PEAR-NUT BREAD

2-3 fresh pears
1/2 cup salad oil
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup dairy sour cream
1 t vanilla
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 t salt
1 t soda
1/4 t cinnamon
1/4 t nutmeg
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Peel and core pears, chop to get 1 cup fruit.  In a large mixer bowl beat together oil and sugar til blended.  Beat in eggs one at a time, the sour cream and vanilla.  Sift together flour, salt, soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg.  Add to oil sugar mixture and blend well.  Add nuts and pears. (Fold in with a spoon).  Bake at 350 in well greased 9x5 loaf pan about an hour.  Cool about 15 minutes before turning out onto rack.

This bread tastes really nice, the flavors blending well together, nice and moist.  It got eaten very quickly.

WALNUT COFFEE RING (WITH BISCUITS)

1/4 cup butter or margarine
2-8oz. pkg. refrigerator biscuits (10 in each)
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 t grated orange rind
1/4 t nutmeg
2/3 cup large pieces of walnuts

In a 10 inch skillet over low heat melt the butter and remove from the heat.  Cut each biscuit in quarters and add to the skillet.  Toss to coat with butter.  In a small mixing bowl stir together the sugar, orange rind and nutmeg.  Sprinkle over biscuit wedges.  Add walnuts and toss togeter.  Spoon into a well buttered 8" ring mold.  Bake at 375 until browned (30 to 35 minutes.)  If top browns too much before end of baking, cover with a sheet of foil.  Let stand about 5 minutes at room temp.  Then invert on a serving plate and remove mold.  Serve warm.

This is good, kind of like a monkey bread.  I had to use a springform pan because I don't have the ring mold.  I think the ring mold would have made it even better because it would've been thicker.  Definitely need to use the foil during end of baking time because it started to get really brown.

BLUEBERRY SURPRISE

3 oz. lemon jello
3 oz. black raspberry jello
1 cup boiling water
2-1/2 cups cold water
1 T lemon juice
21 oz. can blueberry pie filling

Topping:
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 cup sour cream
1 t vanilla

(Double for 9x13 dish)

There were no directions for this one, so I simply mixed the above ingredients and put in the refrigerator and when set I added the topping.  I could't find the black raspberry jello flavor at my store (maybe they don't make it anymore) so I used raspberry.  This is actually pretty good considering not too many people really rave about jello anymore, but it's very light and has a nice flavor.  I think it would be perfect after a heavy meal.

HOT WASSLE

1 Gallon apple cider
1-6 oz. can orange juice frozen concentrate
1-6oz can frozen lemonade
3 sticks of cinnamon
1 T whole cloves

Mix together and simmer about 1/2 hour.  Serve hot in mugs or punch cups.

Love and joy unto you, and to you your wassle too!  We always had this growing up around the holiday season.  It's always good, and you can refrigerate leftovers I've found and just zap up an individual cup the next day......keeps you toasty!