Chocolate Molasses

1 cup sugar
1 rounded teaspoon cocoa
        (use eating spoon not measuring spoon)
˝ cup water
Square of butter (1 tblsp)
        (to keep from boiling over)

Heat ingredients to rolling boil.  Cook for 2˝ minutes after it starts to boil.   Don't overcook.  (Note: I haven't had any success in doubling this recipe.   Jan).

Pecan Pie

1 package vanilla Jello pudding (not instant)
1 cup light corn syrup
3/4 cup Pet Evaporated milk
1 egg slightly beaten
1 cup pecans

Mix pudding, milk and syrup.  Add egg and pecans.  Bake in 8" or 9" pie shell at 350 degrees until done.

Cornbread Dressing

1 pan hot cornbread
4 day old biscuits (homemade)
2 eggs
1 chopped onion and chopped celery to taste
10 oz. canned  chicken broth or make your own
sage, salt and black pepper

crumble biscuits with cornbread and add rest of ingredients; add broth slowly; you can either stuff the turkey with it or put in a pan and bake at 350 for about 45 minutes or until done.

Faye Hagan said that Mother used to make her own broth from the turkey giblets.   And that's what gave it the extra flavor.

Monkey Bread

2 cans cheapest brand biscuits. Grandma used Ballard brand.  Don’t use Hungry Jack brand or more expensive brand;
1 cup sugar;
1 tablespoon cinnamon; (or to taste)
1 stick of butter;
1 cup brown sugar;

Take each biscuit out of can and cut into 4 pieces; mix sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl; Roll each biscuit piece in cinnamon mixture;  Grease a tube pan;  Put the biscuits rolled in cinnamon mixture into the tube pan.  Take 1 cup brown sugar and 1 stick of butter and melt together.  Bring to boil and pour over biscuits in the pan;  bake in 350 degree oven until done, about 25-40 minutes.

Fried Chocolate Pie

Biscuit dough; (see next recipe)
Chocolate mixture;
(sugar, Hershey’s cocoa powder, - this mixture   is like the chocolate molasses mixture);

Roll dough out thin like pie crusts.  Cut dough in circles about size of a saucer.   On the circle put 1 pat of butter and 2 teaspoons of the chocolate mixture.  Fold over and crimp with fork.  Fry on medium heat until brown.

Homemade Country Biscuits

Make your biscuit dough:
Crisco shortening;
Self-rising flour;
Milk;

Per her daughter Faye Hagan:

Put the flour in a mixing bowl;  Then she just kind of pushed it out along the sides.  Then she put the Crisco and milk in the middle.  Then she’d work the flour gradually into the liquid mixture in the middle.  Then if she needed more flour she’d add it.  I don’t think she ever really measured anything.  Then when it got to the consistency that she thought was acceptable, she’d roll the dough out and then cut the biscuits out with a glass.  Bake in a 375 – 400 degree oven until done, probably 10 – 15 minutes.

Grandmother's Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

 (from 1st daughter)

2 cups sugar

1/4 cup cocoa

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup peanut butter

1/2 cup butter

3 cups oats

1 tsp vanilla

Combine the first 3 ingredients and boil for 1 minute

Add butter and peanut butter and stir until melted

Add vanilla and mix well

Add Oats

Drop on wax paper. However you put them on the wax paper is the size the piece will be. So you can make them smaller or larger according to your

Preference.  They will set in a few minutes.  This is one of our family favorites if we want something sweet and you do not have to heat the oven.

Family Meals

(from 2nd daughter)

I remember meals that we used to eat:

• One meal is that for dinner we would get warm milk.  Then we would crumble up cornbread in it and eat it with a spoon.
• Mother also made banana pudding a lot.
• She also made salmon patties.