Leona's Swedish Meat Balls
1
lb. ground beef
1
egg
2/3
cup milk
2
Tbsp fine cut onions
1
tsp salt
1/8
tsp pepper and nutmeg
Mix,
make into SMALL balls. Cook over low heat until brown, then add a little water
and cook 20 minutes. Makes about 35.
I
remember that my mother would make a large recipe for company. Brown them in a
frying pan with a little oil. Then put them into a covered oven pan and add the
water to cook in the oven.
I
am sending my mother's recipe because she, Marie Nordstrom Anderson, always
told about the first baby she ever saw. She went with her mother, Huldah, to
see Mrs. Dahl's baby. I never realized that Mom was just 2 when your
father-in-law was born. I knew that Mom's mother died when Mom and her twin
brother were just 6. (Mrs. Dahl is Clara Maria Swanson Dahl - Lauren's
grandmother on his father's side. The baby Marie Nordstrom saw was Lauren's
dad... in 1902! JD)
In
the bottom of a 9" x 13" pan place:
1
cup chopped pecans
1
1/2 cups of coconut
Mix
a box of German Chocolate cake mix per directions. Pour over pecans and
coconut.
Combine:
1
box powdered sugar
8
oz pkg cream cheese
1
stick butter
2
1/2 tsp vanilla
Drop by small spoonfuls onto top of cake. Bake at
350 degrees for 60 minutes.
Leona's Sugar Cookies
From
Leona: Here is a recipe of Dad's and Aunt Marie's youngest sister, Beda
(Anderson) Hurder, who had an illness when a child. Something like infantile
paralysis. She didn't walk again until she was 15 when the local doctor came out
to the farm with crutches and she learned to walk with them. Later she had a
brace, married a man who was a minister and a teacher. Lived to be the oldest
of her parents' children.
1cup
of sugar
2
eggs
1cup
of shortening
Vanilla
Cream
sugar, shortening and beat in eggs, Sift together 2 1/2 cups flour 1 teaspoon
cream tarter, 1 teaspoon soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt. Add to first mixture and roll
in small balls and flatten with a glass dipped in sugar. Heat oven to 375
degrees and bake until edges are just turning golden brown.
1
tablespoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons cold water
½ cup boiling water
3 egg whites
6 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Pinch of salt
Blend
cornstarch and cold water in a saucepan. Add boiling water and cook, stirring
until clear and thickened. Let stand until completely cold. With electric
beater at high speed, beat egg whites until foamy. Gradually add sugar and beat
until stiff, but not dry. Turn mixer to low speed; add salt and vanilla.
Gradually beat in cold cornstarch mixture. Turn mixer again to high and beat
well. Spread meringue over cooled pie filling. Bake at 350 degrees for 10
minutes or until top is lightly browned.
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"I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his
own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want
to see your enthusiasm." ~Robert Farrar Capon
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