Recipes

Chemical Garden: 3 TBS salt 3 TBS bluing 3 TBS water 2 TBS ammonia 1 piece coal or other porous object Food Coloring Mix ingredients together. Pour mixture over coal. Add food coloring.	Clay for baking: This recipe is used to make pumpkin necklaces, Christmas ornaments, and the childrens initials. 4 cups flour 1 ½ cups water 1 ½ cups salt Food coloring Add food coloring to water. Mix together flour and salt. Combine dry mixture with colored water. Knead dough until moldable. Create desired shape. We place molded clay on wax paper on a cookie sheet. Cook for 1 hour at 300 degrees.	Clay for play: 2 cups flour 1 cup salt ¾ cup water Food coloring Add food coloring to water. Mix flour and salt. Add water to flour mixture. Knead dough. Add water if needed.	Peanut Butter: 1 cup roasted unsalted peanuts 2 TBS oil (more if needed) Put ingredients in blender. Serve on a cracker	Rabbits Carrot Salad: 2 Cups grated carrots ½ Cup raisins 1 TBS lemon juice 2 TBS mayonnaise Mix ingredients together and serve.	Sunflower Seed Snack: Toasted sunflower seeds Salted nuts Raisins Mix ingredients.	Rabbit Faces: Lettuce leaf Pear half 2 Raisins 2 Sliced carrots 2 Thinly sliced carrots or celery ½ Cherry 1 TBS cottage cheese Place the lettuce leaf on a plate. Put the pear half on the lettuce upside down. Use the raisins as eyes, carrots as ears, thinly sliced carrots for whiskers, cherry for the nose, and cottage cheese as the tail.
Ivory Snow Snowmen: 4 cups Ivory Snow Flakes Several drops of water Add drops of water to Ivory Snow until the mixture becomes moldable. Place on wax paper. Can bring snowman into bath tub for further enjoyment!	Banana Nog: 1cup milk 1 egg 1 banana 1 scoop ice cream Mix ingredients in blender. Makes 2 cups.	Firecraker drink: 1 six ounce can frozen grape juice 4 cups lemon-lime soda 1 pint vanilla ice cream Blend juice and soda and pour into 4 to 6 glasses. Serve with a straw.	Treats for Birds: Pumpernickel bread Cream cheese Use heart shape cookie cutter to cut hearts from bread. Hang hearts on trees for birds. Spread cream cheese on scraps for a tasty snack. I made some valentines from bread and hung them on a tree. The hearts all said to the hungry birds, This treats for you from me!.	Turkey Sandwich: Rye bread Soft orange cheese Carrot strips Red and green pepper strips Celery strips Use a turkey cookie cutter to cut out turkey shape from rye bread. Spread the cheese on the turkey, and use vegetable strips to decorate the tail.	Applesauce: 6 Apples 1 Cup water Sugar Cinnamon Peel and cut up apples. Bring the cut up apples to a boil and simmer until soft. Add sugar and cinnamon for taste. Cool before eating.	Bear Biscuits: 10 Ounce tube refrigerated biscuits Raisins Maraschino cherries Honey Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Separate biscuits. Cut 3 biscuits into eighths. Leave 6 whole. For each bear biscuit, round 3 of the small dough pieces for the ears and nose. Firmly press onto face (whole biscuit). Press in raisins for eyes and nose. Add ¼ cherry to each ear. Bake on a cookie sheet for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Enjoy with honey, of course!
Grape Slush: ¼ cup frozen grape juice concentrate ¼ cup frozen orange juice ½ cup milk ½ cup vanilla ice cream 1 banana Mix in blender.	Hot Chocolate: 8 ounces milk 2 TBS Nestle Quick Marshmallows Add warmed milk to chocolate. Serve with marshmallows on top.	Punch: Equal amounts of orange juice, ginger ale, and cranberry juice Orange sherbet Mix liquids together. Pour into a glass. Serve with a scoop of sherbet on top.	Cinnamon Snails: 1 Slice whole wheat bread Cream cheese Butter 3 TBS sugar 1 ½ tsp cinnamon Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread cream cheese on bread while waiting for butter to melt. Roll up bread slice and cut into 3 pieces. Combine sugar and cinnamon. Dip bread pieces in melted butter and roll in sugar mixture. Place on cookie sheet and bake for 12 minutes.	Cinnamon Toast: Toast Butter Cinnamon Powdered sugar Mix cinnamon and sugar together and sprinkle on buttered toast.	Cookie Monster Dough: 1 ½ Sticks butter 1 Cup sugar 2 Eggs 1 tsp vanilla 2 ½ Cups flour 1 TBS baking powder Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Add flour and baking powder to mixture. Roll dough until it is ¼ inch thick. Cut with cookie cutters, place on cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes	Corn Muffins: ¼ Cup all purpose flour ¾ Cup corn meal ¼ Cup sugar 2 tsp baking powder 1 ½ tsp salt 1 Cup skim milk ¼ Cup vegetable oil 1 Egg Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine ingredients. Pour batter into cupcake tins and cook for 20 to 25 minutes.
Sipping Cider: 6 cups apple cider 1 cinnamon stick Cloves Dash of nutmeg Orange slice Heat apple cider. Add dry ingredients to flavor. Serve with orange slice on top.	Apple Mouths: Red apple Peanut butter Tiny marshmallows Slice red apple without removing the skin. Spread two slices with peanut butter. Put marshmallows on one slice. Place two slices together. The result will be a mouth with teeth.	Banana Sticks: Banana Peanut butter Graham cracker crumbs Popsicle sticks Slice banana and place on a stick. Spread with peanut butter and roll in graham cracker crumbs.	Dinosaur Soup: 4 Cups chicken bouillon Celery Potato Onion Carrot Pepper Tomato Pasta Peel and cut up potato, celery, onion, carrot, pepper, and tomato. Add to bouillon and cook for 20 minutes. Add pasta and cook for 15 minutes more.	Gingerbread Men: 1 Cup brown sugar ¾ Cup butter or oil 2 Eggs ½ Cup molasses ¼ tsp salt 3 Cups flour 2 tsp baking soda ½ tsp cloves 1 ½ tsp cinnamon ½ tsp nutmeg Mix together brown sugar, butter, eggs, molasses and 1 tsp of baking soda. Separately mix together flour, salt, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and remaining baking soda. Combine mixtures. Refrigerate dough for 1 hour. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Form men with hands. Use raisins for eyes. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes.	Hedgehog's Yellow Cake: ¾ Cup sugar ½ Cup butter 3 Eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1 ¼ Cups self-rising flour Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-inch round pan. Mix sugar and butter together in a bowl. Add eggs, one by one. Add vanilla. Mix in flour. Put batter into pan and bake for 30 minutes	Hot Dog in a Roll: Package of refrigerated crescent rolls Hot Dogs Preheat oven to specified temperature on crescent roll package. Wrap a hot dog in a crescent roll and bake for 10 minutes.
Butter: ½ pint heavy cream Pinch of salt Put heavy cream in a tight container that is not glass and shake vigorously until it separates. Pour off the liquid which is buttermilk. Add the salt to the butter.	Butterfly Bites: 3 Stalks celery 12 Large twist pretzels Pretzel pieces 6 TBS spreadable cheddar cheese Raisins Cut celery stalks in half crosswise. Fill each piece of celery with 1 TBS of cheese. Add 2 twist pretzels for wings. Use pieces of pretzels for antennae and raisins for decoration.	Fruit Kabobs: Banana Apple Grapes Cherries or strawberries Marshmallows Stick Slice banana and apple. Place all of the ingredients on a stick.	Humpty Dumpty Eggs: Eggs Mayonnaise Cheerios Boil eggs. Cool and remove shell. Cut the eggs in half. Mix the yolk with mayonnaise. Fill the egg halves with yolk mixture. Use Cheerios for	Monkey Bread: ¼ Cup sugar 1 tsp cinnamon 4 Tubes buttermilk biscuits ¾ Cup brown sugar 1½ sticks butter Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Put ¼ cup of sugar and ½ tsp of cinnamon in a paper bag. Cut each biscuit into quarters. Put biscuits (a few at a time) in bag and shake to coat. Place biscuits in a greased bundt pan. In a saucepan bring butter to a boil and add ¾ cup of brown sugar and ½ tsp of cinnamon. Pour sauce over biscuits and bake for 35 minutes. Let cool for 5 minutes and turn upside down onto plate.	Monster Toast: Milk Food coloring Bread Butter Pour milk into three glasses. Color each glass of milk with a different color. Using the colored milk as paint, paint the bread with a paintbrush. Make a monster face! Toast the bread and eat.	Ocean Bread: Bread Whipped cream cheese Blue food coloring Cheddar cheese goldfish Toast bread. Mix 5 drops of blue food coloring with cream cheese to make ocean water. Spread a spoonful of Ocean on the toast. Put goldfish on the Ocean. Eat!
Ghost and Pumpkin Crackers: Ghosts Sliced olives Crackers Whipped cream cheese Spread whipped cream cheese on crackers and add olive slices for eyes. Pumpkins Soft orange cheese Crackers Sliced green olives Spread cheese on crackers and add olive slices for eyes.	Ground Hog Dip: 1 1/3 cup mayonnaise 1 1/3 cup sour cream ½ tsp. celery salt 2 TBS chopped parsley 2 TBS minced onion 2 tsp. dill seed Mix all ingredients together and serve with sliced vegetable	Hansel and Gretal's Cracker House: Graham cracker squares Peanut butter or whipped cream cheese Chocolate chips Raisins Nuts Create a graham cracker structure by using the peanut butter or cream cheese as glue. Decorate with the remaining ingredients.	Pizza: English muffin Pizza sauce Mozzarella cheese Green olives Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread pizza sauce onto half of an English muffin. Sprinkle with cheese and sliced green olives. Bake until cheese is browned.	Pumpkin Cookies: ½ Cup butter ¾ Cup honey 1 Egg 1 tsp vanilla 1 Cup cooked or canned pumpkin 2 ½ Cups flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp nutmeg 1 tsp cinnamon Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Cream together the butter and honey. Beat in the egg, vanilla, and pumpkin. Sift together the dry ingredients and add to pumpkin mixture. Drop by teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet. Make faces with raisins after the cookies come out of the oven.	Pumpkin Seeds: Save seeds when cutting a Jack-O-Lantern. Wash the seeds. Cook washed seeds in a frying pan with a small amount of oil. Drain on a paper towel. Salt lightly.	Pumpkin Spice Muffins: 1¾ Cup flour 1 ¼ Cup sugar 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp cinnamon ½ tsp nutmeg ½ tsp salt Pinch of cloves 1 Egg 1/3 Cup water 1 cup pumpkin ½ Cup butter Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine dry ingredients in a small bowl. Mix the butter, egg, pumpkin, and water in a large bowl. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Bake for 25 to 35 minutes. Makes 16 muffins.
Little Miss Muffets Curd and Whey: ½ cup cottage cheese Raisins Nuts Sunflower seeds Orange pieces Wheat germ Honey Mix all ingredients together.	No Bake Cookies: ½ cup of honey ½ cup of peanut butter 1 cup powdered milk Graham cracker crumbs Mix ingredients together. Form balls and roll in graham cracker crumbs. Place on wax paper.	No Cook Grape Jam: 2 cups grape juice 4 cups sugar 2 TBS water ½ bottle of pectin Mix the juice and sugar together and allow to stand for 10 minutes. Mix the water and pectin separately. Add pectin mixture to juice mixture. Stir for 3 minutes and pour into jars. Sets in 24 hours.	Pretzels: 1 Package yeast 1½ Cups warm water 1 TBS salt 4 Cups flour 1 Beaten egg Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Add the yeast to the water. Combine the flour and salt. Pour the water into the flour mixture and knead dough until smooth. Form pretzels and brush with beaten egg. Sprinkle with coarse salt. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.	Red Hen's Bread: 2 ½ Cups whole wheat flour ½ Cup wheat germ 2 tsp baking soda ½ tsp salt 2 cups buttermilk 2 TBS oil ¼ cup honey Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In large bowl, mix buttermilk, oil, and honey. Sift together wheat flour, wheat germ, baking soda, and salt and add to honey mixture. Pour into a greased loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour. (1 ½ cups of white flour and 1 cup of wheat flour may be substituted for 2 ½ cups of wheat flour)	Rice Chex Mix: ½ Stick butter ½ tsp Seasoned salt 2 TBS Worcestershire sauce Peanuts Pretzels 2 Cups rice Chex 2 Cups wheat Chex 2 Cups Cheerios Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Melt the butter in a roasting pan, and add the salt and Worcestershire sauce. Combine the remaining ingredients together and mix with butter in roasting pan. Bake for 45 minutes, stirring often	Snowflakes: 12 (6-inch) flour tortillas Oil for frying Powdered sugar Heat oven to 350 degrees. Stack tortillas and wrap in foil. Heat at 350 degrees for 7 minutes to soften. Fold each tortilla into fourths. With scissors, cut designs from folded edges; unfold. In heavy skillet, heat ½ inch of oil over medium heat. Fry 1 tortilla at a time for 20 to 30 seconds on each side or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels. Cool completely. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Store in tightly covered container.
Stega Nona Pasta: Strega Nona Pasta 4 Cups flour 4 Large eggs 1 tsp salt (optional) 1 tsp oil (optional) Makes 1½ pounds. Add all ingredients in mixing bowl. Turn on machine. Put pasta in boiling water and stir to separate pieces. Boil gently for 3 to 5 minutes or until done. Pasta can be stored in refrigerator for 1 day. Pasta can be stored in plastic bags in freezer for up to a month. Pasta may be dried in a single layer on a tray.				Sugar Cookies: 2 eggs 2/3 Cup oil 2 tsp vanilla ¾ Cup sugar 2 Cups flour 2 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine ingredients and drop by spoonful on cookie sheet. Sprinkle the tops with colored sugar. Bake for 8 minutes.	Three Bear's Porridge: 1¾ Cup water 1 TBS cinnamon 1 1/3 Cup rolled oats 1 Cup milk ½ tsp salt ¼ cup raisins 2 TBS wheat germ Honey or brown sugar Bring water, salt, cinnamon, and raisins to a boil. Add oats and wheat germ and reduce heat to low. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes. Makes 3 full bowls. Add milk and honey or brown sugar.	Print: Click here for printer friendly version