OLD FAMILY RECEIPES

 

Granny Goebel Green’s Old-Fashioned Rolls   

      

Mary Louise Goebel Green Morgan

b. September 2, 1884    d. January 17, 1967

Relationship: Letty’s paternal Grandmother (nickname Aunt Mamie)

 

Ingredients:

 

2 cups milk      

¼ pound of butter (1 stick)

2 tablespoons of sugar

2 teaspoons of salt

1 package of yeast

4 ½ cups of flour

 

In a saucepan, scald the milk, sugar and salt mixture.  Let sit after scalding and add butter while cooling.  After milk is just lightly warm add yeast.  Then add flour and mix well.  Spoon into muffin tins (1/2 full) and let rise covered for 1 hour in warm place.  Cook 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until brown.

 

 

Agatha Berger Greene’s  Hot Milk Cake

 

Agatha Margaret Berger Greene

b. September 26, 1917   d. March 24, 1979

Relationship: Letty’s Mother

 

Ingredients:

 

4 eggs

2 cups of sugar

2 cups of flour (sifted)

2 tablespoons baking powder

1 ½ teaspoons vanilla

1 cup milk

¼ lb. Butter (1 stick)

 

Heat milk (do not boil) and butter and let cool to warm.  Sift flour and baking powder together.  In large mixing bowl beat eggs until thick and lemon colored, then add sugar a little at a time to this mixture and then add vanilla.  Fold in flour mixture with a spoon.  Add milk and butter making sure that it is mixed as it will settle to the bottom of the bowl.  Put in 2 cake pans (greased and floured) and bake @ 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes or until brown.  After cakes are cooled, spread jelly of any kind on top the first layer.  Add the second layer and sprinkle confectioner’s sugar over the top of the cake.  Delicious, delicious, delicious!!!!

 

 

Aunt Penny’s Sauerkraut Salad

 

Helen Wood Redmond Hickman

Relationship: George’s Maternal Aunt (nickname Aunt Penny)

 

Ingredients:

 

2 lbs. of fresh sauerkraut

2 cups of sugar

Medium onion chopped

Small amount of green pepper for color

Small jar of pimentos chopped

 

Stir all ingredients and let sit at room temperature for 3 hours before refrigerating.

 

 

 

Geri’s Mrs. Pose’s Cheesecake

 

Geraldine Garber Wood

b. February 8, 1928 d. September 10, 1983

Relationship:  Wife of George’s second cousin (nickname Geri)

 

Ingredients:

 

Crust

1½ cups of graham cracker crumbs

4 tablespoons of butter

1 tablespoon of cinnamon

¼ cup of sugar

 

Mix these ingredients together and pat into a 9 inch spring form pan.  Chill.

 

Filling

1 cup sugar

2 - 8 ounce packages of cream cheese at room temperature

4 eggs

1 teaspoon of vanilla

1 pint of sour cream

 

Cream the cheese and add sugar, then eggs one at a time.  Add vanilla and the sour cream.  Beat 1 minute or until well mixed.  Pour into chilled shell.   Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes, then turn off oven and let sit for 2 hours.

 

Letitia (Letty) Greene Wambaugh’s “Secret Ingredient” Chicken Fricasse

 

Letitia Louise Elizabeth Greene Wambaugh – Living

Relationship – Me, myself and I (nickname Letty)

 

Ingredients:

 

One whole fryer chicken cut up

Water

Celery – 1 cup or more diced

Chicken broth in can or package

Rice – 1- 1 ½ cups – fast rice or regular

Carrot – chopped in small pieces

Lipton Dry Chicken Noodle Soup – spice ball in package only

Salt/pepper to taste

 

Wash chicken, put in large lidded soup pan with celery and enough water to cover completely.  Bring to boil and then simmer for 3-4 hrs.  Add liquid either chicken broth or water to keep covered.  When the chicken falls off the bones, take out the chicken and cool.  Strain the broth to another pan with a strainer.  After chicken has cooled, take about 2 cups of the chicken broken up in small pieces back into the strained broth.  Add diced carrots. Open 2 packages of Lipton’s Chicken Noodle Soup and let everything fall out of the bag into a separate bowl.  Take the flavor packet (a yellowy glob) from both packages and break it into the broth.  Let this simmer for awhile until the soup packets dissolve adequately. My mother called this the “secret ingredient.” Then bring to boil and add (depending on the amount of broth) 1 to 1 ½ cups of rice.  There should be a minimum of sauce.  The dish should be thick with some broth.  I use chicken broth to add if not enough. Cook until done.  This freezes well into small portions and makes a nice dish on a cold day!

 

 

Lillian Goebel’s Sweet Potato Pie

 

Lillian Catherine May Goebel Lynch

b. November 9, 1874  d. July 21, 1933

Relationship: Letty’s Paternal Great Aunt

 

Ingredients:

 

3 medium sweet potatoes, cooked and mashed

1 ¼ cups sugar

½ stick of butter or margarine

2 eggs

¼ cup light cream

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon vanilla

½ teaspoon of lemon juice

½ teaspoon of nutmeg

1 unbaked pie shell

 

Precook pie shell in 9-inch deep pie dish for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.  Mix sweet potatoes, sugar and eggs.  Mix well.  Add butter, cream, cinnamon, vanilla, lemon juice and nutmeg all together.  Pour into pie shell.  Bake for 35 minutes.   Hmmmm…..good!