Gram's Recipes - Shortbread Cookies

1 cup soft butter (real butter not margarine)
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/2 cups sifted flour

Mix the butter and sugar thoroughly. Stir in the flour. Mix with the hands. Chill this dough for up to an hour. It will be easier to handle.

Roll out on a floured board, about 3/4 inch thick. Cut into small shapes using a cookie cutter and place on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake in a preheated oven, 300 deg, for about 25 minutes, or until done. The cookies should not brown, or lose their shape during baking. Makes about 25-30 cookies.

Gram's Recipes - Drop Cookies

1 cup shortening (margarine)
2 cups brown sugar
1 egg, well beaten
1 cup sour milk (regular milk w/tsp vinegar added)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
4 1/2 cups flour

Mix in order, adding the sour milk after the egg. You can add chocolate chips, raisons, coconut, nuts ... just about anything to this recipe.

Gram's Recipes - Cherry Balls

1 1/2 cups desicated coconut (I use unsweetened)
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1/2 cup butter (melted)
1 tbsp cream
1 tsp almond flavor

1 bottle cherries

Place each cherry in a spoonful of the above mixture and roll into a ball. Then roll each ball in crushed graham wafer crumbs. Chill.

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!