A New Project (Post 11)

If you wish to start a ten cent crazy book - read post 1-4 to find out how

Ok, so maybe you don't sew or paint or really have an ongoing hobby or project, but would like to start one. Well, in my ten cent crazy book I am always writing down some recipe that I saw in a magazine or got from a friend. Now understand that I am not at all a cook, if I boil water without forgetting it and burning up the pan, I did great. I will occasionally give you a super easy recipe to write in your crazy book, but as for a project - What about starting a good old fashion recipe box. Some of you will have a recipe box, but others have never had one. If you do already have a recipe box, I would bet (unless you're a great cook) that your recipe box is really old, and either falling apart or overstuffed with tons of pieces of paper sticking out with recipes in no kind of order at all.
Ok, so whether you have a recipe box or not this is a great fun, easy project, that you can make for yourself, your newly moved out son or daughter or a wedding gift for a friend.
Well, know that if you go to the store to buy a recipe box, you will probably not find one. They used to be in the kitchen section of the store and made out of wood, with a cute little rooster on them. What I find now is that you have to go to the school supply section and buy a plastic box; it has a lid that snaps shut and holds 3 x 5 or larger index cards that can be purchased in the same section. Also, if your box doesn't come with ABC dividers they should be right next to the box or the index cards. Now you're ready, the next time you're sitting and watching television, you can work on your recipe box. Get out those old cookbooks and look through them for whatever looks good to you. On the front of the index card, you should write: The Name of the recipe at the top and then list the ingredients down the left front of the card, and in the right bottom corner write the oven temperature suggested and the time it will take to cook. Also put the size of the dish needed.
Example 350 for 30 min in a 9 x 13 pan. On the back of the card write the mixing and cooking instructions. Save the right front of the card for comments, such as (really good or really sweet)
If you don't have old cookbooks to look through, your friends will probably loan you there's, or you can get recipes from magazines, or television is full of cooking shows or of course the Internet is full of recipes.
I like to jot down the recipes in my ten cent crazy book and try them out, before actually putting them on a card for my box, because you may not like the recipe, or you may decide it needs more sugar or it needs be cooked a little longer. So......sit with your crazy book and scribble recipes all over the place and then put the really good recipes in your new recipe box, and enjoy this project.
Here's the first recipe for your box (and remember - I can't cook) I don't use anything but self-rising flour and self-rising cornmeal and I never add baking soda or salt to a recipe because I believe that's the purpose of self-rising......I'm sure I'm wrong, but it seems to work for me.

Corn Muffins

Mix 1 and a half cups of self-rising flour
1 cup of self-rising cornmeal
1/2 a cup of sugar
1/2 a cup of butter
Separately
Mix 2 eggs
3/4 a cup of milk
2 tablespoons of Honey
2 tablespoons of Maple Syrup
now mix all together - it will be lumpy
spray oil on your muffin pan and divide batter into 12 muffins
Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Enjoy your new project.

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