Wisdom From Grandma

If Grandma was having guests over for dinner, she would whip up a wilted lettuce salad for her guests. This simple recipe is absolutely delicious when you use fresh lettuce or baby spinach right from the garden.

Ingredients:

1 Tablespoon vinegar
1 Tablespoon sugar
Dash salt
1/2 Teaspoon of mustard
1 can of milk (Grandma used fresh cream)

Directions:

Blend your ingredients and toss lettuce or spinach leaves until they are thoroughly coated. Serve alone or add a few pear slices to each plate.

Grandma’s pickles are the perfect condimint for sunny side up eggs on toast. Top with a fat tomato slice fresh from the garden. For these pickles, I will even bring out the dreaded pressure cooker to seal the pickle jars. Grandma’s secret tip: Do not overcook your cucumber mixture or your pickles will be mushy.

Ingredients:
25 cucumbers
8 large onions
2 large green peppers
1/2 cup of salt
5 cups of vinager
5 cups of sugar
1 tablespoon mustard
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 tablespoon tumeric
1/2 tablespoon celery seed

Directions:
1. Wash and slice cucumbers, onions, and peppers.
2. Mix the sliced vegetables with 1/2 cup of stand.
3. Let the mixture stand for 3 hours. (Grandma used an old fashioned pickle crock, but a bowl will do.
4. Combine remaining ingredients together and bring them to a boil over high heat.
5. Drain the cucumber mixture.
6. Add the cucumber mixture to the boiling vinager mixture. Make sure the vegetables get hot, but do not let the mixture keep boiling.
7. Pack your pickles in steralized jars and be sure to seal the jars.

This simple hot milk cake recipe is a kid pleasing favorite. I love the easy to make topping.

Ingredients:

1 cup of milk (Grandma used whole milk, but we use 2%)
1 stick of butter
2 cups of sugar
4 eggs
2 cups of sifted flour
3 teaspoons of baking powder
dash of salt
1 teaspoon of vanilla

Topping:
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/2 cup of sugar

Directions:

1. Put milk and butter into a pan and cook on low heat until the butter melts.
2. Blend eggs and sugar well. (I beat them with a mixer at high speed.)
3. Add flour and the hot milk mixture gradually.
4. Add salt and vanilla.
5. Add baking powder and stir slowly or beat at low speed with mixer.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
7. While cake is cooling, mix together cinnamon and sugar.
8. Sprinkle topping evenly over your cake.