Carrot Pie - Testing

https://www.amish365.com/amish-summer-carrot-pie/

1 - The first attempt, following the recipe, required I use 1 cup of flour in the filling. It produced a kind of rubbery pie. In looking at my pumpkin pie recipe, there is no flour at all, otherwise very similar. I won't remove the flour completely yet, but I have reduced it to 1/4 cup, but probably will try it with none at all. We didn't feel like we tasted carrot in the same way that pumpkin pie tastes of pumpkin though but I wonder if the flour didn't absorb a lot of flavor.

1 pie crust

1 cup milk

1 tablespoon dark molasses

1/8 tsp ground cloves

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

½ tsp (dry or fresh? I'm going to try fresh) ginger

1 ½ cup cooked mashed carrots

½ cup brown sugar

½ cup white sugar

½ tsp salt

2 eggs, slightly beaten

1 cup 1/4 cup flour

1. In a small saucepan, heat the milk (to 140–170 °F, steaming with small bubbles forming around the edge) and add the molasses, cloves, cinnamon and ginger. Remove from the heat to allow for the spices to infuse in the milk for 5 to 10 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, in a bowl combined the carrot, the sugars, the salt and the eggs.
3. Add the infused milk and mix well.
4. Mix in the flour until very well combined.
5. Bake in unbaked pie shell at 425 for 10 minutes.
6. Turn down temperature to 350 for 45 to 50 minutes.
7. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream if desired.

Oat Spiced Apple Cake - Testing

1 - Very successful. I only made the half recipe. The cake is quite thin, I wonder if I can make the double recipe as one cake? But the apple to cake ratio was very good, and I suspect that with only oat flour a thicker cake layer would be too fragile. We ate it still warm, the cake crumb was quite fragile, I'm curious how it'll be when it is completely cooled. I suspect I can reduce the amount of sugar.

from The Scottish Oats Bible by Nichola Fletcher

Makes 2 cakes (makes 1 cake)

2 Tbsps. sugar (1 Tbsp)

4 apples (2 apples)

6oz/175g oat flour (3oz/87g)

6oz/175g butter, cut into chunks (3oz/87g)

6oz/175g brown sugar (3oz/87g)

Zest of 1 orange

4 eggs (2)

3 tsps. baking powder (1.5tsp)

2 tsps. ground cinnamon (1tsp)

1/2 tsp ground cloves (1/4tsp)

1 tsp ground nutmeg (1/2tsp)

2 tsp ground ginger (1tsp)

1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
2. Line the base of a 8" spring form cake tin, and butter it all over. 
3. Scatter the caster sugar over the bottom of the tins.
4. Peel, core and slice the apples and lay them on the base of the tins, making a pattern with them if you wish.
5. If using rolled oats instead of oat flour, blitz them in the small bowl of a food processor until it is the consistency of the wholewheat flour.
6. Beat the butter and sugar together until pale and creamy, then beat in the orange zest and eggs. Mix the baking powder and all the spices into the oat flour and add half of this into the butter/sugar mixture. Mix briefly, then add the rest and mix until smooth. Pour the mixture over the sliced apples in the tin and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until the cake begins to shrink from the side of the tin and a skewer comes out clean. Leave it for a few minutes before flipping it out onto a plate.

Breakfast Sausage - Untested

https://healthyrecipesblogs.com/homemade-breakfast-sausage/
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/ba-breakfast-sausage
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/16359/breakfast-sausage/
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/breakfast-sausage-recipe-2103185

1 lb ground pork
1 garlic clove
Spice combinations to try:
- 1 Tbsp minced fresh sage, 1 Tbsp minced fresh thyme, 1½ tsps salt, 1 tsp crushed fennel seeds, ½ tsp red pepper flakes, ¼ tsp black pepper, ¼ tsp smoked paprika; OR
- 2 tps dried sage, 2 tsps salt, 1 tsp black pepper, 1/4 tsp dried marjoram, 1/8 tsp red pepper flakes, 1 pinch ground cloves; OR
- 1 tsp salt, 3/4 tsp black pepper, 1 tsp minced fresh sage leaves, 1 tsp minced fresh thyme leaves, 1/4 tsp minced rosemary leaves, 1/4 tsp fresh grated nutmeg, 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper, 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
Oil or fat for frying

1. Crush and mince the garlic; fry it in a little oil until just starting to turn blond. All to cool a bit.
2. Mix ground pork meat with garlic and spices. Shape into 12 patties.
3. Fry in a pan with only a little oil to get things started (the ground pork will produce its own as it cooks).

Untested - Spiced Almond Wafers

http://www.marthastewart.com/316126/spiced-almond-wafers

3 cups all-purpose flour 

1 teaspoon baking soda 

1/4 teaspoon salt 

2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, room temperature 

1 1/2 cups packed dark-brown sugar 

2 large eggs 

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 

1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger 

1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 

1/4 cup sliced blanched almonds

1. Line 2 mini loaf pans with plastic wrap.
2. Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Beat butter and sugar with a mixer on medium speed for 4 minutes. Reduce speed to low. Add eggs and spices. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions.
3. Press cookie dough into pans, and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Freeze for 1 1/2 hours (or up to 1 month).
4. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Remove dough from 1 pan. Let soften slightly. Cut eight 1/8-inch-thick slices with a sharp knife. Cover remaining dough, and freeze in pan until ready to slice and bake.
5. Place slices 1 1/2 inches apart on a cookie sheet lined with a nonstick baking mat. Top each with 2 to 3 almond slices. Freeze until firm, 5 minutes. Bake until dark golden brown, 10 minutes. Let cool on sheet on a wire rack. Repeat.