Pie Crust

Ingredients

• 4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoon salt
• 1-3/4 cups Crisco
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 egg slightly beaten
• 1/2 cup water

Directions

1. Cut Crisco into flour, powder, salt and sugar with fork.
2. Set aside.
3. Mix egg, vinegar and water together and add to flour mixture.
4. Mix together with fork, then roll.

*** Pinch the side so it doesn't shrink.

Pumpkin Pie

Ingredients

• 2 cups pumpkin (cooked and mashed)
• we use cans of pumpkin
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon cloves
• 2 cups milk
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 teaspoon ginger

Directions

1. mix together and heat up but don't let boil.
2. Pour into unbaked pie shell.
3. Bake approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes. at 350 degrees.

*** fill pie crusts to almost overflow.

Cranberry Salad

Ingredients

• 1 package cranberries
• 4 tart apples
• 2 oranges
• 6 oz. Cherry Jello
• sugar to taste ( 3/4 to 1 cup)
• 1 cup walnuts

Directions

1. Prepare jello as directed on package.
2. Chill until thick but not jelled.
3. Coarsely chop cranberries by adding a few at a time in blender.
4. coarsely grate apples and oranges.
5. add sugar to cranberries. mix with apples, oranges, walnuts, and thickened jello.

We usually half this recipe.

Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 3 to 4 ripe bananas
• 1 & 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 cup flour
• 1 & 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 & 1/3 cup water
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1/4 cup miracle whip

Directions 

1. preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix bananas, butter, sugar, eggs, Miracle Whip, and vanilla.
3. Add: flour, soda, salt; mix.
4. Add: water gradually as you mix, then nuts.
5. If batter seems too thin you may want to add some more flour.
6. Bake in greased and floured Bundt cake pan until golden brown and pulling away from edges of pan.

** Makes good muffins too.

Fresh Fruit Crisp

Ingredients

• 1 cup quick-cooking rolled oats
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• fill 2/3 full 9x13 pan of apples, peaches, or pears, etc.
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 

**** Vanilla Ice Cream goes best with this

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Combine oats, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and dash salt.
3. Cut in butter till mixture resembles coarse crumbs; set aside.
4. Peel, core, and slice fruit to make 5 to 6 cups.
5. Place fruit in a baking dish
6. sprinkle with granulated sugar
7. sprinkle crumb mixture over all
8. bake in oven for 40-45 min.
9. serve with ice cream

***  6 servings

Rhubarb Cake

Ingredients

• 1 package yellow cake mix
• 4 cups chopped or frozen rhubarb
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup cream

Directions

1. prepare cake batter according to package directions.
2. pour into a greased pan 13in. x 9in x 2in baking dish.
3. sprinkle with rhubarb and sugar.
4. slowly pour cream over top
5. bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until goldenbrown.
6. cool for 15 minutes before serving.
7. serve with ice cream if desired.
8. refrigerate leftovers

Yield: 12-15 servings

Cereal Candy

Ingredients

• 18oz box Golden Grahams
• 6 cups Rice Chex
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 cups mini marshmallows
• 7oz bag of coconut (I toast mine lightly in the oven)
• 3 sticks butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 cup sliced almonds (I toast mine lightly in the oven)

if you are alergic to almonds you can substitute it for pecans or walnuts

Directions

1. Mix cereal, nuts, coconut in large bowl.
2. Boil sugar, butter, and marshmallows in saucepan for three minutes.
3. Remove from heat.
4. Add vanilla.
5. Pour mixture over cereal mix.
6. Toss lightly until combined.
7.  Cool on waxed paper.
8.  Store covered tightly.