The Old Metal Box
Old Family Favorites
I knew my sister-in-law loved to cook. However, what I did not know was that she had collected thousands of recipes throughout the years. Some were cut from magazines, some were found in books, while others were simply written on scraps of paper. These scraps of paper not only provide delicious and easy to fix meals and desserts, they are family heirlooms handed down from mother to daughter, they are gifts from family and friends, they are Carol's tribute to good eating and good times. She once told me that she would like to gather up all of these recipes and put them in a book. However, the years rolled by, but she never fulfilled her dream. And now that she has passed on to that great kitchen in the sky, I would like her legacy to continue. Although I do not know the people who wrote these marvelous recipes, I do know they were cherished favorites because I found them in an envelope inside an old tin box. I would now like to share two desserts which she talked about often for starters, written just the way I found them.
Recipe number 1:
Unbaked Cheese Cake
Ingredients:
1 8oz. pkg. cream cheese
1/4 Tablespoon butter or margarine (Carol liked to use butter)
1 cup sugar
1 cup boiling water
1 pkg. lemon jello
1 cup crushed pineapple
1 pint whipped cream
Cover the bottom of a large (13x9x2) baking dish with graham cracker crumbs mixed with melted butter and a little sugar.
Dissolve gelatin in boiling water; add crushed pineapple and chill until slightly thick. Cream together cream cheese, butter, and sugar. When gelatin mixture is thickened a little, add cream cheese mixture.
Whip the cream until it holds a peak. Fold into other ingredients. Chill at least 3 hours, or overnight. Good Luck!
Recipe number 2:
Hard Candy
Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup white syrup (possibly white Karo syrup)
1/2 cup water
Mix together and boil until a string will crack. Add color and 1 teaspoon flavoring (I think any kind will do). Pour on cookie sheet covered with powdered sugar. Break into pieces when cool.
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