whites until they are stiff and very dry
Add ⅔ cup sugar to the egg whites and whip
Add 1 tsp vanilla and whip
Fold in 1 cup chopped nuts
Fold in 1 package butterscotch morsels
Lightly spray the foil with PAM. Drop the cookie mixture by teaspoon onto the foil covered rack
Turn off the oven heat as you put the rack in the oven.
DO NOT OPEN the oven until the oven is completely cool. I frequently do this in the evening, and let them sit overnight. Remove carefully – they are delicate!
Enjoy!
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And now on to some of our favorite desserts – PIES!!
I guess my favorite pie to make – and eat – is cherry pie. Fred especially loves cherry pie, so it’s a labor of love when I make one for him. And the best part is that I get to eat it, as well!
A history of cherry pies in my family goes back quite a ways. Bosque Farms…cherry picking…cherry pitting with the hand-cranked machine Mother had. Made a mess, but those pits just popped out, seldom missing any of them. If it did miss one, when we found it in the pie, we just said that it proved they were real cherries! Mother would wash and pit the cherries and freeze them, so she could make the pie just any time she wanted.
One of our favorite things was to make the pie on a Sunday afternoon. Stop by Fitzgeralds after church on Sunday night for some home-made ice cream. Then have the cherry pie with ice cream as a treat when we got home. WOW was that good!
Below is my recipe for cherry pie. It’s not exactly like my Mother’s, since I add Almond extract to the mix. Fred really loves it that way, and I’ve come to love it that way, as well. Mother didn’t like the taste, so she didn’t add it. But this is good!
CHERRY PIE
1 cup granulated sugar
1 Can red sour pitted cherries
¼ cup flour
¼ teaspoon almond extract
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 ½ Tablespoons butter
Crust for double crust (9″) pie plate
In saucepan, combine sugar, flour, cinnamon and juice of the can of cherries. Sift the flour into the mixture, resulting in no lumps.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils (about 7 minutes). Remove from heat.
Stir in extract. Stir in cherries. Pour into a 9″ pastry-lined pie plate. Dot with butter.
Cover with top crust; seal edges and crimp/flute. Cut vent design in top crust.
Bake at 425º for 30-to-35 minutes until nicely browned and juice bubbles through vents.
Serve warm with or without vanilla ice cream.
Makes 6-to-8 servings.
Pie and photo by Judy Wills
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Judy is living in Central Florida with her retired U.S. Air Force husband of 50+ years. Born in Dallas, Texas, she grew up in the Southwestern United States.She met her husband at their church, where he was attending the university in her town. After college and seminary, he entered the Air Force, and their adventures began.They lived in eight of our United States, and spent six years in Europe, where their oldest daughter was born. She was a stay-at-home mom for many years .
Judy has always been involved with music, both playing the piano and singing. Always interested in exercise, she was an aerobic dancing instructor, as well as a piano teacher for many years, and continues to faithfully exercise at home.
After moving to Central Florida, she served as a church secretary for nearly nine years.Her main hobby at this point in time is scanning pictures and 35mm slides into the computer. She also enjoys scrapbooking.She and her husband have two married daughters and four grandchildren, including grandtwins as well as a great-grandson and a great-granddaughter. She and her husband enjoy the Disney parks as often as possible.
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