Grandma Margaret's Shortbread Cookies

4 c. flour
1 lb. butter or 1/2 butter and 1/2 margerine
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. almond flavoring

cream butter, add sugar, cream well together (with hands- this is how grandma did it), till light and fluffy. Add flavoring and flour.

Roll into a roll in wax paper(like you are making a long snake out of the dough.)
flatten top, and sides and bottom.
Cut into slices with dental floss, or thread, and bake at 300 for 30-40 minutes

Do not let them brown.

If you chill dough is easier to cut. use dental floss to cut, so you not smashing the cookie shape.

Deluxe Cheeseburger Melt

This is off the Bisquik box, but it is fast and easy to make and is really good as well.

1 1/3 c Bisquik
1/4 c water
2 eggs
1 1/2 c shredded cheese, plus 1/2 c. for sprinkiling
1 lb ground beef
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 c. frozen veggies

Heat oven to 400. Pam a large cake pan. Mix first 4 ingrediants. Brown beef, drain grease. Stir in soup and veggies. Heat until hot.

Spread bisquik in pan, spread meat and soup mixture over bisquik
Bake 25-35 minutes or until edges are golden brown
Sprinkle with some the 1/2 c. cheese, bake till cheese melts

Grandma Strong's Tasty Chicken Bake

I have made this in the crockpot, it is easy to make and very good.

8 whole chicken breasts or boneless skinless chicken breasts
16 slices bacon
2 pkgs of ham (6 ozs in total)
1 pint sour cream
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 can drained thinly sliced water chestnuts
1/2 lb fresh mushrooms sliced and sauteed in butter

wrap each chicken in peice of bacon and ham, secure with toothpick. Arrange in baking pan.
Combine soup, sour cream, waterchestnuts, pour over chicken.

Bake 250 for 3 hours. Top with mushrooms and serve

This maybe prepared a dat ahead.

If using crockpot, don't use toothpicks. On low all day, on high half a day.

serve with rice.

Wanda Eckhart's Funeral Potatoes

2 lbs frozen hash browns, broken apart, almost thawed
2 cans cream of chicken soup
1 cube butter
1 pint sour cream
3/4 cup grated cheese
2 Tbs. chopped onion
1 c. corn flakes tossed w/ 3 Tbs. melted butter

In saucepan combine soup, sour cream, cheese and onion. Heat and stir til it is a smooth sauce. Place half potatoes in large baking dish, cover with sauce, coninue til finished with potatoes. Cover with cornflakes.

Bake at 350 for 45 minutes.

Mom's Spaghetti Sauce

2 onions
1 or 2 green peppers
1 T. salad oil
2 lbs. hamberger
1 large can tomatoe sauce
1 small can tomatoe paste
1 can water for tomatoe paste can
1 pkg. schhiling spagetti sauce seasoning
1 tsp garlic
1/2 tsp oregano

cook first three ingrediants til tender-not borwn- brown hamberger
add remaining ingrediants stir well, cover and simmer until you are ready to eat

Sweet and Sour Pork Chops

3 T. orange marmalade
2 T. soy sauce
1 tsp. dijon mustard
1/4 c. water
4 porkchops

In small bowl, mix first 4 ingrediants, mix well.
Season porkchops and pan fry-2 mins each side- til lite brown
spoon mixture over porkchops and bring to a boil
reduce heat to low
cover and simmer until tender
serve with pan juice on the side

Watch carefully to aviod burning the jam

Burger Bundles Rita Dell'Ergos

2 lbs. ground beef
1 pkg. stovetop stuffing
onion soup mix

Mix soup mix and ground beef together. (sometimes I use saltine crackers as well)
Make the stovetop stuffing according to package directions
Make hamberger patties with the meat, add a spoonful or two of stuffing, seal with another hamberger pattie.

Cook at 350, for 30 minutes.

Serve over rice, with brown gravy