Winnie's Jelly Oatmeal Cookies Click to enlarge

I like to post my mothers actual recipes.  I remember her baking then

Pancakes The Uncles Special treat

I have an uncle Fred who always cooks breakfast if we have a womens weekend.
Blueberry pancakes is his favorite!

This is the basic recipe.  Add your cup of fruit to it.
2 cups of Pancake Mix (buttermilk)
2 TBLS oil
2 eggs
1 cup of buttermilk
1 cup Blueberries (fresh or frozen thawed)
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Mix ingredients.  Cook on hot griddle.  Make as directed on pancake mix box.

He finishes this with  sausage links,  fried eggs, toast and bacon.  You can only have this
once a month.
Great though!!!

Uncle Walter gave me some recipes years ago
He is gone now but his meals live on!

Swedish Pancakes
4 eggs,  1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup flour, 2 tbsps butter
1 dash salt,  1 dash sugar

Mix eggs, flour and milk.  Beat two minutes.  Put two tbsps of butter into
an iron skillet.  Pour mixture in the iron skillet.  Place in 400 degree
oven for 13 min.  Or watch until pancake puffs
up and turns golden brown on sides.

Serves 4

Add  Blueberry sauce... This is Glenda my cousins lite sauce
Frozen  Blueberries
Splenda
Cook frozen blueberries in sauce pan over medium heat until soft and juicy.
Add in sugar to taste
Note  Do not thaw frozen blueberries before cooking.

Happy breakfast to you!!

Relook at the Dueling Potato Soup Recipes

Look at family recipes Nov 2, 2009, you will see the two Potato soup recipes from uncles
who have passed. Dale and Reg dueling it out.
Look over these recipes... You will enjoy them

Winnie's Molasses cookies

1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1/3 cup molasses
1 egg
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger (not in winnie's recipe but some put in)
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons granulated sugar added myself for topping

1. Heat oven to 325°F. In large bowl, beat brown sugar, shortening, molasses
 and egg
 beat with electric mixer on medium
fold  in rest of ingredients.
 Roll into small balls 1 1/2 inch
Roll in sugar before putting on cookie sheet
Put on ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart

Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Bake about 12 to 15 minutes
check in 10 minutes want set but not dark
cool on wire rack

Helen's Camp Biscuits

Leonard and Helen liked to go fishing and camping in Canada. I think
they went up by Wawa.
This recipe was given to me in approx 1985.

2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cups milk
31/4 teas baking powder
6 tbsp cold shortening
Sift flour, baking powder & salt together. Cut in shortening. Stir in milk quickly and knead lightly for a few seconds. Use as little flour as possible on board. Roll to 1/4 inch thickness and cut with
a floured 2 1/2 inch cutter. Cook in lightly greased hot skillet over
very low heat until biscuits are brown.
Underside will be brown and raised to height of one inch.

Family Reunion Meat Dish... Kitchen Sink Meatballs

This was good and I think a great easy recipe
This serves 60 people so you could cut in half
Gather your supplies and go. I use a large 18 qt cooker
10 lbs frozen meat balls
(I had a person rave to me how much better
this was than the frozen meatballs. I think cooked well with all the
ingredients you can not tell the meatballs are frozen. I did not tell him.)
18 qt cooker
10 lbs frozen meat balls( from a supplier like gordons)
1/2 Cup Teriyaki Marinade
1/2 cup garlic... jar of ground liquid (to taste could even use 1 cup)
3 tbsp oriental spice
5 jars sweet baby Rays BBQ Sauce
3 cups grape jam, 1 cup garlic (or 1/2 cup to taste)
5 tbsp Big and Bold Molasses
4 Tbls spicy mustard
2 Bottles chili sauce
1 can beef broth (I think this does add to the favorite)
1 can chicken broth (Or two beef if you desire)
1 bottle frenches dressing
1 can chunked pineapple, 1 can crushed pineapple
2 cups orange juice
You see add the spice and then the sweet

Start cooker on medium high. Place 5 lb pkg of meatballs in cooker.
With a large bowl mix garlic, bbq sauce, spice,
teriyaki marinade, with molasses, mustard, chili sauce
Add in grape jam and mix again

Next in seperate bowl
Mix broth and the whole cans or pineapple
cups of orange juice and frenches dressing.
Do not drain pineapple.

Pour half of each bowl over 1st layer.
Add 2nd bag of 5 lbs of meat balls.
Add other half.
Stir up and start on medium heat.
As it starts to cook, stir every few minutes.
It should be getting hot in 25 to 30 minutes.
Turn down and cook on low for about 3 hrs.
It is good in 2 more hrs but in 3 hrs it is a little thicker and better
Keep on low for party. ...
Get for freezing also.
This recipe was added to our family cookbook....

Breakfast Casserole

I thought Palm Sunday is a great day for the breakfast casserole
My daughter Marcy has one version and my aunt Carole has a larger
version for serving. I like to add my own ingredients as I would
for an omelet.

Marcy this is your choice....
3 cups cubed bread
3 cups diced ham or bacon cooked
3 cups shredded cheese
1/2 cup chopped onions
2 tbsp melted butter
6 eggs
1 tbsp flour

Grease a 7 x 10 pan. Layer ingredients in order given. Beat 6 eggs,
add 1 tbsp of flour. Add 2 tbsp melted butter.
Add 3 cups milk. Pour over bread, meat and cheese. Refrigerate overnight.
The next morning bake uncovered.
325 for 1 hour.

My\ Aunt Carole's choice
she calls it Breakfast Quiche
12 slices bread
12 eggs, 4 cups milk
Carole 2 lbs ground mild sausage for the meat.
2 tsp salt and 2 tsp dry mustard.(I did add this)
For the cheese she cuts the cheese to 21/2cups cheddar.
9 x13 pan is used bake at 350 1 hour
Add green pepers and onions if desired or in place of the sausage.

As you see, you can really play with the recipe. I added just a
crisscross of maple syrup on top.
I love green and red peppers so I add them also. I had a ham slice
so I used that for the meat and sprinkled in some bacon bits.
I dont think you can go wrong on the recipe.

Thank you Marcy and Carole
Great for a left over sunday evening meal also.

Pistachio Cake by Doris green for the irish Holiday -family cookbook

1 Duncan Hines Swiss Chocolate cake mix
3 small boxes of pistachio pudding mix
4 cups milk
1/2 cup oil, 16 oz container of cool whip
Mix cake mix with 1/2 cup oil, \ it
will be a little thick like brownies.
put in 9 x 13 pan
Cook 350 for 25 minutes
let cool
Mix boxes of pistachio pudding with 4 cups milk
cover the cake with this mixture( or store seperate in refrig.
add cool whip to top. ( Should take about 3/4 of container.
Keep cool
I made cake. I kept pudding and whipped cream seperate until time of
use. It stores better.

The Uncles duel over Potato Soup

Two of my uncles gave me their special potato soup
recipe. I am going to combine theirs and make
my own this week.
They would enjoy giving a thumbs down to the
other's potato soup. They loved to joke. When
anyone would get married, they would line up and
say do they get thumbs up or thumbs down.
They would always give a thumbs down and then laugh like it was the first time they had done that.
Here goes boys.....

Dales Potato Soup
8 servings
4 Tbls butter, 3 large onions
6 large potatoes, 3 cups milk
2 cans chicken broth, 1/4 cup chives
1 celery stalk (chopped), 1/2 tbl celery seed
1/4 tbl Thyme, 1 cup light cream, 2 tbl flour
Put butter, onions, potatoes (sliced), Milk, chicken broth, herbs and celery in pot.
Cook on low heat for 1 hour.
Stir briskly
Add 2 tbl butter and 2 tbl flour.
Again stir briskly..until bubbly.
Add cream and salt and pepper to taste.

Reg's homemade Potato Soup
4 servings
Reg would make homemade bread to go with his
soup.
6 Large Potatoes, possibly 8 potatoes
1/2 onion, 4 strips bacon, sliced in small pieces
1 small can of canned milk, 1 tbp salt
1 tbp pepper, parsley flakes, 2 tbp butter
2 cups milk.
Peel and cut potatoes into small pieces. Cover with water and boil until potatoes are soft but
still firm. Meantime fry bacon and onion. Bacon
should be crisp and onion golden brown.
Add enough milk to cover top of potatoes or until soupy and also 1 can of evaporated milk.
Could use cream. Keep potatoes simmering while adding ingredients.
Eat with plenty of crackers or homemade bread.
He did not say how long to simmer with bacon
added. I would try about 20-25 minutes extra.

Have fun experimenting with this great soup.
Two thumbs up to each of you...

Carole's Cranberry Chicken...Family cookbook'

I needed something for the season that I could
put in the oven while giving out candy.
Carole's Cranberry chicken is very easy and turned
out well. She added this in our family cookbook.

10-12 pieces of boneless, skinless chicken. I
used 6 larger pieces sliced in half.
2 cans of cranberry sauce. The kind with some berries in sauce.
1/2 cup of french dressing.
Mix sauce together.
Place chicken in a 9 x12 pan. Pour mixture over
chicken. Turn chicken to coat. add 1/2 cup water
if desired.
Cook in 355 oven for 55 minutes.
I actually did at 365 for 60 minutes. I like my
chicken very all done.
Serve chicken with coating and berries poured over
chicken.

Banana Bread My mother, Winnies recipe also Cookie Pie's recipe

2/3 cup sugar  1 3/4 cups Flour sifted
1/3 cup shortening, 1/4 tsp salt,  2 eggs
1/4 tsp baking soda  2 tsp baking powder
1 cup mashed bananas,  1/2 cups nuts  optional
1/2 cup dates ( chopped)  optional

Mix dry ingredients.  Add beaten eggs and shortening
Beat mixture until fluffy.  .
Add in ripe bananas that have been mashed up with a potato masher
and then measured 
Mix lightly.
Add in nuts and dates if you desire
Double recipe for  two loaves.   Bake 50 minutes to 1 hr at 350'F
Spray pans with cooking spray ... Be sure to get the corners well
Bake 50 minutes to 1 hr at 350' F until brown and bounces back on touch.
Cool and wrap to store


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I got the following recipe from the web site of  Cookie pie.
She is the food editor for All You magazine

I may try one loaf of this also...
Whole-wheat peanut butter-chocolate chip banana bread


Makes 1 8-inch loaf
1 cup whole-wheat flour,  1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda, 1/4 tsp salt

4 ripe bananas, mashed (if frozen, thawed)
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (I used Peanut Butter & Co.'s maple flavor)
1/2 cup sugar,  2 large eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 350°F; mist an 8-by-4-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.

2. In a small bowl, stir together both flours, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mash bananas with a large fork. Stir in peanut butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla with a wooden spoon until well combined. Add the dry ingredients and stir until just combined; do not overmix. Fold in the chocolate chips.

3. Spoon the batter into the loaf pan and bake for 1 hour, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean. Let cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn bread out of pan onto rack to cool completely.
Beth or Cookie Pie is author of a new cookbook
"You Made That Dessert"
http://cookiepiebklyn.blogspot.com/

Family Lasagna Aunt Doris

LASAGNA


Recipe Aunt Doris

350 55 minutes can freeze before baking
3/4 lb ground pork, 2- 3 lbs ground beef
2 onions chopped ,2 cloves garlic or minced 1 tbs approx
Cook beef, pork,onion and garlic until meat is brown ..drain fat
Add
2 16 ou cans tomatoes( do not drain)
2 15 ounce can of sauce
¼ c parsley flakes
¼ c sugar
2teas salt ,2 teas basil leaves
Cook w/ meat mixture to a boil then reduce
Simmer about 30 minutes until thickened
Remove from heat
Mix together…1 c parmesan cheese, 2 ..24 ou cottage cheese
2tbs parsley flakes, 1 tbs salt
2 teas oregano leaf
Mix into meat and tomato mixture
While cooking meat
… cook 2 8 oz pkg lasagna noodles about 7 min
in boiling water,  drain and cool..keep in cool water until use.
Grease 9 x12 pan ( makes 2 pans)
Layer noodles,   3 each layer
Add sauce about 2 to 3 cups  I used a soup ladle
Then spread a big handful of mozarella between layers
Makes 3 layers,   2 9 x 12 pans...You can use foil pans
 350 55 min to 1 hour
Add garlic bread ... cook while lasagna is setting up on stove for
at least 10 minutes

Cold Day... Lasagna

Today I had to dig out my light winter coat.  Its about 42 degrees.
I am making my aunts Lasagna.  I love her recipe.  It feels like a
good day to have the oven on.  I am not ready for this weather though.
You.ll love her recipe.  The sauce is a richer taste and the lasagna lasts
for at least two meals.  Freezing the 2nd batch, makes for four meals
for the family.
Add the garlic bread for a great touch.

Pickled Onions winnie s recipe card file

I was looking through my mothers faded recipe cards. I scanned one in

to make pickled onions. It was so faded, I could only see it by scanning then

changing the color on it.

I have a picture copy for you. Click on it for recipe.

I looked at queen of the castle and found great little ideas for decorating

the jar lids for gifts. I remember my mother putting ribbons and

painting the lids of her jars. The blogs have added a lot of great ideas

for me to cook and can. My husband is loving it.

Look at the queen of the castle blog for jar tops.

I looked at thehttp://queenofthecastlerecipes.blogspot.com/2009/06/canning-crazy-quilt-jar-lids.html

Replections of the family

I have a few recipes in our family cookbook from a WWII cookbook.

We each sent a recipe in or gave a recipe from our fathers or mothers.

Many have sent died. This leads to many memories as we use the recipes.

Oyster stew was a special treat for my dad. I remember him happily

going to the store and picking up the Oysters for his treat. He would

make this rich recipe up and we would sit around the kitchen table

and enjoy and talk. I didn't have his recipe but feel this WWII recipe

was his.

Franks Favorite

1 Clove garlic, chopped, 1 sliced onion, 1 1/2 tsp salt. 4 tbsp butter

1 cup worcestershire sauce, 2 doz raw oysters, drained(keep juice to add)

1/4 tsp paprika, dash 1 bag oyster crackers, 1/4 cup grated cheese


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Rub inside saucepan with garlic and onion. Remove steem. Then melt butter
in this saucepan over low heat. Add worchestershire sauce and oysters.
Heat until the edges of the oysters just begin to curl.
Add some juice for the richness
Add milk, salt, peper and paprika. Heat well ina serve with crackers.
Grated cheese was not in my dads recipe but the WWII cookbook has
put it in. Sounds good. I think I will follow Franks footprints and
gather my treat this weekend.

I remember my mother making Piccalilli
I can not find her recipe but I did find one like it.
With the cold weather this year, my tomatoes are not getting large and
ripe. I am going to try the following recipe.
22 medium green tomatoes, quartered
1 pt small onions. DO this to your own taste. I am going to use 1 white
and 2 red onions. sliced thin.
6 green peppers, quartered
6 sweet red peppers quartered ( I am going to mix mild peppers and reds
1 qt 5% acid strength vinegar
1 pt 5% acid strength vinegar
31/2 c sugar
1/4 c pickling salt, 1 1/2 tsp ground allspice, 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
4 tsp celery seeds, 1/2 c mustard seeds

Put tomatoes, onions and peppers through food chopper, using medium blade.
I want this chunky. Do like you would like.
Drain. Place vegetables in large kettle, add 1 qt vinegar. Boil 30 min.
Stir frequently. Drain and discard liquid.
Return vegetables to kettle and add remaining 1 pt vinegar, sugar, salt,
allspice, cinnamon, celery seeds and mustards seeds. Simmer 3 minutes.
Immediately ladle into 6 hot sterilized pint jars. Fill to within 1/2 inch
from top. Adjust lids. Wipe clean on outside.
Process in boiling water bath 5 minutes. Start counting the
processing time when water in canner returns to boiling.
Remove jars. Cool on wire rack 12 to 24 hours. Check jars

This came from an 1983 canning book. Processing time may be suggested
longer now. I am checking some new recipes.
Winnie I'm thinking of you.

Borneo Banana Jam

My Mother had this recipe. She loved jams and relishes. She
was fearless with her quest for a new recipe.

Borneo Banana Jam
6 bananas, 1/2 c lime juice , 1 1/2 cups water.
grated rinds of 3 limes
2 cups of sugar.
Chop bananas. Add other ingredients. Boil until bananas
turn pink. Watch and stir. It will burn easily.
(I dont know whether she used pectin?.)
PS my mother never quite wrote the whole recipe down. Just what
she thought see wouldn't remember.



I am going to try this. I did find a canning recipe kind of
like this.
Following is the other recipe.2 ½ lb of peeled bananas.2 ½ lb of sugar.8 ounces of pineapple juice.Juice of 2 lemons.
Directions:
Place half (1 ¼ lb) of the peeled bananas in a large saucepan and mash with a potato masher.Slice up the other half of bananas, and add them to the pan.Stir in the juice of the lemons and the 8 oz of pineapple juice.Add the sugar and heat on a low setting until the sugar has dissolved.Bring to the boil for about 3 minutes; then allow to cool.Pour into a jam jar or other suitable container.Cover and seal.

My new quest to follow my mothers path, brings back many early
childhood memories.

I gave canning jars my recipe. check with my blog list and view her blog.

End of the Garden Pickles

From my mothers canning recipe

1 CUP of each following:
Chopped Celery, peppers(whatever color you want)
cabbage shredded, sliced onion, chopped green tomatoes

Let stand in salt water
add
1 cup carrots(diced) , 1 cup cut up string beans, 2 Tbsp mustard seed
1 Tbsp celery seed, 2 Tbsp tumeric, 2 cups vinegar, 2 Cups sugar

boil 25 minutes
spoon in jars and seal. Can keep in refrig for 1-2 weeks