If your family is like mine, then you can always look forward to certain dishes at the holiday feast. Every year, a favorite aunt or cousin has to bring that signature dish or there will be anarchy. Here are some of my family recipes
Grandma's Broccoli Salad
Dressing:
Mix together
2 cups mayonaise
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vinegar
Salad:
8 slices crisp bacon, crumbled
12 oz shredded monterray jack cheese
1 small onion
2 bunches broccoli
2 bunches carrots (chopped)
can add raisens, and/or cauliflower
My own variation of the recipe- I use the whole pound of bacon and add more cheese of any type.
I shred the carrots and omit the onion to make it kid-friendly.
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Mom's Oatmeal Cake
Pour 1 1/2 cups of boiling water over 1 cup of oats
Let stand 20 minutes
Cream: 1/2 c shortening, 1c brown sugar, 1 c white sugar, 2 eggs
Sift: 1 1/2 cups flour, 1t cinn. 1t baking soda, 1/4t salt
Bake 30min @ 350
Topping:
6T melted butter
1/2 c brown sugar
1/4 c cream
1/2 t vanilla
1 c coconut
nuts
spread over cake
put under broiler
watch carefully until cake bubbles
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Mom's cheese ball (med)
1 1/2 pkg cream cheese
1 1/2 T onion (1 1/2 tsp dehydrated)
3T chopped pepper (2t dehy)
2 tsp season salt
1/3 c pineapple
Mom's cheese ball (large)
2 8oz cream cheese,
2T chopped onion
1/4 c chopped green pepper
1T season salt
1 8oz can pineapple (drained)
2c chopped pecans (1c in, 1c outside)
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Aunt Maria's "Gross" Dip
(named becasue it looks disgusting, but tastes great!)
(microwave, or crock pot)
8oz cream cheese
2 cans hormel chile w/beans (remove grease)
Picante sauce
1 bag taco cheese
black olives
jalapeno peppers
rotel diced tomatoes
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Aunyt Patty's cheesecake thingy
crust:
1c grahm cracker crumbs
3T sugar
1/4 c butter
filling:
1 8oz cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1 large tup cool whip
beat cheese and sugar till creamy.
Add cool whip, top with cherries
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Mom's strawberry cheesecake thingy:
crust:
2c flour
2 sticks butter
(mix and bake at 375 for approx 20 min,
until edges start to turn brown. Let
cool completely
1st layer:
1 large pkg cream cheese
1c powdered sugar
1/2 lg tub cool whip
2nd layer:
strawberry glaze mixed with fresh strawberries
top with rest of cool whip
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Grandma's Cinnamon walnuts:
(2 recipes found)
3 cups walnuts (1lb. 10 oz)
2 c sugar
1/4 t cream of tartar
1 1/2 t cinnamon
1/2 c water
2t light corn syrup
-or-
2 1/2 walnute
1c sugar
1/2 c water
1t cin
1t salt
1 1/2 t vanilla
375F, 15 minutes
cook sugar, water, etc on stove (no vanilla or nuts)
do not stir.
remove from heat, add vanilla, stir in nuts
bake, cool, eat
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Mom's pecan pie
375F about 45 min
1c sugar
1/2 c light corn syrup
1/4 c melted butter
3 eggs beaten
1 c nuts chopped
1 unbaked pie shell
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Mexican wedding cakes
1c butter
4T powdered sugar
1t vanilla
2c flour (sifted)
1c nuts
cream butter and sugar
beat until light
add vanilla and nuts
add sifted flour mix well
Roll into balls (less than a tsp)
bake at 350 15-18 min