CHERRY PIE 1987
From Grandma Pearl Holmes (from Reececliff's)
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
1 9" pie crust
1/2 cup cherry juice
1 cup sugar
1/4 t. salt
1 T. cornstarch
1 T. all purpose flour
2 cups canned cherries, drained
Prepare pie crust. Make a little extra pie dough to use as strips across top.
In a bowl, combine cherry juice, sugar, salt, cornstarch and flour. Stir until smooth.
Fold in cherries and pour mixture into pie crust.
Take strips of dough and lace across top in a lattice fashion, securing the ends by pressing into pie crust.
Bake in preheated 325* oven for 45 minutes.
CHOCOLATE PIE
From Ada Myers Parks (Grandma Bessie Gumbrell Reid's recipe)
2 cups milk
1/2 cup sugar
3 T. flour
2 small T. cocoa
2 eggs
1 t. vanilla
Scald the milk.
Add the remaining ingredients and mix into the milk.
Can be eaten either as pudding or pour into a crust.
Ada's note: I don't know if this was Grandma's recipe or not; I remember a very thick chocolate pie at her house. Of course, she had no whipping cream so she had no topping. She probably had no vanilla, changing the thickness and taste a bit.
PINEAPPLE CHEESE SALAD
From Marie Myers (from Ada Myers Parks)
1 #2 can pineapple
3 T. flour
1 cup pineapple juice
1/2 lb. longhorn cheese
3 T. sugar
3 eggs, separated
1/2 t. salt
1/2 lb. marshmallows
Mix flour, sugar and salt.
Add 1 cup pineapple juice. Boil; reduce heat and stir constantly til thickened.
Add 3 beaten egg yolks.
Fold in whipped egg whites. Let cool.
Add other ingredients in bite-sized pieces. Nuts of your choice are optional.
Ada's note: Our Myers' family loves this recipe.
CORN FRITTERS
From Marie Reid Myers
2 cups ground up corn
1 egg, beaten
2/3 cup milk
2 t. baking powder
1 t. sugar
1/2 t. salt
1 cup flour
oil, just a little for cooking
Mix all ingredients.
Pour in a frying pan.
Cook on one side, then the other side, until nicely browned.
BLACK BEAN SALSA
From Lora Troyer
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 can black-eyed peas, drained and rinsed
2 cups corn, cooked, cooled
1/2 red pepper, finely chopped
1/2 bunch green onions, finely chopped
1/2 bunch cilantro, finely chopped
Combine above ingredients.
Dressing:
1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil
1 T. sugar
Mix together.
Toss dressing with bean and veggie mix.
Refrigerate.
Serve with blue corn chips or regular tortilla chips.
MONKEY BREAD
From Ada Myers Parks
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3 pkgs. commercial biscuits. Cut each biscuit in 4 pieces.
In a bag place:
1/3 cup white sugar
1/4 t. cinnamon
Shake the biscuits into the bag.
Oil a tube pan and place biscuits in all around.
On the stove, melt:
1 1/2 stick butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 t. cinnamon
Pour slowly over biscuits.
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
Cool for 10 minutes.
Invert pan to release bread onto a plate.
Pull the pieces apart and enjoy!
NO-CHILL ROLL-OUT COOKIES (GRANDMA REID'S COOKIES)
From Ada Myers Parks
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 t. vanilla
2 t. baking powder
3 cups flour
Combine all ingredients.
Roll out on board covered with equal parts sugar and flour.
Cut shapes with cookie cutter.
Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 400 degrees for 6-7 minutes, depending on thickness of the cookie.
Ada's note: Grandma always put 2 raisins in the center of each cookie. I always hated those raisins AND I still do!
