RECIPE: Cowboy Beans

Cowboy Beans

Ingredients:

1 pound lean ground beef 
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup ketchup

1/4 cup barbecue sauce
1/4 c. brown sugar
1 tbsp. chili powder

1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
2 tbsp. mustard

1/2 lb. bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 can (approx. 16 ounces) pork 'n beans

1 can (approx. 16 ounces) butter beans, drained
1 can (approx. 16 ounces) kidney beans, drained

1 can (approx. 16 ounces) pinto beans, drained

Preparation:

Cook ground beef until browned, breaking up and stirring as it cooks. Add onion and cook until tender; drain off excess grease. Add remaining ingredients, except bacon. Put in casserole or Crockpot and top with bacon crumbs. Bake at 350° for an hour, or cook in covered slow cooker or Crockpot on HIGH for 1 hour, then reduce heat to LOW and cook 2 to 4 hours. 

RECIPE: ANGIE’S HASH BROWN CASSEROLE

Take shredded hash browns, deep fry until crisp; add onion and deep fry until crisp. Drain well; one can of sweet baby peas, drained; mix in bowl all together. Place in casserole dish.

Layer of Velveeta Cheese and shredded Monterey Jack cheese. Bake at 350 degrees until all cheeses have melted. Yumm. 

RECIPE: Tuna Patties or Salmon Patties

Ingredients

1 (14.75 ounce) can salmon, undrained and flaked

1 slice of bread, shredded

3 Tbsp chopped green onion, including the green parts

1 medium garlic clove, minced

1 Tbsp fresh chopped dill weed, or 1 teaspoon dried

3 Tbsp minced green bell pepper

1 Tbsp flour

1 egg

1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika

1 teaspoon salt

Several turns of freshly ground black pepper

3 Tbsp vegetable oil

Method

1 In a large bowl, gently mix together the salmon, bread, green onion, garlic, dill, bell pepper, flour, egg, paprika, salt and pepper. Form into 8 patties; each about 1/2 inch thick.

Heat oil over medium high heat in a large skillet. Cook the patties until nicely browned on both sides, about 3-4 minutes per side.

Serves 4

Recipe: Angie’s Ham Ball

MIXTURE:

1 - Green Onion                                              2 – ¼ to ½ inch slices Red or Green

1 - 8 ounce package Cream Cheese                                        Bell Pepper

7 – Thin slices Plumrose Ham                         1/3 to ½ cup chopped pecans

                        (or equivalent)

CHOP (in food processor) green onion, red or green bell pepper slices and thin slices of ham, this should produce about 1 cup of mixture.

MIX well together, this mixture with the 8 oz. pk. cream cheese.

ROLL into either 1 large or 2 medium balls

PLACE chopped pecans in a bowl; roll the cream cheese and mixture in the pecans. CHILL, serve with Ritz crackers or equivalent and enjoy. The flavor gets better. This will last about four days in the refrigerator – if someone doesn’t eat it first.

2012 – January 27 - Note From Anne Thomas, Daughter of Ms. Alberta

During mother’s illness, I kept a daily log of medications, visitors and what was going on. I did this more to keep myself focused on what I needed to get done and where we needed to go; if we needed to go.

That daily journal has helped me to go back over the road that mother and I went down together. I don’t know about other caregivers; but as for me, I kept asking myself was there something more that I could have done? Was there something that I did that I shouldn’t have? Was there something that I didn’t do that I should have?

The answer to that last one is yes, I should have taken more pictures of her visitors; I should have given her more hugs. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about mother. There are so many times that I catch myself going to the phone to call her. That would be a really long distance phone call; that is if God has installed phones in Heaven.

Publishing her memoirs is probably the only promise that I made her that I haven’t kept yet. The blog “Ms Alberta’s Memories and Recipes” is probably the only way I will ever have of fulfilling that promise.

At one point in the journal I am worrying about how much time mother is spending in her room with the door closed. I thought she was depressed and trying to keep it from me. That couldn’t have been farther from the truth.

During those times that door was closed; she was sitting in her rocking chair, rocking and talking to the tape recorder. This blog is the result of those recordings.

I love and miss you very much Ms. Alberta; you were a very special person; and I say that not because I am your daughter; but because it is the truth. Some day we will see one another again; in the bright tomorrow of God’s Heaven, within His warm embrace. Until then - rest mother, you earned it.

RECIPE: Basic Baking Powder Biscuits

BASIC BAKING POWDER BISCUITS

3 cups flour                 4 Tbsp. shortening                  3 tsp. baking powder              ¾ cup milk                   1 tsp. salt

Sift and measure the flour. Add dry ingredients to flour; sift again. Cut in shortening with 2 knives or pastry blender and blend until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add milk and mix with fork until the flour makes a smooth dough. Turn out on floured board; knead lightly, about ½ minute. Roll to thickness of ½ inch. Cut into rounds with floured biscuit cutter. Brush tops lightly with melted butter. Bake on greased baking sheet in hot 450 degree oven for 12 to 15 minutes.

Variation: For Whole Wheat Biscuits, substitute 1 cup unsifted whole wheat flour for 1 cup of white flour.

RECIPE: Mom Shoupe’s Hungarian Stuffed Peppers

¼ cup regular rice

1 small onion, diced (1 ¼ cup)                                    1 ½ cups water

1 tablespoon butter or margarine                                1 pound ground beef

1 teaspoon salt                                                                        ¼ teaspoon pepper

6 medium size green peppers                                      ¼ cup butter or ½ stick margarine

2 tablespoons all purpose flour                                   2 teaspoons sugar

1 ½ cups tomato puree                                                2 tomatoes, peeled and quartered

1)      In a large skillet - sauté onion in the 1 tablespoons butter or margarine until soft. Add rice; cook over low heat, stirring constantly for one minute. Stir in ½ cup of the water, cook until rice is almost tender (about 10 minutes).

2)      Remove skillet from heat; add meat, ½ teaspoon of the salt, 1/8 teaspoon of the pepper, mixing thoroughly.

3)      Wash green peppers; cut off tops; scoop out seeds and membranes. Stuff loosely with rice-meat mixture.

4)      Melt the ¼ cup butter or margarine in a small, heavy kettle or Dutch oven. Stir in flour, sugar, remaining ½ teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper. Slowly stir in tomato puree, remaining 1 cup water and tomatoes. Simmer over low heat, stirring constantly until sauce is smooth.

5)      Stand filled peppers upright in the tomato sauce; cover. Simmer, over low heat until the peppers are tender, about 1 hour. Serve with crusty French bread, if you wish. Makes 6 servings. 

1945 - August 15 Peace is Declared!

1945 - Aug 15, 1945  

                                           The Day World War II is Over    

I was working at the corner drug store in Lowell, Kentucky when some of the kids I ran around with came in and told us that the war was over and we were going to celebrate. When I got off work we started in Lowell, drove to Harlan, made a circle to Middlesboro, Kentucky and then to Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. We had a picnic lunch packed; with sandwiches, water, colas, even water melon. The whole trip we were beating on dish pans with wood spoons, laughing, and yelling at people we would pass, “The war is over!” We really were celebrating.

We celebrated right up until we started up the mountain at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee when the car started to run hot. Then we had to use every bit of liquid we had in our picnic lunch for the radiator; all our water and soft drinks to cool the car. We even used some of the juice from the water melon. But we finally made it up that mountain. There was not much left to drink with our food but we really celebrated the end of World War II. That old Cumberland Gap and almost not going up the mountain didn’t stop us; we did good until we started up that mountain into Tennessee. Those were the good old days.

1945 - August Boys From Old and New Lowell

 - Don’t Date a Boy From Old Lowell if You Live in New Lowell

Speaking of Lowell, Pop, my daddy, liked to go to church in Lowell. There was a new Lowell and an old Lowell. Now I don’t know why, but if you lived in Old Lowell you didn’t date a guy from New Lowell and vice versa. My sister and I found that out the hard way.

We went to church one night with dad in Old Lowell. My sister, Faye, and I had been dating these two guys from Old Lowell; they had gone on that trip to celebrate the end of the war with us. Any way we had been dating them and we lived in New Lowell. We didn’t know they had girlfriends. You know how that is, men will be men, they will two time if they get a chance. Anyhow the one I was dating had a girlfriend that was a butcher; and honey she looked like a foot ball player if I ever saw one. She had big shoulders and had arms made to swing that heavy beef in the butcher shop. Whew!

Daddy always made us sit on the front row; but this night the front row was full and we got farther back. Here we were sitting in the church and these boys came in and said that two girls gave them a quarter a piece to deliver a message to me and my sister, Faye. They told them to tell us to come outside they wanted to talk to us. We told them that we came with dad and were not allowed to go outside of church until service was over. We thought those kids were just BSing us; and didn’t really pay them any mind. The boys went back outside.

After service we started on outside. Now Faye was skinny as a racer; I was still a four by four. We got outside, looked around and told one another guess they were just all air; because I don’t see nobody. About that time the butcher girl grabbed me from behind, wrapping one of those big old arms around my neck. I really thought she was going to choke me to death. But she just started to whap on me.

As I got whapped, Faye broke loose running. I didn’t know what had happened to her until I finally saw her down the street. When she saw me looking at her she yelled back to me, “Sis I’ll go home and tell mommy.”

I kept trying to break away but that girl really worked me over. Faye just kept running; and that girl just whipped me just as much as she wanted to. While she was whapping me, she laid the law down; I was never to see that man again. Let me tell you, she made a believer out of me. I didn’t ever see her man again! Yes sir, that butcher girl made a believer out of me. When I finally got to where Faye was, she said “I never did see where that other one was, but I knew I didn’t want any of what you were getting so I just ran!”

We were finally on our way back home. We were talking about what had happened and that mom would want us to finish the job that someone had started on us; because Mother always said don’t ever start a fight, but you better finish it, if someone starts one you finish. In other words get hit – hit back; but there was no way I was going to hit that butcher girl back and make her even madder, she might have finished the job. Anyway just as we start across the bridge there is a great big boom. Faye says, “Oh my God Sis, they are shooting at us now!” 


But what had happened was someone had lit a fire cracker and thrown it; but we thought it was a gun. Let me tell you we didn’t waste any time, we ran. We didn’t have far to go, we lived on Chad street. We just had to cross the bridge and turn right and we were right where we lived.

But we had worked up a sweat so I told Faye, “Sis, we can’t go in like this; we gotta cool off first or mom will want to know what has been going on and will make us go back and finish what those girls started.”

Pop was still lingering to talk to people at the church. We were allowed to walk on ahead without him. That was one of the times I sure wished we had waited for pop, instead of going on ahead. At any rate we cooled off before we went in so mom wouldn’t make us go back and finish the job, or more like have the job that was started on me finished! We never told Mom what had happened until we were grown and had kids of our own.

1940 - Nylon Hose and WWII

1940 – Nylon Hose and WWII

     I was fourteen and had just started to wear nylon hose when WWII started. Since Uncle Sam needed the nylon for parachutes they were hard to come by. The ones that Mom and I had, had seams down the back; I had a really hard time with getting and keeping the seams straight. I sure was glad when they came out with the ones that didn’t have seams in the back.

     During the war in order to preserve the hose that we had Mom and I would hand wash our nylons and after they were dried on the clothes line we put them in a canning jar, with the lid closed tightly. We only had one pair a piece and we wanted them to last a long time.

1943 Girl Scout Cookie Sale Street Car Transfer Ticket, circa 1943

By the time I was seventeen the war was in full swing and I was the oldest sister to two sisters and a brother. I did my part to help “the boys in green” who were overseas fighting for freedom. I made candy and shipped it to different young men that I knew who were fighting overseas.

When I found out Pop’s mother, Florence, was going to Cincinnati to visit one of her grand daughters that worked in a factory there I decided I wanted to get a job there too so I talked and talked until Pop finally let me go with my grandmother to Cincinnati, Ohio. Of course he went with us because he wanted to be sure that I would be okay.

I got a job working in a factory called Goodalls making uniforms. I also found out that since it was considered a military factory that there was a freeze on the job and that I wouldn’t be able to leave until the war was over. Pop helped me find a place to live in a boarding house called Methodist Home for Girls. It was ran by five old maids and believe me they were strict. If you didn’t get in quick when they pushed the button you would be locked out. So you better kiss your fellow really quick and get in the door!

There was a bunch of us girls that lived in the boarding house. Every morning we would wake up to the smells of toast being made in the oven, of oatmeal on the stove and the sound of the whistling teapot that meant the water was hot for our tea. By the week end we were ready for some entertainment, but not like kids have for entertainment now.

Every weekend I would buy a twenty five cent Girl Scout Cookie Sale Street Car Transfer Ticket. That ticket allowed me to travel anywhere I wanted to travel the whole weekend. I loved riding on that street car and seeing the sights of Cincinnati, Ohio! I had one of those tickets left that I had Ann to sell on eBay. I was really surprised that not only did I get a little bit of money for my Girl Scout Cookie Sale Street Car Transfer Ticket; I found out the couple who bought it put it into a Scout Museum! It really makes me feel good to know that others are getting to see something that I held on to for all of these years.

They talked different than we did in the North. One day this guy was doing a job on a ladder, putting up light. He caught his foot in the ladder and fell. There was another guy standing there and he said, “Hey lady! He’s fallen for you,” I was shy and it made me mad. Then the other guy said, “I think she’s ready to smear your puss.” Where I came from that was a bad, ugly word; and he had insulted me. So it really was hard to get use to northern talk.

We walked to and from work. We worked on Ninth Street which was only a couple of blocks up. I enjoyed the work and being almost on my own. But my little sister, Sue was sickly and missed me. Mom had been an invalid before and for the first two years after Sue was born; so I took care of Sue, Faye and Willis. Sue would cry for me; and that was making her worse. It was hard to get away from working in the factory because of the work freeze but I finally got a waived on my freeze for the job so I could go home and take care of Sue. It was good to get away for a little while, but it was even better to finally go back home.

Vintage Street Car Ticket – Cincinnati, Ohio – 1943 Item # 260444988568   Sold on eBay       7/11/2009 to a couple from Colorado. They sent me the information that the ticket was going into a Scout Museum. I had sent them a short history about mother. Mother was very pleased that the ticket went into a museum, especially since she had worked in Murray, KY for the Boy Scout Museum there. She was a tour guide for the Norman Rockwell portion; she loved Norman Rockwell.

2011 - May - When I Must Leave You

When I must leave you for a little while-

Please do not grieve and shed wild tears

And hug your sorrow to you through the years,

But start out bravely with a gallant smile;

And for my sake and in my name

Live on and do all things the same,

Feed not your loneliness on empty days,

But fill each waking hour in useful ways,

Reach out your hand in comfort and in cheer

And I in turn will comfort you and hold you near;

And never, never be afraid to die,

For I am waiting for you in the sky!

Author: Anonymous

Read at funeral

RECIPE: Chocolate Pie

SILITIA WOMACK IRELAND’S CHOCOLATE PIE

2 cups sugar                                                 3 eggs

4 cups milk                                                   1 tablespoon cocoa

1 tablespoon butter or margarine                1 teaspoon vanilla

3 tablespoons flour

            Combine the sugar, flour and cocoa. Preheat milk. Mix a small amount of milk with dry ingredients. Add to remainder of milk and mix well. Cook until it begins to thicken. Add 3 eggs mixed with milk. Cook until it begins to thicken. Add 3 eggs mixed with milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until thick. Remove from heat, cool pan at once in cold water. Add vanilla and butter; mix well. Pour into precooked pie shells. Add a topping of meringue or whipped cream, if desired. Serve hot or cold.

1954 Buying a House

     We wanted to try to buy a house with a loan on Harold’s VA. There was a couple who wanted to sell their house because they were going through a divorce. The house was one we thought we could afford.

     When we applied at First Federal we were told that we needed more income than we had coming in. So I went to work  at theWhite Dove Bakery. Then later became a manager in Radcliff at the Kroger store that was where there is a car lot now. I worked at the Kroger store until a new Ingraham Company Coil Plant opened next to slaughter house. I worked there at the coil plant for nine years. (The Ingraham Company Coil Plant opened in 1954).

RECIPE: Pickled Eggs

 Pickled Eggs

Given to me by Dessie Sue McVaney (Ms Alberta’s baby sister)
1 cup red beet juice (from canned beets)
1½ cups cider vinegar
1 teaspoon brown sugar
a few canned whole tiny red beets (or sliced beets can be used)

Add the hard boiled eggs and let set in frig couple of days to ripen

I don't know how long these last in the frig because they were eaten too soon for me to find out. Does anyone have any idea how long they will last?

RECIPE: Ambrosia by any other name, taste really good!

Watergate Salad? Pistachio Pudding Salad? Funeral Salad (because everyone brings it to a wake) or what some call Ambrosia? Whatever you call it, it really taste GOOD?

1 - can crushed pineapple, drained                 1 - 16 oz tub cool whip

1 - 16 oz tub cottage cheese                         1 - can mandarin oranges, drained and crushed

1 - 16 oz pk lime jello mix                               1/2 Cup finely chopped nuts, optional

Mix all ingredients together in large mixing bowl, chill and serve. You can also add shredded coconut and or mini marshmallows, but I prefer just the six ingredients

RECIPE: Chocolate Cobbler

Chocolate Cobbler

Christina Trent

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees; place a 9 X13 pan with 2 sticks of butter in the oven until melted

Wet ingredients:          In a bowl:            Mix 1 ½ cups of Flour            1 ½ cups Sugar

                                                                        ¾ cup milk                     1 tsp vanilla

                Pour mixture from the bowl into the melted butter in the 9 X 13 pan.

Dry ingredients:         In a bowl:            1 cup sugar         6 tablespoons cocoa       Mix dry ingredients well

                Sprinkle Dry ingredients over batter, spreading evenly over contents of pan

Then over the top of all mixtures pour 1 ½ cups water over top

Bake 30 to 40 minutes at 350 degrees; best when eaten hot with ice cream over the top. Enjoy

MEMORIES: Our First Christmas Without Ms. Alberta

MEMORIES of Ms. Alberta

            December 2011 by Anne Thomas

Christmas was your favorite time of year;

Your family came home from far and near.

You cooked and baked as you sang Christmas songs;

You bought gifts for even those you thought gone wrong.

Then you welcomed everyone with open arms;

As you fed us until we rubbed our bellies in alarm.

Food, games, shared laughter and shared joys;

Watching little ones open Christmas toys.

This year we hung up your Christmas lights;

Then we burned them all through the lonely nights.

Your favorite recipes will be cooked and baked;

We will share our meals and pictures we will take.

We will share memories that bring tears and a smile;

We will be thinking of you all the while.

That is what family and friends will do

As we celebrate our first Christmas without you.

Sister, mother, grandmother, aunt and friend

We know death was not your end.

We will see and greet you once more,

When we walk through heaven’s door.

MEMORIES: Pastor Elmer Varnadore

My Memories of Alberta Brandon

            June 2011 by Pastor Elmer Varnadore

I did not know Alberta until she came to church after Cardinal Creek Baptist Church and Koinonia Baptist Church merged. The church name was changed to New Fellowship Baptist Church. My wife, Anita, saw her at a yard sale and invited her to church. Alberta and her friend, (Francis Thomas,) came to church. Her friend (Francis) passed away and Alberta kept coming. Immediately a special bond formed between Alberta and my family. I referred to her one day as “The Old Woman” and did not realize that from this a special bond would be formed. Brother Jack Dilbeck said, “I do not know how you got away with calling her an old woman; she would have killed me.” Maybe it was because of our bond and our way of having fun.

I do not know of another person that I enjoyed the presence of more than Alberta. The exception would be Anita. Alberta always had a funny story to tell. They were things that happened in her own life. She had a special way of making you laugh by the way she told the story.

I also remember Alberta as a person with a very strong faith in God through Jesus Christ. If her faith had not been strong she could not have handled her sickness and death the way that she did. To her prayer was very important. She did not want you to leave her without having prayer. Prayer was very important. I am also sure that she had a strong private prayer life. She loved her church family and was always willing to do what she could for her church family. She gave a metal frame and wanted us to use it as a holder of an ice pail at the pot luck meals. She said that we could always remember her at these meals. We are carrying out her wish.

Alberta always loved her “kin” as she would say. Many times she would tell me about the thing that her “kin” were doing that bothered her. However, it never stopped her from loving them and wanted to see changes in their life. I always appreciated her confidence in me as her pastor. My memories of Alberta will remain in my life as long as I am able to recall events.

Alberta’s death was a great loss for me and my family. I miss her very much. I know that her suffering was beyond description but our loss was her gain. I live with the hope that we will meet again in the heaven that has been prepared for all believers.

RECIPE: BANANA NUT BREAD

Banana Nut Bread

¾ cup butter                                                         1 ½ teaspoon baking soda

1 ½ cup sugar                                                       ½ cup milk

3 eggs, separated                                                  ½ cup sour cream

5 large mashed bananas                                      ¾ cup finely chopped

3 cups flour                                                                  pecans

¾ teaspoon salt

Grease and flour pans, 4 loaf pans or 8 mini loaf pans or coat with vegetable

shortening spray. Cream the butter and sugar together thoroughly. Add egg

yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add bananas, mixing

well. Measure ½ cup milk and add sour cream to fill the cup. Sift together the

flour, soda, and salt. Add the flour and milk alternately to the banana mixture,

ending with the flour. Add the nuts and mix well.

Beat egg whites until they stand in stiff peaks. Fold carefully into banana

batter. Divide batter evenly between the containers, filling each to within ½

inch to ¾ inch of the top. Bake at 300º for 45 to 50 minutes. Cool on rack before

storing in tins.

Edith Alberta Shoupe Thomas Brandon

MEMORIES: Granddaughter, Jenny I. Fisher

Grandma’s House

By

Jenny I. Fisher

          Grandma’s house will, in my mind, always be a little brick house in the country surrounded by flowers and full of love.  Summer days were spent playing baseball in the field next door, picking fresh fruits and veggies from a vast garden, or rummaging in an old barn. My warmest memories were made on the coldest days: nestled by the fire, surrounded by family, sipping hot chocolate and roasting marshmallows.

          There was no amount of a time away that could diminish the love felt when crossing the threshold of Grandma’s house. Met first with the scent of Wind Song, we were always welcomed with a loving embrace. Each of us was appreciated as an individual, unique and special. She was so proud of every member of her family, no matter our faults, and frequently bragged of the many strengths and talents she felt we were so blessed to have.

          Many life lessons have been taught over the table at Grandma’s house. Strength, acceptance, hard work, perseverance, and love were qualities she had in abundance and were qualities that were shown to us as highly important. The significance of friendship, community service, God and, most importantly to her, family was made clear in every story that was told. Above all, we were encouraged to be the best at whatever made us the happiest and to make decisions that would make our family and ourselves proud, happy, and healthy. She taught us that there is no material thing that would ever match these ideologies and morals.

          With so many lessons taught and memories made, Grandma’s house will forever be cherished and held close to our hearts. It was a place where friends and family were welcomed with a warm smile, a loving embrace, and a slice of homemade banana nut bread. The most wonderful thing about Grandma’s house was the wise and jovial story-teller, coffee cup in hand, sharing the experiences of life’s greatest blessings. I hope that, as in many years past, lots of loving memories will be shared among friends and family with this mug as a mic.

RECIPE: HOME MADE CONCORD GRAPE WINE

CONCORD GRAPE WINE

Alberta Thomas-Brandon’s

Concord Grape Wine

From “A Cookbook of Treasures”, May 1995

Compiled by Alberta Thomas Brandon and Anne Thomas

1 (12 oz.)can frozen   Welch’s Concord Grape Juice

1 package dry Yeast                                 

2 cups Water                                   

2 lb. Sugar

          Mix yeast in water. Add sugar and grape juice. Finish filling jug with warm water; shake to mix.

          Put a large balloon (make sure this is a large balloon and that it is not used for helium) on the mouth of the jug; tie a piece of twine around the balloon at the mouth of the jug. Be sure to tie this very tightly. The balloon will expand as the wine works so be sure to have a good clearance for your balloon. The balloon will go down when the wine is finished, approximately 25 days. Strain and put the wine into decanters.

RECIPE: Ms. Alberta's Carrot Cake

ALBERTA THOMAS BRANDON’S CARROT CAKE

2 teaspoons cinnamon                         1 ¼ cup oil

2 cups sifted flour                               2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons soda                                 3 cups grated carrots

4 unbeaten eggs                                  ½ cup chopped nuts

2 cups sugar

ICING

1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese                 ½ teaspoon rum flavoring

1 – l pound box powdered sugar        ½ teaspoon vanilla

1 stick margarine or ½ cup butter       1 pinch salt

            Sift together cinnamon, soda, baking powder and sifted flour. Mix together the sugar, oil and carrots. Alternately add dry ingredients to cream ingredients and add eggs and nuts. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour in a 8X12X2 inch pan.

RECIPE: Mom Shoupe's Butterscotch Pie

MOM SHOUPE’S BUTTERSCOTCH PIE

1 cup brown sugar                               6 tablespoons cream

4 tablespoons butter                            4 tablespoons flour

2 cups milk                                          3 egg yolks

Cook sugar, cream and butter together until thick. Mix the flour, milk and egg together; add to the first mixture. Cook until thick; pour into baked pie shell. Enjoy!