New cookie recipe

Remember Mom's "Crisp cookies"? I have a new recipe that is almost exactly like hers, but this one has the addition of rice krispies and chopped pecans, and no raisins. Its good. They sell these in our local grocery store and call them "ranger cookies".

1 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 TBS milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups rice krispies
2 cups oatmeal
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup coconut

Cream first six ingredients, then add the combined flour, soda, baking powder and salt. Mix well then stir in the remaining good stuff. Bake about 11 minutes at 350 degrees until light brown. Scoop them out with a cookie scoop but flatten them a little with your fingers before baking.

I think this was the cookie that Mom made most often when we were kids. I wonder how she ever found time to bake at all!

Love from Jeanie

Happy Birthday Cathy!

I hope you have a great day!

Articles in the Lincoln paper/LPS website

These are about an event at Northeast held on December 20. They are about the same the LPS one has a picture.

http://www.lps.org/post/detail.cfm?id=1413
http://www.neighborhoodextra.com/articles/2009/01/26/news/doc497a1635cb2a1875702730.txt

Did everyone remember Bob's birthday yesterday? Happy Birthday, Bobby!!

Jeanie

Banana bread

I'm not sure who's recipe this was originally, but I got it from my mom. It's the easiest, most moist banana bread I've ever had. Whenever my bananas get a little too ripe, I chuck them in the freezer, peel and all and so I always have bread-ready bananas on hand. I also think the key to this making this bread right is to have all of your ingredients at room temp. I leave the eggs and butter out overnight and take the buttermilk out of the fridge a couple hours before I bake. I have also substituted brown sugar for the white sugar and it really amped up the favor of the bread. I've never been a fan of nuts in my bread, so I leave them out although the recipe says you can add chopped walnuts if desired. If prefer to make this a banana cake, I use cake flour instead of AP flour and bake in a 9 x 13" pan and shorten the baking time by 10-15 minutes.

1/2 c. unsalted butter
1 c. sugar
2 eggs
2-3 bananas
2 c. flour
1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 c. buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla
1 c. chopped walnuts (optional)
*It's not on the original recipe, but I add a 1/4 tsp of fresh grated nutmeg

Preheat oven to 350-degrees

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Add bananas.
Sift dry ingredients together. Add dry mixture and buttermilk alternately to banana mixture until incorporated. Add in vanilla and nutmeg. The batter shouldn't be completely smooth.

Bake in a buttered loaf pan for 50 minutes, or until a toothpick tester comes out clean.

*I think my mom separates this into two loaves, but I prefer a big fat loaf as opposed to a short squat one. It's up to you. I think you'd have to shorten the baking time for that, too.

Mom's Sugar Cookies

I always liked these cookies, I think Mom used to sprinkle some bright yellow sugar on them:

Lazy Daisy Sugar Cookies

½ cup margarine
½ cup oil
½ cup reg. sugar
½ cup powdered sugar
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon butter flavoring
1 egg
2 ¼ cups flour
1 teaspoon cream of tarter
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt

Cream shorting, sugar, vanilla and egg, stir in dry ingr.

Chill dough for 2 hours or more, roll into balls, flatten and bake in 350 oven 10-12 minutes.

This is a picture of our Christmas -- not very timely, but I was just experimenting with how to post a picture -- and it worked!

Jeanie

Hello Beecham Bloggers!

Now we are ALL pertinent and modern. I think this is a great idea -- thank you Anne for getting it going. If there are any other recipes you all want, let me know and I will post them.

Love from Jeanie

Cool idea Anne

Genius! What a great way to stay in touch.

Calico Beans, ala Margaret

Baked Calico Beans

1 pound ground beef, browned and drained
1 pound bacon cooked crisp and crumbled
1 medium onion, chopped fine
21 oz can pork and beans, drained
1 pound can lima or butter beans, drained
1/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1 cup ketchup

Mix cooked beef, bacon, onion and beans. Mix sugars, mustard and ketchup. Pour over bean mixture, stir, turn into greased casserole and bake at 350 degrees 1 1/2 hous or cook all day in slow cooker.

August 2007: this family is too big-so click on it for the full picture!

Calico Beans

Jeanie,
I have looked thru any and all of mom's old cookbooks that I have (only 2), but have had no luck with the bean recipe. Sorry. I wonder if there was a real recipe.
Hope all is good with everyone.
Great idea with the blog Anne.
You are so clever!
MK

Discussion topics

Hi Beecham Tree...does that make us the fruits of the tree? What kind of tree are we after all?

Anyway, I think this is a good idea. What sort of topics should we discuss on this blog? Farming? Food and drink? Music? Maybe we should go about selecting an official Beecham family song. Any ideas? Or maybe the official Beecham family dish...? Any other category ideas?

Hi

Hi Beechams All,
Let me know if I have successfully blogged on.
MK

Welcome to the Beecham blog! A post from Anne, the admin.

I thought about creating a website, but I think for our purposes, a blog will work out just as well. As we begin the new, hope-filled presidential term, I think it's only fitting to begin a new era of family communication, we could call it Beecham 2.0. In any case, I think because our family is so large and spread out, that a blog would be a great way to post messages, photos, and Beecham family recipes in a place where we can all access/store them! Perhaps it's the librarian in me that wants to archive family recipes, or it could be that being able to throw together an old family favorite like calico beans in rainy Oregon is a great way to stay connected to my Nebraska roots. In any case, I love the idea of a new dynamic Beecham blog, a sort of virtual family album accessible to Beechams around the country!

I've sent out "invites" to the family members on my contact list, and you should all be able to post to this blog. If there are people who I have failed to include, please let me know and I will add them immediately. Please bear with me as I work out the kinks of this new Beecham Tree blog. I hope to become adept at this thing in due time.