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10-01-99 Off Topic Recipes

Susannahoh (10:00:15) : FRIED GREEN TOMATOES
Miriam Zachman

Summer is not complete until you try this old recipe handed down from our pioneer ancestors.

Green tomatoes
Cornmeal or flour
Salt and pepper
Bacon grease or Crisco

Slice firm green tomatoes or tomatoes showing some red color but quite firm. Roll in cornmeal or flour seasoned with salt and pepper. Fry until brown on both sides in bacon grease, Crisco or a combination. Serve hot.

Susannahoh (10:00:15) : FRIED ZUCCHINI SQUASH
Miriam Zachman

When zucchini are plentiful, everyone enjoys this dish. Try it instead of French fries.

1 medium zucchini squash
Flour seasoned with salt and pepper
1 egg, beaten
Bacon grease or oil for frying

Slice zucchini about one-fourth-inch thick and soak in cold salted water about ten minutes. Roll in egg, then in flour. Fry until brown in bacon grease, oil or a combination of both.

eggy/oz (06:02:57) : The author's mother was given this Pillsbury recipe when she attended a cooking school in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1939.

Gold Cake

3/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
yolks from 2 eggs
2 cups flour
3/4 cup milk
3 teaspoons baking powder

Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs yolks and then sifted flour and baking powder. Add milk and blend until smooth .Pour into a cake pan and cook in a preheated 350 degree F oven until a tooth pick when inserted comes out clean.

Hint: this can be flavored after cooking with grated nutmeg.

Amy (04:38:41) : This is from Mennonite Country-style recipes:

Chocolate Angel Delight
1 Large pre-baked angel food cake
1 (3 1/2 oz.) Instant chocolate pudding
2C. milk
1 (3 oz.) pkg. Cream cheese
2T. milk
2C. Cool whip
1C. Crushed peanut brittle, or chopped nuts

Break the cake into small pieces and spread half in the bottom of a 13 x 9 pan. Reserve the other half.
Beat together the pudding and milk and then chill for five minutes.
Beat together the cream cheese and the milk until smooth.
Blend the cool whip with the cream cheese and pudding.
Pour half the pudding over the cake. Arrange the cake pieces over the pudding and layer the other half of the pudding. Top with brittle or peanuts. Chill several hours before serving.eggy/oz (06:11:17) : FRENCH VANILLA CAKE

1 cup butter
2 cup sugar
6 eggs
2 cup flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup vegetable oil such as Crisco oil

Frosting:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup coconut
1 (8 oz.) cream cheese
1 cup pecans, ground fine
1 box powdered sugar

Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time and mix. Add flour, baking soda and buttermilk; mix well. Add oil. Bake in layer cake pans for 40 minutes until done. Frosting: Mix all ingredients together well and frost cake.

MED/Tn (08:31:54) : She sliced a red pepper from the bottom to the top to within an inch of going all the way down following the natural lines of the pepper seams. It looked just like a poinsettia with the fuzzy seed middle.