casii
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Jun 29, 2014 14:40:44 GMT
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Post by casii on Feb 16, 2021 0:12:01 GMT
You guys may think these are old school, but now I really want to try some of this stuff! I can't think of anything we made that isn't mentioned on this thread. One slight exception is that my mom started making a spread with softened cream cheese and garlic salt. That was it. I think she got the idea from a Woman's Day or Family Circle magazine. Fast forward to me being grown with 3 children and several years of my own cooking experience under my belt and she sends me the family reunion cookbook. In there she'd put her spread recipe but credited me with the recipe. I was never asked to submit recipes or told this cookbook was happening, but you can bet if I were to contribute something, this would not have been it. For years my boy cousins (I only had 1 girl cousin on that side) thought they were being cute about how I must be starving my DH and kids. Losers.
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msladibug
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Jul 10, 2014 2:31:46 GMT
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Post by msladibug on Feb 16, 2021 2:00:49 GMT
Cheese Melt Aways were a must way back when we entertained. Crab meat, Mayo, minced onion and Kraft old English cheese, piled on English muffin quarters then baked. An appetizer you could make ahead and freeze. We called these “Crabbies”.
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Post by honeyb on Feb 16, 2021 2:27:04 GMT
In the 70s my mom used to make an appetizer served on a toothpick. She claims this was a popular thing to bring to a party back in the day. I have my doubts. My mom is, and always has been a terrible cook.
On a toothpick, put a cube of cheddar cheese on the bottom, a sliced of a Vienna sausage in the middle and a black olive on top.
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brandy327
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Jun 26, 2014 16:09:34 GMT
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Post by brandy327 on Feb 16, 2021 3:12:31 GMT
It's not something I grew up having but my bff's Nana made them and she grew up having them. They're called sausage squares. You take Pepperidge farm white Square sandwich bread and cut the crusts off every slice. Then you fry up breakfast sausage and then really mash it up(I use my immersion blender) and add cheddar cheese. Mix it all up. Then brush melted butter on one side of all the slices of bread. Then spread some of the sausage and cheese mixture onto the bread. Bake at 400 for like 5-7 mins or until the bread is browned on the bottom. Once they've cooled a little, cut them into quarters. Omg they're SO good.
We did the ham, cream cheese, & green onion things. I still make those but my girls prefer dill pickles over the onions.
My mom did the oyster crackers with the ranch packet and an entire bottle of Orville Reddenbacher butter flavored oil. But she never baked it. I don't think I could eat it today. So greasy and salty.
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Post by mom on Feb 16, 2021 3:46:16 GMT
My mom used to make the little pizzas out of English muffins. I loved those. In my house we served chopped liver on crackers or crusty bread. That's the norm in my culture. I hate liver, but my mom and grandmother made the best chopped liver. We ate the little pizzas on English muffins and loved them. About the time I was in high school though, mom upped her game with the English muffins. She would slice the English Muffins in half and then put a mixture of Old English Cheese + browned ground sausage on them. Bake at 350 for a few minuets to make them toasted. So good! I still make them for a quick something for my boys to grab as a snack or breakfast.
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Post by beaglemom on Feb 16, 2021 4:11:50 GMT
Cheese Melt Aways were a must way back when we entertained. Crab meat, Mayo, minced onion and Kraft old English cheese, piled on English muffin quarters then baked. An appetizer you could make ahead and freeze. My grandma had a version of this. I found the recipe after she passed away in October. For Christmas I photocopied the recipe and gave my mom and sister a copy with the ingredients as a "silly" Christmas gift or so I thought, it was both of their favorite gifts this year. They were so happy to get it and both ended up making it that day.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Feb 16, 2021 12:21:28 GMT
My mom always made artichoke dip -- she got the recipe for it from a Wegmans flier back in the 60s. It was mayo, chopped can of artichokes, and parmesan cheese mixed together and baked. She served it with chunks of french bread for dipping. I still love it! I still make this occasionally. My husband loves it. The other one started with a store-bought pan of little dinner rolls. You sliced it horizontally through the whole thing, then spread it with mustard, layered it with cheese, ham slices, dry onion, and probably something I'm forgetting. You melted butter, mixed in poppy seeds, poured that over the top of the rolls, and baked the whole thing until it was all hot. When it was done, you cut all the rolls apart. As mentioned, these are forever memorialized here in peadom as 'funeral sandwiches.' And I still make them as well! Best when served at the same party as 'Dead Aunt Cookies' of course.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 16, 2021 15:23:00 GMT
It's not something I grew up having but my bff's Nana made them and she grew up having them. They're called sausage squares. You take Pepperidge farm white Square sandwich bread and cut the crusts off every slice. Then you fry up breakfast sausage and then really mash it up(I use my immersion blender) and add cheddar cheese. Mix it all up. Then brush melted butter on one side of all the slices of bread. Then spread some of the sausage and cheese mixture onto the bread. Bake at 400 for like 5-7 mins or until the bread is browned on the bottom. Once they've cooled a little, cut them into quarters. Omg they're SO good. We did the ham, cream cheese, & green onion things. I still make those but my girls prefer dill pickles over the onions. My mom did the oyster crackers with the ranch packet and an entire bottle of Orville Reddenbacher butter flavored oil. But she never baked it. I don't think I could eat it today. So greasy and salty. We put the ranch dressing mix, garlic powder, dill and butter flavored oil on two one pound bags of pretzels, but I do bake it because of the greasy factor. I think baking it makes it less greasy. I also switched out the garlic salt in the original recipe for plain garlic powder which isn’t salty. I bet I make up a batch of those pretzels every other week.
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Jun 22, 2024 11:00:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2021 15:47:59 GMT
I remember cubes of cheddar cheese and pineapple chunks put onto cocktail sticks and inserted into what I think would have been half a pineapple covered in silver foil.
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AmeliaBloomer
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Jun 26, 2014 5:01:45 GMT
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on Feb 16, 2021 18:15:57 GMT
It's not something I grew up having but my bff's Nana made them and she grew up having them. They're called sausage squares. You take Pepperidge farm white Square sandwich bread and cut the crusts off every slice. Then you fry up breakfast sausage and then really mash it up(I use my immersion blender) and add cheddar cheese. Mix it all up. Then brush melted butter on one side of all the slices of bread. Then spread some of the sausage and cheese mixture onto the bread. Bake at 400 for like 5-7 mins or until the bread is browned on the bottom. Once they've cooled a little, cut them into quarters. Omg they're SO good. I was going to post this one. My mom’s recipe was one roll of Bob Evan’s spicy sausage and one roll of mild mixed with Velveeta cheese, spooned on top of mini rye breads and baked. (My guess is the recipe came off from Bob Evans. LOL.) No butter, but I imagine that would ratchet up the comfort food quotient admirably.
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