Little Pot Roasts with Peas

1 flank steak
1 T. prepared mustard
1 teas. salt
1 or 2 slender whole carrots
2 T. shortening
1 can peas
1/4 c. liquid from peas
1/4 c. catsup
Score steak. Spread steak with mustard, cut crosswise into 4 equal portions. Sprinkle with salt. Cut 4 pieces of carrot, each as long as meat is wide. Roll each in a piece of meat; tie with string. Brown rolls on all sides in hot shortening. Drain 1/4 cup liquid from peas, mix it with the catsup. Pour over meat; cover rightly. Simmer 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until fork-tender, replenishing liquid if needed. Make gravy, if desired. Serve with hot seasoned peas. Serves 4. Also good with macaroni or rice mixed in with the peas.

Lisa Condie's Cinnamon Rolls

2 pkgs. yeast or 2 Tbls.
1/2 cup warm water
1 Tbls. sugar
Dissolve yeast in warm water and sugar until it becomes foamy.
1/2 cup melted butter, cooled
3/4 cup warm water
4 1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar minus 1 Tbls.
3 eggs--beaten, room temperature
2 tsp. salt
Mix butter, water, sugar, eggs, salt and flour and yeast. Raise bread in bowl until doubled in size approximately 2 hours. Punch down and roll in to rectangle shape 3/8' thick. Spread with butter over rectangle. Sprinkle with mixture of 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup white sugar and 1 Tbls. cinnamon. (you may not need all of it, or you may want to use more depending on how you like it. This is what Jennifer uses and it is very tasty.) Cut into rolls and place in greased pan. Let rise for 40 minutes. Bake at 350 for about 25-30 minutes or golden brown. Remove from oven. Frost rolls with cream cheese frosting when rolls have cooled. May also frost with vanilla butter frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting
1-8 oz. brick of cream cheese
3 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup butter
1 tsp. vanilla
Cream the butter and cream cheese together. Add vanilla, milk and sugar. Mix until well blended.

Homemade Sugar Cookies

1 C. margarine/butter
2 C. sugar
1 T. vanilla
3 eggs beater
4 C. flour
1/2 T. salt
Combine flour and salt in a bowl and set aside. In a separate bowl, mix butter, 1 c. sugar and vanilla. Add remaining sugar and eggs and beat. continue to beat on low speed while slowly pouring in flour mixture. Chill thoroughly. roll dough to 1/8-1/4" thiickness on a well-floured surface and cut. Place cookies on greased cookie sheets and bake 8-10 minutes in oven preheated to 400. Let cookies cool before decorating. Makes about 3 dozen.

Buttery Cookie Icing (for sugar cookies)
3 C. powdered sugar
1/3 C. margaring/butter softened
2 T. milk
1 1/2 T. vanilla
Blend margarine/butter and powdered sugar. Add milk and vanilla, mixing until smooth. Add food coloring as desired. After decorating, allow icing to set before stcking cookies.

Hearty Hodgepodge

1 1/2 lbs hamburger
¾ c. chopped onion
3 cans condensed minestrone soup
1 31oz. pork and beans
1½ c. chopped celery
½ t. crushed oregano
1 T. Worcestershire sauce

In large saucepan cook beef, onion, and celery. Stir in minestrone, pork & beans, 3 c. water, Worcestershire sauce, and oregano. Simmer covered 15-20 minutes. Makes 10 servings.

Hamburger Stroganoff

1 pound hamburger
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream
1 small onion chopped
Brown hamburger and onion. Drain fat. Add undiluted mushroom soup. Right before you serve add sour cream. Put over rice

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

1 lb. real butter
2 cups packed brown sugar
1 1/2 cups white sugar
Cream together above
Add 3 eggs (medium eggs work best)
2 Tablespoon vanilla
Mix well.
Measure in another bowl:
5 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking soda
Add flour mixture to butter and eggs.
Add 3 cups chocolate chips
2 cups chopped nuts
Bake 350 for 8 to 10 minutes on greased cookie sheet.

Sweet Potatoes in Edris' own words

"You asked about the sweet potatoes Patricia. Boil them but don't over cook them. Leave them on the hard side. Peel and roll in flour. Put in a shallow pan, bring to a boil water (really I don't know how much) about 1 1/2 cups, 3/4 cup maple syrup and a very generous piece of butter - about half of a 1/4 pound--or more if you want them real rich. then pour over potatoes and put in oven to finish cooking. Cook until liquid has thickened up. You will have to turn the potatoes during cooking to coat them with liquid. Be sure and salt potatoes while boiling. I have put grated orange over them while cooking in oven and that gives them a nice flavor." (Patricia never used orange.)

Dixie Salad

apples (Virgie only uses red delicious with skin left on, Ellen uses gala or fugi always peeled because Kay doesn't like the skin.
pineapple-canned, chunks with each chunk cut in half, drained
pomegranates-if possible from southern Utah. My experience with CA grown is that they are bitter.
miniature marshmallows
Optional additives depending on what your family likes: raisins, walnuts, bananas, grapes
Real whipped cream sweetened with at least 3 Tbls. of sugar per 8 oz.
Pomegranates are the key ingredient then you can add what you like.

Ham Sauce

1 jar of current jelly--slowly melt (small glass jar)
Add about 1 Tbls. prepared mustard
Add a little ground cloves (a few shakes or about 1/8 tsp. More if you like cloves.)
Melt jelly on low heat. Stir with wire whip to disperse mustard.

Easiest Whole Wheat Bread

This is what I use all the time. It works great. White wheat is best. It works well in a Bosch mixer and you can double it easily if you have a bigger mixer, to make four loaves at a time.

3 ½ C. whole wheat flour
1/3 C. gluten flour
1 T. and ¾ t. instant yeast
2 ½ C. steaming hot tap water (120-130 degrees)
1 T. salt
1/3 C. oil
1/3 C. honey or sugar
1 ¼ T. lemon juice
2 ½ C. whole wheat flour

· Mix together first three ingredients in mixer with dough hook. Add water while mixer is on and mix for 1 minute. Cover and let rest for 10 minutes. Add salt, honey, oil, and lemon juice and beat for 1 minute. Add last flour 1 C at a time, beating between each cup. Beat for 10-15 minutes until dough pulls away from sides of bowl. (I beat for 10 minutes). This makes a very soft dough.

· Heat oven to lowest temperature (170 degrees). Turn dough onto oiled countertop; knead together. Divide, shape into loaves and shape into oiled bread pans. Let rise in warm oven for 10-15 minutes, until dough reaches top of pan. Do not remove bread from oven; turn oven to 350 degrees and bake 30 minutes. Remove from pans and cool on racks.

· If you do not have a mixer with a dough hook and are kneading by hand, use a little oil on counter top from time to time to keep dough from sticking. Knead 10-15 minutes before shaping into loaves.
· Makes 2 (8x4 inch) loaves.

Dutch Meat Loaf

1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 cup fresh bread crumbs
1 medium sized onion, chopped
1 egg beaten
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/2 can tomato sauce
Lightly mix ingredients, form into loaf. Place in shallow pan. Place in moderate oven 350. Combine the following.
1/2 can tomato sauce
1 cup water
2 Tbls. prepared mustard
2 Tbls. vinegar
2 Tbls. brown sugar
Pour over meat loaf in oven; continue baking 1 1/4 hours basting occasionally. Serve with potatoes or noodles. Serves 4 to 6. I always doubled recipe.

Chocolate Frosting

4 c. powdered sugar
½ c. cocoa
½ c. butter
1/3 c. milk
1 t. vanilla

· Beat until creamy.

Cherry-glazed Party Pie

9 inch baked pastry shell
½ c. sifted confectioners’ sugar
3 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
½ t. vanilla extract
½ t. almond extract
1 c. heavy cream
16 oz. can prepared cherry pie filling

· Blend confectioners’ sugar, cream cheese, vanilla extract, and almond extract in small mixing bowl. Beat until light and fluffy.
· Beat heavy cream until thick. Fold into cream cheese mixture.
· Pour into cooled baked pastry shell. Chill until firm, 30-60 minutes.
· Pour pie filling over chilled filling. Chill until set 2 to 3 hours.
*Can use filling and layer with blue berries or cherries in parfait glasses.

Barbecups

1 lb. browned hamburger
½ small onion
½ c. BBQ sauce or ketchup
2-3T. brown sugar
1 can refrigerator biscuits
½ c. grated cheese

Flatten and mold biscuits into muffin cups.
Mix hamburger, onion, BBQ sauce or ketchup, and brown sugar.
Put hamburger mixture into biscuit cups. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes.