Favorite Recipe Blog Hop

Welcome to the 

In addition to seeing some awesome recipes and/or projects, there is a chance to win some blog candy! To be eligible to win the blog candy, you must leave a comment on each stop in the hop as well as hitting that little "follow" button! Winner will be chosen on Sunday, March 7th so you have all week to hop through !

For this hop Robin at Create-A-Latte is giving away to one lucky winner this great Project Life Recipe Pages Kit by Becky Higgins. 

You should have arrived here from Liz's blog.  If you would like to start at the beginning of the hop click on the blog photo at the top of this post to be taken to Robin's blog. 

Here is my project for today's hop.  I created a digital scrapbook layout featuring my Grandma Bernie and a donut recipe from her recipe box that I inherited when she moved into a nursing home.

Here is what the journaling on the page reads:

There is something sacrilegious about having my Grandma, Father Paul’s donut recipe and Homer Simpson on the same scrapbook layout, but who loves donuts more than Homer?

This is my favorite picture of me and Grandma Bernie. It was taken at my surprise 40^th birthday party.

Grandma Bernie worked for a long time as the secretary to the priests at the Retreat Center of the Basilica of Our Lady Of Consolation in Carey, Ohio. Father Paul was one of the priests there.

When I inherited Grandma’s recipe box, this recipe for Father Paul’s Donuts was in there. What I love most is that is in Grandma’s handwriting.

In case you can't read the recipe, here it is:

Father Paul's Donuts

Makes 10 dozen

6 3/4 lbs Gold Medal Flour

1 lb Crisco, melted

1 tbsp Salt

18 Eggs

9 pkgs Yeast, dissolved

3/4 lb Sugar

Enough water to make a soft dough

Mix ingredients as for sweet rolls.

Knead A LOT

Fry 395* in deep fat.

Just like Homer, I love donuts too! I'm sure I won't ever need a recipe for them that makes 10 dozen but it is a great thing to have.

I tend to be the lazy cook who makes donuts using store bought biscuits-in-a-can.  You know the ones I mean, the kind you unwrap the label and whack on the counter to get open.  Just heat your oil, whack open a can, cut the biscuits in quarters (for donut hole sized donuts) and fry til a nice golden brown. Then just drizzle with a glaze made of powdered sugar and milk (or use lemon juice instead for a sweet-tart glaze) or if you want it even easier just shake the donuts in a paper bag with some sugar and cinnamon or powdered sugar.  OMGoodness are they good!  Eat warm right from the bag, snuggled up with the family. 

Now that your mouth is watering and you are thinking something like this...

it is time to head over to see what recipe Michelle has for you. Hope you are enjoying our little hop and that you will stop by my blog on regular basis to see what crafting thing is going on. 

If you get lost along the way here is the entire 

line-up of today's hop for you to get back on track 

and not miss a single project.

1. Robin ~ http://create-a-latte.blogspot.com/

2. Janet ~ http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/

3. Miranda ~ www.nanasscrapspot.com

4. Alicia ~ http://www.goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/

5. Connie ~ http://www.conniecancrop.blogspot.com

6. Michelle Kinde ~ http://www.michellekinder.blogspot.com/

7. Jessica Douglass Wilson ~ http://stampinandcraftin.blogspot.com/

8. Audrey Dickinson ~ www.kreativekreationsbyaudrey2.blogspot.com

9. Liz Mullen ~ http://scrapiliciouslife.blogspot.com/

10. Theresa Rawlins Knopf ~ http://scrapsbygracie.blogspot.com/

11. Michele Smith ~ http://michelescraftroom.blogspot.com/

12. Rhonda Helm ~ http://craftingwithblue.blogspot.com

13. Sarah Biswabic ~ www.sarahbiswabic.blogspot.com

Thank you for hopping along with us today, I hope that we have inspired you to get your craft on.

Don't forget to comment on each blog and follow too. 

Happy Crafting and Cooking

Theresa