Carolyn's Harvest Soup  

2 tbsp olive oil,  1 full size butternut squash,  2 or 3 carrots,  2 leeks,  1 large cooking onion,  2 cloves garlic,

3 Yukon Gold potatoes, chicken stock or water, 1 cup milk or cream,  salt and pepper to taste.

In a large cooking pot combine olive oil, diced leeks (white parts only), diced onion and garlic and sauté until transparent. Peel and dice squash, carrots, potatoes and add to mixture. Add chicken stock to just cover vegetables and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for one hour. Puree mixture in a blender or use a masher. Add salt and pepper to taste, milk or cream and serve hot with garlic bread or rye bread.

    Shirley's Meatloaf

2.5 pounds extra lean ground beef,  2/3 cup milk,  2 eggs beaten,  1/2 cup chopped Spanish onion,  2 tablespoons mustard powder, 1.5 teaspoons salt,

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper,  6 handfuls of flaked oats,  2 heaping tablespoons hot horseradish sauce (optional).

Mix well and shape into loaf in baking dish. Bake for 1.5 hours at 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

    Mary's Apple Cake

3 cups finely diced apples, 1 1/2 tbsp lemon juice,  2 eggs beaten,  3/4 cups oil, 2 cups sugar, 2 1/2 cups flour,

1 tsp salt, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1 cup nuts or raisins, icing sugar.

Mix together oil, eggs, lemon juice and pour over apples.  Set aside.  Mix together sugar, flour, soda, salt, nuts and cinnamon.  Mix in apples and pour into greased bundt or loaf pan.  Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, for 45 minutes.  Cool before removing from pan. Sprinkle icing sugar over top.

    Anton's Lazy Man Cabbage Rolls

2 lbs lean ground hamburger, 2 onions, 3 cloves garlic, olive oil, 14 oz. can of crushed tomatoes, 2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, medium size head of cabbage, 2 cups uncooked rice, sour cream (optional).

Bring 4 cups of water to a boil and add 2 cups of long grain rice and 1 tsp salt. Let simmer until rice is almost done.

In a large cooking pot, shred the cabbage (except the core) and cover with water. Cook for 20 minutes and drain. Add some olive oil to a fry pan and sauté diced onions and garlic. Add hamburger and brown it too. In a large cooking pot, add the cooked rice, browned hamburger, cooked cabbage, 14 oz can of crushed tomatoes, 1 tsp salt, 1 cup of water, 1/2 tsp pepper and stir thoroughly. Place in oven and bake at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for one hour then bake for a further hour at 300 degrees. When serving you may add a dollop of sour cream. Makes about 12 servings.

    Erin's Triple-Chocolate Brownie Cookies

3/4 cup butter, cubed, 4 squares (1 ounce each) unsweetened chocolate, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs,

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, 1/2 tsp salt,  1/2 cup baking cocoa, 2 tsp shortening, 2 tsp baking powder,

2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips, divided.

In a small saucepan over low heat, melt butter and unsweetened chocolate; cool.  Transfer to a large mixing bowl; add sugar and eggs.  Beat until smooth.

Combine the flour, cocoa, baking power and salt; gradually add to chocolate mixture.  Stir in 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips.  Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or until easy to handle.  Drop by heaping tablespoonfuls 3 in. apart into greased baking sheets.  Bake at 350 degrees for 7-9 minutes or until edges are set and tops are slightly cracked.  Cool for 2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool.  In a microwave-safe bowl, heat shortening and remaining chocolate chips on high for 1 minute or until chips are melted; stir until smooth.  Drizzle over cookies.  Let stand for 30 minutes to set.  Yield:  3 dozen.

Sam's New Year Pie

Take 12 fine, full grown months. See that they are free from old memories of bitterness, rancor, hate, and jealousy. Cleanse them completely from clinging spite and pick off specks of pettiness and littleness. Have them just as fresh and clean as when they came from the storehouse of time.

Cut each month into 30 or 31 equal parts. Do not attempt to make the whole batch at once but prepare them one day at a time as follows.  Into each day put:

12 parts faith                                6 of kindness

11 of patience                                5 of prayer

10 of courage                                4 of love

9 of forgiveness                            3 of meditation

8 of hope                                      2 of honesty

7 of work                                      1 of rest

Put in 2 tablespoons of good spirits, dash of fun, sprinkling of play, and a heaping cup of good humour. Mix together with vigor. Cook thoroughly with fervent heart. Garnish with smiles and a sprig of joy. Serve with quietness, unselfishness and cheerfulness. Serves everyone.

The Next Few Recipes are from a small pocket notebook called "Household Hints and Recipes With Compliments of Massey Harris Co. Ltd., Toronto Canada" published in 1899 (yes that is 1899) The notebook contained a picture of a different Massey Harris farm machine with a brief description on each page.

Apple Puffs

Required: 3/4 pound of flour, 6 oz butter, pinch of salt, water, 3 or 4 apples.

Method: Peel, core and mince the apples. Add a little sugar and lemon juice. Rub half the margarine into the flour, add salt and sufficient water to make a paste. Roll it out very thinly. Spread the rest of the butter over it, fold the pastry in three. Roll it out and fold in three, roll it out once more. Cut it into rounds, lay some of the apple mixture in the center of each round. Fold the round over, and damp the paste at the edges to make them stick together. Brush over with the white of an egg and a little sifted sugar. Bake for 20 minutes.

A Sunday Pudding

Required: Two eggs, their weight in butter, flour and sugar.

Method: Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs and lastly the flour which has had half a teaspoon of baking powder mixed in it. Butter a shallow pie dish, spread with a layer of stewed figs, cut finely. Pour the batter mixture over and bake for half an hour.

Beef Rissols

Required: To each pound of meat allow 3/4 pound of bread crumbs, some chopped savoury herbs, pepper, salt, 1/2 teaspoon of minced lemon peel, two eggs.

Method: Mince the meat finely, mix it with the bread crumbs and seasoning. Bind all together with an egg. Form into balls or rolls, dip into egg and bread crumbs, and fry a rich brown colour.