Favorite Family Recipes

Desserts

Shon’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

2  cubes butter (1 C)

2¼ C sugar

2 T molasses

3  eggs

1 T pure vanilla

1  tsp soda

1  tsp salt (rounded)

1  rounded C semi-sweet chocolate chips

1  rounded C milk chocolate chips

½ C double-chocolate chocolate chips

¾  C coconut (Flaked=packed, Shredded=unpacked)

525 g flour (1 lb. 2.4 oz.)

 

Add and mix ingredients one at a time in the order listed.  Note that this recipe was made for high altitude (our altitude is 4500 ft.).  For lower altitude, add more butter.  Bake for 16 min. at 350 degrees F.


Perfect Apple Pie*

 

6 to 8 tart apples

1 C sugar

2   T flour

1 tsp cinnamon

2 dashes nutmeg

dash salt

double pie shell

 

Pare apples, slice thin, add sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and stir together.  Make pie shell, poke all over it w/fork, and add apple mixture.  Add top crust, put slits in it.  Sprinkle more sugar and cinnamon all over top of crust big time. (But not too big time!)

 

Oven 400  for 50 minutes.

 


 

Pie Crust*

 

Single pie shell:

 

1½ C flour

½  tsp salt

½  C shortening (cut in)

5 T cold water (slowly add)

 

Double Pie shell:

 

2  C flour

1  tsp salt

2/3 C shortening (cut in)

7 T water (slowly add)

 


Pumpkin Pie*

 

1½ C cooked fresh pumpkin

¾ C sugar

½ tsp salt

1¼ tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

½ tsp nutmeg

½ tsp cloves

3 slightly beaten eggs

1-1¼ C milk

2/3 C or 6 oz. sweetened condensed milk

single pie shell

 

Blend 1st 7 ingred, add next three.  Pout into shell.  Bake 400  for 50 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean.  Cool.

 

Easiest way to prepare pumpkin:  Cook fresh pumpkin:  boil for several hours (8-12).  Let drain.  Freeze.  Thaw and drain.  Put on cookie sheet and spread out.  Cook at 300 until water has evaporated and pumpkin is thick.  If pumpkin is quite dry, use 1¼ C milk; otherwise, use about 1 C of milk.


4th of July Brownies**

(Carmel-Chocolate Squares)

 

 

1  package (14-oz.) Kraft carmels or 40 carmels

1  can (5-oz.) evaporated milk

1  pkg. German Choc. cake mix

5 T C butter melted

¾  C coarsely chopped pecans or walnuts.

1  pkg (6 oz.) semi-sweet CC's

1  C packed flaked coconut

 

Heat oven to 350°.  Heat carmels and ¼ C of the milk in saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly, until caramels are melted and mixture is smooth.  Keep mixture warm over low heat, stirring occasionally.  Mix cake mix (dry), melted butter, rest of milk and nuts.  Spread half of the dough (1½ C) in ungreased rectangular pan, 13x9x2".  Bake 7 minutes; remove from oven.  Sprinkle chocolate chips and coconut over baked layer.  Drizzle caramel mixture over CC's and coconut.  Drop remaining dough by teaspoonfuls onto caramel layer, spreading evenly.  Bake until cake portion is slightly dry to touch, 15 minutes longer; cool completely.  Refrigerate until firm.  Cut into 2¼x 1" bars.  48 bars.  Note that this is a high-altitude recipe (4500 ft.). For lower altitude:  Increase butter to 2/3 C.  First baking should be 6 min.  Second one should be 15-25 min.


Pozor, Vlak!

(I know, it’s a very strange name!)

 

1  12-oz chocolate chips – semi-sweet (Shon) milk chocolate (Roya)

2  C rice krispies

1  C peanuts (Shon) walnuts (Roya)

1  C coconut

 

Melt cc's.  Mix in krispies and peanuts and make clumps & put on a greased cookie sheet.  Change amount of ingredients to taste.


Breakfast

 

Pikelates 

 

(Pikelates were made my grandpa, George Franklin Edwards, who was from New Zealand.  After he died,

his wife, Thelma, and my dad, Clifford Edwards, attempted to reconstruct it.  It’s apparently not much like what most

New Zealanders call pikelates, which are more like English pancakes.  Perhaps it comes from his mother’s

family, who was German, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian.)

 

mix together:

 

6  eggs

2  C milk

1/3 C veg. oil

½  C sugar

Add slowly while beating:

2  C flour

 

Pour and cook on griddle abt 375° or medium heat.


Dinners

 

Beefy Mushroom Casserole

 

2  C macaroni noodles

1  can tuna

1  can soup (beefy mushroom (best) or mushroom or other)

 

Cook noodles.  Mix in tuna and soup.

 


Meat Loaf Men Like

(The Starving Students’ Cookbook)

 

1 lb. ground beef

2 slices soft bread, crumbled up

1 (4 oz.) can mushrooms (stems and pieces)

¼ C milk

1 egg

a couple plops of ketchup

½ pkg. dry onion soup mix (shake well before using)

 

Preheat oven to 350°

 

In large bowl, beat eggs with fork.  Add milk and bread crumbs.  Stir into mix.  Dump in rest of ingredients and stir to mix well.  Dump mixture into oven baking dish and mold into a loaf.  Bake at 350° for 45 min. or till done to your liking.  Makes great cold sandwiches next day.


Dad’s Chicken Noodle Soup

 

chicken

chicken bullion

 

noodles:

4 egg yolks

flour

¼-½ tsp. baking powder

¼-½ tsp. + extra salt

 

Boil carcass of chicken or turkey in pressure cooker 20 mintues.  Take meat off bones.  Save enough water for soup.  Chicken bullion may be needed.  Add broth, bullion, some salt, and chicken together and add noodles after.

 

Noodles:  Mix some flour, about 4 egg yolks, salt, baking powder in a bowl.  Mix until not sticky in hands. (When cut, noodles will come apart easily if enough flour has been used.)  Roll out like pie crust and roll up.  Chop into strips ¼-inch wide & cut those in half.  Add to soup mixture.


Old-Fashioned Beef Stew

 

1 lb. beef stew meat, cut into 1½-inch cubes

½ C flour

1 T oil

¼ tsp. pepper

½ tsp. salt

1 tsp. sugar

6 carrots, peeled and sliced

1 C sliced celery

6 potatoes, peeled and cut

6 C water

1 tsp. granulated beef bullion

2 packets onion soup mix

 

 

Coat meat with flour; put rest of flour aside.  Heat oil in skillet and brown meat.  Combine in pot, beef, boullion, pepper, salt, vegetables, add water.  Cover and cook on low heat for several hours.  Add rest of flour to thicken and cook on high for 10-15minutes.


Chicken Quesadilla (4 Two)

 

1  Chicken breast

4  tortilla shells

cheese

refried beans

spices (to taste): (Roya’s measurements)

            cumin 35 shakes

            onion powder 3 shakes

            garlic powder 5 shakes

            seasoned salt 9 shakes

            chili powder 6 shakes

            red pepper 3 shakes

            pepper 35 shakes

            salt 40 shakes

            paprika 2 shakes

 

Boil chicken breast until ready (chicken will fall apart), add spices to taste, boiling out water (not dumping it out).  Smear some beans on tortilla, put chicken on, grate some cheese and add to taste, heat in oven or microwave, put second shell on top.  Cut in quarters.


Ghormehsabsie

This recipe comes from Roya’s grandmother (father’s mother), who is from Iran.  It’s my favorite dish (from any country), and that of many others.  Though it takes quite some time to cook, it’s definitely worth the wait!

 

1  can kidney beans w/juice

1½ lbs. stew meat (or chicken with 2 C chicken broth made from boullion)

3  bunches parsley (1 lb?)

4  bunches cilantro (1.5 lb?)

1  leek

3  bunches green onions

1  tsp salt

2-3 T vegetable oil

2  tsp tumeric

½  tsp pepper

1 grated lemon rind + juice from lemon

1 grated lime rind + juice from lime (some people prefer more)

Basmati rice (soak 8 hrs at least)

 

Boil stew meat 2 hrs w/salt.  Wash veggies 2-3 times.  Cut small (but not so small it turns to mush!).  Drain well.  Fry veggies in oil.  Put stew meat in pan with 2½ cups of the broth (water over veggies abt. ½ inch).  Add tumeric, lemon juice + rind, pepper, a little salt, if needed.  Can use chicken instead of beef, if desire.

 

Soak Basmati rice overnight in water.  Drain.  Put in rice cooker or cook as with other rice.

 

Variation (faster, though not as good as fresh):  pkg. of dried leek (2 oz.) and dried parsley (4 oz.), pre-soaked in water.


Roya's Spaghetti

 

spaghetti

2  cans tomato sauce

½ can olives (6 oz.)

1  can mushrooms (4 oz.)

3  shakes onion powder

4  shakes garlic powder

3  shakes garlic salt

3  shakes oregano

31 shakes salt (small shaker w/6 holes)

31 shakes black pepper (big shaker w/16 holes)

16 shakes basil

 

Cook spaghetti according to package directions.  Mix other ingredients together in a pan and cook.  Add a little parmesan cheese, if desired.


Roya’s Baked -ini -oni

 

 

7.5 oz. ricotta

6 oz. (¾ C) grated mozarella cheese

1 egg

2 tsp. chopped dried parsley

2 small pinches oregano

16-30 shakes dried basil

4 shakes Italian Seasoning

¼ slightly rounded tsp. salt

 

spaghetti sauce:

32 oz. or 4 cans tomato sauce

3 shakes onion powder

4 shakes garlic powder

a couple shakes garlic salt

20 shakes salt

20 shakes black pepper

 

12  oz. -ini and -oni (and -oli) as you like. Best is Trio Italiano by American Beauty (rotini-mostaccioli-shells mixture) (also macaroni, rigatoni, mostaccioli (like mini-manicotti)).  Another good mix is 8 oz. macaroni 2 oz. ditalini (salad noodles).

 

Preheat oven to 375°.  Boil noodles ½ time of package directions.  In medium bowl, combine ricotta, ½ of mozarella, egg, herbs, and salt.  Mix well.  Then make spaghetti sauce.  Add pasta to cheese mix.  Pour ½ of spaghetti sauce in 9x13 baking dish.  Pour in cheese-pasta mix, spread around.  Pour rest of spaghetti sauce on top and put rest of mozarella cheese on top.  Bake 20 min.


Roya's Dad's Dressing

 

1  T garlic powder

1  T minced onion

1  T powdered onion

1  T lemon pepper

1  T dried parsley

1  T dried dill

4  T sugar (or 2 T for more tart flavor)

1  tsp. salt

1  tsp. pepper

 

Mix these in a bowl.  This will make 2 bottles of salad dressing.  Use half of this mix in one bottle and save the rest for next time.  In the bottle pour:

 

¾  C canola/olive oil

½  C rice vinegar

1  T lemon juice

½  C water

 

Add ½ of the dry mix to the bottle.  Shake and keep in refrigerator.  When this bottle is used, repeat the liquids and remainder of the dry mix.


Mom Edwards’s Potato Salad

(for 6)

 

 

12 potatoes, small red (2 per person)

7 boiled eggs (6 of them go in the salad, the other one should be sliced and put on top w/paprika on it)

 

Dressing:

 

½ C milk

4 T miracle whip (or as desired)

chopped olives (optional)

chopped celery (optional)

grated onion (amount not sure)

2-4 T sweet pickle relish

2 T mustard

salt (to taste)

pepper (to taste)

 

Boil potatoes on medium heat til toothpick can be easily inserted. Cool them in cold water until warm. Boil eggs on medium heat and cool them completely also. Cut potatoes into small chunks.  Mix dressing up and mix in with potatoes and eggs.


POFA Juice

 

½  part Welch's peach/white grape

½  part orange juice

 

Mix.

 


Grueberry Juice

 

48 oz. Welch’s 100% pure concord grape juice

32 oz. Ocean Spray Cran-blueberry juice

 

Mix.

 

*Taken from Better Homes and Gardens cookbook.  The pumpkin pie recipe has been altered.

**Taken from the back of a Tollhouse chocolate chip bag, though altered.

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