Family Recipes

Here are a few of my favorite family recipes.  The first, Grandma Goodson's Meatloaf, is a hit every time I make it!


Grandma Goodson's Meatloaf


1 1/2 lbs ground beef
1/2 lb sausage
1 cup uncooked oats
1 cup tomato juice
1 small onion, chopped
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tsp salt
1 clove garlic, minced
4 eggs


Mix all ingredients well and form into a loaf in a 9"x13" pan.  Bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees, than pour cream of mushroom soup mixed with 1/3 can milk over and bake for 45 minutes.  Serve with potatoes and the mushroom gravy.


I am named after my grandma, and as such, I made up my own meatloaf recipe!!


Turkey Noodle Meatloaf


1 1/2 lbs ground turkey
1 can of Campbell's Double Noodle soup
1 clove minced garlic
1/4 cup bread crumbs
salt and pepper to taste


Form into a loaf and bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes.  **Bake the first 15 minutes, then pull out and cover with 1 can of cream of mushroom soup mixed with 1/2 cup milk.  Finish baking for 15 minutes more.  Let sit in oven for 10 more minutes with oven turned off.  Serve with rice pilaf.




The next recipe is a sweet, yummy treat my mom would make.


Apple Hill Cake


Combine:
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup oil
1 egg


Add:
2 cups diced green apples


Sift together:
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda


Add to apple mixture and mix well.  Spread in a 8" or 9" square pan.  Bake for one hour at 350 degrees.
(This can be doubled and put into a 9"x13" pan)




Each Christmas my mom would make this next cake as our Birthday cake for Baby Jesus.  The recipe came from my Aunt Ann, my mothers sister.


Sunrise Cake


2 cups self rising flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
6 whole eggs
1 tsp almond extract


Sift flour and sugar, set aside.  In a large bowl, beat oil and eggs with a mixer.  Add sugar and flour, then the extract.  Beat for 10 minutes on medium speed.  Bake in a greased tube pan for 1 hour at 325 degrees.  Cool for half an hour before removing.  Drizzle with a powdered sugar icing.  Place a small nativity ornament on top and sing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus.