How to Make Old Fashion Potato Dishes like Grandma used to Make
Potatoes is one of my favorite vegetables and imagine my dismay when I learned eating potatoes is harder on my blood sugar level than is sugar. I hate being diabetic but have learned how to reasonably work potatoes into my diet. Here are three old fashion recipes featuring potatoes that are sure to please the “tators” person in your house. Country Fried Potatoes, Old Fashion Hashed Brown Potatoes, and Creamed Peas and Potatoes are all great recipes.
AUNT AUDREY’S CREAMED POTATOES AND PEAS
This recipe is from my childhood. My late Aunt Audrey used to make this delicious dish. For you diabetics out there, the milk and cheese in this recipe makes it okay for us.
6 medium potatoes, peeled and diced
3 cups frozen peas
Old Fashion Broccoli Swiss Soup
Personally, I love soups! To me there is no better lunch or dinner than a good hot bowl of soup. I don’t care if it’s Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter, I enjoy a good bowl of soup. When I came across this recipe while going through my late mother’s recipe collection, it caught my attention because it uses Swiss cheese rather than the usual cheddar. If you, too, enjoy a good bowl of soup, try this recipe. Pair it with a salad, some whole-wheat crackers or a crusty whole-grain bread for a delicious meal!
SWISS BROCCOLI SOUP
This recipe was on an old yellowed newspaper clipping in a box of recipes from my late mother’s estate. I have no idea what newspaper it came from.
Old Fashion Recipe for Kellogg’s Nachos Casserole
If you are cutting back on expenses even at the grocery store, and who isn’t, this casserole recipe from the Kellogg Company should be in your recipe file. This Nachos Casserole dish has almost everything you need in this one dish. It has meat, vegetables, dairy, and grain. All you really need to do is add a salad and/or fruit and you have a complete meal. What a deal–quick, easy, inexpensive, and quite tasty, too.
NACHOS CASSEROLE
This recipe is from an old Kellogg Company advertisement.
1 cup chunky taco sauce
1 can (4-oz) green chilies, chopped
1 lb ground beef
1/2 cup chopped onions
1/4 tsp ground cumin
1 cup refried beans
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1/4 cup water
4 cups corn flakes cereal
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Old Fashion Cranberry Bread and Dessert Recipes
Looking to add a festive touch to your dessert table? Want to surprise family and friends with something new or just enjoy cranberries? Here are three delectable recipes for you to choose from or maybe you want to make all three. The Cranberry Orange Bread is always a tasty treat (and it’s great with coffee). The Frozen Cranberry Dessert has its preparation divided into the night before and the next day, and the Apple Cranberry Bake just begs to be topped with ice cream and thoroughly enjoyed.
FROZEN CRANBERRY DESSERT
1 pkg cranberries, ground (redder if frozen when ground
2 cups sugar
1 No. 2 can pineapple, crushed, drained
1 lb marshmallows, cut-up
1 pint whipped cream
Mix cranberries and sugar together in one bowl. In another bowl, mix pineapple and marshmallows. Let mixtures sit in the two bowls overnight. Mix both mixtures together with 1 pint of whipped cream in the morning. Chill and eat or freeze and eat. Use two large bowls.
Old Fashion Chocolate Cherry Squares
Okay, Chocolate Lovers out there; listen up! Do I have a recipe for you! This great old recipe is from the folks at Hershey’s Chocolate. Chocolate and cherries just seem to go together and this recipe is more proof of that. When you serve these tasty squares to your friends, be sure to have a copy of the recipe handy. They are sure to ask for it. Or you can be secretive, if you want, and tell them it’s one of your vintage recipes that you just don’t share. But be warned, they will be expecting you to make them anytime you get together.
CHOCOLATE CHERRY SQUARES
This recipe is from an old Hershey’s Grocery Store “Give-Away” Pamplet.
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Filling (recipe below)
Red candied cherries, halved
Old Fashion Recipes for Pumpkin Pie Squares and Pumpkin Bars
Sometimes we tend to think of pumpkin only in the fall or during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. But we shouldn’t fall into that trap. Pumpkin is a healthy food choice and should be enjoyed all year round. While pumpkin pie is probably our most popular pumpkin desserts, it certainly isn’t the only one. There are many great pumpkin dessert recipes and following are two good ones. Pumpkin Pie Squares can actually be used in place of pumpkin pie, especially if you want to change things up a bit. And pumpkin bars are always a tasty treat. So get to baking and create a delicious dessert for tonight!
This recipe is from an old church cookbook from the Midwestern United States.
1 cup sifted flour
1/2 cup quick rolled oats
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 cups pumpkin
1 can (13 1/2 oz) evaporated milk
2 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp ginger
Rhea Lou’s Old Fashion Banana Cake and Cream Cheese Frosting
Don’t throw out those over-ripe bananas! Use them to make this delicious banana walnut cake. This old recipe is from an old Iowa church cookbook, I believe. I found this recipe in a collection of recipes I purchased on ebay. This banana cake will remind you of going to grandma’s house, family reunions, church pitch-ins, etc. Remember those tables laden with mouth-watering desserts? This cake could have been on one of those tables. Bake one today and share it with your family and friends. Each bite is sure to bring memories.
RHEA LOU’S BANANA CAKE
This recipe was found in an old church cookbook.
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
2 cups flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup buttermilk
4 ripe bananas
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Chocoholics Delight! Hershey’s Cocoa Bundt Cake From Vintage Recipe Collection
Chocoholics, listen up! Here is a great recipe for you. This old Hershey’s recipe for Cocoa Bundt Cake is fantastic. And it’s great for any occasion from birthdays to parties to pitch-ins, the list goes on and on. And here’s a holiday hint. For Christmas, crush a candy cane and sprinkle over the top of the glaze to give the cake a pepperminty, holiday taste and look.
HERSHEY’S COCOA BUNDT CAKE
This recipe was in an old Hershey’s recipe give-away.
1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup Hershey’s cocoa
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups buttermilk or sour milk*
1 tsp vanilla extract
Chocolate Glaze (recipe below)
Grandma’s Old Fashion Chocolate Cake Recipes
Chocolate is one of the most popular type of cakes around the world. Remember the wonderful chocolate cakes of your childhood? Perhaps one of these great recipes will bring back that taste and wonderful memories for you. Here are three varieties, you’re sure to find one to please. Cherry Devil’s Food Cake is simple enough for a beginning baker. It uses a box mix and a few simple steps to make a great cake. Bittersweet Chocolate Cake is a buttermilk chocolate which is always tasty, and Dutch Mocha Chocolate Cake is sure to please the coffee lovers in your circle of family and friends.
CHERRY DEVIL’S FOOD CAKE
1 box Devil’s Food cake mix
2 cups frozen whipped topping, thawed
1/2 cup chopped maraschino cherries
1 recipe of your favorite chocolate frosting
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour two 9-inch layer cake pans. Prepare cake mix as directed on package. Divide the batter evenly between the two pans. Bake and cool as directed on the package.
Fold the maraschino cherries into the whipped topping. Spread over the top of one of the layers. Top mixture with the second cake layer. Frost with the chocolate frosting. Store cake in the refrigerator.
Old Fashion Chicken and Fish Gumbo
Are you tired of the same old thing week in and week out? Looking for something warm to soothe you when you come in from the cold? Like the idea of a pot of delicious aromas simmering on the stove? If the answers to any of the above are yes, why not give this Old Fashion Chicken and Fish Gumbo over rice a try?
This recipe was on a very old, almost crumbly newspaper clipping. I have no idea of its origins.
2 tbsp vegetable oil
3 lbs chicken pieces
1 cup chopped onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/3 cup flour
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