Prepare pastry crust according to recipe.
Combine cornstarch, sugar, salt and chocolate in a saucepan.
Stir in milk gradually. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and comes to a boil.
Boil 1 minute.
Blend half the mixture into egg yolks.
Stir into mixture in saucepan; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat.
Stir in butter or margarine and vanilla.
Cool slightly.
Pour into pastry shell and bake as directed in Basic Meringue Recipe.
Prepare Basic Eclair dough.
Put through a pastry tube or spread with a spoon, making strips 4 x 1 1/2-inches on greased baking sheet.
Bake and cool as directed in Basic Eclair recipe.
Stir basic biscuit mix with cold water.
Use bacon fat or margarine to grease a large frying pan.
Spread the batter to fill the pan.
Cook until brown on the bottom, then turn, slipping in a little more grease, and brown the top.
Slice and serve with butter.
Basic Pasta Recipe: Start with the flour - measure
Prepare rice according\tto basic rice recipe except for baking.
Stir in
all
ingredients\texcept chicken.
Cover and bake at 350\u00b0 for
10
minutes.
Remove rice from oven and stir in chicken.
Return to oven and bake an additional ten minutes or until all liquid is absorbed.
Yields 2 servings.
Dredge chicken pieces in flour; brown in butter and oil.
Add 1 tablespoon of flour and rest of ingredients, except biscuit recipe.
Cover and cook on low 30 minutes.
Add more stock as needed.
Use any good 2-cup flour biscuit recipe, adding to it 1 tablespoon\tsugar
and
an\textra tablespoon shortening.
Roll dough thin.
Cut
large
biscuits
and
bake
in a quick oven. When brown\tand still very hot, put a square of butter in each and add sweetened strawberries and whipped cream.
Cut chicken in small chunks.
Cook vegetables until tender. Mix ingredients and place in a 9 x 13-inch casserole dish.
Using biscuit recipe on back of Bisquick, roll and cut out biscuits. Place on top of chicken and vegetable mixture, side by side.
Bake at 350\u00b0 for 30 minutes or until brown.
BASIC DONUTS:.
Line jellyroll pan
Stir basic ingredients together until the sugar dissolves. For best results, pre-chill
Prepare the basic meatball recipe -- except cook them in a Dutch oven.
Drain off the excess fat.
Add the soup, sour cream, peas (with liquid) and potatoes, heat to boiling, stirring occasionally.
Prepare the dumplings.
Drop the dough by TBLS onto the boiling stew. simmer uncovered for about 10 minutes.
Cover and simmer another 10 minutes longer.
Serve.
EGG DUMPLINGS: Mix all the ingredients together until a soft dough forms.
PARSLEY DUMPLINGS: Mix all the ingredients together until a soft dough forms.
nd anyway this is the best bit.
While slowly stirring
Thoroughly mix together all dry ingredients.
Add milk and oil to to dry ingredients.
Gently mix all ingredients together.
Knead twice to form a ball.
On floured surface, pat out or roll to approximately 1/2\" thick.
Cut into approximately 2\" biscuits (I make some small and some large and both turn out equally well).
Bake on an ungreased pan at 475F for 10 minutes, until lightly browned.
Serve with cholesterol free margarine or calorie-reduced jam.
Put 1 portion (1/2 recipe) basic cookie dough, 1 cup semisweet
This recipe produces a much larger loaf than the basic one, so
BASIC BREAD:
Mix the flours,
n a large bowl, blend biscuit mix, butter, egg yolks, beer
Follow basic biscuit recipe, roll dough about 1/4 inch thick and cut with a doughnut cutter. Dip biscuit in melted butter and then in mixture of sugar and cinnamon. Twist once, piece on lightly greased baking sheet about 1 inch apart. Bake at 450\u00b0 for 10 to 12 minutes.
o make the tomato sauce (recipe posted separately).
Basic: Pour the cup of distilled