Recipes
Chocolate Sauce for Fannie Hamilton’s Feather Cake
This sauce over feather cake in a bowl makes cottage pudding which was Grandpa Hamilton’s all time favorite.
Ingredients
- 2 squares chocolate
- 2 cu sugar
Instructions
- melt 2 squares of chocolate over water
- add sugar and mix
- add 1 cu boiling water and cook until it reaches its desired consistency
Fannie Hamilton Feather Cake
This recipe comes originally from Fannie Hamilton (1872-1971). Serve with chocolate or plain pudding sauce (see separate recipe for that).
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 30
- Total Time: 50
Ingredients
- 1 cu sugar
- 1.5 cu flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cu blueberries (optional)
Instructions
- sift the sugar, flour, salt and baking powder together in a bowl
- melt butter in 1 cup measuring cup, add 1 egg (make sure the butter cooled so you don’t cook the egg) and fill cup with milk
- add this to the flour mixture and beat well with a wooden spoon
- bake at 375 in a greased 9″ x 9″ pan until toothpick comes out clean (typically 30 minutes)
- can add blueberries or sliced apples – slice apples onto bottom of pan, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and pour cake batter on top
Notes
- see separate recipes for the chocolate sauce
Dan’s Blueberry Pancakes
These take a while to make homemade but the difference is worth it.
- Prep Time: 30
- Cook Time: 15
- Total Time: 45
- Yield: 10 1x
Ingredients
Buttermilk
- 3 tbsp fresh lemon juice (half of large lemon)
- 2 cu milk
Dry Mixture
- 2 cu all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp white sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp banking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
Wet mixture
- 2 cups buttermilk (from above)
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cu butter, melted
- [optional, but recommended!] 2 tsp almond extract
- 1 cup fresh Maine blueberries
Instructions
First, make the homemade buttermilk. Add lemon juice to milk, mix, and let sit for 10-15 minutes.
Next, melt the butter so it’s cooler by when you need it.
While those are sitting, combine the dry ingredients into a larger bowl. Lightly mix.
Beat the 2 eggs in a separate bowl. Add the butter to the buttermilk, and slowly add to the 2 eggs.
Keep the two mixtures separate until ready to cook.
Grease a griddle; heat to 275 degrees – water drops should skip across it.
Pour the wet mixture over the dry, add the Blueberries and lightly mix. Don’t overstir – there should still be some clumps.
Pour roughly 1/2 cup of the mixture onto the griddle, and brown on each side – about 1 minute, serving hot.
Notes
Can substitute white vinegar for lemon juice in the buttermilk if you don’t have a lemon handy.
Nannie’s Blueberry Muffins
Serve these warm from the oven, first thing in the morning!
- Prep Time: 20
- Cook Time: 30
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 18 1x
Ingredients
- 6 tbsp butter
- 1 1/4 cu sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cu milk
- 2 cu flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 pint (2 cu) dry Maine blueberries
Instructions
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time and beat well. Combine flour, salt and baking powder and add alternately with milk to sugar and butter mixture. Add blueberries.
Fill banking cups 2/3 full and bake at 375F for 30 minutes. Sprinkle with sugar while still warm.
Store uncovered.
Catherine’s Onions
A Hamdun cocktail party standby!
- Prep Time: 10
- Total Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 large red onions
- 1 cu sugar
- 2–3 tbsp sour cream
- Ritz Crackers
Instructions
Thinly slice 2 large red onions. Cover with 1 cu sugar and 2/3 cu water. Let stand over night. Drain. Add sour cream to just moisten, about 2-3 tbsp. Serve with Ritz crackers.