Bread Pudding, Wacky Cake, Hot Milk Sponge Cake, Chocolate Chip Squares, Coconut Lemon Bars, Blueberry Pie

Bread Pudding         Jim (DoDad) Steelman - (my grandfather)
DoDad made this for my mother and her three siblings as a special treat - usually using up stale bread and rolls. (nothing wasted!) I now make it once a week for my 93 year old mother and she says it tastes like home.
4 eggs
1/2 c sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
milk
4 slices of bread
2-3 TB butter
Whisk first 4 ingredients together and add enough milk to make 4 cups total. Generously butter 4 slices of bread and break into pieces and put in bottom of a 2 quart casserole. Pour egg mixture over bread and sprinkle with cinnamon. Place casserole in a pan of water deep enough to cover half way up the sides of the casserole dish. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Wacky Cake         Madeline Goldstine (Donna Pio's mother)
1 1/2 c flour
1 c sugar
3 TB cocoa
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp vinegar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
5 TB oil
1 c cold water
Put dry ingredients into ungreased 9x9 baking pan. Make three holes. In first hole put oil or melted shortening. In 2nd put vinegar and in 3rd put vanilla. Pour cold water over all and mix well. Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes. Double the recipe for a 13x9 or 2 9" cake pans. Good with chocolate frosting recipe from the cocoa box and add a big gob of peanut butter.

Hot Milk Sponge    Deni Finch-Frederick
Hot milk sponge was a "fancy" cake and a highly desired one, at least in our family's group. I remember that certain people had the "touch" for it and other's couldn't make it turn out for the life of them. Not sure why. It was never called Hot Milk Sponge Cake - only Hot Milk Sponge. 

4 eggs
2 c sugar
2 tsp baking powder
2 c flour
Pinch salt
1 c scalded milk
Butter size of walnut
1 tsp vanilla
Beat eggs very lightly. Add sugar just to mix. Add next three ingredients. Stir until mixed. Add scalded milk in which the butter has been melted and the vanilla has been added. Beat until foamy. Pour into turk's head pan that has been lightly greased. Bake at 350 about 55 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

Hot Milk Sponge
*This recipe came with no mention of cake pan size. With only 2 cups of flour, it can't be that big. Maybe 9x9 or 9x13. Hope someone tries it and lets me know.
4 eggs
2 c sugar
2 c flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
1 c warm or hot milk - not boiling
1 TB butter
Beat eggs well. Add sugar a little at a time, then flour a little at a time, then butter melted in milk a little at a time and then the baking powder. Bake at 350 for 1/2 hour.

Chocolate Chip Squares  Frances Buzby (Marilyn Merritt's mother)
2 c (24) packed fine graham cracker crumbs
1 6oz bag semi sweet chocolate morsels
1/2 c chopped nuts
1 can condensed milk
Grease 8x8 or 9x9 pan. Line with waxed paper or foil and grease again. Blend dry ingredients. Stir in milk, Turn into pan. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes. Remove from pan - peel paper and cool on wire rack. Cover with 10x sugar and cut into squares.

Coconut Lemon Bars           Marilyn Salmon
2 c flour 
1/2 c margarine
1/4 c brown sugar
3 eggs
2 c brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 c coconut
1/2 c raisins
1/2 c chopped walnuts
2 tsp lemon juice
Mix first three ingredients together. Press into 13x9 pan and bake for 10 minutes at 350. Mix egg, sugar and salt together and then stir in the rest. Spread over the bottom crust and return to the oven for 25 minutes.

Blueberry Pie          Vickie - neighbor on 12th Street in the 1970s.
This is the best Blueberry Pie I've ever had!

4 c blueberries
2/3 c sugar
1/2 tsp salt
4 TB flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 c heavy cream
Wash and drain blueberries. Mix sugar, flour, salt and cinnamon. Add berries and toss. Put mixture into unbaked pie crust. Pour heavy cream over berries. Bake at 400 for 35-45 minutes.