Bread Machine Ricotta Bread

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This recipe is one I found on a former high school friends website. It is EXCELLENT!

Banana Blueberry Bread

1 Cup of canned or frozen blueberries
1 1/2 Cups of flour
2/3 cup of sugar
2 1/4 tsps baking powder
1 Cup of mashed  banana
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 Cup quick-cooking oats, uncooked
2 eggs
1/3 Cup peanut oil

Preheat oven to 350.  Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.  Stir in oats.  Add eggs, oil and bananas to the dry ingredients; mix well.  Distribute blueberries evenly through batter.  Turn batter into a greased and floured 8x5 loaf pan.  Bake 70 minutes.  Cool in pan 10 minutes.  Remove and cool completely before slicing.

Easy Caramel Sticky Rolls

1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup whipping (heavy) cream
1/4 cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 can (1 oz) refrigerated soft breadsticks

1) Heat oven to 350F. In ungreased 8-inch round pan, mix brown sugar and shipping cream. Sprinkle with pecans.

2) In small bowl, mix granulated sugar and cinnamon. Unroll breadsticks dough, but do not separate into breadsticks. Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mixture over dough. Roll up dough from short end, separate at perforations. Place coiled dough in pan.

3) Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown, Cool 1 minute. Place heatproof serving plate upside down onto pan, turn plate and pan over. Let pan remain 1 minute so caramel can drizzle over rolls.

Easy Caramel Apple Sticky Rolls
Omit the cinnamon-sugar mixture and spread 1/3 cup cinnamon-flavored applesauce over dough.

Bread Machine Dinner Rolls (Yeast Rolls)

This recipe is from the Betty Crocker Best Bread Machine Cookbook. I suppose you could modify if you do not own a bread machine by doing the kneading yourself.


Dinner Rolls (Yeast rolls)

1 Cup water
2 TBS margarine or butter, softened
1 egg
3 1/4 Cups of bread flour
1/4 Cup Sugar
1 tsp salt
3 tsps bread machine yeast or quick active dry yeast
Margarine or butter melted, if desired

MEASURE carefully placing all ingredients except melted margarine in bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer

SELECT Dough/Manual cycle. Do not use delay cycles

REMOVE dough from pan, using lightly floured hands. Cover and let rest for 10 minutes on a lightly floured surface.

GREASE large cookie sheet. Divide dough into 15 equal pieces. Shape each piece into a ball. Place 2 inches apart on the cookie sheet. Cover and let rise in a warm place 30 to 40 minutes or until double. (Dough is ready if indentation remains when touched)

HEAT oven to 375. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Brush tops with melted margarine. Serve warm or coll on wire rack.

Sweet Potato Biscuits

Some of you may not realize it but Darlington, SC is the sweet potato capital of the world.  Yup, we have a big festival uptown every October and they have many different food items you can buy that is made with sweet potatoes along with the usual festival type food.

From the kitchen of Mrs. Linda Wheeler, Statesville

2 cups sweet potatoes (cooked)
1 stick margarine
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tbsp salt
3 cups flour
3 Tbsp baking powder

Stir sweet potatoes, margarine and sugar while potatoes are still hot. Add in remaining ingredients and mix well. Roll and cut into biscuits. Bake at 425 degrees until golden brown. Serve hot with butter.

Broccolli Cornbread

Contributed by Deborah Weatherford Humphries


1- Box Jiffy Muffin Cornbread mix
1- Box of chopped broccoli ( thawed )
1- Small container of Small Curd Cottage Cheese
1/2 stick of margarine
2- large eggs
1/2 small onion- chopped...( if preferred, I don't )
1- Tablespoon of sugar
Salt & Pepper

Mix all ingredients together and place in a casserole dish. Bake at 375 for 15 minutes or until done....( Depending on your oven )



Special thanks to Leah Watkins for this recipe....My family can't get enough of it! ENJOY!