CHRISTMAS AND MY GRANDDOGS

With each Christmas we all have a special moment that we love to remember. This year mine was my granddogs. As we were opening gifts at my sons house our little cousin had came over as her mom was in the hospital at Vandy. She had brought one of her christmas gifts with her which was a little white dog that we have seen advertised this Christmas and they also had them at Target and Walmart. It is so close to a real dog it is scary.
 Anyway during a break she went and got her dog. Now my two yorkies were all dressed up in their christmas suits and was just sitting watching us open gifts when all at once they heard a dog barking. They jumped up on the end of the love seat to see what was going on. She had it walking on the hardwood and it was just like a real dog. My dogs did not know what to think or do. They thought this dog was trying to get them. They started barking and backing back like they were scared to death. Then Lucy decided to be brave and jump down on the floor and get close to it. You should have seen her. It would come at her and she would back away and then just had to get close again. This went on for around 20 minutes. I have never saw anything like it. If you want to have some fun just go get you one of these dogs and let you dog see it. You will be about rolling laughing. To all of us this made our Christmas.  If we would have vidoed it we could have won. lol. It was that funny.
 As we had a medical emergency in our family it took our mind off of this for a while. We thank God that he was on time and helped us thru this. But our family is still needing prayer with this sick one. We are standing in need of prayer for the next two months with my sister-in-law as she needs to get her system built up and be able to keep food down. She has been able to eat some but is needing to be able to eat a high calorie diet for the next two months as she has had some liver damage and by eating this it will help repair it. So would everyone please remember her in prayer.

CORN FRITTERS

3 1/2 Cups Flour
1 Teaspoon Sea Salt
5 Eggs

2/3 Cup Milk
3 3/4 Cups Yellow Corn Kernels (canned) drained
2 Tablespoons Butter, melted plus more for frying
Preheat oven to 350. In a medium bowl combine flour and salt. Add the eggs, milk, corn and melted butter and fold until completely moistened. They will be lumpy. Place a large saute pan over medium heat. Add just enough melted butter or marg. to cover the bottom of the pan and drop the corn batter by tablespoons full into the hot butter. Fry until brown on both sides and then put on a cookie sheet and put in oven to keep warm until you fry all of them. Cool slightly before serving. Can be used to dip in soups.

SPICED CIDER

1 Gallon Apple Cider
1 Cup Orange Juice
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
3 Cinnamon Sticks
1 Teaspoon Allspice
1 Teaspoon Ground Cloves
Sugar to taste

Mix the cider, the juices, the cinnamon sticks, the allspice and the cloves together. Taste and see if you like more sugar in it. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5-8 minutes. Strain and serve hot.

O HENRY CANDY

2 Cups Granulated Sugar
1 Cup Light Corn Syrup
1 Cup Water
3/4 Cup Peanut Butter

Combine over heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Cook until it reaches the hard boil stage(265 degrees). Let cool, then add peanut butter. Stir, then shape into rolls 3/4 inch thick and 1 inch long. Set aside.
1 Cup Light Corn Syrup
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
2 Lbs. Peanuts, chopped fine
8 oz. Dipping Chocolate
Cook the sugar and corn syrup together until it reaches the hard boil stage (265 degrees). Dip the above candy into this mixture. Then roll in peanuts while still hot. Melt the dipping chocolate and put the rolls in this and then put on wax paper until cool.

STRAWBERRY APPLE DESSERT

1 Cup Crushed Pineapple
1 Cup Pineapple Juice plus wate
1 Large Box Strawberry Jello
2 Large Apples Cut Up

1/2 Cup Chopped Walnuts
11/2 Cups Whipped Cream
Drain crushed pineapple. Heat juice and water to boiling. Dissolve jello in this and cool  until partly set. Fold in apples, pineapple and walnuts. Fold in whipped cream. Pour into dish and chill until set.

BAKED HAMBURGERS

2 Lb. Ground Chuck
1 Cup Water
1/2 Cup Ketchup
2 Tablespoons Mustard
2 Tablespoons Vinegar
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar

3/4 Teaspoon Salt

In a medium bowl mix all the ing. together except the ground chuck. Spray a 13 x 9 cake pan or glass dish. Pour the mixture over the patties and bake on 350 for 45 minutes. Serve on a toasted bun with onion rings.

ONION RINGS

1 Cup Pancake Mix
1 Egg 
1 Tablespoon Veg. Oil
1 Chicken Bouillon Cube
1/2 Cup Boiling Water
1 Inch Cooking Oil
3 Peeled and Sliced Onions
Dissolve bouillon cube in boiling water and cool. Beat together pancake mix, egg and oil. Add cooled bouillon mixture. Dip onion rings, one at a time into the batter. Drain the rings for a minute before you put them in the heated oil. Fry just until they are golden brown. Dark brown will taste scorched.