Combine 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup butter, 1/4 cup confectioners sugar. Mix well and pat down into a greased 8 x 8 pan or glass baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

While baking, get ready to put on top: 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs beaten well, 2 T. flour, 2 T. lemon juice (optional for best flavor: use fresh lemons), 1/4 t. vanilla.

Pour this over the first layer and bake 25-30 minutes more. When cool, add a glaze of powdered sugar, a little hot water and a pinch of salt. Add chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans) over top of the glaze before the glaze sets. Cut into small bars or squares when glaze is firm--and ENJOY!

NOTE: Double the recipe, using a 9 x 13 pan, for a larger crowd.

Want a bit of spiritual food?
See Lemon Bars--enjoy a devotional based on lemon bars!

Peggie's Easy Italian Pizza!

2 pkgs. frozen bread dough
Toppings of your choice
Italian seasonings

Thaw frozen bread dough. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease two round pizza pans. Form one dough portion into a circular shape and place on one pan. Cover with pizza sauce; add your choice of toppings: mushrooms, pepperoni, browned sausage bits, black olives, green pepper strips, onion. Season with Italian seasoning, oregano, parsley, and a pinch of onion salt. Top with mozarella cheese. Add a touch of parmesan cheese if desired. Prepare a second pan in the same manner. Bake for approximately 25 minutes, or until done.

Serve with tossed salad, lots of love, laughs--
and don't forget the Italian dinner music!!

Mini-Cheesecakes

2 8 oz. pkgs. cream cheese

3/4 cup sugar

2 eggs

l T. lemon juice

l t. vanilla or almond extract

vanilla wafers

1 can cherry pie filling

paper cupcake liners

Cream first five ingredients together; beat until smooth. Put a vanilla wafer in each paper cup and fill half full with cream cheese mixture. Bake 20-25 minutes at 375 degrees. Watch carefully!

Cool; then top with cherry pie filling. Makes 24-30 mini-cheesecakes.
Delicious--and especially colorful at holiday time.

Cherry Cheesecake

Note: This is the dessert that has made Peggie famous...grin...!

This recipe is dedicated to three special friends - Shad, Shach, and Go.
Hope they enjoy Peggie's cyber-dessert, and will someday be blessed with the REAL thing!

Preheat oven to 300 degrees.

Ingredients:

CRUST
l pkg. Duncan Hines cherry cake mix (reserve 1 cup of dry cake mix)
2 T. oil

1 egg

FILLING
2 pkgs. 8 oz. Phila. cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 cup of cake mix reserved above

TOPPING
2 env. Dream Whip (whip as directed on pkg.)
2 can Wilderness Brand Cherry Pie filling

In a large bowl combine ingredients for crust. Mix well, and press on bottom of 9 x 13 pan (spray with PAM first!); set aside. In same bowl, mix all the ingredients for filling and beat until smooth. Pour over crust and bake at 300 degrees for about 90 minutes--until center is done. When cool, spread with Dream Whip and Cherry Pie Filling.

Variation: All ingredients the same except substitute orange or chocolate cake mix. Top with Dream Whip; sprinkle with nuts.

Peggie's Cranberry Jello Salad!

1 small box Cherry Jello - 1 cup boiling water
1 16 oz.can whole cranberry sauce
1/2 cut sour cream
1 11-oz. can mandarin oranges
1/2 cup walnut pieces

Mix jello and boiling water until dissolved. Add cranberry sauce and sour cream and beat mixture. Drain oranges (discard liquid) and fold oranges and nuts into jello mixture. Pour into a 5-cup jello ring mold. Refrigerate overnight. Unmold in warm water for a few seconds.

Peggie's Banana Nut Bread!

1 stick melted butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
4 medium bananas, mashed2 cups self-rising flour
1 cup pecans

Mix together and pour into a greased/floured bundt pan (or two loaf pans).
Bake 350 degrees for 50 min - 1 hour. Sprinkle with confectionery sugar.

Peggie's Jello Cheesecake Dessert!

Make a graham cracker crust with crackers and one stick of melted butter. (Use 13 x 9 well-greased pan.) Bake at 350 for 8 minutes. Let cool.

Mix 1 cup hot water and 1 3 oz box of jello (any flavor); let it sit just a minute.

Beat until fluffy: 8 oz. softened cream cheese; 3/4 cup sugar, 1 tsp. vanilla.

Whip1 can milnot milk (chilled) until it stands up.

Add all ingredients together and pour over graham cracker crust. Chill overnight.

Suggestion: Decorate with nuts, strawberries, bananas, etc - depending on the Jello flavor you are using.

Here's a wonderful pumpkin bread - I tasted it and am passing on the recipe to the world!
Enjoy! And thanks, Janet, by way of Linda!

Janet's Pumpkin Bread

(makes 5 little loaves or 2 big loaves)

5 cups flour
4 cups sugar
3 cups pumpkin (canned or fresh)
1 cup oil
2 tsp powdered cloves
2 tsp cinnamon
4 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup nuts (any, except peanuts)
1 cup pitted dates

Sift together the dry ingredients. Blend the other ingredients, except the nuts and dates. Now, add the nuts and dates. Pour into greased and floured loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees till done. NOTE: bread is done when the top cracks open and the consistency of the bread in the middle is not gooey. Also, to cool the bread in the pan, put the pan on its side for no longer than 10 minutes.)

"Peggie's Elephant Stew"

(Not really...a trickster friend sent me this fun recipe--it's made the rounds for years. I do not know the author (if you do, please let me know so I may give proper credit), but wanted to share it with you. Enjoy!
(AND...how DO you eat an elephant, Bob? ONE BITE at a time!)

1 elephant (medium sized)
Salt and pepper
2 rabbits (optional)

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Cut elephant into small bite-sized pieces. This should take about two months. Add enough brown gravy to cover. Cook over kerosene fire for about four weeks at 465 degrees. This will serve thirty-eight hundred people.

If more are expected, two rabbits may be added,
but do this only if necessary,
as most people do not like to find hare in it!

Thanks for visiting Peggie's kitchen--
we love to eat at our house, and hope your tummy is full!

Now go run around the block, and come back tomorrow for some more goodies!
You may not remain a "size six," but Silly--who cares!!
FOOD is FUN!

Now don't leave without some food for your soul!

Food from the Master's Table!
includes recipes from Barbara's Table too!

With thanks to Gilberto Barreto
for the beautiful music playing at Peggie's Place.
His original composition is entitled, "Bless the Lord O My Soul."

Now, slip out of here, quiet as a mouse, and no one will EVER know!

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