Name That Recipe

A game for slow days. You load the unusual ingredient list, title, or particularly interesting step / instructions, and we try to guess which celebrity chef or cookbook author composed it. Better yet, try to guess the name of the dish being described as well. Try not to use Google (since most of the recipes we find will be online, I imagine). Post a link (or the complete recipe, adapted if you believe it's protected, see forum rules) after the correct guess.

An easy one to start with - just found this today, recommended for the 4th of July.

Ingredient list:

4 Whole wheat flour tortillas
1 can (21 ounces) apple pie filling
1 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon sugar

Santander wrote:A game for slow days. You load the unusual ingredient list, title, or particularly interesting step / instructions, and we try to guess which celebrity chef or cookbook author composed it. Better yet, try to guess the name of the dish being described as well. Try not to use Google (since most of the recipes we find will be online, I imagine). Post a link (or the complete recipe, adapted if you believe it's protected, see forum rules) after the correct guess.

An easy one to start with - just found this today, recommended for the 4th of July.

Ingredient list:

4 Whole wheat flour tortillas
1 can (21 ounces) apple pie filling
1 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon sugar

Sandra Lee?

aschie30 wrote:

Santander wrote:A game for slow days. You load the unusual ingredient list, title, or particularly interesting step / instructions, and we try to guess which celebrity chef or cookbook author composed it. Better yet, try to guess the name of the dish being described as well. Try not to use Google (since most of the recipes we find will be online, I imagine). Post a link (or the complete recipe, adapted if you believe it's protected, see forum rules) after the correct guess.

An easy one to start with - just found this today, recommended for the 4th of July.

Ingredient list:

4 Whole wheat flour tortillas
1 can (21 ounces) apple pie filling
1 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon sugar

Sandra Lee?

It's gotta be. I am guessing "no fuss apple pie" or somesuch. Line pie pan with tortillas (overlapping). Mix apple pie filling with milk and sugar. Spoon filling mixture into tortilla-lined pie pan and bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes.

Ding ding ding! Here you go! http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/recipe?id=7966264

Mhays wrote:Ding ding ding! Here you go! http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/recipe?id=7966264

Wow. Even for Sandra Lee it seems like a stretch to call "Put some canned pie filling in a tortilla." a recipe.

OK, my turn!

INGREDIENTS – 1/2 pint of melted butter No. 376, 3 dessertspoonfuls of capers, 1 dessertspoonful of their liquor, a small piece of glaze, if at hand (this may be dispensed with), 1/4 teaspoonful of salt, ditto of pepper, 1 tablespoonful of anchovy essence.

eli wrote:Wow. Even for Sandra Lee it seems like a stretch to call "Put some canned pie filling in a tortilla." a recipe.

SL Recipe wrote:Warm the tortillas in a microwave to make them pliable

while it may not have been possible for me to lose respect for SL, as I didn't have any to begin with, this is the most disgusting excuse for a recipe I've ever seen.

Mhays wrote:OK, my turn!

INGREDIENTS – 1/2 pint of melted butter No. 376, 3 dessertspoonfuls of capers, 1 dessertspoonful of their liquor, a small piece of glaze, if at hand (this may be dispensed with), 1/4 teaspoonful of salt, ditto of pepper, 1 tablespoonful of anchovy essence.

I'd say bagna cauda except that's usually part or all olive oil.

Mhays wrote:OK, my turn!

INGREDIENTS – 1/2 pint of melted butter No. 376, 3 dessertspoonfuls of capers, 1 dessertspoonful of their liquor, a small piece of glaze, if at hand (this may be dispensed with), 1/4 teaspoonful of salt, ditto of pepper, 1 tablespoonful of anchovy essence.

Mrs. Beeton's caper sauce for skatewing

Kenny got it! I love the measures in old recipes.

What does the "No. 376" refer to? Is that a specific type of butter?

eli wrote:What does the "No. 376" refer to? Is that a specific type of butter?

Recipe #376 in her book is the recipe for melted butter, which is not what you and I think melted butter is. It's actually more like a partially-cooked roux thinned with water.

I didn't know what it was, but I knew it was something old because it called for "anchovy essence." I picked up a "Modern Cookery" cookbook c. 1930s from England at the Newberry Library book sale last year, and it seems that every recipe calls for anchovy essence.

This is fun.

I was originally trying to hunt up a Brillat-Savarin recipe, but since they're all translated the ingredients lists aren't as distinctive.

Here's another one. Guess the cook and the name of the recipe.

Ingredients
2 sticks butter
2 ounces cream cheese
Salt and pepper
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 egg, beaten
1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
Peanut oil, for frying

Directions
Cream the butter, cream cheese, salt and pepper together with an electric mixer until smooth. Using a very small ice cream scoop, or melon baller, form 1-inch balls of butter mixture and arrange them on a parchment or waxed paper lined sheet pan. Freeze until solid. Coat the frozen balls in flour, egg, and then bread crumbs and freeze again until solid.

When ready to fry, preheat oil in a deep-fryer to 350 degrees F.

Fry balls for 10 to 15 seconds until just light golden. Drain on paper towels before serving.

Paula Deen hush puppies? (I have no idea)

right author. These are Paula's Fried Butter Balls (I am embarrassed by how good I am at this)

dingdingdingdingding!

thaiobsessed in first with the cook, kennyz in next with the recipe & cook.

Paula's Fried Butter Balls

That was too easy.

Reading through this post, I find myself hearing that annoying couple from the Clark Snackmaster infomercial.

Ingredient list (exact wording and order modified to prevent Google-cheating):

2 packages of pizza dough from the store
1/2 cup of flour
1/4 cup of cornmeal
3 cups of miniature marshmallows
2 bars of chocolate, dark preferred
1/4 cup of almonds
3 tablespoons butter
1 package of graham crackers
chili powder
cayenne pepper
salt

What are we making, and who has directed us to do so? My favorite step involves browning the graham crackers with the chili powder and cayenne pepper in butter.

Guy Fieri - S'More Pizza?

jannamae008 wrote:Guy Fieri - S'More Pizza?

Four minutes - a record time. Brava!

1/2 pound cooked ham
4 egg whites
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp ground pepper
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 recipe Russian Sauce

I admit to post-guess googling to check myself, but the "1 recipe ____" is such a chestnut in the Fannie Farmer repertoire - a book which I love. So, 'ol Fannie's Ham Mousse.

Mhays wrote:I admit to post-guess googling to check myself, but the "1 recipe ____" is such a chestnut in the Fannie Farmer repertoire - a book which I love. So, 'ol Fannie's Ham Mousse.

well done, but I am only giving partial credit for Ham Mousse. There is a more complete recipe name.

I'll leave that to somebody who didn't google...

This has to make the worst pasta in human history:

3/4 lb spaghetti
1 pound lean ground beef
1 jar spaghetti sauce (unspecified. shudder.)
one package cream cheese
2 tbsp of parmesan cheese from a canister

Cook spaghetti, then dump in with everything else in a skillet. I'm not kidding. No salt or pepper, no butter or oil, just lean beef and cream cheese. Don't you dare let an onion touch this recipe.

This is a copyrighted 2010 recipe, from the back of a receipt. Guess the name of the recipe. Then drink some scotch and cower in a corner.

Sounds like Kraft. Family Nite Pisketti?

Hahahaha! A google search turned up "Spaghetti a la Philly"!
And of course, about a billion food/recipe blogs where people try it out and comment on it. I won't link to any blogs, but I love the ones where they take detailed pictures of every step. I mean, how hard is it to brown meat dump everything together? Sheesh.
Also, on one site, I love the disclosure the author put at the bottom of the page, which read

Disclosure: "Philadelphia Cream Cheese reached out to me to try their new Philly inspired recipe 'Spaghetti a la Philly'. For participating in the recipe trial, I received (3) free Philadelphia cream cheese product coupons and a cookbook. "

You're totally right, Santander. Worst. pasta. ever.