Recipes

   A Wood Family project of creating a cookbook has been suggested at prior reunions.  This would be a good arena to submit recipes.  How about "Grandma's Recipes" as a theme?  We could submit anecdotes with the recipes.  We all have grandmas, they usually cooked and we surely have favorite recipes that remind us of them.  Or maybe you are a grandma and want to pass on a recipe for your grandson.  Or you hope to become a grandma and you want to offer a recipe for your daughter/daughter-in-law.

Brownies
Blueberry Muffins

     Brownies    

My first submission is an old favorite I've used since a teenager.  Over the years I have adapted the recipe to my tastes and to lower cholesterol.  The original recipe appeared in the Clovia Cookbook, and my copy is so worn, it has the appearance of a grandmother's recipe (besides which I am old enough to be a grandmother):

1 stick margarine                        1 tsp vanilla extract                               

3/4 cup cocoa                              2 cup sugar

5-6 egg whites                            1 1/2 cup flour

1/8 tsp salt

     Cream together the margarine, sugar and cocoa.  Add the egg whites and mix.  Mix in the remaining ingredients.  Pour into a greased 9-13 inch cake pan.  Bake at 350 degrees until done.    

Blueberry Muffins

Now one of Grandma's recipes.  I was in college when Grandma Wood moved to the nursing home and she divided her worldly goods amongst family.  When I came home on break, the house was empty except for the marble shelf over the kitchen sink and a couple cookbooks and recipe files.  I had grown up within five minutes of my Grandparents and my Father had farmed with his Father, so we were in Grandma's kitchen regularly.  I felt that I got the best Grandma had to offer, a shelf she used every day and the wealth of recipes she used to do what she spent quite a bit of time doing, cooking.  The recipes were a hodge podge of magazine cutouts and hand written cards, some without directions, only ingredients.  I have adopted the maddening habit of only listing ingredients since I find little need to write down how to mix as my Mother taught me so well the best way to do everything.  I don't know that Grandma ever used this recipe for blueberry muffins, but they have become quite popular with whomever I serve.

Blueberry Muffins (makes two dozen, 2-inch muffins)

2 cups sifted flour
1/4 cup white vinegar
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup sweet milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup fresh blueberries
2 egg whites, beaten

Pre-heat oven to 425 F; line muffin pan with muffin papers.  Sift flour, baking soda, salt and sugar together into mixing bowl.  Combine egg with vinegar, milk and oil.  Pour liquid ingredients into dry ingredients and stir until flour is just dampened.  Add blueberries and stir only enough to distribute through batter.  Fill muffins papers 2/3 full with batter.  Bake at 425 F for 25 minutes or until golden brown.

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