Any Home Bakers Here?

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Hi all, my mom used to work at an old-age care home and one year, as a fundraiser, they collected some of the residents' favourite recipes and compiled a recipe book, which they sold. This recipe for Apricot cookies was in the book and became a firm favourite in our family. I always roll the dough in balls and bake it in a flat tray, but I think it will work better in a muffin or even a cake pan:

Apricot Cookies

8 cups cake flour
4 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 lb butter/margarine
1 cup apricot jam
2 tablespoons bicarb soda

Mix dry ingredients and rub in butter/marg (the easiest way I found to do this is by hand)
Beat eggs and mix in jam
Mix all ingredients together
Roll dough into balls roughly the size of golf balls, and place them about 2 inches apart on a baking tray (they will collapse when baking and end up fused together)

Bake at 180*C/356*F for ± 20-30 minutes, or until golden brown on top.

Sumi, that cookie recipe sounds wonderful. I love apricots!

 

[ronott1]

Hi all, my mom used to work at an old-age care home and one year, as a fundraiser, they collected some of the residents' favourite recipes and compiled a recipe book, which they sold. This recipe for Apricot cookies was in the book and became a firm favourite in our family. I always roll the dough in balls and bake it in a flat tray, but I think it will work better in a muffin or even a cake pan:

Apricot Cookies

8 cups cake flour
4 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 lb butter/margarine
1 cup apricot jam
2 tablespoons bicarb soda

Mix dry ingredients and rub in butter/marg (the easiest way I found to do this is by hand)
Beat eggs and mix in jam
Mix all ingredients together
Roll dough into balls roughly the size of golf balls, and place them about 2 inches apart on a baking tray (they will collapse when baking and end up fused together)

Bake at 180*C/356*F for ± 20-30 minutes, or until golden brown on top.

Thanks Sumi!

I have a jar or two of apricot pineapple jam still too....

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

I have a beautiful huge apricot tree, darn thing hasn't produced since I have lived in the house. Every year it buds early and gets frosted.

 

[ronott1]

I have a beautiful huge apricot tree, darn thing hasn't produced since I have lived in the house. Every year it buds early and gets frosted.

That is so sad!

Maybe the bees do not get to it...Yea! you need a bee hive!

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

We rent out space to a bee farmer, and have at least one wild hive. hubby plants clover for soil

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I want to get bees....that's on my list next year...although I heard they can't over winter here. Too cold I'd sure like to try and over winter them though. My dad had hives when I grew up but that was downstate by Detroit. It's a lot warmer there.

 

[3goodeggs]

There are ways.. Insulation, and you have to feed them.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I got all winter to read up on it!!
How's eggs today?

 

[3goodeggs]

I woke up with my headache back... but two cups of coffee later I seem to be doing okay.

I think when it is 19 degrees out one must not try to work on cars.
Two reasons. Metal might shatter and if it doesn't then when your tool flies off and hits your fingers, you are too cold to know they are broken.
Go in and fry a twinkie.
I think I am having carrot juice.

or another cup of coffee.
yeah, that's it.
coffee.

Healthy would be easier to do if it was more fun.

 

[3goodeggs]

....Cake?