Put everything in crock pot except flavoring. Cook one hour on low. Stir and cook another hour. I increased the temperature a little for the last hour. Add flavoring and stir well. Drop on waxed paper by spoonfuls and let cool to store. I left crock pot plugged in until I finished dropping candy, so it would not harden before I finished. This is so easy and makes bushels.

-- Susan Williams Chapman

Monroeville

Monroe County, Alabama

Cherry Coffeecake

1 egg
Milk
1 stick margarine
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 - 21 oz. cans cherry pie filling

TOPPING
1 cup plain flour
1 cup sugar
1 stick margarine
1 cup chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place egg in measuring cup and add enough milk to make one cup. Mix dry ingredients with margarine (don't use electric mixer), then mix all with milk mixture. Pour into 9-by-13 glass pan (by using glass you don't have to grease the pan). On top of batter, pour cherry pie filling, spread it to over the first layer. For topping, mix flour, sugar and margarine until crumbly. Add nuts. Spread crumbs over top of cherries and bake 40 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve warm or cold.

Susan Delenne
Hayden, Alabama
Blount County
This won first place at the Blount County Fair in 2002. Best served warm. My husband, Fred, and I love it.

Veg-all Casserole

2 cans of Veg-all( drained)
1 onion( you may use less if you don't like the onion taste)
1/2 cup of mayo( you may use a little more)
just be sure it has plenty of moisture
1 cup or so of shredded cheese( I use cheddar)
Some people use extra celery or green pepper, etc. but I don't
Topping:
1 stack of Ritz crackers crushed
1/2 to 1 stick of butter(melted)
Mix the two and put on casserole. Bake for 20-30 minutes
on 350 until it bubbles.

Beth Elliott
Auburn, Alabama
Dec. 7, 2006

Holiday crackers

1/3 cup Canola Oil
1 pack dry ranch dressing mix
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Mix together and drizzle over crackers. I use four packs of crackers and lay them out in a container like dominoes. I flip the container every six hours.

I serve with chicken salad or pimento cheese.

Jennifer McCullars Johnson
Auburn, Ala.
Dec. 4, 2006

Frozen Salad

2 cups whipping cream

1/4 cup mayonnaise

2 tablespoons lemon juice

8 ounces cream cheese

Large jar of cherries

Large can of sliced pineapple

1 cup pecans

3 bananas chopped

Sweeten to taste

Whip cream and set aside. Mix cream cheese, mayo, lemon juice, and sugar. Drain fruit and cut pineapple slices. Mix fruit and nuts in cream cheese mixture and add to whipped cream. Taste and add sugar as needed. Wish I could tell you how much, but do this by taste. I pour this into two square Tupperware containers and freeze. It will keep for months. Have found that pineapple chunks or tidbits do not work as well as using sliced pineapple and cutting it.

-- Eugenia Ellis Brown

Brownville community

Conecuh County, Ala.

Maxine's Trash

1 pound box Cheesits

1 pound package oyster crackers

1 box herb croutons

1 double package dry Ranch dressing

1 heaping tablespoon dill weed

1 tablespoon lemon pepper

1 tablespoon garlic salt

Dump all crackers in large mixing bowl, pour enough oil over them so that dry seasonings will stick.

Mix real well.

Bake 225 degrees to 250 degrees in oven, stirring often.

I add stick pretzels and lots and lots of nuts (no cereal). Store in tight container.

-- Maxine Darby Steindorff

Greenville

Butler County, Ala.

Chocolate Pecan Clusters

3 Tablespoons melted margarine or butter
3 cups chopped pecans
1 package chocolate melts (light or dark), purchased from Wal-Mart’s cake decorating section or Almond Bark purchased from any grocery store.

Melt margarine or butter in a large jelly roll pan (cookie sheet with sides) in a 300-degree oven. Add chopped pecans and stir well. Roast at 300 degrees for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes. Melt chocolate (microwave for 30 seconds on high, stir; 30 seconds, stir, and continue until chocolate is melted) and add pecans. Stir to coat well. Drop by teaspoon onto waxed paper and refrigerate until firm.

Pat Wingfield
Auburn, Ala.

Easy Blueberry Cobbler

2 cups flour--plain all purpose
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup shortening, softened
3/4 to 1 cup of milk
1 egg
2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
Topping:
1/3 to 1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 tsp cinnamon

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Add shortening, milk, and egg, stir well. Fold blueberries into batter. Pour batter into a greased 2 quart casserole dish. Topping: Mix together sugar, butter, and cinnamon; sprinkle over batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

Gail Lien
Auburn, Ala.

Eulene Cargill’s Lemon Sprite Pound Cake

From Atmore magazine
and
Atmore News

Grace Publishing
April 2005
Atmore, Alabama

Memories take different forms.
For the residents and staff of The Meadows,
the memory of Mrs. Eulene Cargill is sweet in many ways.
One is her Lemon Sprite Pound Cake which the residents enjoy often.

Eulene Cargill’s Lemon Sprite Pound Cake
2 sticks butter
1/2 cup Crisco
2 and 1/2 cups sugar
1 Tablespoon lemon flavoring
3 cups sifted plain flour
5 eggs
3/4 cup Sprite

Cream butter, Crisco and sugar until fluffy; add eggs, one at a time. Combine well. Add flour. Beat in lemon flavoring and Sprite. Pour mixture into well greased 10-inch tube pan; bake 1 hour and 10 minutes at 325 degrees. Let cake stand in pan for 15 minutes. Loosen sides with a knife and invert pan onto cake rack.

Sherry Digmon
Myrna Monroe
Atmore, Ala.

Texas Caviar

2 packages cream cheese

2 cans Rotel (drain)

1 can chopped black olives

1 small jar pimento (do not drain)

1 package dry Ranch dressing mix

Chopped onion, (green or white)

You can put as much onion as you like. Mix all together in a bowl.

I got this recipe from my cousin. Everybody says this is delicious! I serve it with taco chips. Was served at 30th birthday celebration of Keeley Streetman, The Auburn Plainsman, on Dec. 4, 2002.

--Brandy Fowler, Auburn University student

Winfield, Ala.

Marion County

Apple Dip

2- 8 oz. cream cheese

1 1/2 cup light brown sugar

1/4 cup sugar

2 tsp. vanilla

1 package Heath O' Brickle

(found by the chocolate chips)

Directions: Soften cream cheese. Mix light brown sugar, sugar and vanilla

together, mix well, then add the Heath O' Brickle. Soak sliced apples in

pineapple juice to keep from turning. (The number of apples to be used

depends upon the number of people you plan to serve).

Recipe from: Barbara Fowler, Brandy' s mom

I told my mom about your Christmas Web site! She thought it was

wonderful. She gave me a recipe to give to you in hopes that you may want to

include it on your page also. She took it to a Christmas party at church--it

is WONDERFUL!!!

He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.