Recipes from Mom's Green Box

    Beat 3 eggs in large tin bowl add 1/4 cup corn starch gradually, beating, as you add it. Add 1/4 cup milk, beat. Add 2 cans cream style corn, salt & pepper, 4 tablespoon "hunks" of butter. Blend. Bake at 300F to 350F for 1 1/2 hours To increase batch, use 3 cans cream style corn, 1/3 cup cornstarch and 1/3 cup milk

1 cup flour 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup white sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt Blend with pastry blender and pour into a 9/x9 pan. Back t0 minutes at 350F Remove from oven and spread on top: Topping Mixture:   1 1/4 cup brown sugar 2 eggs 1/2 cup chopped walnuts 1/2 cup chopped coconut 2 tablespoons flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt Bake again for 20 minutes.

My mom, Barbara Janet (Maitland) Jacobson, had an old wooden recipe box in which she kept her favorite recipes. Many of the recipes came to her from her mother, Leota Blanche (Otter) Ostlund. Grandma Ostlund was widowed twice - once to Mr. Peterson, later to my grandfather James Maitland. She married Grandpa Ostlund when I was around two. Some of these recipes came to Grandma - and to Mom - from relatives of all these families, as well as friends. Some came from my father LeMonte Jacobson's family. Many of these recipes became family favorites. It doesn't seem fair that I should keep them to myself. This is my way of sharing these with my family and friends. Enjoy!

Divinity Candy 3 cups sugar 1/2 cup light corn syrup 1/2 cup cold water 2 egg whites 1 tsp vanilla Nut meats (optional) Place sugar, syrup, and water in pan - cook until a little tried in water forms a soft ball. Beat egg whites until stiff, gradually add 1/2 of cooked syrup. Continue beating while cooking remaining syrup until it forms a hard ball in cold water. Add to egg mixture. Add vanilla and beat until thick enough to drop from spoon. Add nut meats. Drop on waxed paper. -Bernice K

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