Grandma Joyce Southern Food

GRANDMA'S FAVORITE CHICKEN AND RICE

Steps:

• Place chicken in a covered baking dish that has been sprayed with Pam.
• In a bowl, mix other ingredients well and spoon over chicken.
• Sprinkle with paprika and cover pan with lid.
• Bake at 350 degrees for one hour and 15 minutes.
• Remove cover and serve.
• Enjoy!

GRANDMA JOYCE'S SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together margarine and sugar.
• Beat in eggs one at a time.
• Combine oil, salt, and vanilla.
• Combine flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar.
• Alternate add the oil mixture and dry ingredient mixture to batter. Don't worry if you have a lot of extra dry ingredients at the end; continue to add a little at a time so you don't flour your whole kitchen.
• Roll into balls.
• Flatten; add sprinkles if you want.
• Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 to13 minutes.

GRANDMA JOYCE'S FAMOUS WAFFLES

Steps:

• Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
• In a separate bowl, mix together eggs and milk, then stir in melted shortening (you may substitute oil or butter but the resultant texture won't be quite as good!).
• Pour into dry ingredients and mix well.
• *Batter needs to be somewhat thin. Add more water if necessary.
• Waffle iron has to be good and hot before pouring in the batter. Waffles are done when steam stops (if the waffle iron is hot enough, you should be able to hear the waffles steam. You may also see steam around the edges of it. Be careful!).
• Grandma's Famous Syrup!: In a saucepan, bring to a boil the following ingredients: 2 cups white sugar, 2/3 cup water, pinch of salt, 1 Tbs. white corn syrup. Simmer about 5 minutes, then add 1 Tbs. Maple flavoring.

JOYCE'S UNBEATABLE BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Grease and flour one regular loaf pan or two small loaf pans.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Combine flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, and shortening. Cut shortening in as for pie crust (I use a pastry blender.).
• In a separate bowl, beat eggs and sliced bananas until mixed well.
• Add banana mixture to shortening mixture and mix well.
• Place batter in prepared pan(s).
• Bake approximately 30 minutes.
• Tip: I usually use the toothpick test, but the toothpick should not come out completely clean. This is a very moist recipe, so look for the toothpick or knife to be mostly clean. When the bread is done, it will be a dark brown and should have a slight crack down the middle.

GRANDMA JOYCE'S BOILED RAISIN CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Boil the sugar, raisins, and water for about a minute until the raisins begin to plump. Set aside to cool.
• When cool, drain raisins, reserving raisin water. Add oil, spices, and vanilla to raisin water. Mix baking soda with flour and add slowly to the raisin water mixture. Fold in raisins.
• Pour into 9 x 13 cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes, until tester comes out clean.
• Frosting: beat together cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar. This makes probably more frosting than than most people like on a 9 x 13 cake, but I say pile it on.