• 2 sticks of margarine or butter softened
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 2 and 1/4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg beaten

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Mix margarine and sugar in a medium bowl.  Add beaten egg.  Stir in the remaining ingredients.  Place dough in cookie press using the desired tip.  Press out on ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake about 9 minutes until set but not brown.  Remove from cookie sheet and cool.  You may spread powdered sugar frosting on cooled cookies, or before baking you may sprinkle them with colored sugar.  Another tip: add a tiny bit of food coloring to the dough.

Creamy Frosting

1 and 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

2 to 3 tablespoons water

Mix all ingredients until spreading consistency.  If you like you may sprinkle some colored sugar on after you have frosted the cookie.

• 2 pounds ground beef
• 5 slices of bread torn into small pieces
• 1 envelope onion soup mix
• 3/4 cup of water or milk
• 1/3 cup of ketchup
• 2 eggs

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Thoroughly combine all ingredients in a large bowl.  Shape into a  large loaf pan or 2 medium size loaf pans.

Bake uncovered approximately 1 hour or until done.

I take the meat loaf out of the oven after about 45 minutes to remove any excess grease.  Then I swirl ketchup on top and put back in the oven until browned and done.

• 1/4 cup chopped green pepper
• 2 tablespoons diced celery
• 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 can condensed cream of chicken soup
• 2 - 3 ounce cans of sliced mushrooms (undrained)
• 3/4 cup cooked diced chicken
• 1/4 cup chopped pimento
• Salt and pepper to taste

• Cook green pepper and celery in the butter until tender.  Blend in flour; gradually add soup; add the mushrooms with the liquid.  Cook until thick stirring constantly.  Add chicken, pimento and seasonings; heat thoroughly.
• Serve over toast, noodles, or mashed potatoes. 

2 1/4 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil or melted shortening
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup pecans or walnuts
1 cup raisins
2 1/2 cups diced green tomatoes

PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In mixing bowl, beat sugar, vegetable oil or shortening, eggs and vanilla until smooth and creamy. Sift the flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg; slowly beat into egg mixture. Blend well. Stir in nuts, raisins and tomatoes.
Pour into a greased 9x13-inch pan.  Bake for one hour, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Serves 12.

Frost with cream cheese frosting.

1 pkg. (8 oz.) Cream Cheese, softened

1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter or margarine, softened

1 tsp. vanilla

1 pkg. (16 oz.) powdered sugar (about 4 cups), sifted

BEAT cream cheese, butter and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.

ADD sugar gradually, beating until well blended after each addition.

Spread on cooled cake.

• Pastry for a two crust 9 inch pie
• 1 cup of sugar mixed together with
• 4 tablespoons flour and
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon and mixed lightly through
• 7 cups sliced apples

Heap these ingredients into a pastry lined pan.  Dot with butter.  Put on top crust.  Crimp edges.  Cut slits in top and sprinkle with sugar mixed with a little cinnamon.  Have oven preheated to 400 degrees.  Bake about 1 hour or until crust is a deep golden brown.

• 2 cups of flour
• 2 and 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda
• 1 teaspoon of salt

Mix together and cut in finely 6 tablespoons of shortening.

Stir in 1 cup of milk.  Drop from spoon onto greased pan or into greased muffin cups.

Have oven preheated to 450 degrees.  Bake about 10 minutes.

• 1 large can crushed pineapple
• 1 can cherry pie filling
• 1 yellow cake mix
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts
• 1 stick of margarine

Grease a 13X9 pan.  Have your oven preheated to 350 degrees.  Dump the undrained pineapple into the pan.  Smooth out to fill corners.  Dump in the cherry pie filling, spread evenly.  Sprinkle on dry cake mix.  Cut margarine into patties and place on top, then sprinkle the nuts on top.  Bake for 1 hour.

This is really good served with vanilla ice cream or whipped topping.  If you have any left over (highly unlikely) refrigerate it. 

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts
• 1 & 1/2 cups thinly sliced peeled apples

Have oven preheated to 375 degrees.  Put 1/2 of batter in bundt pan sprayed with cooking spray.  Add apple mixture and top with remaining batter.  Bake approximately 45 minutes.  Cool in pan 10 minutes, then remove.  May glaze or sprinkle with powdered sugar.

• 7 slices white bread (cubed)
• 1  can (20 ounces) pineapple undrained
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 stick margarine or butter 

Melt margarine, mix with the other ingredients.  (Day old bread works fine)  Bake in round casserole dish in preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes.

• Pastry for 9 inch two crust pie (I use the boxed refrigerated kind now as I have grown lazy in my old age)  
• 1 & 1/3 cups sugar
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 2 cans (16 oz) pitted red tart cherries
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Butter

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  In saucepan mix flour and sugar together.  Add the two cans of cherries including juice.   (You may add a drop or two of red food coloring if you like.)  Stir and then cook over medium heat until mixture starts to thicken.  Keep stirring as it is cooking.  Remove from heat.  Add vanilla. Pour into pastry lined pie pan.  Dot with butter.  Add top crust; crimp edges to seal; cut slits in top of pie and sprinkle top with sugar.  Put pie on cookie sheet and bake for 40 - 45 minutes until top is golden brown. 

• 1 & 1/2 cups of cornmeal
• 4 tablespoons of flour
• 1 egg
• salt and pepper to taste (probably about 1/2 teaspoon of each)
• green tomatoes sliced  uniformly

Mix all  ingredients (except tomatoes) together with enough milk to form a batter that will coat the tomato slices evenly.  Don't get it too thin.  Fry  the tomato slices in hot oil, turning to brown evenly on both sides.

***This recipe is from Rae's son-in-law.  He never measures he says.  They all love these in WV.  I don't like fried green tomatoes but I loved the movie. 

My family loves pork chops fixed this way.  I have prepared them this way since forever. 

• 2 - 3 lbs of boneless pork chops about 1/2 inch thick
• 1 tube of Ritz crackers crushed very fine
• 2 eggs beaten with 1 tablespoon of milk

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Use 13X9 pan that you have sprayed with cooking spray.  Put the crushed cracker crumbs in a flat dish.  Put the beaten eggs in a dish big enough to dip a pork chop in.  Dip each chop first in the egg mixture coating well.  Then dip the chop both sides in the cracker crumbs.  Place in the baking dish.  Sprinkle each chop with Season-All salt, then spray the chops with cooking spray.  Cover with foil and put in oven.  Take the foil off after 30 - 40 minutes, then put them back in the oven until they are golden brown.

***Many times I get a pork loin and have it sliced instead of using pork chops.  If you use a thicker pork chop adjust the baking time.