Category: Recipe

Strawberry Cheesecake

1 ½ cups Graham Cracker Crumbs

3 Tbsp. sugar

¼ cup butter or margarine, melted

1 package (6.5 oz.) lemon fluff frosting mix

1 pkg. (8 oz.) Cream Cheese, softened

1 ½ cups Sour Cream

Fresh strawberries

Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Mix graham cracker crumbs, sugar and butter.  Reserve 1/3 cup of this mixture and press the rest into an 8-inch square baking pan.  Prepare frosting mix as directed on package.  Blend cream cheese and sour cream in large mixer bowl.  Gradually beat in frosting.  Pour mixture into graham cracker crust and sprinkle with remaining 1/3 cup of graham cracker mixture.  Bake for 35 minutes.  Cool slightly, then chill for 1 to 2 hours.  Cut strawberries in half lengthwise and place on top of cheesecake.  Serve with whipped cream.

Strawberry Pie

2 pints (4 cups) fresh strawberries

9” baked pastry shell

1 cup sugar

3 Tbsp. cornstarch

¼ tsp. salt

½ cup water

1 Tbsp. lemon juice

½ cup heavy cream

1 Tbsp. sugar

½ tsp. vanilla

Wash and hull strawberries and slice half of them into the baked pastry shell.  Combine sugar, cornstarch and salt in large heavy saucepan; stir in water and lemon juice; add remaining strawberries and mash berries slightly.  Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils 1 minute.  Remove from heat and cool slightly.  Pour over sliced berries in pastry shell.  Put in refrigerator and chill completely.  Before serving, Beat whipping cream with 1 Tbsp. sugar and vanilla until stiff.  Spoon in puffs around edge of pie.

Strawberry Salad

2 small boxes (3 oz.) Strawberry jello

1 cup boiling water

1 can (20 oz.) crushed pineapple

2 bananas, mashed

1 lb. Box frozen sliced strawberries

8 oz. Sour cream

1 Tbsp. lemon juice

Dissolve strawberry jello in boiling water.  Add the crushed pineapple, mashed bananas, lemon juice and strawberries.  Pour ½ of this mixture in 9 x 13 pan and refrigerate until it sets.  Spread sour cream on top of it.  Pour the remainder of the jello mixture over the sour cream.  Refrigerate again until it sets.

Helen Blaine gave me this recipe.  It’s always been a family favorite.

Strawberry Tunnel Cream Cake

Prepared Angel Food Cake

6 oz. Cream Cheese, softened

1 can (14 oz.) Eagle Brand milk

1/3 cup lemon juice

1 tsp. Almond or vanilla extract

1 cup chopped fresh strawberries

12 oz. Container of Cool Whip

Cut 1-inch slice crosswise from top of angel food cake; set aside.  With sharp knife, cut around cake 1-inch from center hole and 1-inch from outer edge, leaving cake walls 1-inch thick.  Remove cake from center, leaving 1-inch thick base on bottom of cake.  Tear cake removed from center into bite size pieces; reserve.

In large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy.  Gradually beat in Eagle Brand milk until smooth.  Stir in lemon juice and vanilla.  Stir in reserved cake pieces and chopped strawberries.  Fold in 1 cup whipped topping.  Fill cake cavity with strawberry mixture; replace top of cake.

Stroud’s Chicken Noodle Soup

3 quarts salted water

3 chicken breasts

2 Tbsp. chicken soup base or bouillon cubes

pinch of oregano

salt & pepper to taste

12 oz. Pkg. Reames frozen egg noodles

1 stalk celery, chopped

Bring salted water to boil.  Drop in chicken breasts.  Add soup base, oregano, salt and pepper.  Boil for 1 hour.  Remove chicken breasts and set aside.  Add noodles and chopped celery.  Bring to a boil again and simmer for 30 minutes.  De-bone chicken breasts and dice the meat.  Add meat to stock and serve.

Sugar Cookies

(Tea Cakes)

1 cup margarine or shortening

1 ¼ cups sugar

2 eggs, well beaten

1 tsp. vanilla

3 cups sifted cake flour

1 tsp. baking powder

¼ tsp. salt

Cream shortening and sugar thoroughly until light and fluffy.  Add beaten eggs and vanilla and beat well.  Sift flour, baking powder and salt.  Add to sugar mixture, blending thoroughly.  Form dough into 2 long rolls, wrap in wax paper and store in refrigerator.  Bake as needed.  Cut into 1/8 inch slices and bake 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees.  (For tea cakes, do not refrigerate dough.  Shape while dough is still soft and allow plenty of room for spreading.)

This was Mama’s recipe.  It actually came from a Clabber Girl Baking Powder recipe folder.  It’s definitely worth making.

Sugared Pecans

Bring to a boil:

2/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup water

Let boil for 1 minute.  Stir in pecans.  Boil until almost all syrup has evaporated, stirring constantly.  Lift out with spoon onto buttered cookie sheet.  Bake at 300 degrees for about 25 minutes.

Sunday Cinnamon Rolls

3 ½ cups flour

1 tsp. salt

1 cup oleo

1 pkg. Dry yeast

1 cup lukewarm milk

2 eggs, beaten, at room temperature

1 cup sugar

1 Tbsp. cinnamon

In a large bowl, combine flour, ½ cup sugar and salt.  Cut oleo into mixture with pastry blender.  Measure warm water into bowl and sprinkle yeast.  Dissolve well.  Add yeast, lukewarm milk and eggs to flour mixture.  Toss lightly until mixed.  Cover tightly and put in refrigerator overnight.  Next morning, divide dough in half and roll on floured board to a rectangle 12 x 18 inches.  Brush with a little melted oleo.  Combine 1 cup sugar and cinnamon.  Sprinkle ½ over dough and roll up tight.  Cut into 1 inch slices.  Bake at 350 degrees.  Ice with a powdered sugar icing after they have cooled some.

This is one of Mama-T’s.

Sunflower Seed Cookies

2 cups sugar

1 ½ cups margarine

1 tsp vanilla

1 egg, beaten

1 cup coconut

2 ¾ cups flour

1 tsp. Baking powder

1 cup sunflower seeds, shelled and salted

Cream together sugar and margarine.  Add vanilla and egg.  Add coconut and all remaining ingredients.  Make the dough into 3 small loaves, wrap in wax paper and freeze.  When you are ready to cook them, just slice and bake on a greased cookie sheet for about 15 minutes at 350 degrees.

This recipe was given to Frank by a gentleman he worked with at Keesler Air Force base, J. A. Mumm.  It has been one of my favorite recipes ever since that time.

Super Sub Sandwich

¼ cup Miracle whip

¼ cup Kraft Zesty Italian dressing

1 loaf french bread, cut in half lengthwise

1 pkg. (9 oz.) Oscar Mayer Variety Pak Ham & Turkey

6 Kraft Singles (American Cheese)

Mix Miracle Whip and salad dressing and spread on bread.  Fill bread with meat and singles.  Add tomato slices, lettuce, onion and green pepper slices, if desired.  Cut into 4 pieces.  Makes 4 servings.