Joseph's Coat & Brune Kager Recipe

This photo shows Dagmar by the planter on the front porch, with the Joseph's Coat plant. Also in the photo are Warren, Cathy and Janet. Aunt Ellen gave this Joseph's Coat plant to Dagmar when they moved into the "new" farmhouse. The plant is a warm weather plant and cuttings must be taken in and put in water or saved over the winter in dirt and then replanted outside the next spring. This plant has been in the planted in the front porch planter of the farm house since the spring after the house was completed. I still take cuttings in every winter and replant them in the planter in the spring. I will gladly share them, if someone would like one. These photos show the beautiful foliage of the plant.

The recipe I am inlcuding in this post is a traditional cookie recipe from Denmark. This one has been adapted from the metric measurements to the measurements we use in the US, and hand written on a peice of scratch paper from one of the seed companies! We enjoyed this fabulous cookie at Iver and Kirsten's when we were there in Novemeber in 2004. Kirsten said it was a traditional Christmas cookie recipe. It goes great with ice cream (our all American favorite!)

Dagmar's Birthday Anniversary

Today, on the 102 anniversary of Dagmar's birth date; we remember how she kept the United States families connected to the family in Denmark; with her perfect Danish either written or by phone calls. How she might marvel at the world wide web and how we can now keep in touch by e. mail and with photos instantly!

This photo is of Dagmar and Rasmus in the old house, here on the farm.

Ken and I choose the Liverposteg, as it is a favorite of ours. The recipe is noted to have come from Aunt Ellen.

Our thoughts are also with Iver and Kirsten as it has been a year since Tina lost her life to the cancer. She was such a brave and strong young woman, in her fight.

Yummy Coconut Cream Pie that makes it's own crust!

This is one of Doris and Bill's favorite recipes. Doris recommended not making it if you don't have help eating it, as you will want to eat the whole thing! This recipe came from Barb J, a family friend.

Coconut Cream Pie
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup melted butter
2 cups milk
1 1/2 cups coconut
1 tsp. vanilla
Combine ingredients in order given, pour into greased, deep, 10 inch pie plate.
Bake at 350F for 45 min. or until golden brown. Middle will appear soft, it will have a delicate crust over top, sides, and bottom.

Hamburger in Electric Skillet

This photo show Dagmar in her new kitchen in the house she and Rasmus built on the farm in 1959-1960.

Ken remembers getting an electric skillet at Meeske's store in Weeping Water. He said his mother really enjoying having the modern appliance! Dagmar made the following recipe quite often.

Printing a recipe

If you would like to print the recipes, right click on the image and then click on "save image as" and save in your program. These are .jpg images and can be saved and printed. The photos may also be saved and printed by the same method.
When setting up this blog I opted to reproduce the recipes as they are on Dagmar's recipe cards, so that you can have them as they were written by Dagmar or other members of the family.

Family Birthday Celebration

This great old photo shows a family birthday celebration, which of course always centers around food and cake! Doris made the cakes and this was probably celebrating Rasmus and Theresa's Birthdays. The photos includes brother Dick and Virginia, Rasmus holding Cathy, Theresa, Alice, Evelyn and Roger adn Debbie. This photo is not dated, but was in the "old" farm house. Rasmus and family enjoy the presentation of the Birthday cake. Ken has happy memories of birthday celebrations in the old house.

The following handwritten recipe is for traditional Danish Pumpernickel bread.