Good Cooks’ Recipes

2 lbs. fresh yellow squash or 3 packages frozen
1 medium onion, chopped fine
1/2 stick margarine (melted)
2 cans Cream of Mushroom Soup
2 beaten eggs
1/2 cup grated sharp cheese
1/2 package Ritz Cracker crumbs

Saute onions in a little margarine. Butter a 2 quart casserole. Drain cooked squash well and cover bottom of dish with a layer of squash, a layer of onion, melted butter, beaten eggs, soup, grated cheese and cracker crumbs. Make a second layer and end with cheese and crumbs. Season to taste. Bake at 350 about 20 minutes. To make a smaller batch, use 1-1/2 lbs. of squash and 1 can of Cream of Mushroom soup.

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Potato Salad

6 cups cubed, cooked potatoes
1 lb. cooked green beans
3/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup French dressing
1 teaspoon mustard
1/3 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
4 boiled eggs – sliced
1 cup sliced radishes
1 cup diced celery
1/4 cup chopped sweet pickles
1/4 cup minced onions

Cook unpeeled, cubed potatoes 25-30 minutes. Cool. Blend mayonnaise, French dressing, mustard, salt and pepper. Add potatoes, green beans, eggs (leave some for garnish), radishes, celery, sweet pickles and onion. Toss lightly and chill.

(My husband and kids think the green beans are weird, but I like them. )

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Another recipe I grew up with. It probably came with the ice cream freezer my parents bought in the 1950s or 60s. So deliciously rich.

3 eggs
1 can condensed milk
1 cup sugar
2 quarts milk
1 tablespoon vanilla

Mix all ingredients and follow the instructions with your ice cream freezer.

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What a title – Good Ham Recipe. Better than just “Ham”, I guess. This is the ham recipe I grew up with.

Ingredients:

Ham
Whole cloves

Glaze:
3/4 cup crushed pineapple
3/4 cup brown sugar

With rind still on ham, wrap loosley in paper. Place, fat side up in 325° oven. Cook 26-28 minutes per pound. About 45 minutes before time is up, remove from oven. Remove paper. Remove rind. Cut fat into squares. Stick in cloves. Glaze and return to the oven to finish baking.

The glaze works just as well with a ham slab as with a whole ham.

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Nothing could be easier than this and it’s so good, you might want to eat it right out of the bowl before it hardens!

Microwave Fudge

1 lb. confectioners sugar
1 tablespoon peanut butter
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup cocoa
1 stick butter
1 Tablespoon vanilla
Add some nuts if you like or crunchy peanut butter. If you prefer smooth fudge, use plain peanut butter and no nuts.

Bake first five ingredients in microwave until the butter melts. Add vanilla and nuts. Mix. Pour into a greased pan and refrigerate.

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English Pea Salad

1 can of English peas, drained
3 hard cooked eggs, chopped
1/2 cup sweet pickles, chopped
1/2 cup pimentos, chopped
1/4 teaspoon celery seeds
1/4 cup mayonnaise

Combine all ingredients and chill.

To make it pretty, serve it on lettuce leaves and garnish with pimento strips.

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My husband loves this. I can’t personally vouch for it.  Cucumbers make me burp, so I don’t eat it.

Cucumbers In Sour Cream

2 medium cucumbers
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sour cream
2 teaspoons minced onion
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon chopped dill pickles
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon Accent
3 minced radishes

Mix sliced and peeled cucumbers with 3/4 teaspoon salt. Let stand in covered dish in refrigerator at least one hour. Drain. Mix remainder of ingredients and combine with cucumbers. Garnish with sliced radishes.

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This meatloaf is from a 1968 cookbook, Blue Ribbon Recipes and it sure lives up to the book title. There’s nothing fancy about it, just a good – real good – basic meatloaf.

Meat Loaf

1-1/2 lb. ground beef (I use ground chuck)
3/4 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup chopped onion
1-1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 beaten egg
1/4 cup milk
1/3 cup catsup
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 tablespoon prepared mustard

Combine first 7 ingredients for meat loaf; mix thoroughly. Pack into a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan. Mix remaining ingredients for sauce. Pour over the meat loaf. Bake about 1 hour at 350 degrees. Let stand before slicing.

(Recipe by Ruth Lunde, Austin, Minnesota – Freeborn County Favorite Food Fair)

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It might be easier to make banana pudding with a pudding mix, but not as rich and delicious as this!

Banana Pudding

1 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 egg yolks
2 bananas
3 cups vanilla wafers
2 egg whites
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Beat egg yolks. Add mixed sugar and flour alternately with milk until all the milk has been added then add salt. Place in double boiler and cook until mixture thickens, then add vanilla. Cool pudding mixture. Place a layer of vanilla wafers in bottom of Pyrex dish, slice a banana and place over vanilla wafers, then pour half of the pudding over bananas. Repeat. Top with meringue and brown lightly at 325°.

To make meringue, beat egg whites at high speed until stiff. Add 1/3 cup sugar, continue beating then add vanilla.

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Easier than you’d think and so rewarding getting to knead and punch that dough.
Can be made ahead of time and frozen, ready to pop in the oven.

Yeast Biscuits

5 cups sifted, self rising flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup shortening
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 packages yeast (dissolved in 1/4 cup lukewarm water)
2 cups buttermilk

Combine dry ingredients. Cut in shortening. Stir in yeast and buttermilk. Knead until smooth and elastic. Let rise until double in bulk. Punch down. Roll and cut with a biscuit cutter. Bake at 450° for 10-20 minutes. These can be frozen after cutting and before cooking.

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