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Recipes from Martha Ruth Leonard
The Lady and Sons Just Desserts
Cool and Creamy Coconut Cake
1 box yellow cake mix (plus ingredients to prepare) 14-oz. can sweetened condensed milk 15-oz. can cream of coconut	8-oz. container frozen whipped topping, thawed 2-1/2 to 3 cups flaked, sweetened coconut
Preheat oven to 350°. Grease a 13x9x2 inch pan. Prepare cake as directed on package. Remove cake from oven and using a fork or skewer, poke holes in entire cake. Mix together condensed milk and cream of coconut and pour over warm cake. Cool cake completely. Frost with whipped topping and sprinkle top with coconut. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. This cake is best prepared a day or two before serving. Cut into squares to serve.
Paula’s Loaded Oatmeal Cookies
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened 1/2 cup vegetable shortening 1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar 2 eggs 1/2 cup buttermilk 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. ground ginger	1 tsp. freshly ground nutmeg 1 tsp. ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp. ground cloves 1/2 tsp. ground allspice 2-1/2 cups quick-cooking oatmeal 1 cup raisins 1-1/2 cups chopped walnuts 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract 1 tsp. baking soda
Preheat oven to 350°. Grease one or more cookie sheets. Using an electric mixer, cream together butter, shortening and sugar in a bowl, until fluffy. Add eggs and beat until mixture is light in color. Add buttermilk. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and allspice; stir into creamed mixture. Fold in oatmeal, raisins, walnuts and vanilla, blending well. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheet. Bake for 12-15 minutes. Makes about five dozen cookies.
Lemon Chess Pie
(This recipe is at least 60 years old. I would like to give it to you much as it was written. Paula)
2 cups sugar good pinch of salt 1 tbsp. water-ground white or yellow cornmeal 1 tbsp. flour	1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, melted 1/4 cup milk grated zest and juice of 2 lemons 4 eggs 1 unbaked 9-inch pie shell
Preheat oven to 350°. Mix sugar, salt, cornmeal and flour in a fair-sized bowl. Mix in melted butter that you have heated a bit and add milk. Add grated zest of lemons and lemon juice to sugar mixture. Toss in eggs, beat like mad for a minute or so and you will be ready to pour this elegant mixture into a pie shell. But wait one minute while you run the unbaked pie shell under the red-hot broiler for 60 seconds. This will do wonders for the crust (put this dandy tip in the back of your hat for future reference, in case you ever make any other kind of pie). Bake for about 40 minutes. You had better peek after a half hour to be sure all is well and the lovely, brown, delicate crust that forms on top is tanning to perfection. The center should be just barely firm, so don’t overbake, please. Serves six.

Pages from the Past

10 Years Ago - June 11, 1998

Strange storm rips through county

Stifling heat turned violent early Friday morning with thunderstorms and high winds wreaking havoc in the city and across the county. The Northeast MS Experiment Station registered 93 mile per hour winds as the storm dumped 2- to 2-1/2 inches of rain.

Celebration honors Charlie Shead on 90th birthday

June 6, a celebration was held for Charlie Shead’s 90th birthday, which was June 3. The celebration was held at the home of his son, Thomas Shead and given by his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Those in attendance were his wife Ora, his 10 children, 26 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.

Honored Memorial Day

Emily Murchison, 98, of Red Banks, was honored Memorial Day weekend by her family. About 60 were in attendance. Someone asked her was she responsible for the crowd; she replied, “I guess I started it.”

25 Years Ago - June 16, 1983

Cornersville News -- Archie Manning visits his grandmother, Mrs. Scott

Thurs., June 9, Mrs. Bill Scott’s grandson, Archie Manning, called her from Oxford to ask her would she cook breakfast for him. He had spent a week in Oxford in a mini-camp, coaching football teams for young boys from all over the state. He lives in New Orleans. He left his grandmother’s house to fly back to New Orleans. He plays with the Houston Oilers in Houston, Tx. Mrs. Scott said that was the shortest two hours of her life.

MA tennis awards

Recipients of Marshall Academy’s 1983 tennis awards are Sarah Liddy, most valuable player; Amanda Bobb, most improved; and Laynie Crawford, most valuable player.

Grady receives service medal

SPF George M. Grady of Chulahoma was the recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal last month in Ft. Polk, La. He is the son of Murray and Mary Grady of Chulahoma.

50 Years Ago - June 12, 1958

First cotton square comes in

It seems only a few weeks since this section was deeply concerned over the inability to harvest a bumper cotton crop. But here we are again growing another. The first cotton square brought in to The South Reporter office was brought June 10 by Jessie B. Jones, colored, who lives seven miles out on the Mt. Pleasant Holly Springs Road. He reports that he has 15 acres this far advanced. Jones owns his own place and is considered a progressive farmer.

Kathy Crawley state winner second time

Kathy Crawley, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Crawley, participated in the State Training Union Bible memory drill at Greenwood June 3. She became a state winner for the second year in succession with a perfect score. Kathy is a member of First Baptist Church. Her pastor, Dr. Earl Kelly, states that she is one of the brightest and most consecrated Christians in his membership.

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