Friday Friend Recipe #169 - Orange Sherbet

Come with me as I continue to countdown my Friday Friend Cookbook!

What is it, you may ask?

In a nutshell...
About 18 years ago, 50 of my closest friends and family, who had been on an e-mail forum with me, sent in recipes in different categories and we compiled a cookbook.
I decided to count those down!
Why?

Because  one night I was looking thru the cookbook and I said, "I should make every recipe in here for my blog"
The Handyman--who thinks he knows me better than I know myself, said,  "you'll never EVER do that."
Well,  maybe I will!  Maybe I'll show him!

Which brings me to recipes #169

 My Mom's Orange Sherbet

When I was little my mom would take my brother and I to Thrifty Drug and we would get a cupful of Orange Sherbet.  Thrifty Drug had a soda fountain/counter and we would sit on the stools and spin.  They were red, I remember this and if we touched underneath the counter we would feel a wonderfully marbled surface (under-surface I guess, but you understand what I mean, right?)--little did I know that people had been sticking their used gum under there for years!

I don't know if my mother was shopping, getting her prescriptions filled or what, but I remember it being just me and my brother and orange sherbet.  Yum.

He has no recollection of this at all.

But I remember it as if it were  yesterday.

He should feel very lucky he has me to help him remember his youth!

He does remember my mom making homemade orange sherbet tho!  Summer time if we weren't off on a picnic we were having backyard bbq's.   The Western kind, not the Southern kind, which is true BBQ.  I don't know how Westerners got into the habit of replacing BBQ with Grill.

In the summer, my dad was always grilling something on the BBQ, I mean on the Grill!!  Outside!  On the patio.

And my mom would make homemade ice-cream or sherbet.

It's one of those recipes you must decipher. 😀

We always knew my mom was sentimental, but when she passed away, we found out just how sentimental she was.

She saved everything. Our house was not messy, but we had a deep dark basement from and she had lots of trunks and cedar chests to store treasures. We found some sprigs (sheaths?) of wheat from the ranch her parents had owned.

The ranch she sold in 1989. 

Her grandparents had homesteaded it, my grandma was born on it, got married on it, raised  her children (my mom and her bother) on it. My mom used to have to ride a horse into town on Monday morning, then stay the school week at her paternal grandparents, then ride the horse back on Friday afternoon.

The ranch.

  It meant a lot to her.  It was hard to sell, but there were no more ranchers in the family.  It had to be done.

Now I have the sprigs of wheat...and the signed document from Harry S. Truman deeding the land to them.

I guess I am sentimental too.

When my mom passed away and I kept some very nice things from her home...some antique furniture, some vintage serving dishes, etc.

But the 'not so nice' things I kept?  The weird things, that should have been tossed out things I kept? 

I use all the time in my kitchen today.

Except for the pancake (or hotcake, as my mom would say) griddle.  I never use that--it's purely sentimental.

But I can remember cold winter mornings, my mom making us hotcakes for breakfast. She  used Crisco--she took a paper towel, scooped up some Crisco from the big blue can and slathered it on the griddle--so the hotcakes had slightly fried, crispy edges. And they were buttery and brown and SO GOOD!!

The Tupperware measuring bowl with handle and the old measuring spoons have survived so long I can no longer read the measurements, but I still use them.

The green (also Tupperware) colander--(sigh) well we didn't have a garbage disposal when I was growing up so we used the colander as a garbage bowl.  That's where all my potato peels went when I was getting them ready to boil,  that's where the  onion skins went and the ends of carrots and celery, egg shells,  the pits of peaches and the core of apples. Then it all went into the garbage can.

I spent hours in the kitchen with my mom and she didn't even love to cook that much--it was just what a wife and mother did back then.

We laughed in the kitchen together and cried in the kitchen together.  Well, okay I cried, (my mother wasn't a big crier) when I wanted to learn to make pie crust RIGHT NOW! As she was leaving for a date with my dad.

She went on her date and to this day I can't make a decent pie crust!

I blame her.

She would understand that completely.

I miss her.

Maybe I will make up some hotcakes on that old grodie griddle this weekend!?

Memories are nice.

That's my story!

Recipe # 169 is posted!

Only 125 left to go.

(I am praying that my math is right!)

Friday Friend Appendix #8 -- Grandma Mildred's Lemon Sherbet

Friday Friend Appendix #8 -- Grandma Mildred's Lemon Sherbet

For the 3 of you who read this blog, you will remember that I have a homemade cookbook, which we will call The Friday Friend Cookbook, complete with recipes sent in by my good friends, far and near.  I call them the Friday Friends.

 

And I am in the process of making every single recipe in that cookbook and blogging about it  (See that here) and then talking mostly about my friends, and not so much about the recipe, because, let's face it--I like them a lot!

Anyway,  this recipe should have been in that cookbook, but wasn't.

 

I am adding this as an appendix to the "official Friday Friend  Cookbook"

(much to the chagrin of the publisher/typer upper Barbara Brown)

(she's afraid I'm going to make her type up a whole new cookbook.  Volume #2! )

 FF Appendix #8  

(those recipes which should have been in the Friday Friend Cookbook, but weren't)

Deb E's 

Grandma Mildred's Lemon Sherbet

 

This is the best!

I needed something to go along with the pound cake I made yesterday. 

All summer long my good friend Debbie E (she hates that Debbie E!  But my name is Debbie too, so??   Isn't that how they did it in elementary school?),  talked about  her mother-in-law's lemon sherbet recipe.

She made it a lot this summer.

It got in my head like  song.

I just had to make it.

 

It was wonderful!

It's tangy!  And it's creamy.

We loved it.

Grandma Mildred's Lemon Sherbet

FF Debbie Engstrom

Winnemucca, NV

 

2 cups sugar

Juice of 3 lemons (1/2 cup)

Quart of whole milk

1/2 pint whipping cream

 

Mix sugar, lemon and milk.

Stir in whipping cream

Put in freezer, stir every so often (couple hours) until it's ice cream!

(only takes 6 hours or so)

(if you make it in the morning, you can have it for dessert that night)

 

This is Debbie's  13th time in the countdown---or the appendix.

You can click here to see all her great recipes!

AAAAnnndd....  her other great costumes!  She is always up for a costume party!

(remember her civil war gown on Nevada Day?)

And just last weekend, we had our cooking club---where she donned a coconut bra?

Kudos to her husband Charlie too--he's always game for a costume!

 

Debbie is our country recorder and there was  a convention this week for all elected officials in the state.

One dinner was held at the automobile museum and it was a 1940's theme.

Look at my cute friends!!

Gina, Debbie and Tami.

You'd think it was 1940 or something.

 

And that my friends is appendix #8.

My story!

 

 

 

Friday Friend Recipe #73 -- Peanut Buster Dessert

 

 

Friday Friend Recipe #73: Peanut Buster Dessert

Making my way thru my Friday Friend Cookbook, one recipe at a time.

What is the Friday Friend cookbook: I have about 50 of my closest friends and family on an e-mail forum which I called the Friday Friends (from all over the county). At first, most of them didn't know each other, (they knew me) but over the past 15 years, we've answered and shared silly--and serious---questions, exchanged Secret Santa Christmas gifts, had a dieting contest in which we paid a $1 a week and that money went to a scholarship fund for a Friday Friends son's memorial scholarship, and we went on a great vacation for my 52 birthday.

 

AND, we contributed recipes for a cookbook.

 

I was looking at the cookbook the other night and I said, "I should make every recipe in here for my blog."
The Handyman--who knows me better than I know myself (this happened to be a question on the Friday Friend forum once---does your spouse/partner know you better than you know yourself?)--said,  "you'll never, EVER do that."
WELL---maybe I'll show him!  Maybe I will.

 

Which brings me to this... recipe #73

 

My mom/Bev's

Peanut Buster Dessert

This is the best and one of the easiest frozen desserts you can ever make.

It's like a Dairy Queen dessert, only better!

 

Just be careful not to do what I did.

 

What did I do, you ask?

Well, in this recipe you layer on vanilla ice cream on top of an oreo cookie crust and then top with fudge sauce.

My fudge sauce was very thick, so I heated it in the microwave and then poured it on top of the ice-cream and added the nuts.  I put it in the freezer and when I took it out, the ice cream had floated to the top.

 

It was still great!  It just doesn't look exactly like it was supposed to.

Like I said tho...this is the easiest dessert you'll ever make.

So good!

Peanut Buster Dessert

FF My mom!  Bev Hambelton

Kennewick, WA

 

1 pkg Oreo cookies, crushed

1/2 cup melted butter

1/2 gallon softened vanilla ice cream

1 1/2 cans Hershey's Fudge syrup

1  6oz can Spanish peanuts

 

Combine Oreos and butter. Press into a 9x13 pan.

Save a handful for topping. 

Layer on ice-cream, then fudge, then nuts.

Top with cool whip and sprinkle with reserved crumbs.

Freeze for 2 hours, cut into squares and serve.

 

This marks my mom's 9th time in the FF Cookbook Countdown.

See all her recipes here.

And here is a photo of  she and my dad on a cruise.

They were lucky enough to do a little bit of traveling and they enjoyed it very much. 

 

 

My mom story?

Her first kiss?

her first kiss was when she was playing hide and see in her neighborhood with the neighbor kids.

My dad was one of those kids.  They were 10.

He told her he knew of a good place to hide and they went inside a neighbor's chicken coop.  He went to kiss her and she turned her head and he kissed the wall.

They got married 8 years after this failed kiss attempt.

 

In this little church.

 

 

 

And that is my mom/bev story for today!

 

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I will just keep on keeping on with this cookbook.

 

 

Sundaes anyone?

It's potluck week over at I Heart Cooking Clubs.

Potluck means whatever is available or comes one's way, which made it an easy week for me.

My 2 year old granddaughter is here visiting from Virginia, so we invited her 7 year old cousin to spend the night tonight.
The Handyman and I are crazy. We have a tent/fort set up on our family room and we've been watching the movie "UP" for the last 6 hours. I exaggerate only slightly. We've also played catch, cars, had a tea party, colored.... it's been a busy afternoon, but also a very fun afternoon.

For supper, we fixed some hamburgers with french-fries. For dessert, I looked for whatever was available in my freezer. I had some ice-cream, and I remembered seeing Nigella make a chocolate sauce one time, so I quickly did an inter-net look on her website, and there it was, her Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Sundae.


It also gave me a good excuse to use these Sundae/Milkshake glasses that I have had for over 31 years. I rarely use them, but they are something I just can't get rid of. They come in handy in times like this.


How can one go wrong with a chocolate sauce? Especially when it has peanut butter too?
No one in this house had any complaints!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge Sauce

from Nigella's website

175ml double cream ( I used 6oz heavy cream)
100g milk chocolate (I used about 6oz milk chocolate chips--I had them on hand)
100g smooth peanut butter (about 4-5 oz)
2 tablespoons Karo syrup
toffee ice cream
vanilla ice cream
chocolate ice cream
salted peanuts, roughly chopped


Put all the cream, chopped chocolate, peanut butter, golden syrup into a saucepan and place it on the heat to melt, stirring occasionally. In about 2 minutes you should have your sauce ready.
Get out your sundae glasses and put a scoop of toffee or caramel ice-cream, followed by one each of chocolate and vanilla.
Pour some chocolate peanut butter fudge sauce over each sundae and sprinkle with the salted peanuts. Hand them round and wait for people to weep with gratitude.


The only trouble I had was trying to do the math....ml into oz.
But it worked...it was a great fudgy sauce.
I also didn't have any toffee or caramel ice-cream, so I used to vanilla and one chocolate scoop.
I had left over fudge sauce, to put in the fridge for tomorrow night too. And give a jar to friends to tomorrow. They'll weep with gratitude, as Nigella says.

TWD: Chocolate-Banded Ice Cream Torte

Tuesdays With Dottie...I mean Dorie

(my husband is confused and it is catching!)

Well, here I am, well into week #2 of my TWD challenge. This week was "Chocolate Banded Ice Cream Torte" chosen by Amy of Food, Family and Fun

( http://foodfamilyandfun.blogspot.com/ )
Friday Friends....stop by and check out her blog. ("old" blogger alert! I don't know how to have a link without putting up the whole address --sigh-- I need my kids to come home from college.)

This recipe was not hard, it was just time consuming. Definitely something you needed all day to make. Which made for a nice Sunday. I fiddled around in the kitchen, cleaned up some e-mails, fiddled around in the kitchen, went to church, fiddled around in the kitchen, cleaned the bathroom, fiddled around in the kitchen... you get the picture.
IT WAS TIME CONSUMING.
And the raw eggs kind of creeped me out. I have to be honest.

So much so, that I only ate part of one slice, while watching my husband and friends devour theirs and ask for more.
My husband ate another piece the very next night...I didn't.
On Saturday morning on the Food Network, the new show, "Ask Aida" was all about eggs, and she said that if they were fresh, a little bit was okay. But still....I just couldn't.

The ganache (was it ganache? the recipe never says ganache) was easier than I had thought, but I agree with some TWD bloggers, that 30 minutes was not enough time to freeze it good. My ganache layers were tacky to the touch, but I went ahead and put on my ice-cream layers, because it was so TIME CONSUMING.
and I had invited friends to dinner so it only got to freeze for 4 hours at the end. It really needed the 6, I believe.
And cutting it to take pictures? HA! The warm knife made my torte begin to soften and melt.
No good pictures here.

oh my gosh...that is a sorry piece of torte! Really....it needs the whole 6 hours or more of freeze time.

So....my synopsis? It was easy, but very time consuming and the egg issue bothered me. (there were 8 raw eggs, for crying out loud!)*
So much so, that I wouldn't have known how good it was unless I had watched friends and family enjoy it, complimenting me about how it was the best dessert they've ever had! And then they all said it was a good thing I had joined the "Tuesdays with Dottie" (my husband has everyone saying it) challenge.

*sorry. I don't have many food issues at all. None in fact...except expiration dates and well... I guess "raw eggs".

But it was FUN to do. I think I'd make it again, but find a different ganache recipe and maybe put some different ice cream like some of the other TWD bakers have done.