Thanksgiving November 2011

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!

Recipe: Home Made Doughnuts

 Basic Doughnut Recipe – Can be Used in Miniature Doughnut Maker

1 cup flour                                            1/2 cup sugar,

1 tbsp baking powder                           1/2 cup milk

1 egg                                                    1/2 tsp vanilla

4 tablespoons cooking oil

— mix dry ingredients together.

Add egg, vanilla and milk and beat 1 minute with electric mixer

– add oil and continue to beat for 1 minute more.

This is all of the recipe as it appears in Ms Alberta's notes. My granddaughter, Kaylee Michelle, and I used it to make donuts in her Miniature Doughnut Maker. I have also dropped them into a hot oil kettle for cooking, then dusted them with powdered sugar and/or cinnamon and sugar mix. They are good either way.

When I use this recipe I wonder when and how she acquired the recipe. Was it one she made up on her own? Or was it one from someone else?

Let me encourage anyone who loves to cook to give credit where due for recipes, where, when and from whom they came. There may come a time you will wonder and not remember.

Repost from a Florida newspaper

You Think You Had A Really Bad Day

2011 – March 20 Email about a bad day

So you think you're having a bad day? The following is taken from a Florida newspaper, and supposed to be true: Ann laughed so hard when she read this to me I couldn’t half understand what she was saying, I finally read it for myself.

A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the house in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle and somehow, the motorcycle slipped into gear. The man, still holding the handlebars, was dragged through a glass patio door and the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house.

The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room, and found her husband laying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle laying next to him and the patio door shattered. The wife ran to the phone and summoned an ambulance.

Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several flights of long steps to the street to direct the paramedics to her husband. After the ambulance arrived and transported the husband to the hospital, the wife up righted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Seeing that gas had spilled on the floor, the wife obtained some papers towels, blotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet.

The husband was treated at the hospital and was released to come home. After arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle. He became despondent, went into the bathroom, sat on the toilet and smoked a cigarette.

After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl while still seated. The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard a loud explosion and her husband screaming. She ran into the bathroom and found her husband laying on the floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his legs and his groin. The wife again ran to the phone and called for an ambulance.

The same ambulance crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the street. The paramedics loaded the husband on the stretcher and began carrying him to the street. While they were going down the stairs to the street accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the husband had burned himself. She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard, one of them tipped the stretcher and dumped the husband out. He fell down the remaining steps and broke his ankle! 

Recipe: Cornbread Stuffing as made by Ms Alberta's Youngest Sister

Cornbread Stuffing

Sue Shoupe McVaney

Fry:                2 lb. sausage; cool and drain; then crumble. Set aside.

Chop:             3 cups onions               

                       3 cups celery

Put 2 tablespoons oil in skillet; dump in onions and celery.

Cook until soft; dump in large bowl with 2 bags bread crumbs.

Drain 1 – 8 ounce can of mushrooms

Mix all of above together with 2 eggs; add chicken broth until you 

have it wet or as you like it.

Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour. You can put some inside and around your turkey, if you like.

RECIPE: Zucchini Bread

RECIPE:       Zucchini Bread

Beat:                3 eggs, until light and fluffy

Add:                2 cups sugar

                        1 cup oil

                        1 tablespoon vanilla
                        2 cups shredded zucchini

Sift:                 2 ½ cups flour

                        ¼ tsp. baking powder

                        2 tsp. baking soda

                        ½ tsp. salt

                        3 tsp. cinnamon

                        Blend and add 1 cup chopped nuts. Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees. Makes 2 – 5X7 loaves.                                

Speech to my Pre Teen Children About 1985

The Speech
By
Alberta Anne Thomas

As my children were growing up I wanted them to learn responsibility for themselves; so I gave each of them this speech at what I thought was the right age for them to understand.

Life isn’t easy. Nothing will be handed to you on a silver platter. If you want to go somewhere and do something with your life there is only one person you can rely on.

That person is you. If something bad happens, reach down, get hold of your boot tops and pull yourself up. No one else can do this for you.

In other words: “If life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” No sugar? No problem! Add more water; lemon water is good for you.

If something breaks you; remember in the long run it will only make you stronger. Because, just like a broken bone is stronger when it heals and is less easily broken; trials and tribulations will teach you something and will make you stronger and better able to make a better decision the next time.

You MUST realize there is something called ‘Cause and Effect’. Everything you do causes an effect that reacts and can cause a chain reaction in your life. YOU must take the responsibility for this is your life. There can be no excuses of someone or something else causing whatever is going on in your life. You have the ability and the responsibility to make a decision; always keeping in mind that doing nothing is a decision in and of itself. If you do nothing, then that was the decision. Doing nothing also makes waves and has causes and effects. Don’t pay the rent and you get evicted. Don’t eat right and you get sick.

If you don’t tell a friend “No, I don’t want a drink or to do drugs.” Decision made. Wrong decision, in my opinion, but the decision was yours. You made it and you are responsible for it.

Always remember that you are the one responsible for your decisions. I love you and God loves you.