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Recipes from Martha Ruth Leonard
Sunny Side Up
The Junior League of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (1980)

Charlie Bread

1 cup self-rising cornmeal
3 eggs, beaten
8-3/4-oz. can cream-style corn

1/2 cup Crisco oil
1 cup sour cream

Mix all ingredients together. Pour into iron skillet. Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until brown. (4-6 servings)

Creamed Dried Beef

1/4 cup chopped onion
1 cup milk
5-oz. jar dried beef, coarsely shredded
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

1 tbsp. butter
8-oz. cream cheese, cubed
3-oz. can sliced mushrooms chopped
2 tbsps. chopped parsley
dash of horseradish

Sauté onion in butter. Blend in milk and cream cheese; stir until melted and mixed. Add remaining ingredients; cook until heated thoroughly. Thin with additional milk or cream cheese, if necessary. Serve over toast triangles. (Note: This recipe also may be served in a chafing dish as a dip.)

Freeze-ahead crab appetizers

6 tbsps. butter, softened
1-1/2 tsp. mayonnaise
1/2 tsp. garlic salt
6-8 English muffins, split

5-oz. jar Olde English
Cheese Spread
6-1/2-oz. can crabmeat
paprika

Mix first five ingredients; spread on muffin halves. Freeze on baking sheet. Cut into 6-8 wedges each; store in plastic bags in freezer. To serve, broil until lightly browned and bubbly. Add paprika for garnish.

Hanky Panky

1 lb. ground beef
1 lb. Velveeta cheese
1 tsp. oregano
2 loaves Pepperidge Farm party rye bread

1 lb. rolled pork sausage
1 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 to 1 tsp. red pepper flakes

Brown ground beef and sausage; drain and return to skillet. Cut cheese into cubes, melt with meat. Add spices, blend and cool. Spread a teaspoonful mixture on each rye round. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes. (Serves 30). Note: these do not freeze well.

Sen. Bill Minor has been appointed chairman of the powerful finance committee. As chairman, he automatically serves on the budget committee. The senator, who represents Marshall and Benton counties, co-chairs the rules committee and serves on several other committees.

Angela Glover of Holly Springs was one of 10 students who scored 100 percent on the national certification exam for health information management.

Oneida C. Kidd, longtime member of First Presbyterian Church of Holly Springs, was presented a resolution in her honor Sun., Jan. 16. She is moving to Brookhaven to be near her family.

Public school classes in the city and county school districts will not be held Thurs., as 235 of the county’s 309 teachers will be in Jackson lobbying for a pay raise. The teachers will be traveling in the Rust College bus, chartered buses, vans and private cars.

Melanie Wells and the Memphis Uptown Band will perform with The Platters at the Vapor Club in Memphis Jan. 20. They will also perform sets prior to and after The Platters’ performance. Melanie is the daughter of Kay Wells of Holly Springs and Hozy Wells of Nesbit.

The Holly Springs Shrinettes are pleased to announce that Lois Saxon was the winner of the beautiful 1.10 carat diamond necklace, valued at over $3,000.

In their last appearance as a marching group, the Ole Miss Rebel band took part in the inaugural parade for Gov.-elect Ross Barnett on Jan. 19 in Jackson. The world-traveled Rebels then put down their batons and became a concert band for the second semester.

Tues., Jan. 8, the snow not only caused a traffic jam on all the highways, it hit the telephone office in a big way. The girls handled 12,425 local calls and 923 long distance calls; which made a record for the Holly Springs office. By 3:30 p.m. all the circuits to Oxford, Tupelo and New Albany were out. The girls only had one line to Memphis to communicate with our neighbors. By 5 p.m. linemen from Oxford, Tupelo and New Albany were here to help restore service.


Thursday, January 21, 2010
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