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Recipe Source: The Fish Market
Ingredients:
1 egg beaten
1 cup milk
3 and 1/2 cups flour
1 qt. sliced dill pickles
vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
Combine milk and egg in a bowl. Put the flour in a freezer bag and add salt and pepper. Dip drained pickles in egg mixture and then shake in flour. When pickles are coated well, deep fry in oil until they turn golden brown and float. Enjoy!
Recipe Source: mom
Ingredients:
1 (10-oz) package Cheddar cheese
1 lb. hot bulk sausage
2 1/2 cup Bisquick
Directions:
Shread cheese in large glass mixing bowl. Add hunks of sausage into bowl and heat briefly in microwave–just until the mixture warms, maybe thirty seconds. Return to counter and gradually cut in bisquick, mixing well with your hands as if you’re kneading bread. (The heat from the microwave is a neat trick to help mix the ingredients.)
Form into small balls, about the size of a walnut; place on cookie sheet. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 15 minutes. May be frozen before baking.
Serve by themselves or with your favorite dipping sauces. (my fav is mustard!)
Recipe Source: Grandmother
Ingredients:
1 cup Karo syrup
1 cup sugar
12 oz. peanut butter
6 cups cornflakes
Directions:
Boil the first two ingredients. As soon as it begins to boil, stir in the peanut butter and cornflakes. Drop immediately on wax paper. You have to work quickly before the candy hardens. Enjoy!
Nicki’s Notes:
My mother made these all the time when I was growing up. They are by far my favorite of her holiday candies. I used to help her make and roll them out every year just before Christmas. This recipe was used by my grandmother when she was a lunchroom lady at Minor High School.
A tip: coat your hands with butter before rolling to help keep the mix from sticking to your hands and fingers!
Recipe Source: allthingssouthern.com
Notes:
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to cut corners, but you have my word, this one is every bit as good as the “stand and stir the day away” recipe your grandmother used.
Ingredients:
4 cups sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
3/4 cups water
dash of salt
3 egg whites
1 tsp. vanilla
enough chopped pecans to suit your taste
Directions:
Mix first four ingredients in glass dish. Cook in microwave for 19 minutes, stirring every five. Should reach 250′ on candy thermometer. Cook to hard ball stage. Beat egg whites very stiff in large bowl. Gradually pour hot syrup over egg whites at high speed. Continue beating for 12 minutes until candy loses its gloss. Add vanilla and nuts and drop in bite-size pieces.
Author’s Disclaimer:
I’ve even been successful with this one on an overcast day, though the cooks in my family always admonished me not to even think about making divinity if the weather wasn’t clear and dry. If you choose to ignore their tried and true warnings too, well, you’re on your own. 🙂
Recipe Source: Crystal Leigh Costello / allthingssouthern.com
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
3 cups sugar
3 eggs
5 1/2 cups self rising flour (save enough to flour cutting board and rolling pin)
3 tablespoons milk
Directions:
Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time. Add milk, flavoring and flour. Divide dough and roll very thin; use your favorite cookie cutter to cut dough. Bake at 350 for 8 to 10 minutes. Makes about 6 dozen or more if you roll wafer thin.
Recipe Source: allthingssouthern.com
Pie:
1 and 1/2 cups crumbled Oreo cookies
1/2 cup butter/melted
1 qt. vanilla ice cream
Store bought fudge sauce
Combine cookie crumbs and butter. Press into a buttered 9-inch pie plate. Fill with ice cream. Top with fudge sauce and freeze. If you really want to be naughty, slice it and serve it with the Hot Fudge Sauce (below).
Hot Fudge Sauce:
5 (1 ounce) squares semi-sweet chocolate
1 and 3/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 (13 ounce) can evaporated milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Melt chocolate over very low heat. Add sugar, butter and salt. Bring to a boil. Add milk. Return to boil and remove from heat. Cool; add vanilla and blend. Yum!
Recipe Source: allthingssouthern.com
Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1 cup milk
1 stick butter
1 large can peaches
Directions:
Cut butter into pats and scatter in your baking pan. Mix flour and sugar, add milk, blend well and pour over butter. Add drained peaches. Bake at 350 degrees until top crust is bubbly and brown, (about thirty to forty-five minutes). Best served piping hot with vanilla ice cream.
Recipe Source: Wanda Oliver / allthingssouthern.com
Blend:
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour
2 eggs well beaten
1 stick margarine melted
Stir in:
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup pecans (I substituted chopped Macadamia Nuts–Yum!)
1/2 cup coconut (optional)
1 teaspoon vanilla
Bake in pie shell at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes.
Recipe Source: allthingssouthern.com
Yummy! Just like my mother used to make! 😀 — Nicki
Ingredients:
4 eggs
1 cup dark Karo syrup
2 tsp. melted butter
1 cup dark brown sugar
4 tsp. Carnation cream
1 cup whole pecans
1 (9-inch) pie shell
Directions:
Beat first 5 ingredients. Mix in pecans. Pour into pie shell in 9-inch pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.
Recipe Source: allthingssouthern.com
Ingredients:
3 cups diced cooked turkey
1 large onion — chopped
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup sliced ripe olives
2 cups coarsely broken tortilla chips
1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
1 can condensed nacho cheese soup
1 10 oz. can diced tomatoes with green chiles (Rotel)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Layer turkey into the bottom of a 9×13-inch greased casserole dish. Layer onion, cheese, olives, and tortilla chips over turkey. (Do not add chips until ready to bake.) Combine soups and tomatoes. Pour over turkey and bake 30 to 40 minutes until hot and bubbly. Garnish with ripe olives, if desired.
Nicki’s Notes:
Great for using up some of that leftover Thanksgiving turkey! 🙂
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