Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Grandma McMullin's Banana Bread

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup margarine
2 Eggs
2-3 large ripe bananas (mashed)
1 cup Evaporated Milk
1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp Vanilla
1 tsp salt or less
Nuts(opt.)

Mix together in bowl, will be a little lumpy.

Grease 2 bread pans, split between the two.
Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour.

Blueberry or Strawberry Torte


This is a favorite at 911 dispatch:
Ingredients:
1 8oz Cream Cheese
2/3 cup butter
1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk
1 large can Fruit Pie Filling (Blueberry, Raspberry, Cherry, or Danish Dessert and fresh strawberries)
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup Sugar
1/3 cup Lemon Juice
2 1/2 cups Graham Cracker Crumbs (approx. 30 crackers)

First:
melt 2/3 cup butter
Stir in
2 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup sugar.

Pat tightly into 9x13 pan. (Don't press too hard-or it makes the crust hard to cut)
Bake at 375 degrees for 6-8 minutes
Cool crust.

Mix together until smooth:
8 oz cream cheese(softened)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup lemon juice

Spread over cooled crust.
Spread large can of fruit filling on top.(I wanted Strawberry and they don't make it in a can, so I used Danish Dessert and fresh strawberries. Mix Danish Dessert as to package for pie.

Chill for 4 hours or over night.

Enjoy.