FOR YOUR DINING PLEASURE

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1 cup flour
1 1/2 cups pecan halves
2 eggs
1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1 teas vanilla
1/2 teas salt
1 teas baking powder
additional flour (see directions)
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375. 
In food processor or 
with a pastry cutter,
combine first 3 ingredients til crumbly.
Pat this crust into a buttered 9 x 13 pan.
Bake for 10 min. Cool.

When crust is cool, 
spread pecans evenly over surface. 
Beat eggs with brown sugar til thick. 
Add vanilla.
Put salt and baking powder 
in bottom of 1/4 cup measuere.
Fill rest of cup with flour. 
Stir into egg mixture. 
Pour over crust. 
Sprinkle chocolate chips evenly over mixture.
Bake @ 375 for 20 min. 
or until center is baked.  
Cool and cut into 32 pieces. 
This recipe given to me by my brother-in-law.

1 1/2 cup rolled oats
1 1/2 cup flour
1 teas soda
1 teas salt
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup shortening
Nut-Date filling (below)
Mix dry ingredients.  Add shortening
and rub together with fork and then
with fingers to make a crumb mix.
Press half of crumbs 
in a 9 x 13 oblong cake pan (greased), 
spread date fillong on and then
sprinkle with rest of the crumbs.
Bake 25 to 30 mins in 375 degree oven.
Date-nut filling:
3 cups dates
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup water
1/2 cup chopped nuts (almonds, walnuts, or pecans)
Cook for 5 to 10 minutes until soft and thick.
Recipe sent by a Canadian friend.

Perfect for the chocolate lover!

1 cup soft margarine or butter
3 1/2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
3 Tab unsweetened cocoa
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teas baking powder
1 tsp salt
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 teas vanilla
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350.
Melt butter/marg with unsweetened chocolate,
can use microwave.  Set aside to cool.  Sift 
together cocoa, flour, baking powder and salt.
Beat eggs until creamy; then gradually add
sugar, beating constantly.  Add vanilla and
cooled chocolate-butter mixture.
Stir in dry ingredients just until combined.
Spread batter in buttered 13x9 pan.
Sprinkle chocolate chips over surface.
Bake 30-35 minutes or until it no longer
jiggles when shaken.  Cool and cut into squares.

OLD-FASHIONED PEANUT BUTTER 
AND CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

1 1/2 cups flour
1 teas baking soda
1 cup butter or marg, softened
1/2 cup creamy or chunky peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 teas vanilla
1 egg
2 cups chocolate chips

Combine flour and baking soda in small bowl.  
Beat butter/marg, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla
in large mixer bowl until creamy.  Beat in egg.
Gradually beat in flour mixture.  Stir in morsels.

Drop dough by rounded Tab.
onto ungreased baking sheets.
Press down slightly with bottom of glass
dipped in sugar.
Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 8-10 minutes
or until edges are set and centers are soft.
Cool on baking sheets for 4 minutes and remove
to wire racks to cool.  Makes about 4 dozen.

THE BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

2 cups oil
2 cups sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
4 tsp vanilla
4 cups flour
2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 lge chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Beat oil, eggs, sugars, & vanilla til creamy. 
Add dry ingredients.
Add the chocolate chips and nuts.
Bake @ 375 for 8-10 min. 
Makes 9-10 doz. cookies.
A favorite cookie from Jer's Mother.>

MICROWAVE WACKY CAKE

This is a real quick desert; good for hot summer days!
1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
3 tbls cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tbls white vinegar
1 cup cold water

Mix flour, sugar, cocoa,
baking soda and salt in an ungreased
8" round microwavable pan.
Mix well and make 3 depressions
in the flour mixture.
Pour vanilla in one hole,
oil in the 2nd hole, and
vinegar in the 3rd hole.
Pour the cold water over all.
Mix with fork to moisten all ingredients.
The batter will be thin.

Place on TURNTABLE in microwave 
and zap on high for 7-8 min. 
Increase time in 30 second increments 
until no wet spots
remain on surface of cake.
Allow to cool and frost as desired.
Serves 6-8.

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you would like to add, please e/mail me and I will post it.  
Feel free to copy any recipe for your personal use only.  Thanks.

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• Life is unpredictable. Eat dessert first.
• Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you will get.
• A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
• I have other fish to fry.
• Know which side of your bread the butter's on.
• Recipe for a gossip's gourmet delight: just spill the beans. (An orginal from my brother-in-law, Don.)
• Girls are sugar and spice and everything nice.
• This is a fine kettle of fish. (One of my Grandma's favorite sayings.)
• You can catch more flies with sugar, rather than vinegar!