Gram's Recipes - Rice in Oven

1 1/2 cups rice (Uncle Ben's converted)
1 chopped onion
3 cups water
1-2 beef cubes
celery
dash sugar, pepper & salt
green pepper
1 can mushrooms

Saute onion, celery, green pepper and mushrooms. Mix all together in baking dish. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Gram's Recipes - Banana Cake

4 small (or 3 large) ripe bananas
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup butter or margarine
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup sour milk

Cream butter and sugar, add egg and bananas. Beat until light. Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Dissolve soda in sour milk. Add flour alternating with milk. Pour into well greased pan. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes.

Gram's Recipes - Gingerbread

2 cups molasses
1 tsp soda (large)
4 tsps ginger
1 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup shortening (melted)
1 cup hot water

A few more little projects done !

I'm trying to use up all my small pieces of batting that have been left over from larger projects so I'm making table runners and finishing up some small wall-hangings that have been pinned to my cork wall for ages.

I'm even working on a couple of Christmas gifts, but I can't post pictures of those here. Another project I just finished is a dresden raggy quilt that is a birthday gift from a friend of mine, Hazel, to her sister Heather. I love making raggy quilts as you really don't have to be accurate with anything and they are so soft and cuddly to work with.



I'm absolutely in love with stitchery right now and finished a little piece to hang on my sewing room wall. I think it says it all!

Gram's Recipes - Strawberry Shortcake

Strawberry Shortcake

2 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup margarine
1 egg (beaten)
1/3 cup milk

Mix dry ingredients & margarine. Texture will look like cornmeal. Mix in egg, then milk. Put in pan. Bake 20 minutes at 350 deg.

(This is about the same as bisquit dough - quite firm - has to be pressed in pan. Can be made in muffin tins also.)

I've discovered "Macro"

Having broke my right big toe last weekend, I've discovered there are things to do other than sewing on my sewing machine. I started playing around with my digital camera and discovered the macro setting. Here are a couple of pictures using it. I can't wait for the lilacs to bloom in the next couple of weeks, as I have so many different varieties, it will be great fun getting close-up pictures of all of them.

Getting Things done and two new sewing machines

I'm getting some things accomplished. My friend Pam was over today and we finished another quilt top that is going to be donated to Col Potter Cairn Rescue. A friend in the Col Potter group is going to donate the money to pay to have my three tops quilted so they can be used for fund raising. I can't wait to see what they look like finished.


I've also acquired two new sewing machines ... well, new to me. The Singer was made in Elizabeth, NJ in 1919 and the other Singer clone was made in Quebec around the same time. I need to do more digging on it to get more precise details about it. They are both in great shape and just need some minor work (like replacing a belt) to make them usable.