Crites Family Stuff

Ingredients for 1 serving

• .5 cup butter
• 2 squares unsweetened chocolate
• .33 cup milk
• 1 lb powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla (sometimes I add a little almond extract too)

Steps

1. Melt butter and chocolate in a saucepan over low heat. When melted, add milk and stir over low heat until the mixture thickens and separates. Pour into a mixing bowl with powdered sugar and vanilla and mix until smooth. Thicken with more sugar and thin with a little milk.

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My personal favorite appetizer.

Ingredients for 24 servings

• 1 tub shredded Parmesan cheese
• 14 oz artichoke hearts in brine, not marinated, drained and chopped
• 2 cloves minced garlic
• .75 cup good quality mayonnaise
• 3.5 loaves of soft white bread

Steps

1. Mix together all ingredients except the bread. The mixture should be moist. Put a scant tsp of mixture in the center of each slice of bread and crimp with a crescent shaped tool. Preheat oven to 425F and arrange empanadas on a baking sheet. Brush with melted butter and minced garlic and bake for 12 minutes.

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Ingredients for 10 servings

• 2 heads Romaine lettuce, washed, dried and torn into pieces
• 1 pint strawberries, sliced
• 1 red onion, peeled and sliced thin
• .5 cup toasted, slivered almonds

Dressing:

• 2 cups mayonnaise
• .33 cup half and half
• 2 tbsp poppy seeds
• .66 cup sugar
• .5 cup raspberry vinegar
• 3 tbsp raspberry jam

Steps

1. Toss lettuce, onions, and dressing together. Top with strawberries and almonds.
2. Make dressing by combining the mayonnaise, half and half, poppy seeds, sugar, vinegar, and jam in a blender until mixed well. Dressing will keep for 1 week in the refrigerator.

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Ingredients for 1 serving

• .33 cup butter
• .25 cup milk
• .25 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2.5 cup confectioner's sugar

Steps

1. Mix all ingredients except sugar. Mix in 1 cup of the sugar. Beat well. Mix in the rest of the sugar as needed to make icing that will spread well and stay on cake. Put on cool cake. Makes 1 1/2 cups icing.

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Dorothy Farmer: Debbie gave me this recipe after we had eaten at a restaurant that had served it.

Ingredients for 8 servings

• .5 cup Parmesan or Romano grated cheese
• .5 cup grated onion
• 1 cup real mayonnaise
• French bread

Steps

1. Mix the cheese, grated onion and mayonnaise together. Cut French bread and spread with butter. Spread with sauce and broil until golden brown.
2. I go easy on the onion and heavy on the cheese. Better if eaten at once.

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This is the easy cookie recipe my children started their cooking debut with. It is an easy, almost instant cookie recipe. Even the boys could handle it.

Ingredients for 24 servings

• 2 cups sugar
• .5 cup milk
• .5 cup shortening
• 3 tbsp cocoa
• .5 tsp salt
• 3 cups quick oatmeal
• 1 tsp vanilla
• .5 cup chopped nuts
• 1 cup coconut

Steps

1. Combine sugar, milk, shortening, cocoa and salt in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add the quick oatmeal, vanilla, chopped nuts, and coconut. Drop by spoonfuls on wax paper.
2. Annie Crites makes these but uses margarine instead of shortening and add 1/2 cup peanut butter, as well.

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Ingredients for 36 servings

• 2 (10 oz) packages frozen raspberries, mashed
• 1 cup sugar
• 14.5 cups water
• 6 oz can frozen orange concentrate
• 2 (6 oz) cans of frozen lemonade
• 3 (12 oz) cans of frozen Hawaiian punch
• 3 (2 liter) 7up or gingerale

Steps

1. Freeze all ingredients except the 7up to a slush. When ready to serve, add 7up. Crushed strawberries can be used also.

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Ingredients for 12 servings

• Commercially prepared egg nog
• Softened vanilla icecream
• Sprite

Steps

1. Depending on how many you want to serve, use equal parts of commercially prepared eggnog and softened vanilla ice cream. Stir together and it is best when served immediately.

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Jack and I were visiting his cousin Doris Beall in Basin, Wyoming and she asked us if we would like a cup of tea before we left. We declined, but she, a non-Mormon, sensed our reason for not accepting it and guaranteed this was a non-caffeine type of tea, and served us this recipe. Jack liked it so well, she gave us the recipe. Some of our family didn't like it too well, so I didn't make it often, but Jack loved it.

Ingredients for 12 servings

• 1 quart of cranberry cocktail
• 1 quart water
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup red hot candies
• 9 whole cloves
• 4 oranges, juiced
• 4 lemons, juiced

Steps

1. Add the sugar, red hot candies and cloves to the cranberry cocktail and water and boil for a few minutes. Add juice from the oranges and lemons. This is your tea base. Use 1/3 cup base to 3/4 cup boiling water to make one cup of tea. Refrigerate unused portion of base until ready to use again. Remember to remove the whole cloves before serving.

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This is a well-known and well-liked sandwich in the Dorothy-Jack household. I found it in a magazine before I was married. I made it for my Wold family and it went over like a lead balloon. They even laughed at it, but when I made it for Jack, it became his favorite sandwich, and our children all liked it too. It is a quick and hardy sandwich, and easy to prepare.

Ingredients for 6 servings

• 9 slices of bread
• Large can of baked beans
• 18 slices of bacon
• 9 slices of cheese

Steps

1. Toast one side of bread in the oven. Cover the untoasted side of bread with a generous portion of baked beans which have been heated. Layer two slices of crisply fried bacon slices broken in half over the beans and cover this with a slice of cheese. Broil in the oven until cheese melts. Jack would eat three of these for his serving.

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