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These are recipes that are unusual to me.  I would not think of making these recipes ....ever. But some would, each to his or her own.

Free, handwritten on index cards, recipes from the decades of the 1940's through the 1970's.
When I was 18, I thought my mom was spoiling my fun.
Roast Bologna Recipe - 12 servings

This recipe was in a old pink tin recipe box. I have placed it in the “Unusual Recipes” category. Roasting bologna is unusual, I think. I wonder why she didn’t use ham?

The recipe belonged to Ruth McMikle

Roast Bologna

Skin one 3 lb. bologna. Score surface to form diamond pattern. If desired insert a whole clove in each diamond. Place the bologna on rack in shallow roast pan. Bake in (350) oven for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Brush several times with pineapple juice or other fruit juice while baking.
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Cottage Cheese Sticks

1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon celery seed
1 teaspoon caraway seed
6 Tablespoons butter
1/2 cup creamed cottage cheese.
1 Tablespoon Milk

Preheat oven to 425 degrees Lightly grease 2 cookie sheets.
Sift flour with salt and baking powder.  Stir in celery and caraway seed.
Cut butter into mixture
Combine cottage cheese and milk.  Add to the flour mixture stirring to form a soft dough.  On alightly floured surface, divide dough into 12 parts.  With palms, roll each part in pencil thin strips about 14" long.  Cut in half .  Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden.  Remove to wire rack and cool.  Makes 24.
Uncle Will's

This recipe was written just like this, so your guess is better then mine.)

5 for 12
4 cans - Number 2  - 2 1/2 pounds hominy)
Drain
1 cup cream mushroom soup
1/2 pints whipping cream
2 small can parmesan cheese
1/2 cup almonds
1/2 teaspoon red pepper
1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon white celery seed
Top with bread crumbs and cook at 325 for 30 minutes.

Uncle Will also volunteered the following

Chicken Breast
salt and pepper
melted butter
grate 2 green peppers
large can pineapple - crushed
do not drain. use Doles
Cover with foil and bake for an hour  - 350 degrees.
Bing Cherry Salad Mold with Coke

1 can Bing Cherries
1 can crushed pineapple
1 package cherry Jell-O
1 package cream cheese - about 3 ounces
1 Coke
chopped nuts (about 1/3 cup)
Drain juice from fruit, add water to make one cup.  Heat and dissolve Jell-O.  Mash cream cheese and beat into Jell-O.  Put into refrigerator.  When starting to set, beat with egg beater.  Add Coke, pineapple and nuts.  Arrange cherries around the bottom of individual molds and pour mixture over all.  Then return to the refrigerator.
Cold Cut Pie
She write, "Make it ahead of time and be the coolest cook in town.  An you need to complete the menu is a tossed salad or some sliced tomatoes, a basket of bread or rolls, a pitcher of ice tea and dill pickles."

Prepare the filling:
1 pound potatoes (about 3 medium)
1/3 cup vinegar
1 tablespoon prepared mustard
1 teaspoon seasoning salt
1/2 cup sliced celery
1/2 cup diced green pepper
1/4 cup minced onion
1/4 cup pickle relish
3 hard cooked eggs, diced
1/2 pound boiled ham or 1 can (12 oz.) luncheon meat, diced
1/2 pound salami, diced.
Cook the potatoes in boiling salted water until barely tender - still firm in the center
Meanwhile, combine remaining ingredients.  Then potatoes are ready, peel, dice; add to filling mixture. Chill for 2 hours.

Fix the dressing and crust:
1 envelope unflavored gelatine
1/2 cup water
1 pound sliced bologna
1 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup commercial sour cream

Place gelatine and water in small sauce pan and let stand two minutes, then heat to the boiling point, stirring until gelatin is dissolved.  Remove from heat.  While it cools a bit, line a ten inch pie plate with bologna, overlapping the slices. Now, using rotary beater, combine the gelatin mixture, mayonnaise, and sourcream.   Chill till gelatin is just slightly thickened - about 20 minutes.  Fold in filling mixture; spoon into bologna "crust".  Chill at least 3 hours.  (Store in refrigerator up to two days if you wish.)  Serves six as a main dish.
The Burrows

1 1/2 block butter
2 or 3 medium onions
1/2 bell pepper
2 or 3 ribs of celery
1 can Rotel tomatoes
Sauté above ingredients about 4 hours. Do no Add any water
Add 1/2 lemon
dash Worcestershire  sauce
Parsley and 2 buttons squeezed garlic
Add: 1/2 to 2/3 cans mushrooms soup
Lastly add 1 quart and 1 pint - cleaned - shrimp or crawfish.

This was all she wrote on the recipe card.  This comes from the journal I purchased and was shipped to me from Georgia.  But I have notices, many of the newspaper clippings were from a Houston, Texas newspaper, called the Houston Chronicle - this paper was dated Thursday, August 17th, 1972.  Some earlier clippings were dated 1968.  I also wanted to note some grocery prices back then. I do not know what newspaper or date they come from.

Puff's Facial Tissue 200 Ct. 2 Ply. Pkg. .27 cents

RF Long Spaghetti 2 12-oz. Pkgs .39 cents

Seven Seas French Dressing 8 oz. Btl. .22 cents

Charmin Toilet Tissue 4-Roll Pack .39 cents

Jeno Cheese Pizza Regular Size .29 cents

Gebhardt Enchilada 2 1/2 Can .49 cents

Delsey Toilet Tissue 2 Rolls .27 cents

Puss N' Boots Gourmet Cat Food 6 1/2 - Oz. Can .10 cents

My how times have changed.  Makes you wonder.......what's life all about?
From the kitchen of Mary Hairston
Coffee Gel


Add one envelope unflavored gelatin to 1/4 cup cold coffee and let stand 5 minutes.  Stir into 2 cups scalding hot coffee.  Add 1/2 cups sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.  Cool.  Refrigerate about 4 hours or until firm.  To serve, spoon into deep sherbet cups.  Pour over each serving one tablespoon sweet cream or whipped cream.
 
"P.S. I substitute Irish Whiskey for the vanilla (sometimes).  Just any measurement will do.", she wrote in a notation at the bottom of the recipe.
I found several interesting cards in this lady's recipe box.  The easiest to read was dated March 14, 1954 and titled, "Jons Confirmation".  Following this was written in black ink the menu of the day.  I don't know why this fascinates me, but it does.  The one thing it does for sure is date her recipes to the 1950's.   She had other of these cards marked July 10, 1954, September 20th, 1954, 10/24/60 with the name Bertie Field written there, and apparently she played bridge with Connie Murray, among others, but I can't make out all their names and I couldn't make out all of the words on any of the other cards. She must kept track of what was served at many functions.  Starting in the 50's, up until 1972, when she stopped.

The one I've taken the time to transcribe here was the only one printed, not in script, so it was easy.
If her recipe box is any indication, she had a wonderful life, full of parties, friends, and family.

Roquefort, Walnuts, Olives, Chive Cheese, Crackers
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Deviled Eggs
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Coffee

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Bet Fry - Washington, D.C.
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Eloise Remsberg
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All of Philadelphia, Pa.

I just love going through other people's stuff.  Their lives, their history, and me having nose problems helps.  I use to go through my sister's stuff when we were kids.  I don't know why, but she use to just hate it.  She would tattle to mom and boy, was I in trouble!
How to Preserve Eggs
Dated 1921
Now that eggs are dearer as a rule than they have been for years, many people are inquiring about the methods of preserving them.  The old way was to pack them in salt or lime.  This served the purpose, but it gave the eggs a very strong taste. 

The approved method now is the one which calls for the use of "water glass," or silicate of soda.  This is a thick, syrupy liquid which can be had at most drug stores for about 10 cents a pound, and a pound is enough to treat five dozen eggs, so that the cost of preserving is about two cents a dozen.

There are several grades of water glass, and it is wise to get the best.  To prepare the solution, stir one part of the silicate of soda into sixteen parts of water which has been boiled, cooled and carefully measured. 

It is essential to have the eggs fresh, or the experiment will not be a great success.  Those over three days old should not be used, as the air has already had a chance to penetrate them.  The very best way is to keep the solution made up ready and put the eggs into it just as soon as they are brought in from the nest, if you have your own chickens.  It is worse then useless to try to preserve eggs that are not fresh or that have been cracked or washed.
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