Recipes

Favorite Recipes From Monroe County Homemakers

Submitted by Betty Mann

German Potatoe Salad

Mrs. Raymond Fischer
New Hanover Unit

Ingredients:
6 potatoes
1 T. minced onion
1/4 lb. bacon diced
2 T. flour
1 T. prepared mustard
1 cup vinegar
1 cup water
3/4 cup sugar
1 T. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper

Directions:
Cook, peel, and slice potatoes. Fry bacon and remove from skillet. Use 2 T> of the drippings and blend flour and cook one minute. Add the water, mustard, vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper and stir until smooth. Pour over potatoe salad with bacon and onion. Garnish with hard boiled egg slices and parsley. Serve hot or cold.

Spatzle (Dumplings)

Mrs. Theodore Klein

Columbia Day Unit

Ingredients:
2 cups sifted flour
1 tsp. salt
2 slightly beaten eggs
1 cup milk

Directions: Sift flour and salt together and add eggs and milk. Beat. Place Mixture in a course seine colander and hold over kettle of rapidly boiling salt water. With a wooden spoon, press the batter through colander, cook and stir about five minutes, drain and serve with meat, vegetables, or fruit.

Cooked Cheese

Mrs. Armin Nottmeier

Waterloo South Unit

Ingredients: 1 package dry cottage cheese (2 lbs.)
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup milk
1 1/2 stick margarine

Directions: Mix soda, salt, and cheese in bowl. Stir often and le mix stand 20 minutes. Put margarine and milk in pot and add cheese mix and cook until smooth. Pour into glasses or a bowl and refrigerate.

Pickled Tongue

Mrs. Philip Stemler

Waterloo Rural Unit

Ingredients and Directions:
Serve it hot or cold. Take beef tongue and cover it with water. Add 1/4 cup salt, 3 bay leaves, 5 cloves, 1 tsp. whole allspice. Cover tightly and simmer until tender, about 3 hours. Remove tongue and skin. It will slice well when cooled. Keep liquid from tongue and remove excess fat when cooled. To liquid add one sliced medium onion and small amount of salt. Let stand 3 hours. Drain and add 1/2 cup vinegar, 1/2 cup white sugar, and two cups of liquid. Add one more cup vinegar and three tablespoons brown sugar. Boil again until ingredients are dissolved. Add the sliced tongue.

Fresh Cherry Pie

Ruth Stumpf

Monroe County Nite Unit

Ingredients:
1 recipe pie dough for 1 shell
3 eggs beaten with
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 T. flour
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
4 cups fresh cherries
1 T. butter

Directions:
Mix above and pour into crust. Bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.

Potatoe Pancakes

Ruth Stumpf

Monroe County Nite Unit

Ingredients:
6 medium potatoes
1 sliced onion
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1-1/2 T. flour
1-1/4 tsp. salt

Directions:
Scrub potatoes. Do not peel. Cut into 1 in. cubes. Break eggs into container, add flour, baking powder, salt, onion and 1/2 cup potatoes. Start blender for this mixture and add remaining potatoes a few at a time. Pour into pancake shapes on hot greased griddle. Cook each side to brown. Serve with applesauce while still hot.

Persimmon Pudding

Mrs. R.B. Dobson

Waterloo South Unit

Ingredients:
1 cup persimmon pulp. Persimmons must be previously put through a sieve to remove seeds and coarse pulp.
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 eggs
1 1/2 T. butter
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
4 cups milk(for pumpkin texture)

Directions:
Mix all ingredients in order and pour into shallow pan and bake about an hour. Serve with cream.

Senf Gurben

Meta Stroh

Waterloo Youth Unit

Ingredients and Directions:
Peel ripe yellow cucumbers and cut into halves, the lengthwise. Scrape out seeds, cut again and soak in water overnight. Make syrup of 2 cups cider vinegar, 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp. pickling spices, and 1/2 tsp. mustard seed. Boil and add cucumbers, then boil three minutes more. Pack into sterile jars, adding 2 tsp. salt to each quart and 1/2 onion. Cover with syrup and seal.

Hot Milk Sponge Cake

Ella Diehl

Columbia Nite Unit

Ingredients:
4 eggs
2 cups cake flour
1 T. butter dissolved in
1 cup hot milk
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups sugar
2 tsp. baking powder

Directions:
Beat eggs, sugar, and vanilla 10 minutes. Add baking powder and flour that have been sifted together. Add hot milk and butter. Beakes in 2- 9 in. layer pans for 30-35 minutes at 350 degrees.

Cooked Mustard Dressing

Submitted by Betty Cash

Columbia

This recipe was given in 1920 to my aunt, Mrs. Lorena Bestmann, by Mrs. Mayme Pautler, wife of Dr. N. Pautler in Waterloo.

Ingredients:
2 eggs beaten
2 T. sugar
1 tsp. mustard(prepared or dry)
3 T. vinegar
1 T. water
Butter(the size of a walnut)

Directions:
Cook in double boiler over hot water.


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