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Recipes from a family cookbook

AUNT RUTH’S SALAD

4 oz. cream cheese

1 pkg. lime Jell-O

1 small (6-oz.) can crushed pineapple, drained reserving juice

Dissolve Jell-O in 1-c. hot water.

Mix cream cheese in hot gelatin mixture.

Add pineapple juice.

Add pineapple.

Pecans

WINE JELLY

2 envelopes gelatin

1 c. cold water

1 c. boiling water

1 c. sugar

1 lemon

1 c. wine

Soak gelatin in cold water. Dissolve sugar and soaked gelatin in boiling water. Add wine and lemon juice. Strain into dish.

CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

Cut boiled sweet potatoes in thin slices. Put in dish layers of potatoes each layer being covered with sugar and bits of butter. Add 1 c. milk and bake.

SWEET POTATO MERINGUE

4 potatoes, medium size, run through ricer

Piece of butter size of an egg

1 pt. milk

½ tsp. vanilla

Little nutmeg

3 eggs (yolks)

Pinch of salt

After potatoes are brown, cover with meringue made of whites of 2 eggs.

3 Tbs. pulverized sugar

Brown slowly.

BOILED CUS...

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