Fry Pie Recipe

Fry Pies

Dough:

2 1/4 qt. (9 C.) cake flour

3 C. shortening

1 T. salt

2 T. white sugar

1 pt. cold water

Glaze:

8 lb. powdered sugar

1/2 C. cornstarch

1/3 C. Carnation milk

1 tsp. vanilla

2 1/2 C. hot water

Mix dough ingredients with hands like pie dough. Roll out thin and fill with pie filling. Fry at deep fry temperature until golden brown. We use same kind of shortening to fry them that we use in dough. I usually don't put in quite as much water.

This is enough glaze for 4 batches of fry pies. Mix all together and glaze.

**For a wonderful Amish Apple Fritters recipe click on the link

Amish Country

My sister and her family came to Ohio to visit over the past week. We did some great things, one of those things was visiting Amish Country in Holmes County Ohio. We had a great time! We had the opportunity to visit an Amish home, their barn, a schoolhouse, and even rode in an Amish buggy! It was really neat! We then went and shopped of course, and ate some yummy food at an Amish restaurant. I really give the Amish a lot of credit, their lifestyle is far greater than mine and I have more (materialistic). The best part of the trip was when we ate homemade "fry pies"!! They were out of this world. I will post the recipe in my next posting! I had an apple filled pie. Here are some pics from our adventure.

My Travel Swap!

I received my travel swap package last week and I was soooo pleased! It had such wonderful items put together by Michelle! My trip was to Italy my dream vacation!!!!! In my package was a set of handmade cards, a handmade recipe book with real Italian family recipes ( I love this!!), a handmade photo album, an Italian snack called Taralli yum yum, my hubby loved these! and a picture that is called Napoli. Many, many thanks to Michelle!!!! I loved it all!

Italian Love Cake

Italian Love Cake

Ingredients

1(18 ounce) box cake mix (any flavor, recommend marble)

1 3/4 lbs ricotta cheese

Topping

1 (6 ounce) box instant pudding mix (flavor depending on cake choice)

4 eggs

3/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/2 cups milk

12 ounces Cool Whip

Directions

1. Mix cake according to direction

2. Pour into 9X13 inch pan

3. Mix ricotta cheese, eggs, sugar and vanilla.

4. Pour over uncooked cake

5. Bake at 350 about an hour, checking center to determine if done

6. Cool and frost with topping

7. Topping: Mix pudding mix, milk and Cool Whip and spread on cooled cake.

Fourth of July!

My family's fourth of July was filled with fun, laughter and moments some of us will never forget. The best part of all was that my sister, Sylvia and her family, flew up from Florida to visit us for a week! I was so happy to see her and the kids, but you wait for that time and it seems to fly by before you know it! On the fourth of July we ate some really good food; ribs, chicken, hamburgers, fila (Greek stuffed grape leaves), potatoes and my favorite dessert!! For dessert my cousin Jenny made an Italian Love Cake. It was out of this world!! The recipe will be posted on my next post. It has ricotta in it and ohhh my! You have to try it. Sylvia and I had the same idea about posting it on our blogs so we raced to the cake to see who got it first. Well she actually took the picture first; I couldn't find my camera but.......little does she know I am blogging it before her hahaha. Anyways, this is what we sisters do....Love you Syl!

A SWAP Package for me! YAY!

I received my swap package from my Favorite Things swap today! Yay! Thank you Jennifer http://allthingsjohnson.blogspot.com/ for such a great package. When I opened the box the items were covered with package peanuts and some of the items were wrapped with brown wrapping paper. Each item had a little tag attached to explain why the items were part of Jennifer's favorite things. Here is the box:

Included in the package was a box of Magic Erasers, A Target gift card, a package of M&Ms Yum!, a homemade Thank You card, and the book Twilight by: Stephenie Meyer! I am so excited to get started reading the book.

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STRING BEANS GIVEAWAY!

Check out Orthodox's Mom blog contest for some string bean items! http://www.orthodoxmom.blogspot.com/

So here are the rules:

1. Re-post the String Beans Inc photo and contest info on your blog!

2. Leave a comment telling Sylvia what you like best about String Beans Inc.


3. Get ready to win!

See how easy?? I'll be giving away one grand prize and 3 runner-up prizes, so there's lots of room to win! Contest will end Fourth of July at midnight! Be sure to check out her Etsy shop!I really like this, this and this. What are your favorites?