recipes

Rhubarb Crunch

Yield: 9 servings

Cooking time: 50 minutes

Preparation time: 1/2 hour

Ingredients

  • 1 cup flour
  • 3/4 cup rolled oats
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 4 cups sliced rhubarb
  • TOPPING
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • Red food coloring

Instructions

In a large bowl, combine flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter; mix until crumbly. Press half of the mixture into an ungreased 9 inch square baking pan. Cover with rhubarb. For topping, combine sugar and cornstarch in a small saucepan and add water. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir 2 minutes more. Remove from the heat. Stir in vanilla and food coloring. Pour over the rhubarb. Top with the remaining crumb mixture. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes or until bubbly.

Fresh Strawberry Pie

Ingredients

  • 2 (8 inch) pie shells, baked
  • 2 1/2 quarts fresh strawberries
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1 (3 ounce) package strawberry flavored gelatin

Instructions

  1. In a saucepan, mix together the sugar and corn starch; make sure to blend corn starch in completely. Add boiling water, and cook over medium heat until mixture thickens. Remove from heat. Add gelatin mix, and stir until smooth. Let mixture cool to room temperature.
  2. Place strawberries in baked pie shells; position berries with points facing up. Pour cooled gel mixture over strawberries.
  3. Refrigerate until set. Serve with whipped cream, if desired.

Zucchini Bread

  • makes two loafs

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 1/4 cup oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 3 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3 cups grated zucchini
  • optional:
    • 1 cup raisins
    • 1 cup walnuts

Instructions

In a large bowl, blend sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla extract with a fork.  Fold in all dry ingredients.  Then hand stir in 3 cups of zucchini and walnuts and raisins if you like. 
Pour into two greased bread loaf pans.  Bake both pans for 1 hour at 350 degrees.