Milky Way Layer Cake

Ingredients & Directions 8 lg Milky way candy bars 2 c Sugar 1/2 ts Baking soda 2 1/2 c Sifted flour 2 c Butter or margarine 4 Eggs 1 1/4 c Buttermilk 2 c Chopped nuts Grease two 9 inch layer cake pans or one 9 x 12 pan. Preheat oven to 325 deg f. […]

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Chart House Mud Pie

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 pk Nabisco chocolate wafers 1/4 c Butter, melted 1 qt Coffee ice cream 1 1/2 c Fudge sauce Crush wafers and add butter, mix well. Press into 9″ pie plate. Cover with soft coffee ice cream. Put into freezer until ice cream is firm. Top with cold fudge sauce (it helps […]

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Great Grandmother’s Bread

Ingredients & Directions To California in one of the Last wagon trains to leave The east. Over a four year period in Her later years she wrote Down the ways and Recipes she had used and Passed them down to me. Some of the foods and Terminology have changed and Is so noted ( ) […]

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Watermelon Cake

Ingredients & Directions 1/2 c Butter 1 c Sugar 1/2 c Sweet milk 3 Egg whites 2 c Flour, sifted 3 1/2 ts Baking powder Lemon juice to taste 4 Dr red food coloring 1/2 c Raisins Take a little more than 1/2 of the mixture and to it add 1 teaspoon liquid cochineal (modern: […]

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Hoe Cakes

Ingredients & Directions 1/4 c Shortening, , Crisco (or -oil) 1 1/2 c Cornmeal, , self-rising 1/4 ts Baking soda 1 1/4 c Buttermilk 1 Egg, , lightly beaten 1 tb Shortening, , Crisco – -melted Heat 1/4 cup Crisco shortening or oil to 365 deg. F in heavy skillet, on medium-high heat. Combine cornmeal […]

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Bara Brith (speckled Bread)

Ingredients & Directions 6 oz Dried fruit 8 oz Dark brown sugar 1/2 pt Strong hot tea 10 oz Self-raising flour 1 Egg This is Wales’ traditional rich fruit bread. South Wales makes it with baking powder; Northerners prefer yeast as the raising agent. Either way it’s delicious. Soak the dried fruit and sugar overnight […]

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Banana Cheesecake

Ingredients & Directions 1 10″ pie crust, pre-baked 2 c Pureed bananas -for 10 minutes -(4 medium bananas) 12 oz Cream cheese 2 Eggs (opt) 1 1/2 c Plain yogurt 1/4 c Honey (opt) Blend all the ingredients in the blender until smooth and creamy. Pour into the pre-baked pie crust and bake for 30 […]

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Great Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients & Directions 1 c Creamy peanut butter 1 Slightly beaten egg 1 c Sugar 1 ts Vanilla Combine all ingredients until blended. Make balls and place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes. MRS JERRY CRISP (JAMIE) MARVELL, AR From the book High Cotton Cookin’, Marvell Academy Mothers […]

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Sue’s Southern Cornbread

Ingredients & Directions 5 tb Butter (don’t use low-fat or -margarine) 1 1/2 c Flour 2 1/2 c Cornmeal 5 ts Baking Powder 2 ts Salt 1 tb Sugar 2 lg Eggs 2 1/2 c Milk (don’t use skim) Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Melt the 5 Tbl. of butter in a cast iron skillet. […]

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Oatcakes (irish)

Ingredients & Directions 6 oz Oatmeal (preferably fine) 2 oz Flour 1 ts Salt 10 fl Warm water Mix flour and salt together. Slowly add warm water. Roll out on a floured board to 1/4 inch thick. Cut into triangles. Cook on a pan or griddle until golden on both sides. Dry out in a […]

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