Grapefruit Slush

It's trying to get warm and we know that overnight Summer will appear and it will be in the 90's. So this recipe will cool you down on those hot days.

 Grapefruit Slush
2 cups water
2 cups sugar
2 (16 oz) grapefruit sections with juice
2 (13 oz) crushed pineapple with juice
1 med bottle maraschino cherries, drained and chopped
Conbine sugar and water, bring to boil, stirring to dissolve sugar.  Cool. Add grapefruit, pineapple and cherries. Freeze to slush.
Spoon slush into sherbet dishes. Cover with guava juice, cranberry juice or ginger ale. Add a tounch of grenadine it desired.

Christmas Dessert (aka Peppermint Cake)

From the kitchen of: June Holt

Crust Ingredients:
1 lg. box vanilla wafers--12 oz.
1/2 c. melted butter or margarine

Crush wafers--combine with butter and press 2/3 in bottom of 9x13 pan. Reserve rest for top.

Chocolate Layer Ingredients:
1 1/2 c. powdered sugar
1/2 c. butter softened
4 eggs
2 sq. melted unsweetened chocolate
2 tbs. Hershey cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla

Mix these ingredients in order given. Mix long enough for mixture to thicken (5-10 minutes). Spread over crust.

Peppermint Layer Ingredients:
7 oz. jar marshmallow cream
1 c. whipping cream whipped
1/2 c. crushed peppermint candy--crush in blender
1 c. nuts (optional)

Whip cream--add marshmallow cream and peppermint candy. Spread over chocolate layer. top with rest of crust. Freeze---Allow to defrost 1/2 hour before serving.

Note from Jen: Buffer asked me for this recipe before Christmas. Sadly, I didn't check my email until this week. But it was a good reminder for me to start working on this blog again. I think that once a week was a little overwhelming. Let's try once a month. And I'm all for requests!

Pineapple & Coconut Sherbet

From the kitchen of:  Evelyn I. Vernon

Ingredients:
1 can #2 crushed pineapple
1 can condensed milk
3 c. sugar
4 1/2 c. milk
1 c. coconut
Juice of 2 1/2 or 3 lemons
1 pint shipping cream (whipped)

Dissolve the first three ingredients, heat until sugar melts.  Add rest of ingredients putting whipping cream that has been whipped in last.  Have everything cold when you add it.  Freeze and serve.

Note from Jen:  I thought something cold for the Fourth of July might be nice!  (Mom's guessing that #2 can is a 14 oz. can for the pineapple.  Try it and see.)  Happy Independence Day everyone!