Grandpa's Favorite Cake

Thank you Mary Roth ( My Dad's sister)

Ingredients 

Cake
1 1/2 Cup	Boiling water		1 1/2 Cup	Flour
1 Cup	Quick Oatmeal		1 Tbsp	Baking soda
2	Eggs		1/2 tsp	Salt
1/2 Cup	Margarine		1 Cup	White sugar
1 Cup	Brown Sugar
Frosting
6 Tbsp	Butter - softened		1 Cup	Coconut
1/4 Cup	Evaported Milk		1/2 Cup	Chopped Nuts
3/4 Cup	Brown Sugar

Directions 

Pour boiling water over quick oatmeal.  Let stand 15 min.  Add eggs. In a separate bowl cream together the margarine, and both sugars. . Sift in another bowl the flour, soda, and salt.  Add alternately flour, oatmeal mixture with sugar/margarine mixture.  Bake 30-40 min.at 350 degrees.

Frosting: in a bowl mix the butter, evaporated milk, brown sugar, coconut and chopped nuts.  Pour frosting over hot cake and brown under broiler.  WATCH closely it burns easily.  

My father as skinny as could be would finish his breakfast with a large hunk of his favorite cake.

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Pecan Tarts

Thank you Mary Roth (My Dad's Sister)

Ingredients 

Crust
3 oz	Cream Cheese (Softened)
1/2 Cup	Butter or Margarine
1 Cup	Flour
Filling
1	Egg
3/4 Cup	Brown Sugar
1 Tbsp	Vanilla
1 Tbsp	Butter - softened
2/3 Cup	Chopped Pecans

Directions 

Preheat oven to 325 degrees and prepare pastry tin.  Mix the cream cheese, butter and flour and roll into 24 balls for crust.   Press into small tins to for pastry.

Filling:  Mix the egg, brown sugar, vanilla, softened butter and pecans. Pour filling mix into tins.  Bake at 325 degrees for 25 minutes.  Remove from tins and cool, I take a butter knife and run it around the crust to remove from tins easily.  

This is one of the favorites in our family for Christmas

Miniature Cheesecakes

Thank you Mary Roth (My Dad's Sister) 

Ingredients 

24	Vanilla Wafers
2 8 oz	Cream Cheese
3/4 Cup	Sugar
2	Eggs
1 Tbsp	Lemon Juice
1 tsp	Vanilla

Direction

Place 24 cupcake liners into a muffin pan( I like the aluminum foil ones) , and a wafer in the bottom of each liner.  In a bowl beat the softened cream cheese, sugar, eggs lemon juice and vanilla until they are light and fluffy.   Fill the linerrs 3/4 full with cheesecake mixture.  Bake at 375 degrees for 10-15 min or until set, cool.  Top each with a spoonful of cherry or blueberry pie filling.  Chill before serving.

Judy, your dad loved these with blueberry topping.

White Sugar Cookies

Thank you Mary Roth (My Dad's sister) 

Ingredients 

1 Cup	Butter
1 Cup	Vegetable Oil
1 Cup	White Sugar
1 Cup	Powdered Sugar
2	Eggs
1 tsp	Vanilla
1 tsp	Salt
1 tsp	Baking Soda
1 tsp	Cream of Tartar
4 Cups plus 5 Tbsp	Flour

Directions 

.  Cream the butter, vegetable oil, white sugar and powdered sugar together, Then mix the eggs, vanilla, salt and baking soda and cream of tartar into the batter.   together and then add the flour, mix well.  .  Drop by spoonsful on baking sheet.  Flatten with glass dipped in sugar( I use colored sugar for different holidays or events) Bake at 375, will freeze and keep very well.

Black Bean Dip

Courtesy of Heirlooms

Ingredients 

1 Jar	Raspberry Jam
1 7 oz Can	Chipotle Peppers
1/2	Onion Diced
1 Clove	Garlic
1 8 oz pkg	Cream Cheese - Softened
1 Can	Black Beans
	Pepper Jack Cheese

Directions 

Raspberry Base:  In a rubber made container combine the jam and he chipotle peppers.  Seal and set aside, this may be used for several batches of bean dip.  

In a frying pan saute diced onions and butter, until onions are softened.  Add the garlic and continue for an additional minutes.  Mix the onion and garlic with the softened cream cheese.  Drain and dry the black beans (place on paper towel).  

To assemble layer the cream cheese mixture, than the desired quantity of raspberry base, beans and pepper jack cheese.  Cook in microwave or oven until cheese is melted.  Serve with tortilla chips.  

Disclaimer

 I have completed most of the recipes from Flora and Ab Jankowski.  I hope you enjoy those recipes.  I have decided to continue this theme of looking at recipes from previous cooks, as such many years ago my Mother in Law gifted her children a wonderful family cookbook, "Heirlooms from our Family".  This is a collection of recipes from the descendants of John and Clara Kramer and Otto and Rose Landoll.  Any of the recipes that you may see that say "Courtesy of Heirlooms" will be in reference to this family treasure.  

Hacks

In the back of my mother's cookbook I found a couple of cards with hacks.  Just because this might be useful.  Here you go, if you try one of these and find it helpful please let me know.  

1. Finely chopped onions-  Run over sliced onions with a pizza cutter.  

2. To remove fat from soup -  Layer a piece of wax paper on the soup before it is refrigerated. 

3. Painting around door handles - To easily and cleanly navigate painting around door handles, simply wrap the handle in aluminum foil.  

4. Grating-  Before using the grater for carrots, cheese and onions, simply spray the grater with vegetable oil.  

5. In a rush for dinner, to reduce time for potatoes - soak the potatoes in some salt water before you  bake.  

6.  Paint stains on windows? - Hot vinegar will quickly clean up paint stains. 

7. Ice trays - Can be used as a  biscuit cutter

8. Grease - Use a leaf of lettuce to soak up the grease.  

9. To get rid of rust stains on clothes - 1 tsp of cream of tartar in wash/rinse.

10. Wall Paper remover spray - 2/3 cup Hot water, 1/3 cup liquid fabric softener, spray on wall wait for 20 minutes and peel off.  

11. Brother Fat - Drain through a paper towel. 

12.  To eliminate grass between bricks on a patio -  sprinkle salt in crevices 

13.  Ring around the collar - use oily hair shampoo as a Pre-wash

14. Lint clinging on dark clothing - Add a cup of vinegar to the rinse cycle.