Category: Recipe

Grandma’s Tea Cakes

1 cup shortening

1 ½ cups sugar

3 eggs

4 cups flour

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. salt

¼ cup buttermilk

1 to 1 ¼ tsp. vanilla

Cream shortening and sugar.  Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.  Combine flour, baking powder, soda and salt.  Add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.  Mix well.  Stir in vanilla.  Cover and chill for 1 hour.  Roll dough to ¼ inch thickness on a floured surface.  Cut with round cookie cutter and place on greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until edges begin to brown.  Sprinkle with additional sugar, if desired.

Found this one in a Southern Living magazine in July, 1990.  It’s very good.

Green Chile Burritos

Arm or chuck roast

Large onion, chopped

1 to 2 cans green chiles

Garlic salt

Pepper

2 Tbsp. cooking oil

Season roast with garlic salt and pepper.  Brown roast in 2 Tbsp. cooking oil in dutch oven.  Add water just to top of roast.  Cook at 250 degrees for several hours or until it’s so tender that it just falls apart.  If all the liquid cooks away before roast is done enough, add HOT water and continue cooking.  Add chopped onion and green chiles.  Cook for another hour or so until onions are completely done.  By this time, there should not be much liquid left in the pan.  Serve with warm flour tortillas.  You can also add sour cream, cheddar cheese and salsa when serving if you like.

This recipe was given to me by Aunt Mae (Eula Mae Pennington).

Green Rice

1 pkg. Chopped broccoli

4 cups cooked rice

1 cup chopped onion

1 cup chopped green pepper

1 cup chopped celery

1 can Cream of Mushroom soup

1 small jar Cheez-Whiz

Cook and drain broccoli.  Saute onion, bell pepper and celery in 1 stick of margarine until soft.  Combine all ingredients while hot with can of mushroom soup and jar of Cheez-Whiz.  Put in casserole dish, cover and bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Grilled Salsa

4 – 6 fresh tomatoes ( core removed)
1 large onion peeled and cut in half
1 – 4 fresh jalapenos
1 bunch fresh cilantro
2 limes (zest of one, juice of both)
Salt & Pepper
Core the tomatoes and stem the peppers, cut the onion in half and put on a medium high grill. (Can also be done in oven.) Roast or grill the vegetables until skins begin to blister on tomatoes and peppers and onion turns dark (black is OK). Once cooked, remove the vegetables and put the cooked tomatoes in a bowl and allow them to cool before peeling skins. In a food process, add onion, pulse, add tomatoes, pulse, add peppers, pulse. Add cilantro, lime zest and juice and process until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Allow to set at room temperature for 10 – 20 minutes. Serve with tortilla chips.

Zach did not peel the tomatoes and he added just a little cumin. Still came out great. Vita Mix works great for making this.

Gyoza

1 pkg. Gyoza wrappers (you can buy them at an Oriental food store)

1 lb. Ground chuck

1 lb. Ground pork

1 cup finely grated cabbage

2 Tbsp. finely chopped garlic

1 onion, finely chopped

Salt & pepper to suit taste

Thoroughly mix all ingredients except the wrappers.  Place a small amount of the mixture in the middle of each wrapper, fold over and seal edges.  Fry in small amount of grease in skillet with lid on (so it steams and fries at the same time).

Sauce for gyoza:

Soy sauce

Sesame oil

Mirin (rice wine vinegar)

Ground red pepper

Sorry I don’t have quantities for this.  It’s mostly soy sauce with just small amounts of the sesame oil and Mirin and then a sprinkle of the red pepper.  You just have to experiment to get it like you want it to taste.

Mrs. Humiko Ross gave me this recipe when we were in Okinawa.  She was our landlady when we lived off-base.

Happy Holly Glaze

1 Cure 81 half ham

1 1 lb. Can whole berry or jellied Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce

1 cup brown sugar

¼ cup orange juice

½ tsp. Ground cloves

¼ tsp. Cinnamon

¼ tsp. Allspice

Prepare ham as directed on package.  Meanwhile, combine above ingredients.  Heat slowly until smooth, beating with wire whisk or rotary beater.  15 minutes before ham is done, score the surface in diamonds and spoon glaze over the ham.  Continue glazing and baking.  Serve remaining glaze with the ham.

Hidden Kiss Cookies

  • 1 bag (9 oz.) HERSHEY’S KISSES or KISSES WITH ALMONDS Milk Chocolates
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup HERSHEY’S MINI CHIPS Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 375°F. Remove wrappers from chocolate pieces.

2. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla in large bowl until well blended. Add flour to butter mixture; blend until smooth. Stir in small chocolate chips. Mold scant tablespoon dough around each chocolate piece, covering completely. Shape into balls; place on ungreased cookie sheet.

Homeade Oreo Cookies

1 pkg. Devil’s Food Cake Mix with pudding in the mix

½ cup oil

2 eggs

Mix above ingredients and roll into teaspoon size balls

Bake 8 to 9 minutes at 350 degrees on lightly greased cookie sheet

They may look undercooked, but as they cool on the cookie sheet, they will begin to crack.

Filling:

2 tablespoons butter

4 oz. Cream cheese

1 ¾ cup powdered sugar

½ teaspoon vanilla

Mix above ingredients together and spread generous amount on half of the cookies.  Top with the other half of the cookies and enjoy!

Homemade Ice Cream

Vanilla:

5 eggs

2 cups sugar

3 13 oz. Cans Pet Milk

2 tsp. Vanilla

Whole milk

Beat eggs and sugar well.  Add canned milk and vanilla, then add enough whole milk to bring the level up to the line in your ice cream freezer.

Peach or Strawberry Ice Cream

Decrease eggs to 4 and canned milk to 2 cans.  Add peaches or strawberries  that you have pureeded in a blender.

The vanilla recipe is from Mama-T and is really great ice cream.

Honey Bars

½ cup honey

1 cup sugar

1 egg

¾ cup cooking oil

2 cups flour

1 ½ tsp. Cinnamon

½ tsp. Salt

1 tsp. Baking soda

Mix well and then add:

1 cup chopped pecans

Pat into flat pan (10 x 15 works well).  Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.  Remove from oven and frost immediately.

Frosting:

1 ½ Tbsp. warm milk

1 cup powdered sugar

1 ½ Tbsp. margarine or butter

1 tsp. Vanilla