Cream Cheese Frosting

1 3 ounce package cream cheese
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup margarine Cream softened cream cheese, margarine, and vanilla. Add powdered sugar, beat until smooth.

Pickled Beets

1 cup sugar
1 cup water from beets
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup vinegar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice Cook beets in pressure cooker at 5 pounds pressure for 1 hour. Cool, skin, and cut in quarters. Put beets in bottle. Mix above ingredients, boil, pour over the beets in the bottles. Seal, and cold pack quarts for a 5 minutes. Just bring pints to a boil.

Pumpkin Roll

3/4 cup flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
3 eggs
2/3 cup pumpkin
1 cup walnuts
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ginger
1 sprinkle salt
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon lemon juice
powdered sugar Sift together dry ingredients and set aside. Beat egg yolks 5 minutes or until thick. Beat egg whites until stiff, set aside. Gradually beat 1 cup of sugar in egg yolks, stir in pumpkin and lemon juice. Fold in dry ingredients and egg whites. Spread on greased and floured jelly roll pan. Sprinkle with nuts. Bake at 375 degree for 15 minutes. Loosen edges and turn out onto a dish towel sprinkled with powdered sugar. Roll towel and cake together, cool. Unroll towel, fill pumpkin roll with filling.

Filling: 1 cup powdered sugar, 4 tablespoons margarine, 3 ounces cream cheese, and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.

Roll up pumpkin roll, wrap in foil, chill.

A Quilter''s Eggs and Fried Rice

Pan Fry Pre Cooked Rice
Olive Oil
Egg
Colorful Fruits (black berries, orances, walnuts) Your favorite things an fry pre cooked rice with a little olive oil. After the rice is hot, make a hole in the center of the rice for the egg. Add the egg. Squish the yoke. Season however you would like. I add a little pepper, but I do not add salt. I don't like to add salt.Flip the egg and break the egg up into pieces. Mix the egg with the rice. Serve hot with colorful fruits and nuts.

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Tuna Noodle Casserole

2 Cans well drained tuna
2 Cups cooked narrow noodles
(I like to use 2” lengths spaghetti)
3 Hard cook eggs chopped
1 Cup diced onion
1 Cup diced celery
2-3 Tablespoons sour cream
2 Cans Cream of Mushroom soup
Grated Parmesan Cheese
Crushed potato chips or bread crumbs
Preheat Oven to 350º

Make a sauce of the soup and sour cream. Combine sauce with noodles, eggs, and diced vegetables.

Top parmesan cheese and crushed chips. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until it browns and is bubbly.

You kids grew up on this. It was a real budget extender, especially because tuna was 17 cents a can.

Notes: Spices that go good with tuna are thyme crushed or dried rosemary. Try them.

For a variation use cheddar cheese soup for the sauce.

Perfect Pumpkin Pie

1 15oz can pumpkin
1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs
1 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 Teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1 Ready made graham cracker crust ..or
1 9 inch pie crust
Preheat oven to 425º
Beat all ingredients and pour into crust. For either type of crust bake 15 minutes Reduce heat to 350º and bake 35 to 40 minutes or until set. Cool.
Note: protect edges of pie with strip of tin foil

Potato Soup

8 cups
4 cups water
2 tbsp dry oninon
3 chicken bouillon
1/2 cupbutter
1 can cream of mushroom or chicken
1 cup cream
1 cup milk
pepper to taste Pill and dice pottatoes

Perfect Pumpkin Pie

1 15oz can pumpkin
1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk
2 eggs
1 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 Teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 Teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1 Ready made graham cracker crust ..or
1 9 inch pie crust
Preheat oven to 425º
Beat all ingredients and pour into crust.
For either type of crust bake 15 minutes Reduce heat to 350º and bake 35 to 40 minutes or until set. Cool.

Note: protect edges of pie with strip of tin foil