candy #5

Mashed Potato  Candy

1/2 Cup  mashed potato
1 lb powdered sugar
1/2 Cup peanut butter

Mix warm mashed potato with sugar.  Roll out in an oblong shape and spread with peanut butter.  Roll up like a jelly roll and cut into slices.

Casserole #13

Baked Beans

1 lb navy beans soaked and cooked
2 cups tomato juice
3/4 cup catsup
3/4 cup molasses
1 lb bacon fried
onion to taste
3/4 cup brown sugar

Mix all ingredients and bake at 300 degrees for  2.5 hours.

vegetable #14

Cheese Zucchini Crisps

1/3 cup cornflake crumbs
2 tablespoons parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 small unpeeled zucchini
1/4 butter

Combine crumbs, cheese, and seasoning; Place in plastic bag. Cut zucchini in 1/2 stips and dip in butter. Then shake in bag of crumbs to coat. Place on baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes or until crisp.

Salad #5

Cracker Salad

18 Saltine crackers
1 1/2 cups tomato Juice(seasoned with salt, pepper, and sugar)
1 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup chopped olives or pickles
1/2 cup mayonnaise

Crush crackers, breaking into 4 or 5 pieces. Add chopped celery and the olives or pickles. Season tomato juice with salt, sugar, and pepper. Pour juice over crackers. add mayonnaise and mix slightly.

Serves six.

Casserole #12

Hay Stack Supper

Very popular with the Amish in Holmes County. Here are the components to the dish. You decide how much or little you will add to your dish. You even put your own flavor of foods in your area onto the dish.

Crushed crackers.
Lettuce
Cooked rice
Corn Chips ( I prefer Doritos)
Taco meat or just cooked hamburger
Melted cheese
Peppers/hot pepper/banana peppers
Tomatoes(chopped up)
Sour cream
Salad dressing

Layer the ingredients as seen on the list. Nice thing about a haystack is that you pick how much and what you want on the dish. These ingredients complement each other very well.

Bread #7

Fried Corn Meal Mush 3 cups yellow corn 2 quarts boiling water 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup white flour Bring water to a boil. Mix together corn meal, white flour, and salt. Slowly add dry ingredients to boiling water, stirring constantly to remove lumps. When well blended, cover and cook slowly for 1 hour. Put into flat pans to mold. Set in refrigerator to cool throughly. Cut into slices 1/4 inch thick anf fry on griddle until golden brown on both sides. Delicious with maple syrup or apple butter.

Dessert #26

Apple Pie Biscuit

Apple pie filling
Store bought biscuit dough

Pop open can of biscuit. Press down on biscuit to hold apple filling and put on backing pan. Put apple filling in.

Heat oven to 350 degrees and cook for about 20 minutes. Enjoy with your favorite pie stuff.