Friendship tea

1 c. instant tea
2 c. sugar
2 c. Tang
2 30 oz packages Wylers lemonade mix
1 t. cinnamon
1 t. gd [editor: ground?] cloves
1/4-1/2 t. nutmeg

use 2-21/2 t. to cup hot water

96 T. mix

Note: 4T = 1/4 c. mix

Hmmmm.  Friendship tea looks an awful lot like an Arnold Palmer with a splash of orange juice and with cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg added, doesn't it?

Bread Pudding

3 cups milk
2 cups bread crumbs
5 eggs separated
1/2 cup + sugar
1/4 t. soda
?  butter (on same line as 1/4 t. soda)
1 T vanilla
1/2 cup raisins

Pour hot milk over butter and bread crumbs.  Combine eggs, sugar, soda, & vanilla.  Add to milk and fold in beaten egg whites.

Editor:   Realized mixing this that directions weren't explicit.  This is what I did:  Greased a 13 x 9 x 2 pan and filled it with the bread crumbs.
I heated 3 cups of milk along with 1 stick of butter and poured that over the bread crumbs and let it sit for 10 minutes.
I mixed the egg yolks, sugar, soda, vanilla, raisins (and added 1/2 cup of slivered almonds and 4 T. Kahlua [NOT in Mom's recipe!], folded in the egg whites, folded all into the bread crumbs and baked at 350 degreees for 25 to 35 minutes, until set.

Cream of wheat pudding

1 qt milk
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs (beat whites)
3/4 cup cream of Wheat
vanilla

Add cream of wheat slowly when milk is hot.

editors note:  Cream of wheat pudding is on the back of the bread pudding recipe.  I wonder if these directions apply to both:  "Combine eggs, sugar, soda, & vanilla.  Add to milk and fold in beaten egg whites."

Tea Time Tassies

Crust
2 sticks oleo
2 (3 oz.) cream cheese
2 c. flour
1 T. lemonpeel

Filling
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1 1/2 c. brown sugar
1 T. melted butter
1 t vanilla
pinch salt
1 c grd pecans

Blend crust, chill 1 hr.  Divide dough into small balls & press into tassie pans.  (Editor:  from a google search, it looks like a muffin tin, especially for small muffins, would work as a tassie pan.)
Add filling ingredients which have been mixed in (name/same?) order.

Bake 350 degrees for 15 minutes then 250 degrees for 10 minutes.

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Puff Balls (New Year's Cookies)

Mom made these by the dozens for her church for the Taste of Newton.

This recipe is from a newpaper and was submitted by Mrs. Gus H. (Marie) Entz, Route 3, Newton, [Kansas].

yield about 100

3 cups warm water
3 packages of yeast
1/2 cup melted butter
3 beaten eggs
1 1/2 cup suggar
1 cup evaporated milk
1 1/2 cup raisins
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 teaspons salt
1/4 teaspon nutmeg
8 cups flour

Dissolve yeast in water until bubbly.  Add all ingredients except flour to yeat mixture.  Add half of flour and beat until smooth. Gradually add the remaining flour.   Let rise until doubled.  Oil hands and pinch off small balls the size of walnuts.  Let rise.  Deep fat fry at 325 degrees.  Roll balls in sugar.

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Waffles and White Sauce

Waffles served with white sauce and local suasage was a family tradition at get-togethers.  It could be a breakfast or evening meal.

Waffles
This is the recipe from Mom's recipe box but once she discovered Krusteaz she used Krusteaz.
2 cups flour
1 cup sweet milk
1 cup thick sour cream
2 eggs, whites to snow (editor:  I have no idea what "white to snow" means.  A reader suggested: since they're waffles, the "whites to snow" simply means to beat to stiff peaks....but in a beautiful phrase:)
1 t. baking powder
3 t. sugar
1/2 t. salt

White sauce
White sauce is also called Vanilla Sauce and is included in the Melting Pot of Mennonite Cookery twice.  I have a theory that Vanilla Sauce/White Sauce was created because real syrup wasn't readily available.  Mom's son-in-law from upstate New York eschewed White Sauce in favor of real syrup.  I thought White Sauce was what made this meal worth eating.
1 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
2 T. cornstarch
2 T. butter
1 T. vanilla or lemon

Boil sugar, constarch and water and boil 5 minutes.  Remove from fire, add 1/2 stick butter and vanilla or lemon flavoring.

Note: I realize the discrepancy between 2 T. butter in the listed ingredients and 1/2 stick butter in the directions.  Use your taste buds!

Note:  this White Sauce recipe is enough for the Waffle recipe above.  I know:  I doubled the White Sauce and had twice as much as needed.

Local Sausage
The latest preferred sausage was from Dale's in Hillsboro.  Yoder sausage (available at the Bread Basket in Newton) was also in contention.  It's worth traveling to Kansas with an ice chest for this sausage.
The sausage is usually cooked in a skillet or crock pot.  It comes in big spirals and can be cut into serving size pieces either before or after cooking.

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