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May's Featured Recipe:
Maude Meeker's Mac and Cheese
From Gail Honeywell, Shickshinny, PA
- 1 stick butter or margarine
- ½ cup flour
- 4 cups milk
- 1 bar Cracker Barrel Cheddar Cheese
- 1 lb pasta i.e. elbows, small shells, wagon wheels, or any that size,
Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain and rinse with cold water. Set aside. Cut up cheese into thin slices. In a medium saucepan, melt butter. Add flour gradually, stirring constantly. Quickly add milk, still stirring constantly. Add cheese a little at a time, always stirring. Put drained pasta into 1 ½ qt oven safe baking casserole dish. Pour cheese mixture over and stir until well mixed. Bake in 375 degree oven for 1 hour.
**Note** PA residents, add 1 large can stewed tomatoes, drained and cut into small pieces! Beauchamp family and descendents, add 1 large can tomatoes, drained and cut into small pieces.
These are some of Mim's favorite recipes. Mim has a lot of cookbooks, and she gets a lot of recipes online, but she rarely follows them to the letter. If a dish goes over well, Mim has to write the recipe down while we're still eating so she doesn't forget what ingredients she used!
This cookbook contains the recipes that have become staples in Mim's kitchen over the years. Food "purists" criticize some of the changes that Mim makes to her recipes, but anyone that has tasted Mim's cooking knows that it just tastes good.
Mim also has a granddaughter with severe food allergies, so she adapts a lot of her recipes. Click here for recipes with no dairy, egg, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, or wheat.
Mim bought a laptop a few years ago so that she could get recipes online and type her own recipes. This website is a growing collection of favorites. The recipes are printer-friendly (no need to click a separate link!), so Mim can give copies to her friends who don't care to access them online, and in a large-view version, so that Mim can open the recipe on the laptop on the counter and still see the print from the stove.
Enjoy!