If you have a lot of cornmeal, make cornmeal muffins or cookies or...

If you have a lot of raisins make these scones, banbury tart or...

My friend from college, Ruth, writes a family cookbook for her extended family.  This is a scone recipe from the New Family Cookbook.  It uses sour cream and lemon rind besides 1/2 cup of raisins. It is the best recipe for scones that I have made.

Scones

Joy S. Ernst:   "If you go to the Washington State Fair in Puyallup, you will buy scones served with raspberry preserves, and you will want to make the scones when you get home."

2 1/2 cups flour, sifted
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp baking soda

1/3 cup butter
1 cup sour cream

1/2 cup raisins

1 egg, beaten
rind of a lemon

Dredge raisins in 2 Tb. flour.   Sift the 2 1/2 cups flour (minus the flour used for dredging) with the other dry ingredients.  Cut in butter and mix until cornmeal-ly.  Mix egg with 1 Tb. water and add to the flour along with the sour cream, raisins and rind of a lemon.  Mix until all the dry ingredients are incorporated.  Divide the dough into 24 balls.  Flatten to 1/2 inch thick round cakes. Bake on greased baking sheets in a 425 degree oven for 12 minutes or until golden brown.

I am trying different methods of baking these so they look more like scones and less like big cookies. I am baking them in a grease muffin tin right now so we shall see what happens.

If you have a lot of extra pancake mix..

We had a big bag of Krusteaz buttermilk pancake mix and we don't really make pancakes and waffles that often so I looked for things I could make using this mix.  I found this recipe for oatmeal cookies on the New Hope Mills web site.  I baked these cookies and everyone liked them.

Oatmeal Cookies using 1 cup buttermilk pancake mix

3/4 cup shortening (I used coconut oil)

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 egg

1/4 cup water

1 cup New Hope Mills Buttermilk Pancake Mix

3 cups oatmeal (I used old fashioned oats)

Cream the shortening and sugars together.  Add the vanilla, egg, and water, and mix again. Add the pancake mix, stir and then add the oats. Mix well and drop by spoonfuls on a baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes. 

What to do with 3 or 4 really ripe bananas...

Joe found this recipe called Sarah's Banana Bread Muffins on allrecipes.com.   He said it picked it because it had a personal name in the title.

Sarah's Banana Bread Muffins

1 cup white sugar or a mixture or brown and white
1/2 cup vegetable oil or coconut oil
1 egg
3 to 4 ripe bananas, mashed
1/4 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

1.  Preheat over to 350 degress F (175 degress C).  Place muffin cups in muffin tin, or grease with a little butter.

2.  Mix sugar, oil, and egg until creamy in a bowl.  Add bananas.  Add flour, baking soda and salt.  Stir until completely smooth.  Spoon batter into the muffin tin.  Sprinkle the chopped nuts on top of the batter.

3.  Bake for 30 to 40 minutes.  Poke a toothpick in the center muffin and if it comes out clean the muffins are done.