Homemade Dinner Rolls - by Momma Katie (Aunt Priss)

Momma Katie memories: I will never forget the smell of these rolls rising and baking in Aunt Priss's oven. After starting a warm fire in the fireplace, cooking breakfast (homemade biscuits, sausage, eggs and milk gravy), she would start the rolls so that they would be ready for dinner. She would even put 2 balls of dough side by side to make rolls that split down the middle for easy butter application.

Ingredients:

1 package dry yeast
1/2 tsp. sugar

Put into 1 cup of warm water and let stand for about 15 minutes.

Then add:

1 cup scalded milk
3 TBS. lard (haven't tried oil in it's place yet)
2 TBS. sugar
2 tsp. salt
5 cups flour

Let rise. (can't remember if you let it rise in bowl and make into rolls and rise again or just make into rolls and let rise) I do remember it is an all day process and needs to be in a warm area to rise.

Bake at 450 degrees. Makes about 4 dozen.

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Pumpkin Cake -- by Momma Katie (Aunt Priss)

Good time of the year to try this out. It was good, but pumpkin wasn't my favorite.

Ingredients:

4 eggs
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 cups unseasoned pumpkins
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
2 tsp. soda
1 cup wesson oil (canola or olive oil would probably be good)

Beat eggs, add sugar and oil. Sift dry ingredients and add to egg mixture. Add pumpkin. Blend well. Pour into greased and floured tube pan (any pan would do, I think she cooked it in coffee cans) Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Remove from oven and let stand for 10 minutes before removing from pan.

1 cup nuts and 1 cup raisins can be added.

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Banana Bread - by Steph

Mom made several things that were wonderful. But another of her recipes that stood out as the best of its kind is Banana Bread. The moist cake like insides hidden under the sweet and slightly crispy top is so Delicious.

Momma Katie added: Claim to fame for this recipe actually goes to Aunt Priss. It was one of my favorite recipes and a great way to use bananas that young girls determined were no longer edible. Priss shared many yummy comforting recipes with me such as her delicious apple cake and her (bet you can't eat just one) caramel popcorn.

4 cups flour
3 cups sugar
1 cup oil
1/2 buttermilk (or a few drops of vinegar in with reg. milk)
1/2t soda
4eggs beaten
1tsp vanilla
1cup pecans(some say are optional but not to me)
3 or 4 lg bananas chopped

Mix wet ingredients
And dry ingredients separately then mix together. Stir in Bananas and pour into greased pans.

Stephs modifications
1/2 white 1/2 wheat flour
1/2 applesauce 1/2 oil
1/2 sugar 1/2 honey
and triple the soda.

I usually double or triple for our family. I make 1/2 of the loaves with no nuts. Then when the bowl is 1/2 empty I pour in nuts to my liking. Otherwise I find little already been tasted (and then spit out) pecans in corners of the house or table.
Admittedly it is not the original. But it allows us to eat more of it, with a little less guilt.

Stace added:
Thanks for posting this Steph. We made this recipe last night (nearly all gone now). We cooked the bread at 350 for about 1 hour. The recipe made two regular loaves. We just kept checking until the toothpick came out clean. Here are some pictures: