Archive for the ‘Grandmother’s Recipes’ Category
Grandmother’s Hoosier Peanut Bars
1/2 cup butter
1/c cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla
1 6oz package chocolate chips
3/4 cup peanuts chopped
2 cups flour
1 tsp soda
1/2 tsp salt
cream butter and 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 brown sugar
add egg yolks and vanilla and mix well
mix dry ingredients and stir into butter mixture
press into a 9×13 pan
sprinkle chocolate chips over top
sprinkle 1/2 cup peanuts
beat 2 egg whites until firm
add 1 cup brown sugar, beat until stiff
spread over top
sprinkle with rest of peanuts
bake at 325 35 – 40 minutes
Grandma’s Lemon Meringue Pie
Grandma’s Lemon Pie
2 cups milk
2 eggs, separated
1 cup sugar
3 Tbsp cornstarch
pinch salt
juice from 1 lemon
Mix milk, sugar, salt and egg yolks and simmer over very low heat until warm
Add in cornstarch and milk and cook until thick
Remove from heat, add lemon
Beat eqq whites until stiff
Pour lemon mix into pie shell
Top with meringue (egg whites)
Bake at 350 until set and meringue just beginning to brown
This was a hand written recipe I found in a recipe box of my Grandmother’s.
Lemon meringue pie has been popular in the US since the 1800s especially in the southern part of the country. It is believed to have originated in Philly in the shops of Elizabeth Coane Goodfellow.
