Peaches With Raisins And Cranberries Recipes

SPICED PEACHES AND CRANBERRIES IN PHYLLO CUPS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a muffin tin with butter-flavored cooking spray; set aside.
• Lay a stack of 5 sheets of phyllo dough on a flat surface. Spray between each sheet of phyllo with cooking spray. Use a knife to cut 5 by 5-inch squares. Take stacked cut squares and fit into muffin cups. (Lay out and spray another 5 sheets if necessary.) Tightly wrap and refreeze any unused phyllo dough.
• Place phyllo cups in preheated oven and bake for 8 to 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Remove and cool completely.
• In a medium mixing bowl combine pudding mix and soy milk. Whisk for 2 minutes or until pudding thickens. Stir in cinnamon and almond extract. Cover and refrigerate for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Once pudding is set, stir peach chunks and whipped topping into bowl until just combined.
• Spoon mixture into cooled phyllo cups. Garnish with dried cranberries.

CRANBERRY SAUCE WITH APRICOTS, RAISINS, AND ORANGE

Steps:

• In a large saucepan over medium heat, mix the orange juice, water, cranberries, sugar, apricots, raisins, and orange zest. Stir constantly until sugar has dissolved, about 5 minutes. Bring to a boil, and cook 10 minutes, or until cranberries have burst. Remove from heat, and chill at least 8 hours, or overnight, before serving cold.

RAISIN CRANBERRY PIE

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, combine sugar and flour. Stir in water until blended; bring to a boil. Add cranberries and raisins. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15 minute, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat; stir in butter and vanilla until butter is melted. Cool slightly., Line a 9-in. pie plate with bottom pastry; trim to 1 in. beyond edge of pie plate. Pour filling into crust. Roll out remaining pastry; cut into lattice strips and place over filling. Seal and flute edges. Brush lattice crust with cream if desired. , Bake at 375° for 30 minutes or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly, covering edges with foil during the last 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Refrigerate leftovers.

QUICK PEACHES AND GOLDEN RAISINS COBBLER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
• Place frozen peaches in an 8 by 8 glass baking dish, defrost in microwave for 3 minutes on high. While the peaches are defrosting, make the cobbler topping. In a bowl, combine the biscuit mix with a 1/2 cup of water, stir until thoroughly combined but do not overwork. In another bowl combine 1/2 cup of the granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, pepper, a pinch of salt and raisins. Remove peaches from the microwave and combine with the sugar mixture in baking dish. Top the seasoned peaches with biscuit mix, use your fingers to press out until even. Top the biscuit mix with almonds. Mix remaining cinnamon and sugar together and sprinkle over the biscuits. Bake until cobbler top is firm and lightly golden and peaches are bubbly and hot, about 20 to 25 minutes.
• Serve warm as is or with ice cream and whipped cream if you have some on hand.

PEACH-CRANBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Bring sugar and water to a boil, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Add cranberries, peaches, and salt, and return to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer gently, stirring occasionally, until thickened and cranberries have burst, about 10 minutes. Let cool. Cover, and refrigerate until ready to serve.

CRANBERRY RAISIN RELISH

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, water and orange juice; cook and stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. , Stir in the cranberries, apricots, raisins and orange peel; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer until the berries pop, about 15 minutes. Serve warm or chilled.

PEAR AND CRANBERRY UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Cut a rectangle out of waxed paper to fit an 8x12-inch cake pan. Spray the pan with cooking spray, then place waxed paper liner over the bottom.
• Melt butter in a large skillet. Add 2 cups sugar and cook until sugar has dissolved and mixture is bubbling, about 3 minutes. Add pear slices; reduce heat to low and cook for 5 minutes. Turn off heat and add cranberries.
• Whisk flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, cloves, and nutmeg together in a bowl.
• Combine remaining 2 cups sugar, milk, oil, eggs, and vanilla in another bowl using a hand mixer until cake batter is smooth. Gradually mix in dry ingredients until well combined. Fold in walnuts.
• Pour pear-cranberry mixture into the prepared cake pan. Use a spatula to spread cake batter evenly on top of fruit.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 70 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Place a platter on top of the cake pan and carefully flip the pan and platter over, allowing the cake to settle on the platter. Lift cake pan off and serve.

BAKED PEACHES WITH GOLDEN RAISINS

Steps:

• Lightly grease a 9-inch baking dish; set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Measure brown sugar, butter, vanilla, honey, lemon juice and salt into a 1-quart saucepan.
• Over low heat, stir and heat until sugar is dissolved and mixture is syrupy.
• Stir in raisins.
• Keep warm, but do not allow to boil.
• Arrange peaches, cut side up, in prepared baking dish.
• Pour syrup over all.
• Bake, uncovered for 20 minutes, or until peaches are just beginning to caramelize.
• Serve warm, 2 halves per serving.
• Top with whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, or frozen yogurt.

CRANBERRY-RAISIN PIE

Steps:

• Roll out about 60% of the pastry and line a 9" pie plate.
• Roll out the remaining pastry to cover.
• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Bring the cranberries and water to a boil in a large pot.
• Add the raisins, sugar and flour.
• Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened.
• Pour into the prepared bottom crust, top with rolled out upper crust, and seal the edges with a wet fork.
• Cut or poke steam holes in the top crust.
• Bake at 350°F for 40 minutes.

CRANBERRY SAUCE WITH PEARL ONIONS AND GOLDEN RAISINS

Steps:

• In a dry large deep heavy skillet cook the sugar over moderately high heat, stirring constantly with a fork, until it is melted completely and a deep golden caramel. Remove the skillet from the heat, into the side of the skillet carefully pour 1 cup hot water, a little at a time, and cook the mixture over moderate heat, stirring, until the caramel is dissolved. Add the onions, the raisins, and the cranberries and simmer the mixture, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes, or until the cranberries are tender. Remove the skillet from the heat, let the cranberry sauce mixture cool, and transfer it to a serving dish.