Pumpkin Pie Spice

Pumpkin Pie Spice

Why drive all the way to the store, when you probably have all these things in your spice collection anyway?

Ingredients

  1. 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
  2. 2 teaspoons ground ginger
  3. 2 teaspoons nutmeg
  4. 1 ½ teaspoons ground allspice
  5. 1 ½ teaspoons ground cloves

Instructions

  1. Put everything in an empty spice jar and shake what your momma gave ya.

Cranberry Sauce

Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients

  1. 1 cup water
  2. 1 cup sugar
  3. 12oz cranberries

Instructions

  1. Wash and pick over cranberries. In a saucepan bring to a boil water and sugar, stirring to dissolve sugar. Add cranberries, return to a boil. Reduce heat, simmer for 10 minutes or until cranberries burst.
  2. Remove from heat. Cool completely at room temperature and then chill in refrigerator. Cranberry sauce will thicken as it cools.
  3. Cranberry sauce base makes 2 1/4 cups.

Apple Juice, Sauce and Butter

Apple Juice, Sauce & Butter

Ingredients

  1. 4 lbs Granny Smith apples
  2. 4 lbs Roma apples
  3. 4 cups water
  4. 1 Tbsp cinnamon
  5. 1/2 tsp cloves
  6. 1/4 tsp allspice
  7. 1/4 cup honey

Instructions

    Start with Apple Juice.
  1. Wash and slice apples. Place in pot with water. Heat water to boiling, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
  2. Strain apple solids though colander, retaining liquid.
  3. If you want clearer apple juice, filter liquid through cheese cloth or coffee filter.
  4. Then Apple Sauce
  5. Run the apple solids from above though a food mill. Season with cinnamon, as desired.
  6. Go all the way for Apple Butter
  7. After, pushing apples though food mill, put apple sauce into slow cooker along with spices and sweetener (sugar or splenda work as well as honey). Adjust amounts according to taste.
  8. Cook on low for 6-12 hours, until apple butter reaches desired consistency.
  9. Use hand-held immersion blender to smooth out apple butter.
  10. Can Can
  11. For even more fun, fill pint or half-pint canning jars within 1/4 of top with apple butter. Top with sealing canning lids and process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes.

The Other London Broil Marinade

The Other London Broil Marinade

Another way to marinate a London broil

Ingredients

  1. 2 tablespoons meat tenderizer
  2. 1 teaspoon Accent
  3. 1 teaspoon sugar
  4. 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  5. 2 tablespoons dry sherry
  6. 1 tablespoon honey

Instructions

  1. Combine ingredients. Pour over raw meat. Cover. Refrigerate for 2 hours.