Showing posts with label holiday recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday recipes. Show all posts

December 20, 2025

Grandma MacNutt's Scotch Shortbread

1 cup butter
1 egg yolk
3/4 cup sugar
2&1/4 cup flour

Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.  Add egg yolk and beat till smooth.  Add flour and mix till well blended.  Spread in bottom of 13 x 9 pan.  Dip tines of fork in hot water and make ridges across batter.  Bake about 45 minutes or until lightly browned in 325° oven.  Cut into squares immediately after removing from oven.  Serve with spiced tea.

August 30, 2025

Sweet Potato Casserole

Base:

3 lbs. sweet potatoes, peeled, boiled, mashed and mostly cooled
3 lg. eggs
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup butter, melted or softened
1/3 cup evaporated milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. allspice

Topping:

2 cups brown sugar
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 cups pecans, chopped
2/3 cup cold butter, cut into small pieces

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease 9x13 inch pan. Set aside.

Base: Into the mashed and mostly cooled sweet potatoes add the eggs, sugar, butter, evaporated milk, vanilla, nutmeg and allspice. Blend thoroughly with an electric mixer. Spread into pan.

Topping: Mix together brown sugar, flour and chopped pecans. Mash in butter with a fork until texture is crumbly and butter is about pea-sized. Sprinkle over sweet potato mixture.

Bake at 350°F for 60-70 minutes.

Robert's Awesome Chex Mix


3 cups Corn Chex cereal
3 cups Rice Chex cereal
3 cups Wheat Chex cereal
3 cups pecan halves
2 cups Cheez-Its, or other cheese crackers
1&1/2 cups pretzels
9 TBLS (126 g) butter or Smart Balance
3 TBLS Worcestershire sauce
2 tsp seasoned salt
1&1/2 tsp garlic powder
1&1/2 tsp onion powder

Preheat oven to 250°F.

Measure out first 6 ingredients into a baking pan (we use an aluminum roasting pan). Set aside.

In a microwavable bowl, melt the butter/Smart Balance. To the melted butter/SB add the Worcestershire sauce, seasoned salt, garlic powder and onion powder. Mix thoroughly and continue mixing as you pour it evenly over the cereal, pecans, cheese crackers and pretzels. Using 2 wooden spoons, stir the cereal mixture well.

Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour, removing every 15 minutes to stir. Let cool. Store in airtight container.