Apple Butter

From Mom's Recipes box.

Apple Butter

20 pounds Apples, peeled and diced.

2 quarts Sweet Cider. 

4 cups Sugar.

1 Tablespoon Cinnamon (or 3 large Cinnamon Sticks) 

1/2 teaspoon Anise seeds. 

Boil down to 3 quarts.

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White fudge

White Fudge.

2 1/2 pounds.

3 cups Sugar. 

1 cup Milnot*

1 7oz jar Marshmallow  creme. 

3/4 stick Oleo (butter).

1 12oz package Flaked Coconut. 

1 cup Chopped Nuts. 

Mix sugar Milnot and Oleo (butter) together and cook until mixture comes to a boil, stirring frequently,  boil for 5 minutes stirring constantly.   Remove from  fire and stir in Coconut and Marshmallow Creme.  Stir until mixture is creamy and smooth.  Pour into buttered 9x9 pan.  Allow to cool and cut.

* Milnot is a brand of canned milk.

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Ginger Bread

Ginger Bread.

From Mom's Recipes box.

1/2 cup Shortening. 

1 cup Molasses. 

1/4 cup Milk. 

1 Egg. 

2 cups Flour. 

1/3 teaspoon Salt. 

2 teaspoons Ground Ginger. 

1 teaspoon (Baking) Soda. 

Melt the Shortening and add it to the molasses  with the slightly beaten egg  and the milk. Mix thoroughly.  Then beat in the flour salt ginger and soda sifted together. Turn into one large or two small, well greased shallow pans and bake about 25 minutes in 350 - 370 oven.  Remember that any mixture containing molasses burns more rapidly than one which sugar is used for sweetening.

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Mom's Favorite Pumpkin Pie

From my Mom's Recipes box.

Pumpkin Pie 

My favorite *

1 9 - inch unbaked Pie Shell. 

1 cup Brown Sugar. 

2 Tablespoons Flour. 

1/2 teaspoon Salt. 

1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon. 

1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg. 

1cup Cooked Pumpkin. 

2 cups diluted Milnot **

2 eggs, beaten. 

   Mix sugar, flour, salt and spices together and stir in pumpkin.  Add Milnot and eggs. Pour into Pie shell and bake at 450F for 10 minutes, reduce heat to 350F and continue baking for another 24 - 30 minutes or until filling is firm.

* Mom's note,  "My favorite". 

** Milnot is a brand of  evaporated milk, with enough water added to make 2 cups.

Left Over Mashed Potatoed 1868

From Mom's Recipes Box.

Left Over Mashed Potatoes, 1868

Add enough flour to make a dough thick enough that can be  rolled out, a shake of Salt and Pepper added to flour. Roll out on floured board, then cut in oblong pieces then roll each oblong piece into  kind of a  horn shape by putting a thumb on a corner and roll around.

Dry these as you would dry fruit.

 These can be added to soups or broths - cook covered about 7 minutes till they come to top.

Cinnamon Rolls.

Growing up, we had homemade sweets all the time. Cakes, cookies, brownies, crisps and cobblers. Mom grew up in Rural Missouri, and everyone worked hard every day. Her grandfather raised and trained mules. He used the mules every day.  Mules knew he had a treat for them and it may have been a cookie or a treat out of the garden.

From Mom's Recipes Box.


Cinnamon Rolls. 

2 1/2 cups Lukewarm Water. 
2 packs Yeast. 
1 box Yellow Cake Mix. 
6 1/4 flour, divided. 
3 Eggs. 
1/3 cup Oil.
1 teaspoon Salt. 
Soft Oleo (Butter)  
Sugar. 
Cinnamon and Raisins. 

Dissolve Yeast in lukewarm Water for 3 minutes.  Add Cake Mix, 1 cup Flour, eggs, Oil, and Salt.  Beat until bubbles appear.  Slowly add 5 1/2 cups flour.  Stir with Spoon, making a soft dough, knead on board 5 minutes. Let raise until double. Roll out to 1/4 inch thick. Spread with Oleo (butter)and add Sugar, cinnamon and Raisins. Roll up, cut 1 inch thick. Place on greased pan. Let raise. Bake in 350F oven 20 tp 30 minutes.  Ice while still hot with Powdered Sugar .

.Turkey Hash

From Mom's Recipes box.

As a single Mom of three kids, Mom couldn't afford to toss out left-overs. She came up with many ways to make over left-overs. I would help her as I grew up.

After we had finished our Thanksgiving dinner and we were clearing the table, we would make up plates, to wrap in plastic wrap, and then freezer paper. Then labeled and placed in the freezer, to become T.V. dinners. Mom and I would strip the meat off the bones making sure we didn't leave any small bones in the meat. Mom also saved the broth from the pan. Some, she poured over the stuffing that was left over. Some was frozen, to use in Turkey noodle soup, some to make gravy for those T.V. dinners.

Turkey Hash  

Serves 6

8-18-92

6 Tablespoons Butter. 

1 1/2 cups chopped Onion. 

1/3 cup chopped Pepper. 

1/4 cup Flour. 

1 Tablespoon Instant Chicken Bouillon. 

2 cups Milk. 

1 Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce. 

4 cups diced cooked Turkey. 

Optional,  Parsley Basil,  Mushrooms. 

Melt butter in large iron skillet. Saute onion and pepper 10 minutes, remove from heat. Stir in flour and bouillon.   Gradually stir in milk and Worcesttershire Sauce. 

Return to heat,  bring to boil stirring constantly, boil 1 minute. Stir in Turkey,  and heat through.

(Add in any optional items with the Turkey.)

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