Mix well. Work the dough with your hands for at least
10 minutes. It should be very smooth feeling. Put some
flour down on a piece of waxed paper and roll out your
dough 1/8" to1/4" thick. Cut with cookie cutters. Use
a drinking straw to put a hole in the top of each
ornie so they can be hung. Bake in a low heat oven
until hard.

Granny's Apple Pie

This is a recipe my Grandmother Doris Moseley used for Pies when she was fixin' something quick for us or for Dinner on the Ground at our Church.  It's easy and so good!

1 can of Canned Fruit... Strawberries, Apples or Peaches.  Your Choice!  :-)

3/4 cup of self rising flour

3/4 cup of milk

3/4 cup of sugar

Butter

Mix flour, milk and sugar together in a bowl and blend well.  Pour into a greased, oven safe casserole dish.  (I love the clear ones when making these pies because I love to see the homey look of the pies through the glass.)  Pour a can of fruit on top and then top off with a few dabs of butter.  Bake at about 425 till done.  (about 45 min's) You can tell when it's done because the crust on top will  be brown and the fruit will be bubbling just a tad through it.   The Crust mixture will come through the canned fruit and you will have a crust on the top and the bottom!  DELICIOUS! 

Becky's Pudding Pie

2 cups milk

2 boxes of Jello Chocolate Instant Pudding

1 eight ounce Cool Whip

1 English Toffee Candy Bar broken and chipped (like a Heath Bar)

1 Graham Cracker Pie Crust

1 square semi sweet baking chocolate melted

Mix milk and pudding mixes until blended.  Stir in 1/2 of the tub of Cool Whip and about 1/2 of the Candy Bar.  Pour into the Pie Crust.  Top with the rest of the Cool Whip.  Sprinkle with the rest of the chipped up candy bar and then drizzle with the melted chocolate!  Put in the refrigerator about 2 hours covered before serving. 

Linda's Brown Betty

2 cups coarse soft bread crumbs

2/3 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon finely grated lemon or orange zest

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

4 large apples, thinly sliced

3 tablespoons melted butter

1/4 cup orange juice

Pre heat oven to 350. Butter a 1 1/2-quart baking dish or spray with a baking spray. Combine bread crumbs, sugar, lemon zest and cinnamon.

Place half of the Apple Slices in the your baking dish. Top with half of the bread crumb mixture. Repeat layers, ending with the remaining bread crumb mixture. Combine the melted butter with orange juice; drizzle evenly over the Apple Betty mixture.

Bake for 45 to 55 minutes until browned and the Apples are tender.

Serve with cream or whipped topping, or with a big scoop of vanilla or butter pecan ice cream!

Shoo Fly Pie

There is a lady that I know from Sand Mountain, Alabama and she makes the BEST Shoo Fly Pies.  I finally :-) got her to tell me her recipe and I have her permission to put it on the site!  Thank you Miss Louise! 

1/2 cup Baking Molasses
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
3/4 cup Flour
2 tablespoons Butter
1/8 teaspoon Ground Ginger
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 9 inch Pie Crust either homemade or store bought
1 Egg Yolk
3/4 cup Boiling Water
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1/8 teaspoon Nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon Ground Cloves
1/4 teaspoon Salt
How to make it!  :-)
Add soda in boiling water, stir well.  Add to egg and molasses and then set that aside. Stir dry ingredients together making sure to blend well. Cut in shortening until mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Pour molasses into pie shell. Sprinkle crumbs evenly over top. Do not stir. Bake at 450 degrees for 15 minutes then reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake 20 minutes longer.  Let cool and then Eat!  It's delicious! 

Creamed Corn

I'm gonna be putting up some Corn this weekend and was asked to put on this page how I do it!  Here it is Cindy!  :-)

Shucked and Silked (get the silks out) Corn

Butter

Sweet Milk

Salt and Pepper to taste

I shuck and silk my Corn and then cut if off with a knife.  I cut mine right down to the cob getting all of the "Milk" out of it along with the kernels. Add some Sweet Milk to your likin'.  Make it as thin or thick as you would like it. 

Pour into a Corningware Dish and then put in the Microwave.  I usually put a whole dish of it in my Microwave for about 12 minutes and then stir very well.  If you are just cooking a few ears, cut your Microwave times in half. 

I then add a little Butter, Salt and Pepper and Microwave again for about 10 minutes being sure to stir about half way through.  There is nothing better!  You just can't beat it!

You can put your Corn in Freezer bags after it's completely cooled and store in your freezer.  My Granny always told me it would keep for 1 year but now she put hers up by cooking it on the stove.  And...  my Corn NEVER lasts that long at home because me and the boys always eat it! 

Lisa's Pecan Pie Recipe

3 eggs (beat them slightly)

1 cup light or dark Karo Syrup

1 cup White Sugar

2 tablespoons of melted butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 & 1/2 cup pecan halves

1 thawed 9 inch pie shell (don't bake it yet!)  :-)

Mix all first 5 ingredients and stir until well blended.  Stir in the Pecans and then pour into unbaked Pie shell.  Bake a 350 degree oven for about 55 minutes or until knife inserted in center of pie comes out clean.  Cool and eat! 

This is a recipe that I make for Thanksgiving.   A Pineapple Casserole that is fantastic! 

3 fifteen ounce cans of chunk Pineapple

2 & 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar Cheese

8 tablespoons of the juice off the chunk Pineapple.  Drain the Pineapple chunks and save this amount out. 

8 tablespoons of all purpose flour

1 cup of white Sugar

30 Ritz Crackers crushed

1/2 stick butter sliced into 1/2 inch pats

In a large bowl, mix together the drained Pineapple chunks, the Pineapple juice, the white Sugar, the Flour and Cheddar Cheese.

Pour into a Pam sprayed Casserole dish.  Top with crushed Ritz Crackers and Butter Pats.  Bake for about 30 minutes in a 350 degree oven!  Eat!  :-)  This stuff is really good! 

 Nelda's Pumpkin Pancakes

2 1/3 cups Bisquick baking mix

2 tablespoons dark brown sugar, firmly packed

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

1 1/4 cups milk

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1/3 cup mashed pumpkin or pumpkin pie filling

1/4 cup vegetable oil

Beat all ingredients with whisk or hand beater until well blended. Pour batter by scant 1/4 cupfuls onto hot, lightly greased griddle or skillet. Cook until tops are bubbly and edges are dry. Turn and cook  until golden brown.
Makes about 15 to 18 pumpkin pancakes that are sooo good!

This is a Recipe that I tried this weekend.  It's easy and the little Bacon Wraps are delicious!  I don't know what they are called but they are BIG on taste and simple to make!  :-) 

Take a couple of big Vidalia Onions, cut off the outside dry skin and quarter them.

Take some Bacon pieces and wrap the Onion quarters.  (1 slice of bacon per Onion quarter.) Stick a toothpick through the side to secure the Bacon to the Onion. 

Place on a Cookie Sheet. 

Cook in a preheated 425 degree pre heated Oven until the bacon is crisp.

Let 'em cool a few minutes and eat!  :-)   

A friend of mine from Minnesota recently asked me how I make my Sweet Tea....  Here's how we do it down here!  :-) (or I do anyway ~ I'm all about easy and my Tea is delicious!!!) 

Place 2 Luzianne Family Size Tea Bags in about 1 quart of water in a Microwaveable Safe Pitcher.  Cook on high for about 12 minutes.  Let set for about 10 or 15 minutes. 

Pour into a glass tea pitcher, put in the Sugar and STIR.  Fill up the pitcher with water. 

I mix almost 1 cup White Sugar with 1 gallon of water.  I'm stuck in my ways :-) and I always pour the Sugar in the Hot Tea and then Stir until the Sugar is completely blended.  And another thing I'm kinda picky about...  I always use a old Wood Spoon for stirring.  My Granny always told me you could taste the metal if you used a metal spoon so I don't!  :-)  I sometimes will cut a Lemon in half and squeeze the juice out of 1 Lemon into the Tea also.  I put both halves into the Tea and leave them in there.  Refrigerate right after mixing and when it's cool ~ drink!  :-)  SOOOO GOOD!  This is a staple in my house!  :-)

My Southern Style Beef Stew

1 tablespoon butter

1 & 1/2 pd Beef Stew Meat cut into 1 inch pieces

1 ten ounce can of diced tomatoes

1 fourteen & 1/2 ounce cans of stewed tomatoes

1 ten ounce package of frozen cut okra

1 ten ounce package of frozen lima beans

1 ten ounce package of frozen whole kernel corn

5 big potatoes peeled and chopped into 1 inch cubes

Melt butter in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add beef and brown on all sides. Pour in the diced tomatoes and stewed tomatoes. Add the okra, lima beans and corn. Bring to a boil, and reduce heat to medium.

Simmer for about 1 hour. Add potatoes, and continue to simmer for another 30 minutes or until meat is very tender.

This is another of my Comfort Foods and it's fantastic! 

Miss Nell's Alabama Mud Cake

This cake will absolutely melt in your mouth!  They are sooo good and I've eat many a piece settin' on her front porch with a glass of Sweet Milk! 

1 twenty ounce can of Crushed Pineapple (with the Juice)

1 twenty one ounce can of Cherry Pie filling

1 package dry Devil's Food Cake Mix

1 cup finely chopped Pecans

1 cup Toll House Morsels

1/2 stick butter sliced into 1/2 inch pats

Grease and flour a 9 x 13 inch sheet cake pan.  Pour Pineapple with the juice evenly into the bottom of the pan.  Spread the Cherry Pie filling evenly over the Pineapple layer.  Sprinkle the dry Cake Mix over the Pineapple and the Cherry layers.  Sprinkle the dry cake mix with Pecans and Toll House Morsels.  Dab the Butter Pats evenly on top of the WHOLE THANG!  :-) 

Bake in a pre heated 350 degree Oven for about 40 minutes.  After it's done, let it cool for a few minutes... and Eat!    It's really a good cake warm or cold!  :-)