Strawberry Yummy recipe

I made a new dessert this week, one from Bear Cabin that we had last weekend that Carol shared her recipe with us so I tried it. I needed it for 2 classes and my quilt meeting so I doubled it and put it into pie pans to freeze, still have one left! It was a light cool and refreshing summer time treat! 

Strawberry  Yummy

From Bear Cabin

1 cup flour

½ cup butter

¼ cup brown sugar

Mix until crumbly and spread in a 9 x 13 pan, bake at 375 for 10 minutes

1 cup sugar

2 egg whites

2 tsp lemon juice

10 oz frozen strawberries

8 oz cool whip

Beat sugar, egg whites and lemon until well mixed.  Add strawberries and keep beating until very fluffy 9 10-15 minutes).  Fold in cool whip.  Put on top of crumb crust and freeze.  

I think it'd be really pretty with a slice of a fresh strawberry on each piece.

Apricot Butter

Well I thought I'd try something new today, I had taken another big bowl full of apricots out of the refrigerator to let ripen on the counter and a day off from work meant...do something with them. So I went looking on line for a recipe. I always loved apple butter as a kid, then when I was in Vermont I was introduced to pumpkin butter...mmmmm. So I thought I'd try apricot butter. There was a recipe, it was credited to the rival crock-pot book so I tried it and yeah ! it worked ! I took the apricots and washed and pitted them, put them into a pan and cooked them...
They were so pretty and orange. After they were mushy I put them into the blender....7 cups of mushy apricots, blended them up and dumped them into the crockpot...added 6 cups of sugar, 2 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. cloves and 2 T. lemon juice. It cooked for 10 hours, half way thru you take the lid off the crock pot...by then the fruit has turned a golden brown and this reduces the liquid.
Finally before dinner it became 7 jars of Apricot Butter ! We had it on toast at dinner and it was so good, I will definitely do this one again with another one of those bowls of apricots waiting in the refrigerator !