Christmas birds

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My brothers and in circa 1961

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Peanut butter cookies

Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients :

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/4 cups sifted flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions :

Preheat oven to 375°..  Mix first six ingredients. Add the rest of the ingredients. Mix well. Roll into balls and press down with a fork dipped in sugar or flour. Bake for 10-12 minutes on ungreased cookie sheet.

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Left Over Mashed Potatoed 1868

From Mom's Recipes Box.

Left Over Mashed Potatoes, 1868

Add enough flour to make a dough thick enough that can be  rolled out, a shake of Salt and Pepper added to flour. Roll out on floured board, then cut in oblong pieces then roll each oblong piece into  kind of a  horn shape by putting a thumb on a corner and roll around.

Dry these as you would dry fruit.

 These can be added to soups or broths - cook covered about 7 minutes till they come to top.

Cinnamon Rolls.

Growing up, we had homemade sweets all the time. Cakes, cookies, brownies, crisps and cobblers. Mom grew up in Rural Missouri, and everyone worked hard every day. Her grandfather raised and trained mules. He used the mules every day.  Mules knew he had a treat for them and it may have been a cookie or a treat out of the garden.

From Mom's Recipes Box.


Cinnamon Rolls. 

2 1/2 cups Lukewarm Water. 
2 packs Yeast. 
1 box Yellow Cake Mix. 
6 1/4 flour, divided. 
3 Eggs. 
1/3 cup Oil.
1 teaspoon Salt. 
Soft Oleo (Butter)  
Sugar. 
Cinnamon and Raisins. 

Dissolve Yeast in lukewarm Water for 3 minutes.  Add Cake Mix, 1 cup Flour, eggs, Oil, and Salt.  Beat until bubbles appear.  Slowly add 5 1/2 cups flour.  Stir with Spoon, making a soft dough, knead on board 5 minutes. Let raise until double. Roll out to 1/4 inch thick. Spread with Oleo (butter)and add Sugar, cinnamon and Raisins. Roll up, cut 1 inch thick. Place on greased pan. Let raise. Bake in 350F oven 20 tp 30 minutes.  Ice while still hot with Powdered Sugar .

.Turkey Hash

From Mom's Recipes box.

As a single Mom of three kids, Mom couldn't afford to toss out left-overs. She came up with many ways to make over left-overs. I would help her as I grew up.

After we had finished our Thanksgiving dinner and we were clearing the table, we would make up plates, to wrap in plastic wrap, and then freezer paper. Then labeled and placed in the freezer, to become T.V. dinners. Mom and I would strip the meat off the bones making sure we didn't leave any small bones in the meat. Mom also saved the broth from the pan. Some, she poured over the stuffing that was left over. Some was frozen, to use in Turkey noodle soup, some to make gravy for those T.V. dinners.

Turkey Hash  

Serves 6

8-18-92

6 Tablespoons Butter. 

1 1/2 cups chopped Onion. 

1/3 cup chopped Pepper. 

1/4 cup Flour. 

1 Tablespoon Instant Chicken Bouillon. 

2 cups Milk. 

1 Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce. 

4 cups diced cooked Turkey. 

Optional,  Parsley Basil,  Mushrooms. 

Melt butter in large iron skillet. Saute onion and pepper 10 minutes, remove from heat. Stir in flour and bouillon.   Gradually stir in milk and Worcesttershire Sauce. 

Return to heat,  bring to boil stirring constantly, boil 1 minute. Stir in Turkey,  and heat through.

(Add in any optional items with the Turkey.)

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Corn Pone

From Mom's Recipes box.

From Mom's Recipes box.

Corn Pone.

2 cups White Cornmeal. 

1 teaspoon Salt. 

1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda. 

4 Tablespoons Lard. 

3/4 cup Boiling Water. 

1/2 c Buttermilk. 

   Stir Cornmeal, salt, and baking soda together. Work in lard until well mixed.  Pour in boiling water and continue to work.  Gradually add enough Buttermilk to make a soft dough but keep it firm enough to be molded in to small oblong cakes.  Place in a Hot, well greased skillet and bake in a 350F oven for about 40 minutes.

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Fudge

Old Fashioned Fudge...

2 cups sugar

4 Tablespoons Hershey's cocoa

1 stick of salted butter

5 ounce can of Carnation Evaporated Milk

1 teaspoon of vanilla

nuts are optional...

Mix sugar and cocoa in a saucepan, then add a stick of butter and the can of evaporated milk, and stir until the mixture starts boiling.

Stir continuously for 7 minutes, then remove from heat and add vanilla, then stir the mix continuously for 3 minutes, then pour into a buttered baking dish to set.

Great fudge in less than 20 minutes!

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Christmas graphic

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Kamakazi

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Card and envelope I made

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Blooming in my yard

Look what is vlooming in my yard!

Love the first signs of Spring !









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Easy Beef Stew

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Jan 2nd

Time to catch yp.

I tried to pist a handmade card every day between the day after Thanksgiving to Christmas Day.

I've posted two cards for January already.

We did very little decorating, this year. A teal ball I found in my tub of clothes, went over Hubby's table. I put the three cards we got in the walls but one kept falling off.

I put out a couple of kitchen towels and a couple of pot holders.  

I didn't even wear all of my holiday tops. 

Heather gave both of us Adult trikes. I am having a lot of trouble with my knees when I try to peddle it. I am stretching and exercise both and my left knee is doing better. 

My greenhouse was torn apart by the wind the week before Christmas. It was very cold just after that. Yet, we were in the 60s on Christmas day.. and we have stayed in the 60s since. A cold front is due tomorrow, but not excessively cold. Our day time highs in the 50s and lies at or above freezing for  the rest of this week.

The "new" TV has been sent back to the rental place, to repair it. After a rolling black out furniture g that cold spell, it developed a line across the screen. I could barely see it, but it was there. The lianer lasted until Sunday morning. It quit working completely so we brought our smaller TV back into the living room

Christmas dinner was more a brunch, at Heather's. Home. Breakfast foods. Bailey was in New York with her boyfriends' family and Liam spent Christmas Eve with his Dad and half brother.

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