Potato Patties

Instructions:

-Rinse, peel, and grate potatoes

-Mix potatoes with chopped ham, and eggs

-Form into patties*

-Grill in butter

For amounts, use these ratios:

1 potato for every 2 people

1 cup chopped ham for every 2 potatoes

1 egg for every 2 potatoes

*Also, you can spread the mixture out thinly on the griddle, and grill like hash browns. (See picture below.)

~Carilyn

Cooking Tips

Here are some handy hints that may be useful to you when you cook.

• If you are measuring out a dry ingredient, using a tablespoon or teaspoon, put each scoop in a different place in the bowl. That way, if you get distracted and lose count of how many you already did, a glance into the bowl will tell you how many you've already measured out.
• Use a mug for melting butter in the microwave. Then you have a nice cool handle to hold onto, plus it’s the perfect size for melting up to about 1 stick of butter!
• Twist a twisty tie through the hole in the measuring cup and bend over the side of the bowl when setting the cup in the batter so that the measuring cup handle will not fall into the batter.

~Carilyn

Bread

Bread
(I have put instructions for stirring it by hand or using a mixer.)

2 TBS yeast
3 TBS sugar
2 3/4 c. warm water
---stir, let sit 10 min.

Add: 3 c. flour
4 TBS melted butter
2 tsp. salt
---If you're using a mixer: mix 2 minutes on low level
If you're stirring by hand: stir 200 times
---Slowly add flour up to five more cups, [switch to dough hook (if using a mixer) when it gets thick].

---Once thick: Mixer: Knead with dough hook 5 min.
By hand: knead for 10 minutes
---Let rise 1 hour (covered)

---Punch down dough. Grease two 1.5 quart loaf pans, seperate the dough into 2 equal chunks, and place one chunk of dough into each pan. Cover; let rise 30 min. (*Note: now is a good time to turn on the oven to let it have enough time to preheat.)

---Bake @ 350 degrees F. for 30 minutes

~Carilyn

Spaghetti Sauce

This is probably the only spaghetti sauce I have ever made from scratch, and it is very good. Also, you do not have to let it simmer for hours. :)

Spaghetti Sauce

2 lbs. hamburger
2 (16 oz.) cans tomato sauce
1 TBS olive oil
3 TBS brown sugar
2 TBS dried minced onions
½ tsp. dried oregano
¼ tsp. garlic powder

Cook the hamburger first, then add the rest of the ingredients.
~Carilyn