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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 30 Minutes Servings: 10 |
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A great spring or summer dish with fresh candied flowers. Truely a one of a kind dish Ingredients:
2 1/2 lbs. small curd cottage cheese |
1 1/4 cups sugar |
3/4 cup chopped almonds or pecans |
3/4 cup chopped peaches |
1/2 cup maraschino cherries or |
dried cherries |
1 1/4 tsp. vanilla |
2 sticks butter, melted |
1/4 tsp. salt |
2 cups evaporated milk or cream |
2 eggs |
Directions:
1. Mix all ingredients except the cottage cheese in a large pan over low
2. heat until it thickens to the consistency of pudding.
3. Remove from heat and allow to cool completely.
4. Mix in the cottage cheese and beat well for about 3 minutes.
5. Place in a cake pan and chill over night.
6. Decorate with candied eggs, flowers, chocolates, or other spring
7. delicacies. Surround with fruit if you like. Keep refrigerated.
8. Candied flower recipes follows
9. *****Candied Flowers
10. This recipe is from Edain McCoy's Ostara
11. These are beautiful on cakes or cup cakes, sides of plates as garnish, or on top of a dessert.
12. Ingredients:
13. Petals from any edible flower (These flowers may be safely eaten and are suggested for this recipe: Pansy, violet, rose, nasturtium, gladiola,carnation, dianthus, calendula, squash blossom, lilac, marigold,dandelion, peach blossom, plum blossom, orange blossom, hibiscus,geranium, bachelor button, snapdragon, jasmine, gardenia, and angelica.)
14. Several well-beaten egg whites
15. Vanilla extract
16. Bowl of granulated sugar
17. Directions:
18. Mix a few drops of vanilla into the egg whites.
19. Dip a paintbrush in the egg whites and coat the petals.
20. Dip petals into sugar until coated, then spread on wax paper to dry.
21. Use to decorate cakes, cookies or anything else you like.
22. You cannot use flowers bought at a florist for this recipe!! Many commercially- bought flowers contain pesticides and it is not worth it to ingest poison. Please obtain all flowers from organic retailers or from home-grown sources.
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