WANDA'S GINGER CREAM COOKIES

This recipe is from an old church cookbook.

1/4 cup soft shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 small egg
1/2 cup molasses
1 tsp soda
1/2 cup hot water
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Mix shortening, sugar, egg, and molasses. Stir in soda which has been dissolved in the hot water. Sift together flour, salt, ginger, cloves, and cinnamon and add to the other ingredients. Chill dough. Drop onto lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake until set (when lightly touched with the tip of your finger, almost no imprint remains). While slightly warm, frost with the following icing.

ICING:
3/4 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 tbsp milk or cream

Blend all the ingredients together until smooth. Add a few more drops of milk or cream if the icing is too thick.

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TRIPLE LEMON CAKE

This recipe is from an old newspaper clipping.

4-serving size pkg of lemon gelatin
3/4 cup hot water
1 6-oz can frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 box lemon cake mix
4 eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup vegetable oil

Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease either a Bundt pan or a 9 x 13-inch pan.

Combine gelatin and hot water in small bowl. Set aside. Mix lemonade and powdered sugar in another bowl; set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine remaining ingredients and beat with electric mixer for 2 minutes. Add the gelatin mixture. Pour batter into the prepared baking pan. Bake at 300 degrees for 50 minutes or until no imprint remains when lightly touched. Remove from oven.

If using a 9x13-inch pan, prick top with a fork and pour the lemonade mixture over the cake. If using a Bundt pan, turn cake out of pan after 10 minutes. Prick top with fork and pour lemonade mix over the top.

NOTE: This is a very moist cake that freezes easily.

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LAYERED CRAB APPETIZER

This is another old recipe clipping from my late mother's shoe box recipe collections. I have never made it as I don't eat crab, so I have no recommendations one way or the other on this recipe. It is hard to read so I have typed the recipe below.

6 oz Crabmeat
8 oz Light Cream Cheese, softened
2 Tbsp. White Wine Worcestershire Sauce
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
2 Tbsp. Light Mayonnaise
1 green onion, finely chopped
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 8-oz bottle cocktail sauce
Fresh parsley, chopped

In small bowl, combine cream cheese Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, mayonnaise, green onion and garlic powder. Spread mixture in shallow glass serving dish to make the first layer. Second layer: cocktail sauce.
Third Layer: Crabmeat. Fourth Layer: sprinkle with parsley. Cover and chill in refrigerator. Serve with crackers. Makes 24 ounces.

SWEET PICKLE STICKS

I got this recipe in the 1970s from one of my best friends when I was a young housewife in Southern Indiana. These pickles are great!

Wash and cut into sticks enough cucumbers for 7 quarts.

Pour boiling water over the cucumbers and let sit overnight.

The next day, drain the cucumbers and pack into clean canning jars.

Combine the following ingredients in a large saucepan and boil for 5 minutes:

7 cups cider vinegar

6 3/4 cups sugar

6 tbsp salt

3 tbsp celery seed

3 tbsp mustard seed

6 tsp tumeric

Green food coloring, optional

Pour the hot mixture over the cucumbers in the jars. Have jar lids boiling in water. Seal the jars with the hot lids. Process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes to seal well.

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SCALLOPED CORN

1 can cream-style corn

2 eggs

2/3 cup sugar

2/3 cup milk

1/2 tsp salt

2 tbsp butter

Mix all ingredients together. Add enough crushed saltine cracker crumbs to thicken.

Bake at 350 until firm.

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