One of the original Cookbooks from 1995

This Cookbook is Dedicated to the Memory of my Grandmothers

by Deborah Dyar
- December 1995 (original publish date)

Helpful Hints

Mom hardly ever adds salt to a recipe. She either leaves it out or reduces the amount, except in a few recipes where it mixes with baking soda/powder to make dough rise.

When using canned tomatoes, always rinse can in a small amount of water and add to recipe.

When boiling chicken, save the leftover broth. It freezes well and can be used in many recipes. If you don’t have real chicken broth available for a recipe, use canned broth or bullion cubes (1 cube to a cup of boiling water).

Mom makes her recipes based on what is in the kitchen, if an ingredient is missing, she either substitutes another or leaves it out. (This only works for the variables (vegetables, fruits…) in a recipe, not the core ingredients like flour, baking soda/powder…).

Use lemon pepper instead of black pepper in a recipe. It adds more flavor.

Use only a heavy Teflon skillet. If you don’t have one, you will need to add more butter or liquid to your recipe.

Mom’s best piece of advice is: “Learn the basics, then experiment!”

Cuts of Meat

Oven Roast: use a rump roast or watermelon cut. Roast at 325 degrees for % hour per pound.
Use leftovers in soup.
Pot Roast: Chuck or any flat cut. Use left overs in Hash.
Ham cuts: Butt cut is the best, a more center cut meat.

Shank cut has more bone.
Top Sirloin steak: Mom’s choice to use to marinate and barbecue.

3 teaspoons = 1 Tablespoon

16 Tablespoons = 1 cup

3 Tablespoons cocoa + 1 Tablespoon oil = 1 square baking chocolate

Odds and Ends

Apple Sauce
Baked Beans
Basic Smoothie
Bbq Marinade For Beef
Cheese Souffle 1 Serving
Cheese Toast
Chile Casserole
Cranberry Apricot Chutney
Energy Bars
English Muffin Pizzas
Fried Bananas
Fruited Stuffing Balls
Granola
Lemonade
Linhs Dip
Onion Roasted Potatoes
Pinwheel Sandwhiches
Roasted Vegetables
Russian Tea
Spinach Tart
Streusel Coffee Cake
Stuffing
White Sauce
Zucchini Casserole

Soups and Salads

Ambrosia
Carrot Salad
Corn Chowder
Cranberry Jello Salad
Egg Salad
Grandma Dyars Cranberry Salad
Hawaiian Jello
Holiday Tossed Salad
Lemon Fruit Mold
Potato Soup
Spinach Salad
Spinach Souffle Salad (mrs ulmer)
Tuna Salad
Turkey Soup
Waldorf Salad

Main Courses / Vegetables

Arnold Palmers Casserole
Beer Can Chicken
Burgundy Stew
Carbonara
Cheese Souffle
Chicken And Dumplings
Chicken Cheese Rolls
Chicken Chili
Chicken Or Turkey Pot Pie
Chile Casserole
Chili
Chipped Beef
Cranberry Pork Chops
Creamed Hamburger
Creamed Tuna
Dads Bbq Chicken
Dads Tacos
Flautas De Pollo Chicken Burritos
Ham And Beans
Ham And Potato Casserole
Ham
Hash
Lasagna
Meatloaf
Oven Fried Chicken
Overnight Tuna Casserole
Pollo Picante
Pork Chops
Pot Roast
Quiche (crustless)
Salmon Loaf
Spaghetti Sauce
Spam And Yams
Spanish Rice
Swiss Steak
Taco Salad
Tuna And Noodles
Tuna Souffle
Vegetable Beef Soup

Desserts

Apple Kuchen
Apple Twists
Bacardi Rum Cake
Banana Cake
Berry Crisp
Bread Pudding
Brownie Pudding Cake
Buttery Lemon Squares
Cake Mix Cookies
Carrot Cake
Chewy Noels
Chocolate Pudding Pie
Chocolate Pudding
Crackletops
Crock Pot Hot Fudge Sundae Cake
Crunchy Snack Bars With Oatmeal
Date Walnut Bars
Fantasy Fudge
Fresh Strawberry Pie
Ginger Cookies
Ginger Streusel Cake
Grandmas Basic Cookie Mix
Grandmas Brownies
Grandmas Noel Nut Balls
Grandmas Sugar Cookie Cutouts
Grasshopper Pie
Hot Fudge Sauce
Jello And Cool Whip Dessert
Jello And Fruit Dessert
Jello And Yogurt Dessert
Jello Poke Cake
Kocoa Koffee Bars
Lazy Day Dump Cake
Lemon Curd
Lemon Meringue Pie
Magic Cookie Bars
Marbled Fudge Brownies
Melting Moments
Mud Pie
Neiman Marcus Bars
Noel Nut Balls
Peach Crisp
Pecan Crescents
Pecan Delights
Pecan Pie
Pineapple Up Side Down Cake
Pumpkin Bread
Pumpkin Pie
Rocky Road Cake
Stout Brownies
Strawberry Shortcake
Terrys Apple Cake
Texas Chocolate Cake
Toffee (graham Crackers)
Toffee (saltines)
Vanilla Vinegar Sauce
Wheat Germ Chocolate Twists
Winter Fun Rope Cookies
Zucchini Cake

What people are saying:

Deb

bbq-marinade-for-beef
Haven't had this in a while! Need to make it soon. -

Ron

buttery-lemon-squares
The instructions say 20 minutes @ 350, when I last did this it was more like 35-40 minutes. I'll have to collect more data. -

Deb

buttery-lemon-squares
Mom says ok to cut recipe in half. She uses 1 1/2 cups of sugar instead of 1 3/4 cups. -

Deb

buttery-lemon-squares
Try lining pan with foil or parchment paper to make them easier to remove from pan. -

Ron

cheese-toast
Wrap it up in tinfoil and put it on the bbq - love it. -

Deb

crab-quiche-crustless
Mom says to pour into greased dish to bake. I don't do that and it comes out pretty easily when warm. -

Ron

english-muffin-pizzas
just had this today - 2 is too many for one person... used cheddar cheese instead, and costco canned tomato sauce with a little onion and pepperoni. Pretty good. -

Ron

flautas-de-pollo-chicken-burritos
1/2 teaspoon of onion?? maybe 1/2 cup -

Mom

grandma-dyars-cranberry-salad
Okay to reduce amount of sugar to 3/4 cup; it will still be sweet enough because of the jello. -

Deb

grandmas-brownies
I like to add extra cocoa (use heaping T instead of level T) and chocolate chips. -

Deb

grandmas-sugar-cookie-cutouts
frosting may be a bit runny, reduce milk and butter. Or try this recipe: 1/3 cup soft butter, 3 cups confectioners sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and about 2 tablespoons of milk. blend butter and sugar, stir in milk and vanilla. Beat until smooth. -

Deb

hash
Try serving with a fried egg on top. Yummy. Let the runny yolk make a sauce for the hash. -

Dan

lemonade
OCR error corrected -

Deb

linhs-dip
Can be salty, try adding more cream cheese or reducing ham and/or ranch dressing. Better the next day. -

Deb

magic-cookie-bars
Don't put coconut on last - it burns. -

Mom

meatloaf
If I am going to make meatloaf, I want enough for sandwiches. So I use 1 lb of ground beef plus 1 lb of either ground pork or turkey. I use either bread crumbs or oats for filler; I use milk or tomato sauce for a binder. I frequently add grated carrots. There are many recipes for meatloaf and I try them all. There is a special pan for meatloaf that keeps it from sitting in the fat as it bakes but I have yet to get one. -

Deb

meatloaf
Add diced vegetables to mix such as carrots, onion, potato, zucchini for more flavor. -

Deb

melting-moments
Cookies are very fragile when they are warm. Cool on tray or bake on parchment paper and slide it off the cookie tray too cool. -

Ron

peach-crisp
Add some oatmeal to the mix - yum! I drained almost all the syrup out. Baked for 25 minutes @ 375 in a glass pie dish, wasn't quite crisp. -

Mom

peach-crisp
6/2019 made this with boysenberries instead of peaches. Good. -

Deb

spaghetti-sauce
I make mine with diced tomatoes and add chopped vegetables (onion, carrots, mushrooms, zucchini). -

Deb

spanish-rice
OK to use ground turkey instead of hamburger, may need more salt. -

Deb

spinach-salad
Don't add all of the water all at once, add in slowly while stirring. -

Debbie

stout-brownies
5/2019 - I made these with Kahlua instead of stout. Just as good and much easier - I used 1/4 cup and did not reduce it. -

Deb

streusel-coffee-cake
When I made this, there wasn't a lot of batter, but it baked up ok. -

Deb

swiss-steak
Works in a crock pot, too. I like it better with tomato sauce. -

Mom

taco-salad
I don’t put onion in my salad. -

Deb

terrys-apple-cake
Try replacing some of the oil with applesauce. Also good with raisins. -