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.

Cheese Cakes

This recipe was often made by Todd's Grandma R. (Millie). She often frosted these very lightly with a lemon flavoured glaze.

Cheese Cakes

Line mini muffin tins with pastry.

Make Filling:

4 tbsp butter

4 tbsp sugar

1 egg

grated rind of one lemon

1 tsp lemon juice

3/4 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

In lined muffin tins put 1 ts of jam and cover with cake mixture. Bake.

Chili Sauce (Fruit)

This recipe is from Todd's Grandma A. (Pauline). The last little note was written to Todd's Mom, Joyce. See the tomato version of this recipe here.

Chili Sauce (Fruit)

30 ripe tomatoes

6 onions

6 pears, 6 peaches

a bag of whole mixed spice

3 green peppers

4 cups white sugar

4 tbsp pickling sauce (less)

1 pint vinegar (cider) I use

Chop all together. Boil for 2 hours until fairly thick. Do not put pears and peaches through grinder, just cut in small pieces.

"Joyce, when I don't have any pears I open a can of pears and use what I think is 6, but I have put less pears and peaches in. Also I make a chili sauce with this recipe and leave out the fruit, sometimes I put a couple stalks of cut up celery and less peppers. I think the whole sp8ice make it best. (Have fun.) It don't make a lot."

Chili Sauce

This recipe comes from Todd's Grandma A. (Pauline). See the fruit version here.

Chili Sauce

12 ripe tomatoes

2 onions

1 gr & 1 red pepper

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/8 tsp cloves

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 tbsp salt (less)

1/3 cup cider vinegar

celery or celery seed

Chop ingredients and cook all till thick.

Variation: Chili Sauce with Apples

12 tomatoes

4 gr peppers (I use 1 big)

2 large onions

4 medium apples

2 cups brown sugar (I use 1 white)

2 cups vinegar

2 tbsp salt (scant)

1 tbsp cinnamon

1 tsp dry mustard

1 tsp celery seed

1/2 tsp gr. cloves

1/2 tsp allspice

1/8 - 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

Chop and cook till thick. I mash (with) potato masher when cooking.