Old~Fashioned PopCorn

GERMAN PANCAKES

Hamilton Cherry Crunch

One of my favorite memories of Hamilton Elementary was the delicious Cherry Crunch with Caramel Sauce.  Alice, my mother in law, worked for school lunch for several years.  This came from her recipe album. And so now I share it with you:

1 1/2 Cups of Flour

1 1/2 Cups of Oatmeal

! Cup of brown sugar

1 square of margarine

1/2 tsp of salt

1/2 tsp of soda



Mix dry ingredients together with melted butter.



Sweeten and thicken 1 quart of cherries

Add almond flavoring and coloring to suit your own taste.

Put of the crumbly mixture on the bottom of a casserole dish.

Then put the thickened cherry mixture on top of the bottom crumbs.

Put the other half of the crumbly mixture on top of the cherry mixture.



Bake 20 minutes at 375 degrees.

Serve with whipped cream and the following sauce.



1 Cup of hot water

2 cups of sugar

1//4 cup of Margarine

4 cups of instant dry milk

Combine hot water and sugar and heat until the sugar is dissolved.  Then add the margarine.

Place in a blender and add instant dry milk, gradually blending until smooth.  Makes the equivalent of two cans (14 ozs each) of commercial sweetened condensed milk.

ENJOY!

Old-time Yeast from Alice Hafen's Recipe collection

Cook a medium-sized potato in 1 quart of water.

Mash fine and add enough water to make 3 pints. 

Put into a quart jar.

Dissolve 2 packages of any quick yeast in 1/2 cup of lukewarm water.

Add to the jar with 2 tsp sugar and 1/4 tsp salt.

Soon it will start to work and foam.

Use two cups of this starter and follow your favorite recipe, deducting 2 cups of water from the recipe for the water used in the starter.

The remaining starter in the jar should be covered and put in a cool place or refrigerated to be used the next time.

Next baking, add warm potato water, sugar and salt and proceed as before. Always keep the jar in a pan of good warm water while it is working.

A half package of yeast may be added every month or so, but it may be used for many months without.

Pioneer Candy Recipes

Quick Danish Soup

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Carrot Cookies - - - Alice Hafen

Alice frosts these with cream cheese frosting

HONEY CANDY RECIPE

2 cups of honey
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of cream

Cook to hard ball. Pour on a buttered platter.
Cool. Cut into 1 inch pieces.

Note: Do not make candy in stormy weather,
as it may not set up like it should.

Alice Peel Hafen

One Peach Pie Filling - - - Alice Hafen

MINCE MEAT

Pioneer Home Remedies - - - Canker Medicine, Corn Medicine

Cure for Goiter - - - Burdock Root

This was found at the Relic Home. We are not sure of the age - the year - or the effectiveness of the so-called cure. And so we kindly ask that you do not hold us responsible or liable for any adverse effects.

FINNANHADDIE WITH TOMATOES

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Leonard Frandsen's Meat Cure

Ammonia Cookies

There are many who remember these cookies as being a lot like the ones you can buy at Christmastime - the Danish Sugar Cookies sold in the big tin. There is a little problem in acquiring the ammonia however. If you go to the druggist to get the ammonia, it will cost you a pretty penny. We went to the local baker and he ordered a tin of it about the same size of the danish cookie tin above. It cost us about $15. That's enough to last a lifetime.