Real Pumpkin Pie
Ingredients
- 1 cup real pumpkin
- 1/2 cup cold milk
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1 package vanilla Whip n’ Chill
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1/4 cup cold water.
- 9- inch baking pie shell
Instructions
- Combine dessert mix, sugar and spice. Blend in pumpkin, milk and water. Whip for 3 minutes. Put in pie shell. Chill at least 3 hours.
Original Banana Muffins
Ingredients
- 3 mashed bananas
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup walnuts
- 1/4 cup melted shortening
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup sugar
Instructions
- Combine bananas, egg and sugar and mix well. Add the dry ingredients. Add the shortening last. Bake at 350 F for 20 minutes.
Like most ladies of the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s, Grandmother Sweeney and my mother grew up making home desserts you’d steal for. (If they turned their backs for a minute, I did exactly that.) Here are some favorites I suggest you try, keep this page in a binder and pass it on to your children.
1940’s Lemon Pie
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 Tbsp butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup milk
- 2 eggs
- juice of one lemon
- juice of half an orange.
Instructions
- With this recipe, I suggest you use real juice the way they did in the old days.
- Separate eggs and beat yolks. Stir in flour, butter, sugar and juices. Add milk and beat well. Fold in beaten egg whites. Place in unbaked pie shell and bake at 350 F for 1 hour, until golden brown.
