Desserts

Dixie Pecan Pie

3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup pecan halves
2 cups light corn syrup
One 9-inch pie shell

Beat eggs until light. Mix sugar and flour, add to eggs and beat well. Add syrup, vanilla and salt. Sprinkle pecans in pie shell and pour filling on top. Bake in moderate oven (375°F.) for 45 to 50 minutes.

Yield: One 9-inch pie

by Loretta Montgomery

Easy Apple Bake

to 6 Granny Smith apples peeled
1 can biscuits
1 stick butter or margarine
¼ cup cinnamon
¼ cup sugar

Preheat oven to 350º Peel and cut apples into slices, cut biscuits in 2 inch squares or balls (Note: it is important to cut biscuits to prevent them from being gooey ), melt butter or margarine in bowl. Mix cinnamon and sugar in bowl.

Dip biscuits into butter or margarine then into cinnamon & sugar mixture. Using a glass loaf pan place one layer of biscuits then a layer of apple slices, repeat ending with biscuits as top layer. Pour remaining butter or margarine and cinnamon & sugar mixture over top. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until biscuits look done. Enjoy!

by April McDowell

Buttermilk Pound Cake

3 cup flour
2 tsp. lemon extract
3 cups sugar
1 cup buttermilk
½ tsp. salt 6 eggs, separated
1 cup crisco ¼ tsp. soda

Cream sugar and crisco. Add egg yolks, one at a time. Blend after each addition. Add lemon extract. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately to cake batter with milk. Begin and end with the flour mixture. Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold into the mixture. Bake in a floured and greased tube pan at 350° for 1 ½ hours. Be sure top crust is firm. Do not ice.

by Beverly Sparks