Pie Pastry

Todd's Aunt Helen remembers her mother, Grandma R. (Mildred) using this recipe for awhile. She tells us that it kept in the fridge for quite some time.

Pie Pastry

5 cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 1/2 tsp salt

4 tsp brown sugar

Mix in 1 lb shortening (she used lard)

In bottom of cup, put in 1 egg unbeaten. Add 1 tbsp vinegar and enough water to make 3/4 cup liquid.

Mashed Potatoes & Turnip

My Mom remembers my Grandma M. (Doris) making this vegetable side dish and serving it with turkey. She would also bake turnips on their own, slit them and add butter, salt and pepper inside.

Mashed Potatoes & Turnip

Bake potatoes and turnip in oven and once done, mash together with butter, salt and pepper.

Baloney & Potato Dinner

This recipe comes from my Grandma M. (Doris). My Mom remembers this being served for many a meal. Enough was made for all eight children plus the two parents.

Baloney & Potato Dinner

Baloney

Onions

Potatoes

Cook first two ingredients together in frying pan. Boil potatoes. Serve.

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Filling

This recipe is from Todd's Grandma A. (Pauline). At the top of the recipe card she had written, "Very good." Other notes from the recipe written by Grandma A. are shown in quotations below.

Chocolate Cake

3/4 cup butter or margarine ("I used some butter & shortening.")

1 3/4 cups sugar

Cream till fluffy. Add 2 eggs.

1 tsp vanilla

2 cups all purpose flour ("I used pastry.")

3/4 cup cocoa

1 1/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 1/3 cups water

"I used the chocolate filling. You cook & choc icing. Make Todd & Dan a big cake for me."

Chocolate Filling for Cake

1/2 cup sugar

2 tbsp cocoa

1 tbsp cornstarch

1 cup boiling water

Cook until thick, add a small piece of butter and vanilla. "Joyce: This recipe is good for chocolate sauce. For filling I find you need more cornstarch (2 tbsp.)."

Chinese Casserole

This recipe is from Todd's Grandma A. (Pauline). It is now a favourite in our family as well.

Chinese Casserole

1 1/2 lbs hamburg

1 onion

1 lg can cream chicken soup

1 can mushrooms (liquid included)

1 cup water

1 cup celery

1/2 cup minute rice

3 tbsp soy sauce

1 tin bean sprouts (drained)

1 - 7 oz tin Chinese noodles (or use broken up pieces of spaghetti)

Fry hamburg and onions. Add rest except noodles. Put 3/4 can of noodles in large casserole or 2 small ones. Then put in ingredients and top with rest of noodles. Bake 350 degrees for 3/4 hour. "I used just plain rice and macaroni or spaghetti."

Jellied Carrot and Pineapple Salad

This recipe was found written out on a scrap of paper slipped inside one of my Grandma M.'s (Doris') cookbooks.

Jellied Carrot and Pineapple Salad

1 pkg lemon gelatin

1 pint hot water

1 1/2 cup grated carrots

1 tbsp vinegar

1 cup crushed pineapple

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 tsp salt

mayonnaise

Dissolve gelatin in hot water. Add vinegar, sugar and salt. Chill until slightly thickened. Fold carrots and pineapple into slightly thickened gelatin. Turn into moulds. Unmould on crisp lettuce and garnish with mayonnaise.

Cherry Delight Pie

Todd's Grandma R. (Millie) used to make this recipe.

Cherry Delight Pie

1 can cherry pie filling

1/2 pint whipped cream

1/2 cup powdered sugar

3 oz cream cheese (room temp)

1 tsp vanilla

Whip cream, then whip in cream cheese then sugar and vanilla. Pour into graham wafer crust, chill at least an hour or overnight, then add cherry pie filling and chill again. Make 24 hours ahead.