What? Perky Coffee Custard?

What you you doing this fine snowy day? I am making warm coffee custard.

The cool thing about custard is the recipe is so basic:
2 cups milk 
2 eggs (I store mine with coconut oil)
1/2 sugar
VIA ( I use Italian blend coffee)  (associates link)
You may also add DIY vanilla extract. I like it both ways. 
Then you just multiply that times how much you wish to make. 
First you scald the milk by putting the milk in saucepan on the stove at medium heat. Stir as the milk heats up & when small bubbles from around the edge of the pan it is scalded. At this point whisk in one package of VIA ( I use Italian blend coffee)  (associates link) for each 2 cups I am making. Remove from heat. Allow to cool a little. But you could just make a cup of extra strong coffee to add. 

While cooking the milk crack your eggs and whisk together and add your sugar.
Whisk the egg/sugar mixture together with the milk. Add about 1 T. vanilla at this point.

Pour in to a buttered baking dish. For a smoother custard, strain mixture as you pour it into the pan. I find that cooking the custard in a water bath makes a very smooth custard. To do that place the cooking dish into a larger dish (I then place it in the oven) and add water to the larger dish, about half way up.

                          

Now recipes say cook at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes. I actually do a lower heat (my oven runs hot) and the test if it is done is to insert a knife into the center and it comes out clean (not milky).

 I will learn not to eat it late at night.

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Perky Gramma's Biscuits Recipe

Butter biscuits is one of the first things I ever baked. This is my recipe from a children's cookbook I got when I was about 4 or 5. At that point I lived in the great state of New Mexico. I got my beloved cookbook for free by sending in the Pure Sugar label on a postcard, as you can see in the video commercial I've posted below.
Living out in the country now, is a happy journey of focusing on cooking more meals at home. What a great way to save money too! I try to make sure I always have everything on hand in my pantry, since a "quick" drive to the grocery store doesn't exist anymore. While I am showing my vintage tools that I was using, I also have back up tools also, just in case.
We didn't have the Food Network when I was a child, my little cookbook is still a treasure and is over 50 years old. Pretty amazing to me.

Flaky Butter Biscuits
 2 C. sifted flour
4 t. baking powder
1 t. salt
1/4 C. soft butter
2/3 C. milk
1. Turn on the oven and set at 425 degrees.
2. Sift the flour, add baking powder and salt and sift again into a mixing bowl.
3. Add the butter to the flour mixture. Cut in the butter with a pastry blender of two knives. Continue blending until mixture looks like course crumbs.
4. When well-mixed, add the milk all at once. Stir with a fork just til the dough follows the fork around the bowl. Don't stir too much as it will make the biscuits tough.
5. Sprinkle a little flour on a board and rolling pin. Dust hands with flour and knead the dough about 10 times.

6. Roll out the dough until it is about 1/2 inch thick. Cut with a biscuit cutter, or a glass or I actually used a ring from my canning jars.

7. Place biscuits on a lightly greased baking sheet.
8. Bake at 425 degrees for about 12 minutes or until golden brown.


Here is that commercial.

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