Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 pkg. chocolate chips
1/3 cup fluff
2 eggs, beaten, room temperature
pinch salt
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup nut meats
1 tsp. vanilla

Drop on ungreased cookie sheet.

Cinnamon Coffee Cake

1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
4 Tbsp. butter
1 egg
2/3 cup milk
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

Sift flour, baking powder, sugar and salt together, cut in butter until fully blended. Beat egg, add to milk, and stir into the dry ingredients. Beat vigorously. Pour the mixture into a greased 8 inch square pan and then sprinkle generously with brown sugar and cinnamon. Bake 30 to 40 minutes in 400 degree oven.

Banana Upside-down Cake

Grease sides of pan. Cream together 1/3 cup butter and 1 cup brown sugar. Spread over bottom of pan. Place sliced bananas over this sugar mixture. Dot with marachino cherries.

Cake batter
Cream together 1/2 cup shortening amd 1 1/4 cups sugar. Add 2 beaten eggs.
Sift together:
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. salt

Add alternately to shortening/sugar mixture with mixture of:
1 cup mashed bananas
1/2 cup sour milk

Add 1 tsp. vanilla. Pour into prepared pan. Bake at 385 degrees for 50 minutes. Turn out on cake rack to cool. Serve with topping of whipped cream.

Tomato Cake

Cream 1/2 cup shortening, add 1 cup sugar and blend well. Add slowly 1 1/4 cup of canned tomato soup in which 3/4 tsp. soda has been dissolved. Stir in 2 cups of flour, sifted with 2 tsp. baking powder, 2 tsp. nutmeg, 1 tsp. cinnamon, and 1/4 tsp. salt. Mix just enough to blend well. Fold in 1 cup chopped raisins or dates and 1 cup broken nut meats dredged with 2 Tbsp. flour. Pour in a greased, floured loaf pan about 8x13 and bake in a moderate oven about 350 degrees. When cold cover with the following frosting.

Cheese Frosting
Beat 1 pkg. cream cheese until smooth. Add 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar gradually, beating constantly. Flavor with a few drops of vanilla.

Caramel Topping for a Coffee Cake

Stir up a standard yeast coffee cake dough and let rise in pan. When risen pour a mixture of the following over the top.

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup sour cream
2 tsp. cornstarch
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Bake in 350 degree oven for 30 to 35 minutes. Serve warm.

Cherry Winks

2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 Tbsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla

Sift dry ingredients together. Mix wet ingredients. Blend the wet into the dry gradually. Then add:

1 cup nuts, chopped
1 cup dates, chopped
1/3 cup marachino cherries, chopped

Crush 2 1/2 cups corn flakes and roll tablespoonfuls balls of dough into corn flakes. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.

Five Minute Tomato Aspic

1 pkg. lemon jello
1 1/4 cups hot water
1 can tomato sauce
1 1/2 Tbsp. vinegar
1/2 tsp. salt

Dissolve jello in hot water, add other ingredients, blend. Chill until firm.

Barbecued Buns

1 lb. ground beef
1 1/2 cups chopped onions
1 to 2 cups chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1 cup tomato soup
1/2 to 1 Tbsp. barbecue sauce
1 tsp. salt
pepper to taste

Brown meat in small amount of hot fat. Add vegetables and cook till soft. Add remaining ingredients. Cover and simmer 30 minutes. Serve on buns.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 pkg. yellow devils food or white cake mix
12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate pieces
2 eggs
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup oleo
1 cup peanut butter

Beat eggs, water, butter, peanut butter and half of cake mix (dry) until smooth. Stir in remaining cake mix and chocolate pieces. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes. For bars - spread dough in greased and floured cookie sheet and bake 20 minutes. Cool - cut into bars.

Chocolate Oatmeal Cake

1 cup rolled oats, uncooked quick or old fashioned
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups boiling water
1 cup sifted flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. vanilla

Mix rolled oats and boiling water - let cool. Cream shortening, sugar and eggs. Add oatmeal mixture along with flour, cocoa, soda, salt and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Bake in 8 inch square pan greased and floured at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. This is a delicious moist chocolate cake and freezes well.

Cinnamon Raisin Bread Pudding

6 slices cinnamon raisin bread or
(6 slices white bread plus 1 tsp. cinnamon and 1/3 cup raisins)
2 cups milk
1 Tbsp. oleo
2 large eggs
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt
nutmeg

Cut bread into pieces 3/4 inches thick and place in a shallow butered 5 cup baking dish. Heat milk with oleo until very hot and oleo is melted - do not boil - beat eggs with sugar, vanilla, and salt. Add hot milk stirring constantly. Pour milk mixture over bread. Allow to stand for 5 minutes. Sprinkle lightly with nutmeg. Set dish in pan of hot water to half depth and bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes until custard is set.

Jam Cake

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
3 eggs
1 cup jam
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 cups flour
1 tsp. soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground cloves

Cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs one at a time and beat well. Add jam and beat well again. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternatively with buttermilk. Bake in two 9-inch round pans at 375 degrees for 35 minutes.

Sring Beauty Cake

1 cup sifted flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 tsp. lemon juice
6 Tbsp. hot milk

Sift flour once, meaure, add baking powder, salt, and resift 3 times. Beat eggs until thick (5 to 7 minutes) add sugar gradually, beating constantly. Add lemon juice. Fold in flour a small amount at a time. Add hot milk and stir quickly until well blended. Turn at once into ungreased tube pan and bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) for 35 minutes. Remove from oven and invert pan 1 hour or until cold. Remove from pan and frost.

Creamed Eggs

12 hard boiled eggs
3 Tbsp. chopped onion
1 green pepper, chopped
2 Tbsp. butter
8 oz. can sliced mushrooms
2 cans mushroom soup
1 cup thin white sauce
1 Tbsp. butter
1 Tbsp. flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup milk
1 tsp. worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp. tabasco sauce
salt and pepper to taste

Saute onions and pepper in butter until tender. Add drained mushrooms. Mix in all remaining ingredients except eggs. Cut eggs in quarters and carefully fold into the mixture. This is better to mix the day before. It may then be heated in double boiler or casserole dish in a 350 degree oven. Serve on toast, rice, or chinese noodles.

Bacon Dressing for Lettuce

1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup vinegar
2/3 cup water
3 or 4 strips of bacon

Cook bacon and cut into small pieces. Pour off about half the fat from the bacon pan. Beat eggs very well. Add sugar, vinegar and water. Add to cooked bacon in the skillet and cook until thick, stirring constantly.

Barbecue Burger Mix

1 lb. ground beef
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped green pepper
1/4 cup chopped celery
1 can (8 oz.) tomato sauce
1/4 cup catsup
1 Tbsp. vinegar
1 Tbsp. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper

Brown meat in hot fat. Add vegetables and cook till tender. Add remaining ingredients and cover and simmer for 30 minutes.

Potato-Chocolate Cake

I've said before that grandma often had a list of ingredients and new what to do with them. This is one of those recipes. It just sounds wonderful!

2/3 cup oleo
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 cup hot mashed potatoes
2 squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
2 cups flour
3 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. gound cloves
1/2 tsp. mace
1 cup chopped nuts

Crazy Cake

2 1/2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
6 heaping Tbsp. cocoa
2 tsp. vanilla
2 Tbsp. vinegar
10 Tbsp. oil

Blend cocoa, sugar, and flour well before adding liquid. Put all ingredients in a bowl and then pour 2 cups cold water over and mix well. Pour into an ungreased baking pan and bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes.

Butterscotch Brownies

1/3 cup margarine
1/4 cup molasses
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 egg
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. soda

Melt margarine and let cool slightly. Add molasses, brown sugar and vanilla. Beat in egg. Add remaining ingredients, mixing well with wooden spoon. Pour into 9x9x2 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 25 - 35 minutes.

Moca Chocolate Cake

1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 Tbsp. butter
1/2 cup cocoa
1 level tsp. soda dissolved in 1 cup sour milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 cups flour (no more!)

Make cake in usual manner being sure to cream sugar, egg and butter well. Bake off in 2 layer pans and then fill with filling.

Filling:
1/2 cup coffee, hot
1/2 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. cornstarch
2 Tbsp. cocoa, stirred in hot coffee
dollop of butter the size of an egg
1 tsp. vanilla

Frost with a 7 minute icing.

Brown Sugar Icing

1 cup brown sugar (packed solid)
1/4 cup water
2 Tbsp. cream
small piece of butter

Boil brown sugar and water until a drop forms a hard ball when dropped in cold water. Cool slightly and beat. Thin to right consistency with about 2 Tbsp. cream, beat. Add small piece of butter.

Lightning Cake

Cup of sugar, cup of flour, heaping teaspoon baking powder. Melt one fourth cup of butter in a measuring cup, add two eggs without beating, then fill up cup containing butter and eggs with milk. Beat all ingredients together until mixture bubbles. Bake in square or layer pans.

Dessert Salad

1 pkg. lemon jello
1 pkg. lime jello
1 1/2 cups hot water
1 lg. can fruit cocktail
1 lg. can crushed pineapple with juice
1 qt. vanilla ice cream, melted

Mix together and chill the jello, hot water, fruit cocktail, pineapple and juice. After chilled add melted ice cream. Chill.

Lemon Pie

I remember sitting on a little step stool in the kitchen near the oven watching grandma mixing up and baking wonderful creations. I often marveled that while she worked and we talked that rarely did she pull out a recipe card. I remember asking her once and she said something like "Oh, it's a little of this and a little of that and you just know when it's right." And it always was. So I found this recipe card and had to smile because I imagine she wrote this down just as she thought about it - a little of this, a little of that - you'll know when it's right.

1 heaping cup of hot water
piece of butter about the size of a large walnut
2 egg yolk with a tiny bit of cold water
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tbsp. flour - big, but not heaping
juice of 1 lemon and grated rind

Put these all together in a double boiler and stir constantly till thickened. Pour in baked pie shell and top with meringue.

Sweet and Sour Short Ribs

3 pounds short ribs
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
1 cup flour
3 Tbsp. shortening
1 medium onion, sliced
1 clove garlic, sliced
1 1/2 cups hot water
1 bay leaf
3 Tbsp. brown sugar
1/3 cup catsup
1/4 cup vinegar

Cut short ribs into individual servings, cut off excess fat, sprinkle with salt and pepper and roll in flour. Brown well on all sides in hot shortening. Remove meat to Dutch oven. Add onions and garlic to fat and cook until lightly browned; add to short ribs. Combine remaining ingredients and pour over ribs. Cover and simmer about 3 hours. Remove ribs to hot platter, pour off excess fat from gravy, stir in 2 Tbsp. flour and cook until thickened.

Cottage Cheese Loaf

1/2 cup butter
1 large onion, chopped
3 Tbsp. soy sauce
4 cups Special K cereal
5 well beaten eggs
4 cups cottage cheese
1 cup chopped walnuts

Saute onions in butter. Add soy sauce, eggs, and all the other ingredients. Mix well. Bake one hour at 350 degrees in large greased casserole.

Applesauce Cookies

1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup thick applesauce

Cream shortening. Add sugar gradually. Add egg and beat well. Sift dry ingredients all together and add alternatively with applesauce. Drop on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.

Apple Squares

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1 egg
1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon

Mix all together thoroughly and add 2 cups chopped apples and 1/2 cup chopped nuts. Mix well and bake at 350 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes. Cut into squares when cool.

Lemon Chiffon Pie

1 baked pie shell
1/2 pkg. lemon jello
1/2 cup boiling water
4 eggs, separated
1/2 cup sugar
juice and grated rind of 1 lemon
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup additional sugar
whipped cream
grated macaroon crumbs (optional)

Dissolve jello in boiling water. Cook egg yolks with sugar, lemon juice and rind until like custard. Add jello mixture and cool. When thick and smooth but not set, fold in egg whites that have been whipped to a stiff meringue with the salt and sugar. Pour in baked shell and chill. Cover top with unsweetened whipped cream. Sprinkle with grated macaroon crumbs if desired.

Hot Cross Buns

1 cup milk
1 yeast cake
1 Tbsp. sugar
about 3 1/2 cups flour
1/4 cup shortening
1/3 cup additional sugar
1 egg
2/3 cup raisins
1/4 cup candied peel
1 tsp. mix ground spices
1/2 tsp. salt

Scald milk, then cool until lukewarm. Add yeast and the Tbsp. of sugar and work together until they liquefy. Add 1 1/2 cups of the flour, beat until smooth, cover and set aside until light and full of bubbles, about 1 hour. Cream sugar and shortening, add egg and fruit and turn the whole into the first mixture with the remaining flour, salt and spices. Knead thoroughly, cover and set to rise again to double in bulk, about 2 hours. Form small portions into round buns, flatten slightly, place close together on a greaed pan, cover and let rise until very light, then brush over with beaten egg and form a cross on top of each bun by pressing with the back of a knife. Bake 15 to 20 minutes in a moderate oven. The buns may be frosted after baking with plain sugar frosting or dusted with sugar.

Hot Dog Creole

With all the talk of New Orleans lately, I thought this recipe with a Northeast flair was appropriate.

1 lb. hot dogs
2 Tbsp. oil
4 cups chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped celery
4 cups chopped green pepper
1 medium clove garlic
1/4 cup water
1 Tbsp. worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1 can condensed tomato soup

Saute onion, celery, green pepper and garlic. Stir in soup, water, worcestershire sauce, chili powder, sugar and salt. Add hot dogs cut in small coin slices. Cover and heat well. Serve over hot rice.