Italian Chocolate Spice Cookies

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups Crisco, melted
1 cup raisins
4 cups plus 1 tsp. flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 T. baking soda 1 T. ground cinnamon
1 T. ground cloves
3/4 cup cocoa
1 1/4 cups milk
1 cup nuts, chopped (optional)

Directions:

Melt Crisco and cool. Soak raisins in water 10 minutes. Drain well, dry in paper towel, and add 1 teaspoon flour and toss to coat. Set aside.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine flour, sugar, soda, spices, raisins and optional nuts. Add Crisco and milk to dry ingredients. Roll into balls. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet about 10 minutes. Do NOT over bake!

Frost while warm with white icing. Decorate with festive sprinkles.

Thanks to Pamela K. Kinney!

Cherry Delight

Ingredients:

1 8 oz. Philly Cream Cheese
1 8 oz. Cool Whip
1/3 cup sugar
1 26 oz. can of your favorite cherry pie filling
1 Shortbread Keebler Pre-made Crust

Directions:
Mix cream cheese & sugar with mixer until smooth and then fold in whipped cream. Pour this into pre-made crust & top with cherry pie filling. Enjoy!

Servings: 8

Thanks to Sandy Patsy!

Valentine Parfaits

Serves 6-8

Ingredients:

16 oz Crushed frozen Strawberries in juice
1/2 gallon Vanilla Ice Cream, softened
Whipped Cream

Directions:

Thaw the strawberries and the ice cream until they're easily managed with a spoon. In parfait glasses or other nice-looking dish, place a layer of ice cream in the bottom of the glass, maybe just a couple of spoonfuls. On top of the ice cream add a strawberry layer. Add another
layer of ice cream and strawberries on top again.

Put the parfait glasses in the freezer until about 30-40 minutes before serving. Make sure they're thawed enough to prevent someone from breaking a glass with their spoon. Just before serving, top off the parfaits with whipped cream. You can use Dream Whip or make your own.

To make your own whipped topping, simply use two small containers of whipping cream, drop in about a tablespoon of sugar and beat until the cream forms stiff peaks. Then just dollop on top of the dessert.
Delicious!

Thanks to Monica Burns!

Fried Mushrooms

Place the deep frying pan containing lard (see how old it is?) on the gas. (see how old it is? although I do have a gas stove)
Take half a pound of middle-sized mushrooms . Cut off the sandy base of the
stem. Wash the very carefully and dry them with a cloth.
Dip the mushrooms in batter composed of a beaten egg, three spoonfuls of
flour and enough beer to make a cream which is fluid but thick enough to coat the mushrooms.
Dip the musrooms in this paste, and throw the one by one into the smoking fat. Fry for five to six minutes. Lift them out. Drain. Salt (to taste).

Thanks to Patricia A. Guthrie!

Cheese Dogs

Ingredients:

1 can refrigerated Wiener wraps(or Crescent rolls
8 wieners
cheese slices
Condiments

Directions:

Take the wraps and pull them apart; make a slit in each weiner from top to bottom lengthwise.
Take a wrap and place wiener on; fold a half slice of cheese lengthwise and put in slit and wrap the wiener.
Place on cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for app. 12-14 min. or until golden brown. Serve with mustard or relish. Enjoy.

Thanks to Robyn L!

Okonomiyaki aka Japanese Pizza

Note from Charity: The post this link was from can be found here. As I am unsure of the rules to posting the recipe instead of the link, I've opted to be safe and post the link. Just click the name of the recipe below and you'll be taken to it!

Okonomiyaki aka Japanese Pizza

Thanks to D. Renee Bagby!

Fruit Tart

Ingredients:

One refrigerated pie crust.
1 can fruit of choice (works great with sliced pears and peaches.)
Brown Sugar
Butter

Directions:

Spread the pie crust on a cookie sheet.
Fold up all the edges like a tart.
Spread fresh or canned fruit of choice on the dough
Sprinkle with brown sugar
Dot with butter.
Bake at 375 until dough is golden brown.

Serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream.

Thanks to Carol Shenold!