My Grampa's Tortiere. I love it. Hope someone else will, too.

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clofthwld

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Grampa's Meat Pie (Tortiere)

1 lb pork

1/2 lb beef

1 med chopped onion

1 clove garlic, mashed

1/2 c water

1 1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp dried thyme

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp sage

1/4 tsp pepper

1/8 tsp clove

1 lg russet potato, cooked and finely chopped

pie crust

egg wash for crust if desired

Preheat oven to 375

Combine ingredients, heat to boiling. Reduce heat and simmer until meat is light brown

but moist, stirring often. Fold in the potato. Place on bottom pie crust. Cover with

top crust, seal edges, slit top. Bake 40-45 min.

 
Grampa's Fudge - Chocolate or Chocolate Pnut Butter. Yummy.

Grampa's Chocolate or Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge

3/4 c cocoa
3 c sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1 1/2 c milk

Mix ingredients in saucepan with buttered sides and cook on medium, stirring
constanty until sugar dissolves and mixture comes to a boil. Continue to cook,
stirring only to keepit from boiling over until soft ball forms in cold water
(234) When ready remove from heat and add:

4 1/2 TB butter
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 jar marshmallow or peanut butter
3 or 4 TB light Karo syrup

Beat vigorously with a wooden spoon until fudge becomes thick and loses its
gloss about 3 min.

Quickly spread into buttered 8x8 pan. Cut into squares before completely cooled.
Store in airtight container at room temperature. Can be frozen.

Here's one from Nancy Delcher. It was her MIL's recipe:

2 c sugar
3/4 c milk
2 (1 oz) squares unsweetened chocolate
dash of salt
1 tsp light or dark corn syrup
2 TB butter
1 tsp vanilla
a buttered 8x8 pan

In a saucepan with buttered sides, combine sugar, milk, chocolate, salt and corn
syrup. Heat over medium til sugar dissolves, chocolate melts and mixture comes to
a boil. Continue to cook, stirring only enough to keep it from boiling over, until
it reaches a soft ball stage (234 on candy thermometer, or when a small drop of
boiling syrup immersed in cold water forms a soft ball). As soon as it hits this
stage, remove from heat and add butter and vanilla. Beat vigorously with a wooden
spoon until the fudge thickens and begins to lose its gloss, about 3 min.

Quickly spread in buttered pan

To use as cake icing:

After beating, place pan in another larger pan of very hot water to keep fudge hot
and spreadable while you ice the cake

 
All your recipes look soooo good, but I quit smoking and I'm on a diet.

By that I mean so many of the recipes posted ahead of my post, not my own.

I haven't posted in a while because my family has been keeping me shackled in the basement of a local abandoned bakery. They knew instinctively that I didn't have a shred of self-discipline, self-control, determination, strength, money, posture, looks....

Anyway, I am free now and I am rehabilitated (rvb take notice) and I will keep most of my opinions to myself and will only offer positive feedback and if someone says something negative about my recipe, then I'll tuck my tail between my legs and go lie down in front of the fireplace to veg.

 
So, clofthwld, which diet are you on? I'm asking because...

I'm trying to be on the southbeach diet but am not disciplined enough to stricly adhere to it smileys/frown.gif
I've already copied 2 cooky recipes.

 
Ann, I did the South Beach

Maybe I can help inspire you- I lost 68 lbs on South Beach and feel GREAT (did I mention how great I feel?) I baked five kinds of cookies the other day and put them in the freezer. I baked another two kinds today as well as sweet batter breads to give away as gifts.

Here is my Keeping-away-from-sweets "secret": I keep small squares of Cadbury Royal Dark Chocolate in a small container known only to me. Once in a while (maybe once a day or so- or if it is really bad I will eat 2-3 of the squares in one sitting) I put one on my tongue, sit down to enjoy it and let it melt in my mouth. It takes all the cravings away and it is "legal" on the South Beach to have dark chocolate.

Perservere! It is worth it!

 
South Beach would kill me. I'm a huge carb fan. I just joined a fitness

club for women (not Planet Fitness. That's really weird) and they make perfect sense. Eat proteins, limit your carbs, but don't cut them, drinks lots of water to get rid of "bad fats". I'm going to try it along with some EEK exercise.

 
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