Green Bean-Cheese Casserole

Recipe is from Nellie and Annie.

2 cups cooked, cut green beans
1 can cream of chicken soup (may substitute ½ can milk for part of soup)
½ cup cubed American or cheddar cheese
2 TB flour
2 TB butter or margarine
Salt and pepper to taste

Put well-drained beans into a greased casserole dish. Melt butter in saucepan; add flour and soup. Cook over low heat, stirring, until thick. Add cheese and pimento; pour over beans. Don’t let cheese melt completely before adding to the beans. Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees.

Chicken Salad

Recipe is from Aunt Annie

3 cups cooked chicken, cut up
1 ½ cups celery, cut fine
1 cup seedless grapes
1 cup slivered almonds
1 TB capers
3 TB lemon juice
1 tsp dry mustard
1 ½ tsp salt or to taste
¼ cup cream
1 cup mayonnaise

Mix capers, lemon juice, mustard, salt, cream, and mayonnaise then pour over other ingredients and chill before serving.

Best Casserole

Recipe is from Annie.

3 hard boiled eggs – sliced
2 cups rich white sauce (without salt)
1 (5-oz) can shrimp, cut fine
1 (7-oz) can tuna, flaked
2 oz mushrooms, sliced
1 (6.5-oz) can crab, flaked
¼ lb cheddar cheese, grated
1 cup buttered crumbs

Place in buttered 8-inch baking dish in layers with sauce. Put crumbs on top and bake 45 minutes at 375 degrees.

Raw Apple Cookies

Recipe is from Annie.

1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
4 cups flour
3 cups grated raw apple
4 tsp soda
4 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp allspice
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts
1 cup chopped raisins

Cream shortening; add sugar and cream until well blended. Add unbeaten eggs and mix with mixer on medium speed for about 1 minute. Add 1 cup flour and grated apples. (Do not drain juice off the apples, add it too.) Turn over to 350 degrees to preheat.

Add remaining 3 cups flour, soda, and spices, then vanilla. Mix with spoon well. Add raisins and nuts. Drop small teaspoonful onto well greased cookie sheet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes.

Note: For chocolate cookies, add 3 TB cocoa. This recipe is also nice for loaf or layer cake.

Taffy

Recipe is from Mazie and Annie.

3 cups sugar
2 cups white Karo
¼ tsp gelatin
3 TB cold water
½ cup thick sweet cream
vanilla

Boil sugar and syrup until it forms a soft ball in cold water. Soak gelatin in cold water and add to first mixture. Continue boiling until a firmer ball is formed in cold water. Add the cream and boil until a crisp ball is formed in cold water.

Pour on marble slab or buttered platter and pull as soon as it can be handled. Add a few drops vanilla as you pull. Use sharp scissors to cut into pieces. Pieces may be wrapped in plastic wrap. Candy should be used within a reasonably short time as it crumbles if kept too long.

Caramels

Recipe is from Aunt Annie.

1 quart whipping cream
2 cups white corn syrup
4 cups sugar

Mix sugar, syrup, and 1 1/3 cups of the cream. Stir over medium heat until it boils. Stir occasionally. Cook to soft ball. Add 1 1/3 cups cream and continue to cook. Bring to a soft ball stage again. Add remaining 1 1/3 cups cream. Let cook to a firm to hard ball stage.

Pour into buttered dripper pan and cut into pieces when cool. Wrap in cellophane or waxed paper. (To test for cooking stage, drop a few drops of candy into cool water.)