Potato Salad

Everyone loved Mom's potato salad.  I remember helping her
mainly by peeling the potatoes. It had to be made while the potatoes were hot,
so I peeled hot potatoes.  It seemed that she always used white baking potatoes.
This recipe is probably 1/2 of what Mom used to make for our family.

6 medium sized baking potatoes(boiled w/ skin on)
6 hard boiled eggs
1 c miracle whip
2 ts vinegar
1 scant Tbls mustard
1/2 finely chopped onion
salt and pepper to taste.
Peel potatoes. Mix everything together while potatoes are hot.

Add more Miracle whip if it needs to be more moist,
usually needs it after it sits for a while.( I actually added  more MW, a
little more vinegar, & a little more mustard to taste.)

Pastry for 2-Crust Pie

Mom's crust was some of the best.
She never touched it with her hands.

2 c all-purpose flour
1 ts salt
more than 3/4 and less than 1 c Crisco
4 1/2 Tbls ice water

Add salt to flour
add Crisco and cut with
knife and fork until it looks like cornmeal.(no big clumps)
Add Tbls of water one at a time tossing with fork
as you do.  Roll in a tight ball in wax paper and
refrigerate for at least 30 min.

When you're ready to make pie...
Divide in 1/2 and roll out between 2 sheets of wax paper.
No flour. Place in pie pan by removing one side of paper
and then invert it into pie plate and peeling off second piece
of paper. Help it off by scraping with a knife if you need to.

Roll the top the same way.

Apple Pie

Pastry for 2 crust pie.

2 lb tart apples, peeled and sliced
1  c sugar
1 ts cinnamon,( a little extra)
4 tbls flour
dash salt
2 Tbls butter

Roll out 1/2 pastry and place in the bottom of a  9 inch pie plate.
Trim & refrigerate until apples are ready.
refrigerate other 1/2 of pastry.
Mix sugar, flour cinnamon and salt.
sprinkle over apples. Toss lightly.
Turn into pastry lined pie plate, mounding in the center.
Dot with pieces of  butter.
Roll out remaining pastry & adjust over filling.
Cut about 4 slits in the top.
Trim and crimp edges.
Mom then put a little milk on a piece of wax paper
and dabbed the pie crust with the milk.
Bake 45-50 min. at 425 or until apples are
fork tender and crust is brown.

Whities

Here's something to go with Mom's Chocolate Sheet cake.
I've served these at my house many times.  I usually double
this and bake them in a deep pan about 17 x 11.  Bake them a
little longer when doubled. I don't double icing.


1/2 milk
2 c flour
2 c sugar
3/4 c butter
2 ts almond
4 eggs

Bake in cookie sheet.

375
18, 20 min.

Icing
2 1/2 c powdered sugar
1/2 butter
1 1/2 ts almond
3 tb milk

Can ice hot or cool.  Hot it soaks in. Good either way.

Chocolate Sheet Cake

This is the second dessert Mom always had in her freezer.
She didn't add the cinnamon to it but I always do.



2 c flour
2c sugar
4 Tbls Cocoa
1/2 c vegetable oil
1/2 c butter
1 c water
2 eggs beaten
1 c buttermilk
1 ts soda
1 ts van.
(I add 1 ts cinnamon)

ICING
6 Tbls milk
4 Tbls cocoa
1/2 c butter 1 box powdered sugar
1 c chopped nuts (optional)

Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix flour & sugar.
Bring to boil cocoa, butter, oil and water. Pour over flour & sugar mixture.
Mix well.
Add remaining ingredients.
Pour into Greased & floured 11 x 17 inch pan.
Bake for 25 to 25 min. Until it pulls away from the pan.

Icing.
Boil milk, cocoa, & butter.
Remove from heat and add powdered sugar and nuts.
Frost cake immediately on removal from the oven.

Banana Split Pie

Pat says Mom often made this for Mike's Birthday.  It is one of his favorites!

Bundt Cake

Pat had Mom's recipe, so here it is!