Sweet Potatoes

Ingredients

3 large sweet potatoes
1 cup sugar
1/2 stick butter

Boil sweet potatoes for an hour, or until completely soft. Cool, then gently pull peel off.

In a large bowl, combine potatoes with sugar and butter with mixer until creamy. (I use water from boiling as needed to cream - more nutrients! Milk may also be used, as needed)

You can bake in glass mixing bowl, or spread into a glass pan. Apply topping.

Topping ingredients

1 cup brown sugar
1/2 c. White Lily flour
1/2 stick butter
1 c. pecans (optional)

Place in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes, or until topping is golden brown and bubbly. Let cool approximately 10 to 15 minutes before serving. YUMMY - it's more like dessert than a vegetable. :)

Homemade Ice Cream

Ingredients

1 gallon whole milk
12 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
4 c. sugar (I use less than this recipe, but being two years since I've made it, I don't recall how much less)
Vanilla flavoring to taste

Place in electric freezer - cover with ice and rock salt. This is creamy and cold - simple and sweet! I grew up on this recipe - Candace

Delores, Alabama

Sugar Cookies

Ingredients

1/2 c. shortening (haven't tried substituting oil or butter, not sure if they'd work?)
1 c. sugar
1 egg
2 Tbls. milk
1 tsp. baking powder
2 c. plain flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. soda

Combine ingredients, mixing well. Place in a 350 degree oven for 8 to 10 minutes.

Puppy Chow

Ingredients

3/4 c. peanut butter (Smart Balance or Smuckers - these don't have hydrogenated oils)
1 stick butter
1 - 12 oz. package butterscotch morsels
2 c. powdered sugar
1 - 12 oz. box Rice Chex cereal

Mix peanut butter, butter, and morsels together in large pot over medium heat. Stir in cereal.

In a paper bag (I use a LARGE Tupperware bowl with lid), alternate cereal mix with powdered sugar. Shake well, coating all the cereal.

This is a Christmas time favorite in our family. Special thanks to my aunt for sharing her recipe with me! - Candace

Dale, Alabama

Puppy Chow

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

2 1/4 - 2 1/2 c. fresh ground whole wheat flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/2 c. butter
2 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 c. chocolate chips
3/4 c. cane sugar
3/4 c. brown sugar or sucanat

Combine flour, soda, and salt in medium bowl.

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine wet and dry ingredients - then stir in chocolate chips. Place tsp. amount on baking sheet 2" apart.

Bake at 375 for 8 to 12 minutes.

(These seem to be lacking a little something over the recipe on the Hershey's bag, but I'm thinking it's because they use 2 sticks of butter vs. this recipe using 1. They still don't last long around here though!)

Candace

Side note - Use more flour in this recipe over store bought flour due to the oils in fresh ground wheat. For each 1 c. store flour, use 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 fresh.