Recipes of the Month: Hampton Cook Book, compiled by the Hampton Parent-Teacher Association, 1949

1949: a simpler time, and recipes were no exception. These epitomize the acronym KISS, with recipes straight from the heart and served, undoubtedly, with love.

 Pear Salad

Roll canned pears in mayonnaise, then in chopped nuts. Serve on lettuce.

Virginia Valentine

American Chop Suey

Brown 1 small onion, chopped fine, in small amount of oil. Add 1 lb. hamburg, cook until done. Add 1 can tomato soup. Add one package of spaghetti, which has been boiled for 10 minutes.

Mrs. Evelyn E. Syphers

Hot Times Casserole

I can niblet corn

1 green pepper (sliced)

2 med. onions (sliced)

1 large can tomatoes (some juice removed)

1 lb. wieners

Shake on salt and pepper

Place in a casserole in the order they come in previous list. Bake in 350 degree oven for an hour. Serves four.

Sara McGillivray

Golden Corn Cheese Bake

In the bottom of a greased baking dish lay halved slices of white bread. Place slices of medium strong or strong cheese on the bread. cover with cooked or canned whole-grain corn. On the corn, place more halved slices of bread and cover the bread again with thinly sliced cheese. Dot the cheese with butter or margarine. Pour milk over the mixture. Bake 1 hour in 325 degree oven.

Mrs. Malcolm D. Burdick

Clear Vegetable Soup

1 bunch carrots

1 bunch celery

1 large onion

1 can tomatoes

½ cup uncooked rice

4 beef bouillon cubes

Cook carrots, celery, onion and rice in boiling salted water until tender. Add tomatoes and beef bullion cubes and heat until cubes dissolve

Marian MacMillan

Dutch Beets

Cook and slice beets thin, then add some vinegar and sugar, salt and a tablespoon chopped onion, very fine. Let simmer for a few minutes.

Elsiena B. Webster

Meal Pudding

Put 2 cups of milk in double boiler. When hot add 2 rounding tbsp. of meal mixed with ¼ cup of milk which is saved from the 2 cups. Let cook about ten minutes or until done. Add one beaten egg, 2 tbsp. of sugar and shake of salt.

Mattie Huling

Baked Cranberry Sauce

2 cups cranberries. Place in shallow pan. Pour over them a syrup made from 1 ½ cups sugar, dissolved in ½ cup water. Place in slow oven and bake until berries are tender.

Alice Mathews

Four Egg Sponge Cake

4 eggs, separated

1 cup sugar

Put one teaspoon flavoring and pinch of salt into yolks and beat together with half the sugar. Beat other half cup sugar into the whites, until rather stiff. Fold the beaten whites into the yolks, then folk in 1 cup sifted flour. Bake slowly. No baking powder is needed.

Mrs. Edna Colburn

Chocolate Nut Bars

1 can condensed milk

18 graham crackers, crushed

1 package of chocolate bits

Mix all together and spread in a thickly buttered square pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Cut into bars while warm and roll in granulated sugar.

Albina Fitzgerald

This last one I can vouch for – a cross between a brownie and fudge — you’ll never believe there are no nuts in it. Enjoy!