Creamed Chipped Beef On Toast

This is a really good version of a dish that has often been made badly and thus made fun of by many.

Creamed Chipped Beef On Toast----
3 TBS Butter,,
3 TBS chopped and peeled onion,,
3 TBS flour,,
2 cups hot milk,,
1/2 pound of dried chipped beef-chopped or cut in small pieces,,
1/4 tsp. paprika,,
Black pepper, freshly ground, to taste,,
Tabasco or hot sauce -optional (I always add some of this),,,

In saucepan melt butter and saute yellow onion until clear. - Stir in the flour with a whisk, then slowly add hot milk stirring constantly until mixture thickens.--(milk may be preheated in the microwave)--When the sauce is thick, add remaining ingredients.-- Heat for a moment. Serve over toast.

Cinnamon Ornaments- craft item

These smell wonderful at Christmas time! They are nice on a Christmas tree or just to hang in a room.

Mix 3/4 to 1 cup applesauce with 1 (approximately) 4.12 ounce bottle of ground cinnamon to form a stiff dough. (The amounts are a guideline, do what works best to make a stiff dough.)
Roll dough out to 1/4 inch thick. Cut with your favorite shape cookie cutters. Carefully put on rack to dry. Let air dry several days, turning occasionally. Makes about 12 ornaments.

Oatmeal Cookies

Oatmeal cookies are good. I have printed the basic recipe and below have listed optional ingredients. This basic cookie is good with additional ingredients to make them distinctive. The recipe is a recent one. When I was a child, cookie recipes said to drop by the teaspoonful onto the cookie sheet. In more recent times, we like bigger cookies, so we are told to drop dough by the tablespoon instead. It's all about person preference.

Oatmeal Cookies
1 1/4 cups butter- softened
3/4 cup brown sugar- firmly packed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
3 cups uncooked oatmeal

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Beat together butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda, salt and spices. Add to the butter mixture. Mix well. Stir in oats. Drop by rounded spoonfuls (tablespoon for big cookies, teaspoon for smaller cookies)onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8-9 minutes for chewy cookie, 10-11 minutes for a crisp cookie. Smaller cookies may take less time. Cool cookies on paper towels or drying rack.

optional ingredients- add any or none to taste to make it your own recipe (if you add everything here it will not taste good. Choose your flavors 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp nutmeg, 1 cup pecans or walnut pieces or any nut you like, 1 cup raisins, 1 cup chocolate chips, 1 cup of an dried fruit (such as cranberry or pineapple) or candy pieces (such as crushed candy cane or m&m's)

Snowball Cookies

These cookies have several names. I call them snowballs, the name used in a recipe from many years ago. We made them around Christmas time each year when I was a child and I have continued to make them as an adult.

Snowball Cookies
1/2 cup butter softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup finely ground pecans (or walnuts)chopped very small is also good
1 cup flour
1/8 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
powdered white confectioners sugar

Cream butter gradually adding sugar and beating until light. Add nuts, flour, salt and vanilla. Mix until dough holds together. If necessary, add 1 or 2 tsp. cold water. For each cookie, form dough into a ball about the size of a walnut. (Then you may flatten slightly but I do not flatten any) Preheat over to 300 degrees. Bake cookies on ungreased cookie sheet for 20 to 25 minutes or until cookies are lightly browned and done inside. While cookies are still very warm, roll in confectioners sugar to coat. Cool at room temperature.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are wonderful!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 1/4 cups all purpose flour,,
1 tsp salt,,
1 tsp baking soda,,
1 cup softened butter (2 sticks),,
3/4 cup sugar,,
3/4 cup brown sugar firmly packed,,
1 tsp. vanilla,,
2 large eggs,,
2 cups chocolate chips,,
Optional- 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts,,

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.-- Combine flour baking soda and salt and set aside.-- In large bowl, beat butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla until creamy.-- Beat in eggs. gradually beat in flour mixture. --Stir in chocolate chips and optional nuts.-- Drop by spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.-- Teaspoons for smaller cookies, tablespoon for larger cookies.-- Bake 7-11 minutes until edges are golden brown.-- Remove from cookie sheet onto paper towels or baking rack to cool.

Christmas Holly Cookies

I used to make these at Christmas a lot. So pretty!

Christmas Holly Cookies
1/4 cup butter
4 cups miniature marshmallows
4 cups of corn flakes type cereal
green food coloring
red hots candies

Melt butter in large pan. Add marshmallows and stir until melted. Stir in enough food coloring to make mixture dark green. Remove from heat. Stir in corn flakes until coated in green. Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper and dot with red hots quickly while still hot.

Krispy Cereal Treats

The kids make this a lot, especially Ben, and it is so good! The recipe has been around over 40 years.

Krispy Cereal Treats

1/4 cup butter (1/2 stick)
10-12 ounces of miniature marshmallows
6-8 cups of a krispy cereal such as rice krispy type. Other cereals work well too. Sugar cereals turn out very sweet.

Melt butter in large pan over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until fully melted to avoid scorching. Add cereal at once and stir in quickly, coating cereal with melted marshmallows. Press into greased 9' X 12" pan with buttered food wrap or spoon. Cool. Cut into squares.

Maxine's Divinity

I have not tried this recipe yet. It was given to me by a lady named Maxine Tygart. Maxine is in her 90's and makes this wonderful divinity every year for her church Christmas Bazaar. She goes to Pathways Methodist Church, formerly known as Dale Street UMC.
I've eaten many people's Divinity and this one is my favorite year after year. It tends to be a bit softer and lighter than most Divinity I had eaten.

Maxine's Divinity

3 egg whites at room temperature (she sets them out 4-5 hours)
3 cups sugar
1/2 cup syrup (Karo)
1/2 cup water
Boil sugar, syrup and water until it spins a thread or hard ball in water (6-7 minutes) Pour half over egg whites. Add 1 tsp. vanilla Pour rest over egg whites. Add 1 cup walnuts or pecans. (I assume we are stirring it up somewhere in here)
Pour in buttered dish or pan. Cool it then cut in squares when cool.

June's Pie Crust

June makes the best pie crust of anyone I know. This is her recipe.

Pie Crust
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup shortening
less than 1/4 tsp. salt
Blend with pastry blender until the texture of fine meal.
Add 4 Tbs. water. Mix with fork.
Roll out and place in pie pans.

John's Favorite Pumpkin Pie

This is John's favorite pie. We eat it every year around Thanksgiving and Christmas time. Pumpkin Pie 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 t. salt 1/4 tsp. ground cloves 1/2 tsp. ground ginger 1 tsp. cinnamon (ground) 2 large eggs 1- 12 ounce can evaporated milk 1- 15 ounce can pumpkin 2- 2 cup pie shells whipped cream Mix sugar, salt and spices in a small bowl. Beat eggs in a large bowl. Stir in sugar-spice mixture and pumpkin to beaten eggs. Gradually stir in evaporated milk. Pour into pie shells. Bake in a preheated 425 degree oven for 15 minutes then at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of pie comes out clean. (Substitution -1 3/4 tsp. pumpkin pie spice may be substituted for the 3 spices but will taste different.)