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."

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.

Cherry Pudding

This recipe comes from Todd's Grandma A. (Pauline). Todd's Mom remembers that they had a sour cherry tree right outside the door at home. "We had lots of cherry puddings while the cherries were in season."

Cherry Pudding

1/2 cup white sugar

1/2 cup milk

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 cups cherries (or other fruit)

Put batter into a greased pan.

Combine:

1 cup brown sugar

3 cups boiling water

1 tbsp butter

Pour over batter and bake - 1 hr.

Bran Muffins

This recipe comes from Todd's Grandma A. (Pauline).

Bran Muffins

1 egg

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup Crisco, lard or shortening

1 1/2 cups bran

1 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 cups sour milk

pinch of salt

Caramel Icing

This recipe is from Todd's Grandma A. (Pauline).

Caramel Icing

1/2 cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp light cream

2 1/2 cup icing sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla

Combine butter, sugar and cream in saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil 1 minute. Remove from heat, stir or beat in icing sugar and

vanilla.

Spread on warm cake. If frosting becomes too thick, add a small amount of water. (Goes good with banana cake.) You can half the recipe which is enough for a 9"x9" cake.

Ice Box Cookies

This recipe comes from Todd's Grandma A. (Pauline). She had two versions of the same recipe. One is shown in the image scanned at right and the other is typed out below.

Ice Box Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup butter (margarine)

2 cups brown sugar

3 beaten eggs

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

4 cups flour

1 tsp vanilla

Directions

Cream together butter and brown sugar. Mix rest of ingredients together. Roll into 2 - 2 1/2" logs. Wrap. Cool in fridge or freezer. Cut into 1/4" slices and bake.

Banana Nut Bread

This recipe comes from Todd's Grandma A. (Pauline).

Banana Nut Bread

Ingredients

2 c flour

2 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/3 c butter or shortening

1/2 c brown sugar

2 eggs

1 c mashed bananas

1/2 c chopped nuts

1 tsp grated orange rind (5 tbsp orange juice)

Directions

Bake at 350 deg F for 45 minutes in loaf pan.

About Grandma Pauline

Todd's Grandma A. (Pauline) was his maternal grandmother. She was born in Ontario in 1912 and passed away almost 12 years ago. She was a great cook with a lot of recipes to pass on from her farm life. When Todd and I were first married, I remember sitting in her kitchen copying out some of her delicious pickle recipes. Todd's Mom has a good memory of her mother's cooking and still uses a lot of her recipes today.