Cooked Icing

I have tried this recipe and it is goood. This recipe comes from 1967

Cooked Icing

7 Tablespoon flour
1 cup milk
1 cup sugar
2 sticks butter
2 Tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Cook flour and 1 cup milk in top of double boiler until consistency of mashed potatoes. Cover and cool. Combine sugar, butter ,2 Tablespoon milk and vanilla, then flour mixture. Beat for 15 minutes and frost warm cake.

quick scallop potatoes

This recipe is very good and easy to make. It comes from 1967 Kansan`s Silver Spoon Cookbook.


Quick Scallop Potatoes
Mrs. Larry E. Franklin

5 baked potatoes, large
1 can cheddar cheese soup ( I didn`t realize Campbell had this is 1967)
salt and pepper

Slice potatoes in baking dish .Add soup and salt and pepper. Bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

peach jelly

I have been busy in the kitchen today and yesterday. I made peach jelly, yummy.My first batch did not jelly as I would like, so redid ,I used 4 cups of peach juice instead, so I figured that was that reason why it didn`t jell ,so the next batch I used 3 cups of juice and it worked. I canned about 5 -half pints and 9 -pints of peach jelly. I used seconds from Uncle Rooster`s orchard. I also have my jellies there now as well.I would like to know if any was sold, since friday when I took them over there

Hamburger and Rice Casserole

This recipe is from 1967 Silver Spoon cookbook that the newspaper The Kansan put out back in that year. I have tried this recipe and it is very good, even after be heated up in the microwave the second night. It was gone the second night, the chickens didn`t get any, lol.

Hamburger and Rice Casserole
Mrs. Robert Lipp

1 1/2 pound ground beef
1 onion
1 1/2 cup rice, cooked
1/2 can mushroom soup ( I used the whole can)
1 can of chicken noodle soup
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon shortening

Place shortening in skillet and add ground beef which has been broken into small pieces. Sear, but do not brown ( ok ,I browned)Cut onions into very small pieces and add to ground beef. Cook slowly for 15 minutes. Add rest of ingredients and mix well. Pour into greased baking dish and bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees.


* I bake mine longer then 25 minutes , of course I baked in the toaster oven, I didn`t want to heat the whole house up.

Busy Lady Cheese and Tuna Casserole

This recipe is from 1967 and if you like casseroles with alot of tomato taste this is for you.

Busy Lady Cheese and Tuna Casserole
Mrs. Mary Frances Spalding

2 can biscuits
1 pound can ( 2 cups) cut green beans, drained
2 7-oz cans tuna, drained and flaked
3 Tablespoons flour
8 oz ( 2 cups) cheddar cheese, shredded
1 3 1/2 -oz can french fried onions
4 cans condensed tomato soup
1 cup milk
4 drops hot pepper sauce
parsley flakes

In 2 1/2 quart casserole, layer beans, tuna, 1 Tablespoon flour and cheese. Reserve 1/2 cup onions. Sprinkle with remainder of cheese. Combine soup, remaining flour, milk and hot pepper sauce. Pour over onions. Bake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees. Place biscuits around edge of casserole. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. During last 2 minutes of baking, sprinkle reserved onions in center of casserole and parsley on biscuits. Serves 6.

Sausage Biscuit wrap-ups

This recipe comes from 1967 Kansan Silver Spoon Cookbook

Sausage Biscuit Wrap-ups
Mrs. John O. Fife

1 8-oz package sausage links
1 8-oz package biscuits
2 Tablespoons milk
sesame seeds
poppy seeds
dill weed

Heat sausage links in oven 3 minutes at 400 degrees. Drain on absorbant paper. Separate biscuits and roll into oblong shapes, 1 x 4 inches, roll each biscuit around sausage, letting tip of sausage show at end . Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Brush with milk. Sprinkle with one of the seeds or dill weed. Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 400 degrees. The wrapped sausage may be placed on baking sheet, covered with foil and refrigerated 5 to 7 hours before baking.

jellies ...so far this year

I have been canning jelly like crazy, different varieties. This is a list of varieties and the amount not included the ones I have sold.

Root Beer
6 -8oz ( jelly jars)
3 pints

P. Cola
8 -8oz

Blackberry ( got second place in douglas county fair)
5 -8 oz
1 pint

Peach ( got first place at douglas county fair)
5 -8 oz
1 pint

Plum ( got first place at douglas county fair)
5- 8 oz
1 pint

Green pepper
4- 8oz

Jalepeno
8- 8oz
pints 0

Pineapple -jalepeno
5- 8 oz
1 pint

Rhubarb-orange slice jams
4 pints


in the process of making orange jelly