3 Entries From a Family Recipe Book That May Be Worth Trying
While enjoying a little spring cleaning this past weekend, we found an old recipe book that I thought belonged to my Mother. We were trying to figure out how we ended up with it and thought that my mom gave it to us when we got married.
According to my Mom, the recipe book contained some recipes from my Aunt that she used while my brother and I were growing up.
I’m not a good cook or baker, so a recipe book is worthless to me, but my wife and I decided we are going to make a couple of them to see if they’re any good.
Then I thought that I would share them to see if I get any positive feedback on them. My Mom said some of them in the recipe book came from my Grandmother and Great Aunt, but the only one I remember is the apple cake. However, the recipe may not be entirely accurate because, as you’ll see, the ingredients don’t contain apples.
If you’re interested in giving a couple of these a try, here are a few directly from the recipe book that looks rather basic and easy to make.
Here are a few listed exactly how they appeared, typed 3 x 5 on cards in a photo book, typos and all. Since spell check wasn’t available on typewriters, some words are misspelled more than once, but in two different ways.
Recipe Book Entry #6: Aunt K’s Crab Dip
5 oz jar sharp American cheese spread
8 oz cream cheese
½ cup light cream or milk
1 tsp seafood seasoning
¼ cup diced red pepper/onion
½ cup Jartan sauce
¼ tsp Worcestinshire sauce
1 tsp lemon juice
¼ puond crabmeat
Combine all ingredients except crabmeat and red pepper in saucepan. Cook over med heat. Stir in crabmeat and pepper.
Recipe Book Entry #7: Baked Lasagne
1 lb. lasagna noodles
1 lb. ricotto cheese
½ lb. mozzarella cheese
2 eggs
Grated cheese
Dash of nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste
Prepare a fulling mixing rocotto cheese, the mozzarella cheese which has been shredded, eggs, grated cheese, salt, pepper, and nutmeg.
Make regular sauce for meatballs and sausage
Brown 1 lb. gr. Meat and onion in oil and then add sauce. Use oiled baking dish to line up in layers first sauce, then noodles and then cheese mix. Put in layers until all used up. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake at 375 about 40 minutes. (foiled cover)
Recipe Book Entry #24: Jewish Apple Cake
3 cup flour
4 tsp salt
¼ to ½ cup orange juice
1 cup oil
1 ½ tsp sugar
3 tsp baking powder
2 ½ tsp vanilla
4-5 eggs
Mix until smooth layer batter. Add apples and cinnamon. Bake 1 hr. and 15 min at 350.
Here are a couple of bonus recipes that I think were added as a joke, or at least I hope so.
How to:
Make cereal – Open box containing cereal and pour into small bowl. Add milk then eat.
Boil water – Fill saucepan partially with water – put pan on stove – turn stove on – water is boiled when bubbles are formed on top of water.
Please let me know if you’ve tried one of these recipes, and that all involved survived.
