Strawberry Pie

 Please join me for one of my favorite pies in the whole wide world...Strawberry!  

 

 This is one of my favorite teacups, which is Alpine Strawberry, by Roy Kirkham.  Isn't it a pretty design with the bees,  leaves and blossoms, and strawberries?

I've shared this recipe before, but wanted to pass it along again.  The source of this recipe was from the Columbus Dispatch, when readers would submit their favorite recipes.  I cut the recipe out, probably in the early 1970's, as a new bride.  I have made this pie and shared this recipe so many times.  I hope you try it!

My Favorite Strawberry Pie:

1 pre-baked pie shell
1 quart strawberries, cleaned & hulled & set aside

3/4 cup sugar

3 T. cornstarch

1 cup water
2 T. light corn syrup
pinch of salt
3 T. strawberry gelatin

Combine sugar & cornstarch in a heavy saucepan & stir.  Add water, corn syrup & salt.  Cook until thickened & clear in color.  Remove from heat & add gelatin, stirring well to dissolve the gelatin.    The original recipe said to add red food coloring, but I never do.  Let  cool.

Pour over the berries. I usually cut the berries in half.  Mix gently & pour into the baked pie shell.  Chill.  Top with whipped cream.

I am sharing this with these lovely parties:

No Place Like Home

Tuesday Cuppa Tea 

Bernideen's Tea Time, Collage and Garden Blog Party

Tea Cup Tuesday 

Cooking and Crafting with J & J  

Share Your Cup

Full Plate

I was featured!

Thoughts of Home on Thursday 

Foodie Friday

Weekend Potluck
Tea in the Garden
Dishing It! & Digging It!

 

Thank you for your visit!  xo  

Raspberry and Cream Cheese Danish

 Yea!  My waterfall is running again and I'm so happy to hear the soothing sound of it for my tea in the garden.  Please join me for a raspberry cream cheese danish, won't you?  I've made some Constant Comment tea and a new method for iced tea, which I'll share below. 

 I've shared this teacup that my sister gifted to me before, and it's so pretty with the two shades of blue and the toile design inside the cup.  

 A friend gave me this Jim Shore Angel of Hospitality.  I thought she would make a pretty centerpiece for my tea.  The creamer was a souvenir from the Biltmore, when my Late Beloved and I visited there.  

I sandwiched this pretty doily that I won from Nancy at Two Cottages and Tea, several years ago, between two glass Ikea plates.  I love how you can change up the design of a plate like this. 

Now, this recipe is one that Sandi from Rose Chintz Cottage shared a few weeks ago.  Sandi made a Peaches and Cream Danish, which you can find here.  Sandi got the recipe from Martha, at Lines From Linderhof.  I happen to love anything raspberry and decided to use my homemade raspberry jam for these danishes.  I already had a can of crescent rolls, but Sandi and Martha both used the Grands Crescent Rolls.  Here's the recipe, if you'd like a nice, tasty, pretty treat:

Raspberry and Cream Cheese Danish

1 Pillsbury Crescent Rolls (Sandi used the Grands Crescent Rolls)
Raspberry jam (or any jam or pie filling that you like)
4 oz. cream cheese 
1/2 tsp vanilla
2-3 TBSP sugar

powdered sugar
milk

Chill the roll in the freezer for about thirty minutes. Preheat oven at 350 degrees.

Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.

Beat together cream cheese, vanilla and sugar until smooth. Crack open the tube of crescent rolls and slice the crescent roll in its original form, like slice and bake cookies. I got eight out of the roll. (Sandi got 10 out of the Grands Crescent Rolls). Put them on cookie sheets and use the bottom of a small glass to make an indentation in each one.  Put some of the cream cheese mixture into the dent and then add a dab of jam on top.  Bake about fourteen minutes and then cool completely. 

Beat together a little powdered sugar with a bit of milk to make enough to drizzle on the danish.  

Double the ingredients for a crowd pleasing treat! 

 I used this itty bitty measurer to make the indentions.  

Here are the danishes right from the oven and before being drizzled.

 

 

When I was at the hairdresser's this past time, I picked up a copy of Martha Stewart Living magazine and took a picture of this method of making iced tea.  It works out great and is the perfect temperature for me, as I don't like  icy cold drinks.  Be sure to add extra ice, if you do!

I am  sharing this with:

No Place Like Home

Tuesday Cuppa Tea 

Bernideen's Tea Time, Collage and Garden Blog Party

Tea Cup Tuesday 

Cooking and Crafting with J & J  

Share Your Cup

Full Plate
Thoughts of Home on Thursday 

Foodie Friday

Weekend Potluck
Tea in the Garden
Dishing It! & Digging It!

Thank you for your visit!  xo 

Lavender Sugar Scrub and Lavender Soap for Gifting

 I'd like to  share some gift giving ideas for Mother's Day.  Does homemade soap and a sugar scrub sound like fun to make?  I enjoyed making them!

 Don't these soaps look good enough to eat?

 Wouldn't you like giving or receiving a basket of soaps and a sugar scrub?

Here are the soaps all wrapped up and ready for gifting.  I actually made ten soaps from about 2/3 of the 2 lb. package.  For the sugar scrub, I used cupcake liners on top of the lid and glued some lace around the band. 

Lavender Soap:

I was inspired to make some homemade soap when Linda, from My Sew What Blog sent me a bar as a thank you gift, after Stephanie's Fall Teacup Exchange from The Enchanting Rose .  The soap is as easy as using a coupon at Michael's, and following the directions on the package.  I  bought the a 2-pound block of the Goat's Milk Glycerin Soap, and added lavender essential oil and some dried lavender to enhance the beauty.  I used small plastic containers and vintage jello molds to shape my soaps. I did spray the jello molds with some cooking spray to make sure the soap would pop out.  The plastic molds were easy to work with.  You also can buy special molds for soap making, but I thought I'd try what I had on hand.

 Lavender Sugar Scrub:

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup coconut oil, melted

a few drops of lavender essential oil

dried lavender

Mix all together and then put into jars.  Sprinkle some additional dried lavender on top.  Decorate jars as desired .  Double or triple the ingredients for extra gift giving!

Note:  If you would like your sugar scrub to be less coarse, increase the amount of coconut oil.  

 After all of our hard work, how about a nice  cup of tea?  I'll let you sip from my Late Great Aunt Kitty's hand painted teacup.  Didn't she do a wonderful job on the violets?

I am sharing this with these lovely parties:

No Place Like Home

Tuesday Cuppa Tea 

Bernideen's Tea Time, Collage and Garden Blog Party

Tea Cup Tuesday 

Cooking and Crafting with J & J  

Share Your Cup

Full Plate
Thoughts of Home on Thursday 

Foodie Friday

Weekend Potluck
Tea in the Garden
Dishing It! & Digging It! 

 

Thank you for your visit!  xo