Recipes
 Graham Cracker Pudding

1 Quart of Milk
1 cup of coconut
1 cup of fine graham cracker crumbs
½ cup of sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon of vanilla

Mix eggs and sugar in a small bowl and set aside.

Bring the milk to a boil.  Sprinkle on graham crackers and coconut while stirring.
(Note) – You can make milk very warm in the Microwave before putting in the pan to boil.

Put about 4 tablespoons of the hot mixture into the eggs and sugar and stir together.

Then put entire mixture back into the pan of hot mixture.

Cook mixture till thick until it bubbles.
Then take off of heat and add the vanilla.

Sprinkle a little more coconut across the top of the full dish.
               (Submitted by Frances Rotz)

RECIPE FOR CHILI

2 lbs. ground beef
3 - 15 1/2 oz. cans Red Kidney Beans with liquid
1 - 15 1/2 oz. can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 cup diced onions
1/2 cup diced green peppers
1/3 cup diced celery
2 pints tomato juice
1 quart whole tomatoes, mashed
2 teaspoons cumin powder
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 1/2 teaspoons black pepper
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups water


Instructions for the Chili Recipe

Brown the ground beef in medium heat
and drain off the fat.
In a large pot, combine the beef
plus all other ingredients and
heat over medium heat until hot.
Turn back to low heat and simmer for
2 hours stirring every 15 minutes.
Note - You can use bought tomatoes or
home canned tomatoes and juice.
This recipe makes a large amount
 and freezes well.

(Frances Rotz)

TASTY APPLE NUT BREAD RECIPE
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp soda
1 tsp baking powder
2 Tablespoons buttermilk
(or use regular milk and add a drop of vinegar)
2 cups tart apples
1/2 cup nuts


TOPPING FOR THE APPLE NUT BREAD
3 Tablespoons flour
2 Tablespoons sugar
2 Tablespoons firm butter or margarine
1 tsp cinnamon

(Blend together for crumb top mixture)

With a pastry knife, cream the first four ingredients
for the Apple Nut Bread Recipe.  Sift together
the dry ingredients.  Mix alternately with the
buttermilk into the creamed mixture.
Fold in the apples and nuts. Drop into
greased or lined loaf pan.  Sprinkle topping
over all and bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
For small loaf pan or cup cakes, bake for 25-30 mins.

 Pumpkin Cake

Mix together for the cake:
2 cups  sugar
2 cups  canned pumpkin
1 ¼ cup cooking oil
4 eggs

Mix together and add to above:
2 cups  flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons cinnamon
ADD:
½ cup chopped nuts
½ cup coconut
Bake in bundt pan or angel food pan 
at 350 degrees for one hour.


 

Recipe for the icing:
1 – 8 oz. package of cream cheese
½ stick of margarine
1 box confectioners 10x sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Cream this topping together and 
cover while the cake is still warm!
(Submitted by Frances Rotz)

Raisin Pie
3 cups seeded raisins. 
1-cup sugar
2-½ cups water
½ cup orange juice
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons lemon juice
3 tablespoons & 1 teaspoon cornstarch

Cook raisins, sugar, water, orange juice, lemon juice, salt, and butter for five minutes.  Dissolve cornstarch in 3 tablespoons of cold water.  Add to raisin mixture.  Cook for 5 minutes.  Let set till cool.  Pour into 9” pastry lined pie pan.  Make top of pastry arranged lattice fashion or a top crust with markings for vent.  Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes or till golden brown.

(Submitted by Frances Rotz)

Green Tomato Pie

4 cups green tomatoes, sliced
½ cup brown sugar
¼ cup white sugar
½ cup molasses
3 tablespoons clear jell
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg

Line a nine-inch pie plate with piecrust. 
Brush with melted butter and chill for 15 minutes.
Combine 2 tablespoons flour with 2 tablespoons sugar
 (Sprinkle on chilled crust)
Slice tomatoes in thin slices.  (Do not pare tomatoes)
Cover with boiling water and let stand 10 minutes…drain.
Combine sugar and spices and clear gel.
Put half the tomatoes in unbaked pastry shell.
Next - Put one half of sugar mixture on tomatoes.
Then add remainder of tomatoes and sugar mixture.
  Drizzle molasses over the entire top of pie.
Cover with top crust.  Seal edges and cut steam vents in top.

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes or until crust is golden brown.
(This recipe is submitted by Frances Rotz)

Old Fashioned Grape Pie

4 Cups  Concord grapes
3 tablespoons  clear jell
1 tablespoon margarine  (Melted)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup  sugar
Line a nine-inch pie plate with raw piecrust.  Brush with melted margarine and chill for about 15 minutes.  Combine 2 tablespoons of flour with 2 tablespoons of sugar.  Sprinkle on chilled crust.
Remove skins from the grapes and simmer pulp for 5 minutes.  Do not add any water.  Press pulp through a strainer to remove seeds.  Combine pulp with skins.  Combine sugar and clear jell and add to the grapes.  Blend in lemon juice and margarine.   Pour into a 9” piecrust and cover with top crust.  Bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes. 

White Chocolate Strawberry Pie

1 Box (6 oz.) NESTLE Toll House Premier White Baking Bars, divided
2 Tablespoons milk
1 Package (3 oz.) cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
1 Teaspoon grated orange peel
1 cup whipping cream, whipped*
1 (6 oz.) KEEBLER Graham Cracker Pie Crust
2 cups sliced fresh strawberries
*You may use 1 1/2 Cups COOL WHIP instead of whipping cream
In a double Boiler or microwave, melt 2 baking bars with milk. Cool to warm temperature.  Meanwhile, beat cream cheese and sugar in a mixing bowl until smooth.  Beat in orange peel and melted chocolate.  Fold in whipped cream.  Spread into crust.  Arrange strawberries on top.  Melt the remaining baking bar; drizzle over berries.  Refrigerate for at least one hour.  Store in the refrigerator. Yield: 8 servings


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Copied from Taste of Home Cooking School Recipe Collection
Fresh Apple Cake
(DELICIOUS) !

Beat:  2 eggs and 2 cups of sugar together
Add: 1 cup Wesson Oil.
2 ½ cups of flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. soda
3 cups finely chopped apples
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
MIX ALL TOGETHER.

Pour mixture into one  13 x 9 x 2” pan.
Sprinkle over the batter a small 6 oz. package of      butterscotch chips.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to 1 hour.

(This recipe is submitted by Joyce Diehl)

Ham Loaf

2 lbs. Ham Loaf Mix
 (Available at the Butcher Shop)
½ cup milk
2 eggs
¼ cup brown sugar
½ cup crushed crackers
1 tbsp. mustard
3 tbsp. vinegar
TOPPING
2 tbsp. brown sugar
2 tbsp. mustard
Pour pineapple juice over all and you can add the pineapple over the top of the ham loaf.
Mix and bake the same as meat loaf.
Bake from 1 to 1 1/4 hours at 350o

(This recipe is submitted by Ruth Shissler)

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Mustard Eggs

10 hard-cooked eggs  ½ cup vinegar
3 Tbsp. yellow mustard 1 cup water
2/3 cup sugar   pinch of salt

Mix all ingredients except eggs and heat.  Add eggs and store in refrigerator for a day or so to develop flavor.  Then enjoy.
Copied from the Air Hill Church Cook Book
(This recipe is submitted by Ethel Myers)

Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

4 1/2   cups Flour
2 teaspoons  baking soda
1 1/2  cups brown sugar
1/2  cup white sugar
2 cups butter or margarine
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 boxes instant vanilla pudding
12 oz. chocolate chips

Combine the butter, sugar, vanilla and pudding.  Beat well.  Add eggs.  Mix and gradually add in the flour and baking soda.  Mix well.  Then add the chocolate chips.  Bake for about 9 minutes at 350 degrees.


Buckeyes Candy

1 lb. box of  10 x sugar
1 18 oz. jar of peanut butter
½ cup of soft butter or oleo
1 teaspoon  vanilla
Mix all ingredients well…then shape into small balls…to look like size of “buckeyes”.  Cool in the refrigerator for an hour or two.

    Buckeyes -  Part 2

              Then Melt:   6 oz. Chocolate Chips 
  ½ cake  Paraffin  (or less)
Put a toothpick into each ball and dip into the melted chocolate.   Let a small uncovered area on top of the ball.  Cool…then eat!
(They should look like Buckeyes that grow on trees!)



Submitted by Frances Rotz

 

Rhubarb Pie

4  cups  Rhubarb, cut into one-inch pieces.
1 and one-eighth cups sugar, plus 2 tablespoons.
2 tablespoons flour, plus 3 tablespoons.
  Melt enough margarine for crust brushing .
   Line a nine-inch pie plate with raw pie crust.  Brush with melted margarine and chill for about 15 minutes.
   Combine 2 tablespoons flour with 2 tablespoons sugar: Sprinkle on chilled crust.
   Heap 4 cups of Rhubarb cut into 1-inch pieces over crust shell.  Mix together 1 and one-eighth cup sugar and 3 tablespoons flour and 2 tablespoons instant clear gel.
Sprinkle on Rhubarb.

   Apply top crust.  Slit to vent.
   Bake assembled pie at 350 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes.  
  If desired, top pie slices with Cool Whip or another non-dairy topping.
(Frances Rotz)

How the Mighty Have Fallen
  Two teen-agers working for hire in my mother’s western New York garden pulled up her bushy stand of Rhubarb.  They thought these big-leaved,stalky perennials were weeds.  Rhubarb may be known as “The stuff of future pies”.  Maybe Rhuen rhaponticum - “pieplant” to most of us - will undergo a renaissance.  One day, even teen-agers may once again distinguish this handsome member of the buckwheat family from a dandelion.


In the grocery store, look for Rhubarb stalks that are firm and break crisply.  In the kitchen, discard the leaves, which can make you sick.  Either dice the stalks or cut them in 1 inch slices.  When cooked, rhubarb carries a puckery, tart flavor that at first may shock more than please, but if leavened with the right amount of sweetener and cooked to the right texture, Rhubarb is a desert-lover’s delight.  Rhubarb packs some nutritional punch.  It is rich in calcium and potassium.  Both are valuable minerals, whether making pies or picking weeds.
  (By Corydon Ireland - Gannett Rochester Newspapers - July 96.)
Coconut Ice Cream Cake

Crumb together: 60 Ritz Crackers - broken up and 1 1/4 sticks of butter - melted.
Mix well and put in bottom of an 8" x 13" pan
Mix: One half gallon - soft Vanilla Ice Cream
1 1/4 cup of milk
2 - 3 1/2 oz. packs of Instant Coconut Cream Pudding or use one pack each of Coconut Cream and Vanilla Pudding

Place the mixture on the crumb mix and refrigerate for one hour.  Add one 8 oz. container of Cool Whip on top.  Sprinkle coconut on the top or toast 1 cup coconut for the top of mixture.  Put in freezer till about a half hour before serving.  (Melts in your mouth like ice cream)!

ELEPHANT SOUP!!!
Note:  This one will serve a lot of people!

1  Elephant   (not too old)
15  gallons of brown gravy
10  lbs. of pepper
12  lbs. Salt
1  Rabbit

 Cut the elephant into small bite-size pieces.  That will take about 4-6 months.  Add salt and pepper and cover with brown gravy.  Place concoction in a very large oven and cook at 700 degrees for one week until tender.
 This recipe will serve 3,800 to 4,500 persons.  If more guests are expected, add the rabbit. 
Note:  Add the rabbit only if necessary as most folks don’t like a hare in their soup.       Anonymous!!!
If you try this, let us know!


P.S.  If you have left over meat - try a delicious Elephant Sandwich !

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