Banana Ice

2 cups sugar
2 cups water
3 lemons
3 oranges
1 cup crushed pineapple with juice
3 bananas mashed
2-liter bottle of 7-up

Bring water and sugar to a boil. Cook until sugar is dissolved. Cool. Add the juice of the 3 lemons and 3 oranges. Add crushed pineapple with juice and mashed bananas. Mix well. Freeze in an ice cream bucket. Serve broken up in glasses wit6h 7-up poured over it.

Rice Cream

¾ cup uncooked rice
1 quart milk
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup sugar
½ teaspoon Almond extract
½ cup toasted slivered almonds, chopped
1 pint cream, whipped

Bring milk to a boil. Add rice and salt and transfer to a double boiler. Cook 1 ½ hours or until fluffy, stirring occasionally. Cool completely. Add sugar, almonds and almond extract. Fold in whipped cream. Serve with strawberries. (Fred’s mother always put a whole almond in one of the servings. Who ever got this would get a box of chocolates. This was their Christmas dinner dessert tradition.)

Blötkake (Norwegian Birthday Cake)

5 eggs separated
1 cup white sugar
1 cup sifted flour
almond or vanilla extract
whipping Cream

Mix half of sugar with egg whites in one bowl. In separate bowl, mix remaining sugar with egg yolks. Beat egg whites until stiff and egg yolks until sugar is dissolved and mixture is thick and lemony in color. Add egg mixtures together. Add extract to egg mixture and fold into flour.

Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees in a spring form pan. Allow to cool.

To assemble: Cut cake into 3 layers and then layer cake with you choice of fruit and whipping cream.