Hot Fudge Sauce

Makes 2 1/4 cups
1 cup heavy cream
2 Tablespoons corn syrup
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
2 teaspoons vanilla

In a saucepan, combine the cream and corn syrup and bring to a boil over medium heat.

Remove from the heat, add the chocolate and whisk until melted. Stir in the vanilla.

Serve or pour into a jar and let cool before refrigerating for up to 2 weeks.

from Woman's Day, July 2012

Lemonade Syrup and Drink

2 cups  sugar
1 cup  water

Boil for 5 minutes. Then add
1 cup lemon juice

Lemonade:

2 tablespoons syrup 
3/4  cup water

Lemon Cloud Pie

1 9 inch baked pie crust

1 cup sugar
3 Tablespoons corn starch
1 cup water
1/3 cup lemon juice
3 eggs yolks, slightly beaten
4 ounces softened cream cheese
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1/2 cup whipping cream or 2 cups cool whip

Combine sugar, corn starch, and water in medium saucepan, mixing well. Stir in lemon juice and egg yolks. Cook over medium heat until mixture boils and thickens, stirring constantly. Boil for about 1 minute. Add cream cheese and lemon peel. Stir until melted and smooth. Cool to room temperature. Spoon mixture into cooled pie shell. Top with whipping cream (whipped) or cool whip. Let cool in refrigerator of 3 hours.

Makes 8 servings. From The Greeley Tribune's Holiday Recipe and Gift Guide, 2007

Tempura Batter

1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
2/3 cup water

Mix dry ingredients in a bowl. Beat egg and water with a fork before stirring into the dry mixture. Let batter stand for 1/2 hour or longer before using. This gives extra crisp coating to tempura. Add more water if thinner batter is desired. The original recipe also calls for 1/4 teaspoon mono sodium glutamate, but I don't use it.

Prepare and clean seafood and vegetables in advance and refrigerate. Heat oil in a "fry daddy" or similar appliance. Dip veggies and meat in batter, drop gently into hot oil and fry until done. Fry foods with the stronger flavor last, i.e. onions!

Excellent for shrimp!! Our favorite!
From my FHA Cookbook c. 1980 by Mollie Miyahara

Give Away on my Main Blog

I'm having a give away on my main blog, Heart Song, and would love to have you leave a comment there to be entered for the box of littles to be sent to the winner. (I copied that post here). If you wish to enter, please click here to get there.

Leap Year Day seems like a good day for a Give Away.

I'm calling it "Littles" because I like alliteration a lot!

There's something for you from head to foot.

Face Masque from the UK, Avon Foot Works, which makes your feet feel so fine, and two vintage rose candy dishes.

A tiny gilded notebook,

A tea strainer with a little teapot dangle and A Cup of Colorado tea in a box-red raspberry flavor to match the scent of the face masque!
Two protectors for your teapot so you won't break the spouts on your favorite tea pots. I should have opened this myself a few weeks ago!
A small tin of Elizabethan soap, made in Britain, a cookie cutter, a pink bookmark, rose bud soap petals that some use for crafts. They come with a warning, though. I read somewhere that they make a real mess in the bathtub.

Over at Heart Song, my main blog, I'm having a give away. If you'd like to leave a comment to enter, please click here.

I'd be happy to leap over to our little U.S. Post Office to let this lovingly packed box be on its way February 29 to one of my blog friends that leave a comment on this post. I do hope there is something that catches your fancy to help celebrate LEAP YEAR DAY.I will draw a lucky winner on the 28th so I can get the box sent out the next day after school. ♥♫