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North Allen Club's tasty recipes shared
Groups's annual tasting party includes a variety of salads, casseroles and desserts
By Kathryn F. Pickard

Members of the North Allen Homemakers and Community Leaders club and guests are, left to right, Rachel Shelton, Janeen Miller, Sheila Rorer, Helen Drinkard, Angie Miller, Virginia Courington, Helen Luff, Judy Tucker, Carolyn Downey, Lorene Padgett and Virginia Hart.
Members of the North Allen Homemakers and Community Leaders recently held their annual tasting party at the home of Helen Luff in Grove Hill.

Each year these ladies prepare a new dish to share at a potluck style lunch with the other club members. They are also generous enough to share the recipes for these delicious concoctions with our readers.

As one can see from the many and varied recipes below, there was a good bit of tasting going on, and of course, a good bit of talking too.

Congealed Apricot Salad

Helen Luff

1 20-ounce can crushed pineapple

1 lg. pkg. apricot gelatin

2 c. buttermilk

1 12 ox. carton whipped topping

lettuce

Bring pineapple to a boil. Add the gelatin, stir thoroughly and cool. Add buttermilk and whipped topping. Pour into a 9x12 inch pan. Refrigerate until set. Serve in lettuce cups.

Easy Chicken Pot Pie

Carolyn Downey

4 lg. pieces of chicken, boiled and deboned

1 can cream of chicken soup

1 c. self-rising flour

1 c. milk

1 stick oleo

1 1/2 c. chicken broth

2 boiled eggs, sliced

a sm. can mixed vegetables

pepper to taste

Grease Pyrex dish. Mix soup and broth and pour into bottom of dish. Layer sliced eggs and chicken and then add vegetables. Mix flour, milk, oleo and pepper and pour over top. Bake at 450 degrees for 35 minutes.

Creamy Rotini Chicken

Sheila Rorer

4 c. rotini pasta

2 cans cream of chicken soup

2 cans chicken broth

2 lg. cans chicken breast-fat free

Place water into large boiler and add a little oil and dash of salt. Let water boil and add pasta and cook for 20 minutes. Drain pasta and return to boiler. Add soup and broth and mix well. Drain chicken and add to pasta mixture. Cook over low to medium heat, stirring often, until well blended and hot. Serve with garlic bread.

Mixed Vegetable Casserole

Judy Tucker

2 pkg. frozen mixed vegetables

1 c. cheese, grated

1/2 c. mayonnaise

1 sm. onion, chopped

1/2 c. celery, chopped

1/4 lb. crackers, crushed

1/4 lb. butter, melted

Cook mixed vegetables as directed on package and drain. Mix with other ingredients. Top with cracker crumbs mixed with butter. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes.

Green Bean Casserole

Lorene Padgett

1 103/4 oz. cream of mushroom soup

1/2 c. milk

1 t. soy sauce

dash salt

2 cans sliced green beans

1 1/3 c. French fried onions

Mix soup, soy sauce, pepper, beans and onions in two quart baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Stir and sprinkle remaining onions and bake five minutes more.

Bean Pie

Judy Tucker

2 unbaked pie shells

2 c. cooked dry beans

1 t. margarine or butter

2 eggs

1 t. cinnamon

1/2 t. salt

nutmeg, if desired

1 c. sugar

1/4 c. nonfat dry milk

1/2 c. raisins

1 c. water

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place beans in a bowl and mash them. Add margarine or butter and stir until it melts. Add eggs and stir. Add cinnamon, salt and nutmeg and stir. Blend surge and nonfat dry milk and then add to bean mixture. Add raisins and water and mix well. Pour mixture into [pie shells and bake for 10 minutes, then turn oven down to 350 degrees and bake for 30-40 minutes, or until firm.

Lemon-Blueberry Cream Pie

Helen Luff

1 graham cracker crust or sue a 9x9 pan

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

14 oz. evaporated milk

1/4 c. powdered sugar

3 oz. pkg. lemon gelatin

1/4 c. boiling water

I can blueberries or blueberry pie filling

1 container of whipped topping

Blend cream cheese, milk and sugar. Dissolve gelatin in boiling water and cool. Add gelatin to cream cheese mixture and pour into pie crust. Spread blueberries on top of mixture and top with whipped topping. Chill about two hours before serving.

Cherry Dump Cake

Janeen Miller

16 oz. can crushed pineapple, undrained

1 can cherry pie filling

1 yellow cake mix

1 cube butter or margarine

1 c. chopped nuts

Put pineapple in bottom of 13x9 pan. or two 8x8 or round pans. Add cherry pie filling evenly to pineapple. Pour dry cake mix over the top. Cut butter or margarine in thin slices and lay evenly over cake mix. Sprinkle chopped nuts on top and bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Coffee Punch

Helen Drinkard

1/2 c. instant coffee

2 c. hot water

1 c. sugar

1 gal. milk

8 oz. whipped topping

1/2 gal. chocolate ice cream,

partially softened

1/2 gal. vanilla ice cream,

partially softened

nutmeg

In saucepan combine coffee and sugar over medium heat, stirring frequently, until well blended. Remove from heat and cool. Pour into punch bowl, stir in milk and add ice cream. Put whipped topping on top and sprinkle with nutmeg (optional).


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