Mom’s Favorite Desserts

1. Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Crisco (or “Machma’a”)
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
•  1 egg
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp vanilla
• Pinch salt
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 3/4 package of chocolate chips
• Few drops water

Apple Pie (Auntie Rochel’s)

Ingredients:

8  apples (peeled, cored, sliced)                           1 tsp lemon juice

1/2 tsp cinnamon                                                   3/4 cup flour

1 cup brown sugar                                                  1/2 cup margarine

1/2 cup water

Instructions:

• Put apples, water, cinnamon, lemon juice in pot and cook to soften apples (slightly).
• Put apples in pyrex
• Mix sugar, flour and margarine together with hands to crumbs.
• Spread on apples.
• Bake at 350°F for 30 – 40 minutes.

1. Rogalach ( “Mama’s Rolls”)

Ingredients:

2 eggs                                           pinch of salt

3 tbsp sugar                                1 yeast cake

1 cup (1/2 lb) butter                  1/2 cup warm milk (or water)

4 cups flour                                 Brown sugar

Instructions:

• Dissolve yeast in warm milk.
• Mix all ingredients together and put in fridge overnite.  Take out and leave at room temp.
• Divide into three parts. Roll out each.  Dab with butter and sprinkle with brown sugar. (Mom did that – like everything else – generously)
• Cut from center into triangles (like pizza slices).  Roll each from outside to center.
• Wait until they rise and bake at 400°F for 20 minutes.

Rolly Polly

Ingredients for Dough:

• 4 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup oil
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 – 1/4 cup orange juice
• 5 cups flour
• 4 tsp baking powder
• Pinch salt

Instructions:

• Divide dough into two equal parts. Roll out each part separately on a lightly floured table .
• Spread jam to within 1/2 inch of edges.  Spread rest of ingredients over dough.
• Roll dough, first turning ends of dough in.
• Bake at 375° F for 30 minutes.
• Cool and cut in slices.

Blintzes

Ingredients:

Dough

• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp oil
• Pinch salt

Instructions:

• Combine milk, eggs, oil and add flour and salt. Pour batter (about 3 tbsp at a time) onto a hot, slightly greased pan, and rotate pan so that mixture covers bottom completely.  Fry on one side only.  Turn out pancakes onto a towel.

Filling

• 3 packages cheese (Tov Taam 5%)
• 1 egg
• Vanilla
• Salt
• Sugar (approx. 1/2 cup)
• Cinnamon

Instructions:

• Place filling on browned side of pancake, make an envelope and fry in oil or margarine until brown on all sides.  Serve with sour cream and strawberries.

Rena: Mom usually served blintzes and knishes together. Most people loved the knishes more but as much as I loved knishes, I loved Mom’s blintzes more. Mom said that blintzes were a work of love because each one was so labour intensive.  It was like watching a work of art to watch her make each one so perfectly. Mom knew how much I loved them so she would often make them for me.

Kmish (Mandelbroit)

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 3/4 cup almonds

Instructions:

• Mix together in the order listed.  Mix eggs with sugar, add oil and mix, add flour, baking powder and mix, add cinnamon and almonds and mix
• Form two columns of batter on a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 360 F for 30 minutes or until light brown.
• Take out of oven and make one inch slices. Carefully place each slice on its side.
• Turn off oven and return cookies to harden and dry.