Girl Talk!

[Kitchen Witch]

alsgal - you're quite welcomed! Doesn't it seem that life was much less complicated then??

[DebC]

WOW! Thanks for the memories. Life WAS less complicated back then, and even though we were quite poor (by today's standards) they were the best of times.

I also saved some of my Home-Ec recipes! I haven't made them in years. But these were my favorites.

Debbie in Indiana

Popovers

1 C. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 C. milk
2 eggs

Heat oven to 425F. Mix all ingredients, but do not over-beat. Pour muffin tins to 3/4ths full. Bake 40-45 mnutes or until golden brown. Serve immediately with jam or honey.

Apple Crisp

Place 5-6 pared and sliced apples in a baking dish, and sprinkle with cinnamon.

Mix together until crumbly:
1 3/4 C. flour
1 C. sugar
3/4 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 unbeaten eggs

Mix some of the mixture with the apples and top with remaining. Pour on 1/3 C. melted and cooled butter on top, and bake at 350F. for 30-40 minutes,

French Chocolate

2 1/2 oz unsweetened chocolate (break into peices)
1/2 C. water
2/3 C. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 C. whipped cream
hot milk

Heat chocolate & water over low heat & stir until chocolate melts. Add sugar & salt, bring to boil, reduce heat & simmer 4 minutes. Cool mixture to room temperature. Fold in 1/2 C. whipped cream. Refrigerate until chilled.

To serve: place 1 heaping tablespoon in each cup & fill with hot milk stir well.
Makes 8-10 servings

[Kitchen Witch]

Thanks Deb!

I must have gone to a poor public school - LOL!

The first thing we made was Waldorf Salad. Boy was that a shocker for this Italian!

Then we made a one-layer yellow cake using powdered eggs!

We made the classic baking powder biscuits.

We made one pint of grape jelly. But we got to taste the pint that was made by the class the previous year!

Our teacher pushed terms, how-to-do's, charts with cuts of meats, measurement, ingredients right down our throats!!!! Four girls to a station - 16 in all and one would measure, one would stir, one would roll, one did dishes.....rotate every week.

We made peanut butter cookies too - again - powdered eggs. The recipe was cut down so much that we had to split one cookie to two girls. My teacher had this thing about powdered eggs! She said that someday we would get bombed by (country) and we would have to use them the rest of our lives.

One day we made a meatloaf - mostly oatmeal - I remember that. And powdered eggs. Funny - never saw powdered eggs before or after those classes!!!

When we made macaroni salad we all wondered how she was going to hard-boil the powdered eggs. But she pulled 2 eggs out of her purse from home. Good grief!

Every recipe she gave us we had to "halve" in class - no waste - and barely a taste too!

When I went home with a one-layer cake recipe - you should have heard my family!!!! What memories..........

[Scorp2]

Hi Kitchen Witch, it has been awhile since I visited this thread, but I made the 5 cup salad about 2 weeks ago for a family get together and it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kitchen Witch]

Hi Scorp! Nice to see you again! Glad you enjoyed the salad - and glad you're back!!