Nutmeg Softies Recipes

Steps:

• In a bowl, whisk the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together.
• In another bowl, whisk the buttermilk, eggs, maple syrup, and melted butter together; blend well.
• Pour the liquid ingredients over the dry ingredients and mix with the whisk, stopping when everything is just combined (don't worry if batter is a bit lumpy).
• With a rubber spatula, gently fold in the bacon.
• Lightly butter, oil, or spray your griddle or skillet; preheat over medium heat (if using an electric skillet, set to 350°).
• Preheat oven to 200°, if you are going to hold pancakes until serving time.
• Spoon 1/4 cup batter onto the griddle for each pancake, allowing space for spreading.
• When the undersides of the pancakes are golden and the tops are speckled with bubbles that pop and stay open, flip the pancakes over with a wide spatula; cook until the other sides are light brown.
• Serve immediately, or keep the finished pancakes in the preheated oven while you make the rest of the batch.
• Serve--plain or with maple syrup and butter.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F In a large mixing bowl, beat brown sugar and butter until creamy. Add pumpkin and eggs; beat well. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg; stir into pumpkin mixture, mixing until dry ingredients are moistened. Lightly spray 2 baking sheets with cooking spray. Drop dough onto prepared pans by rounded measuring tablespoonfuls. If desired, smooth tops of the dough with the back of a spoon and decorate with dried fruits or nuts. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes or until bottoms are golden brown. Remove to wire racks; cool completely.

Steps:

• Place raisins in small saucepan, cover with water and simmer for approx.
• 15 min.
• until 1/2 cup of juice removed.
• Meanwhile, cream shortening, sugar and egg together.
• In another bowl mix together flour, salt and nutmeg.
• Add the 1 tsp baking soda to the 1/2 cup of hot juice from raisins.
• Alternate adding flour mixture and juice mixture to creamed shortening mixture ending in flour mixture.
• Stir in raisins.
• Place batter in 12 paper lined muffin cups.
• Bake in pre-heated 350 degree oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Steps:

• Measure flour, salt, baking powder, and soda into a sifter.
• Cream butter or margarine with sugar until well blended in a large bowl: beat in eggs and vanilla.
• Sift in flour mixture, adding alternately with sour cream to make a thick batter.
• Drop by by rounded Tablespoonfuls, 4 inches apart, on greased cookie sheets; spread into 2 inch rounds; sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar.
• Bake in hot oven (400°F) 12 minutes, or until lightly golden around the edges.
• Remove from cookie sheets; cool completely on wire racks.

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add well beaten egg.
• Sift flour and spices.
• Add raisins and nuts.
• Mix together nuts and raisins in flour.
• Slowly add flour, spice, nuts and raisins to egg, butter and sugar.
• Add quickly baking soda dissolved in hot water.
• Mix well until all liquid comes together.
• Drop from spoon on greased pan.
• Bake 10 minutes at 350. Watch, till slightly browning on the bottom edge.
• These might take a tad longer in your oven, mine cooks high. This is just a guesstimate because Grandma just had Bake as the next instruction so time and heat was a guess for me. They are nice and soft and I have double the recipe without any problems.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, thoroughly stir together the flour and salt; set aside.
• In another large bowl, with electic mixer on medium speed, beat together the butter, shortening and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat the molasses and orange zest into the butter mixture until evenly incorporated. In a small bowl, stir together the sour cream and baking soda until well blended.
• Beat the sour cream mixture into the molasses mixture. Gradually beat in the flour mixture until smooth and well blended.
• Cover and refrigerate the dough until firm enough to handle, at least 4 hours or overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 375*. Grease several baking sheets or coat with nonstick spray. Divide the dough in half. Working with one portion at a time and leaving the remaining dough chilled, shape portions of the mixture into generous golf ball sized balls with lightly greased hands.
• Place on baking sheet, spacing about 3 1/2" apart. Using your hard, press down the balls until about 1/2" thick.
• Evenly brush the cookies with the egg yolk mixture, try not to drip on the cookie tray, as the egg will burn on the baking sheet. Bake the cookies, one sheet at a time, in the middle of the over, reversing the sheet from front to back, halfway through baking to ensure even browning.
• Bake for 7-10 minutes -- or until browned on top and just beginning to firm up when tapped in the centers; be careful not to overbake.
• Transfer baking sheet to wire rack and let stand until the cookies firm up slightly -- 3-4 minutes.
• Using a spatula, carefully transfer the cookies to wire rack to cool completely -- Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week or freeze up to one month.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease baking sheets.
• Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg together into a bowl.
• Beat 1 1/2 cups sugar and butter together in a bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition; blend in sour cream and lemon extract. Gradually stir flour mixture into creamed butter mixture until dough is combined.
• Drop dough by rounded tablespoons, about 3 inches apart, onto the prepared baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown around the edges, about 4 minutes. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon sugar over cookies; top with walnuts and raisins. Continue baking until bottoms of cookies begin to brown, 3 to 4 minutes more. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and shortening with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds.
• Add the sugar, soda, nutmeg, and salt.
• Beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally.
• Beat in sour cream, egg, and vanilla until combined.
• Beat in as much of the flour as you can with the mixer.
• Using a wooden spoon, stir in any remaining flour (dough will be sticky). Divide dough into thirds.
• Cover and chill in the fridge about 2 hours or until easy to handle.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll one portion of dough at a time to 1/4-inch thickness.
• Using a floured 3-inch cookie cutter, cut out dough.
• Place cutouts on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Sprinkle with colored sugar.
• Bake in a 350 degree oven about 10 minutes or until edges of cookies are firm.
• Transfer cookies to a wire rack; cool completely.
• TO MAKE AHEAD:.
• Bake cookies as directed and cool completely. Place in the freezer container or bag and freeze for up to 3 months.
• Before serving, thaw cookies about 15 minutes.