Frankfurter Casserole

2 tablespoons of butter or margarine
1 small onion, diced
6-8 franks, diced
1 can tomato soup
1 can kidney beans (with juice / not drained)
1 1/3 cup rice (cooked)
1 cup shredded cheese

Melt butter in skillet and sauté onion. Add franks and fry to golden brown. Mix in tomato soup, beans and cooked rice. Salt and pepper to taste. Cover and simmer for 5-10 minutes. Sprinkle shredded cheese on top and let melt.

This recipe is from the sixties, quick cooking rice might not need to be precooked. Similar beans such as black beans and bean-eyed peas could be substituted or added.

A vegan version is as easy as switching vegetable oil for the butter, adding an extra can of beans instead of the hot dogs and leaving off the cheese.

Submitted by Ruthe Morse

1 ½ cups light corn syrup                        3 slightly beaten eggs

½ cup sugar                                                  1 teaspoon vanilla

¼ cup margarine                                        dash salt

1 cup pecan halves                                    9” pie shell

In saucepan combine corn syrup, sugar, and margarine; bring to boiling.  Boil gently, uncovered, 5 minutes; stir occasionally.  Cool slightly.

Place pecans in pie shell.

Combine eggs, vanilla, and salt; pour cooled syrup mixture into eggs and beat well.  Pour over nuts (pecans will rise to top).  Bake in 375˚ oven for 30 to 35 minutes or till knife inserted near center comes out clean.

4 eggs                                                             2 2/3 cups milk

2/3 cup sugar                                                1 teaspoon vanilla

½ teaspoon salt                                          9” pie shell

¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

Heat oven to 450˚.  Prepare pastry.  Beat eggs slightly with hand beater; beat in remaining ingredients.  Pour into pastry-lined pie plate.  Bake 20 minutes.

Reduce oven temperature to 350˚.  Bake until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes longer.  Serve warm or refrigerate. Refrigerate any remaining pie immediately.