BLUEBERRY COFFE CAKE AND ICEING

2 Cups All-purpose Flour
1 Cup Granulated Sugar
1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon Salt  (omit salt and baking powder if using self-rising flour)
1/4 Cup Shortening
3/4 Cup Milk
2 Eggs, beaten
2 Cups Blueberries, frozen

Crumb Topping:
1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar
1/3 Cup Flour
1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1/4 Cup Butter or Marg., softened

Glaze:
1 Cup Powdered Sugar
2 Tablespoon Butter
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla
Milk or Water for mixing

Preheat the oven to 360. Spray a 10 square cake pan. In a mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Cut in the shortening until the flour looks crumbley. Add milk and eggs. The mixture will be thick. Put in the blueberries next. If using frozen ones toss them in flour first so the batter will not be blue. Pour into pan. It will look lumpy.
In a bowl combine all the ings. for the crumb topping and then sprinkle over the cake mix. Bake for 50 minutes. Let cool.
Make up the glaze using a Tablespoon of water or milk at a time until it will drizzle. Pour this all over the top of the cake and let sit awhile.

HAMBURGER GRAVEY ON TOAST

One day my son came home from visiting and wanted me to fix this new dish they had had. I thought what kind of stuff is this. So i got to mixing this and that until I got it like he liked. He still loves this stuff.

1 Lb. Ground Chuck
4Tablespoons Marg.
1 Medium Onion, diced
1/3 Cup flour
2 to 3 Cups Milk
Salt and Pepper and (Garlic) if you like
Toast, Biscuits, Pasta or Rice

Melt the butter add the onion and ground chuck. Let fry until done. Drain off the grease and then add the flour. This makes a rue. Keep stirring until you don't see any flour. Then add the milk a little at a time until it is as thick as you like. Serve this over toast or a biscuit, over rice or pasta. You can leave the onion and garlic out and it is still good.

OLD-TIME ICE BOX CAKE

1 Small Box of Instant Chocolate Pudding
1 Small Box of Instant Vanilla Pudding
4 Cups Cold MIlk
16 Whole Graham Crackers
4 Medium Bananas

In 2 medium bowels make up the puddings using the 2 cups of milk for each one. Take a glass 13 x 9 baking dish and lay a row of the graham crackers in it. May have to break up some for the ends to fit. Pour the vanilla pudding on these and spread evenly. Slice the bananas and then layer them over the vanilla pudding. Make another layer of crackers over the bananas. Pour the chocolate pudding over this layer. Next crush 2 whole graham crackers and sprinkle over the chocolate pudding. Ref. for 30 minutes. Can also put some cool whip on top or on each serving if you like. You can also use a small dish for this as the layers will be thin in a 13 x 9 dish.

POCKET POTATOES

These potatoes are so easy to fix. You can add different ings. to them if you like.


6 – 8 Large Red Potatoes
1 Bell Pepper, green or red
1 Medium Onion
5 Tablespoons Butter or marg.
Smoked Sausage
Cabbage, cut up
Salt and Pepper
Aluminum Foil

Peel and slice your potatoes. Cut up the peppers and onions in strips or chunks.  Slice or shred up the cabage.Slice the smoked sausage.  Put the butter slices over top of vegs.Take a piece of aluminum foil and spray it. It needs to be big enough to hold your vegs, and smoked sausage. Put your vegs on the alum. foil. Salt and pepper them. Fold the alum. foil over and fold over the sides to make a pocket. Put on grill or in oven and bake or grill for 25 minutes or until done. They need to be turned over every 15 minutes. You can leave the smoked sausage out if you like. Can also use hot banana peppers if you like for more flavor. Can also use just regular potaotes. Watch when opening up the pouches as there is steam in them and you can get burned by the steam.

SWEET SALAD DESSERT

1 (20)oz. Can Pineapple Tidbits
1 (11)oz. Can Mardarin Oranges
1 Small Box Instant Lemon Pudding
1 Cup Fresh Strawberries, quarted
1 Cup Bananas, sliced

Drain the pineapple and oranges, reserving the liquid. Prepare the pudding using the liquid from the fruit instead of the milk. In a bowl combine the pineapple, oranges and strawberries. Lightly fold in the pudding. Chill for at least 2 hours. Always add the bananas just before serving. I don't slice them until then.

SWEET POTATO FRYS

2 Medium Sweet Potatoes, peeled
2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
2 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
Kosher Salt around 1/2 Teaspoon
Black Pepper around 1/4 Teaspoon
Cinnamon around 1/2 to 1 Teaspoon

Peel the sweet potatoes then cut in half then cut in half again or make wedges or speers out of them. Place on a baking sheet and drizzle the olive oil over them. Put on a cookie sheet in a single layer. Mix the salt, brown sugar, pepper and cinnamon. Sprinkle the mixture onto your potatoes. Bake for 16 minutes and then turn and bake on the other side. Can sprinkle with a little more salt. Serve hot.

COLD SPAGETTI SALAD

1Box of Thin Spagetti Noodles, cooked and drained
2-4 Tomatoes, every how many you like in this dish
1 Jar or small can Blace Olives, diced into fine pieces
1/2 to 1 Onion, diced fine
1/2 Cucumber, chopped and deseeded
1/2 Bottle Italian Dressing, not the red kind
Pepperonis

In this salad you can about add what you like. Some likes pepperonis, some don't. I like to add the onion when I am about ready to serve it. To me it can sometimes make it taste bitter. Mix all the ings. up in a bowl. Pour the dressing on top and mix again. Ref. overnight for the flavors to blend. Keep ref.