Southern Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
3 cups minute oats (quick cook type)
1 cup nuts (optional, I don't use them)

Cream the shortening and sugars

Beat in the eggs and vanilla

fold in the flour, salt, soda, then the oats (and nuts if desired)

Roll into small balls and place on greased cookie sheet

Bake at 350 degrees aproximately 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.

Less cooking time means a chewier cookie

Dark Chocolate Fudge

Ingredients: 

 3 six ounce packages of semi-sweet chocolate chips 

1 fourteen ounce can Eagle Brand Milk (sweetened condensed) 

dash of salt 

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 

1/2 cup chopped nuts 

 In a heavy saucepan over low heat, melt the chocolate chips with the sweetened condensed milk. Remove from heat and stir in salt and vanilla, then nuts. Spread in an 8 inch square pan lined with wax paper. Chill and cut

Fast Fixin' Fruit Cake

Ingredients:

 1 Package Cake Mix 

 1/4 cup cooking oil 

2 eggs 

1 1/2 cup water 

1 can pie filling 

 Mix the cake mix, oil, eggs and water and put in a 9x13 pan sprayed with baking spray or greased and floured. Spoon the pie filling over the batter. Bake 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes. 

 Flavors can be mixed according to your creative taste. Icing is optional

Boiled Cookies

I made these when I could barely reach over to stir them without getting burned.  They’ve always been a weakness, I can eat every single one of them all by myself! 

Ingredients: 

 2 cups sugar 

1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup cocoa 

1/2 cup butter 

 2 cups raw oats ( old fashioned oats gives heavier finished texture, quick cooking oats a finer texture)

1/2 cup peanut butter 

1 can coconut (I’m not sure they still put coconut in cans, so a small bag or approximately one cup)

 In a heavy saucepan, combine the milk, butter, cocoa, and sugar. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat.

(Overcooking will cause cookies to be less chewy and more crumbly.  I like chewy.) 

Add peanut butter and stir til smooth, then add oats and coconut. Stir til cooled some and it gets thick. 

 Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper (I spray it with Pam, makes it easier to get cookies off later) Makes about 2 dozen cookies.  I use a small cookie dough scoop. 

Introduction

I have been working behind a salon styling chair since July 5, 1973. I've been privileged to have been up close and personal with lots of women. 

 I've been loved and mentored. 

 I've been challenged and encouraged. 

 And I've had a lot of great recipes given to me !!

 I was making one of them tonight and it is so ragged I can hardly read it. In fact, the book that I have all of them written in has come apart, the ink faded and smeared, the pencil written pages almost unreadable. I've considered re-writing them, but have put off that task. 

 Tonight, I thought...hey, just blog them ! You can share them as you go, and when you get them all in the blog, then just submit it to the Blot2Print site and have it printed, brand new and nicely printed !! So, here goes.