Recipes

Family recipes handed down with love. They appear in no particular order. I am showcasing recipes in the individual's own handwriting.

Assorted recipes:

	Reta Fay McCoy Lohse (or as she was known to her 2 granddaughters, Mama Rete) loved life and enjoyed laughing and "cutting up". Her recipes are generally easy to fix and tasty. Here are a few in her own handwriting.
	Lemon Pie (Chess)
	1/2 cup margarine 1 1/2 cup sugar 4 eggs 2 lemons, juiced	Cream butter & sugar. Add eggs and beat thoroughly. Add lemon juice & pour mixture into unbaked crust. Bake 25 minutes at 350 degrees.

	Reta was reared on a farm near Gonzales, TX where she rode horses. Here she is with a niece, Amy. This recipe for Jello Salad may have come from Mary Davis, but we called it Mama Rete salad and it is a holiday tradition. I always make it with real whipping cream as in the original version.
	Mary Davis Jello Pineapple Salad
	1 pkg lime jello 1 small can crushed pineapple, drained 1 cup grated cheese 1 cup pecans 1 cup whipping cream-beaten	Dissolve jello in one cup boiling water. Stir in pineapple, cheese and pecans. When partially set add juice from pineapple and whipping cream. Chill until firm

	Bessie Hensley McCoy Lohse Sterling Lohse was Reta Fay's younger sister. They married brothers after WWI. Bess divorced Ed and they each remarried. After those marriages ended and both had retired, Bess and Ed remarried. They lived happily until Bess died. She once told me that Ed was the sweetest man in the world besides my dad. Ed had given her a china whatnot of 2 Cupie dolls hugging each other. She kept it after their divorce and after they remarried, displayed it on a shelf beside their front door.
	Pecan Pie Cream 1 Tab. butter or oleo and 1 cup brown sugar Add 1 cup white corn syrup, 2 well-beaten eggs and salt to taste Pour into pie crust and sprinkle with pecans (halves or cut). Bake at 375 until set.
	Katherine Phoebe Smith Lohse. Went to nurses training during WWII with the agreement that she would serve as an army nurse if the war was not over when she graduated. It was and she worked as an RN for the next 40 years.
	Cornbread (good)
	salt 1 cup corn meal 2 Tab flour 1 tsp. sugar 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 egg Milk to make batter desired 2 T melted shortening	Melt the shortening in a cast-iron skillet while the oven preheats to 425. Stir together the dry ingredients. Add liquid ingredients & stir just until blended. Dump into your hot skillet that you've just poured the shortening out of into the batter. Bake about 20 minutes or till golden brown.

	Phoebe Cordelia Jones Smith was born in 1882 & married in 1911. Her husband was a Presbyterian minister who was moved to different churches every few years. They had 3 boys and a girl.
	Chicken Turbet 1 cooked chicken cut in pieces (and deboned). Place in pan with some buttered crumbs on bottom and top. Then a layer of chicken then crumbs until all used. I put some broth in so it won't be too dry. Make gravy from broth and serve in squares.
		Dandelion [Salad]
	Wash thoroughly and cut as you want or leave as is. Drain. Fry crisp some bacon cut in small pieces. When cool, stir in 1 whole egg, a taste of vinegar and enough water that you think is needed and heat. (This cooks egg.) then pour over dish of Dandelion. You will have to judge how much vinegar you like. Dad did not care for much vinegar, so I added a little sugar. Mama never used sugar. I put water in before vinegar. Perhaps you make it like this.
	Raised Doughnuts. Baker's Recipe for about 3 dozen
	2 cakes yeast 1/4 lb. (8 Tab.) sugar 1/4 lb. (8 Tab.) lard salt 1/2 pt. (1 cup) warm water flour 2 or 3 eggs vanilla Cream sugar, lard, add eggs and flour & salt. Dissolve yeast in water & stir in. Add flour until like bread dough. Let raise. roll out & cut. Let raise until light. Fry. These are good. I have made them a lot.

	Walter Harrison Lohse loves outdoor activities. He also enjoys this recipe which is delicious and should be served with warm corn tortillas slathered with butter.
	Calabacita
	1 pound pork chops or steak 1 pound of zucchini squash 4 ears of corn off cob 1 can tomatoes 1 onion green pepper comino (cumin seeds)	Cut pork in small cubes. Fry meat till well done, put in corn and fry until brown. Add squash and onion and pepper. Cook until tender. Add tomatoes and seasonings at end of cooking time.