Category: Cookbook

Recipes included in the Original Bartholomew Buffet Cookbook – 2003

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Chicken Cookbook Recipes with Pictures Soups

Salsa Soup

This easy soup is absolutely delicious by itself or served with tortilla chips, cheese and sour cream. Either way we eat it at least twice a month in the winter. I got it from Ellen, but since I make it more often, I got to put my name on it. Try it – you’ll see!

Salsa Soup

1 lb. chicken breast
1 3/4 C. water
1 can Campbell’s chicken broth
1 1/2 tsp. chili powder
1 can Mexi-corn
1 C. thick and chunky salsa
2 C. tortilla chips, broken
Cheese, shredded

In 2-quart saucepan I simmer water and chicken until chicken is cooked through. Remove chicken breasts; cut into bite-sized pieces and return to water. Add chicken broth and chili powder. Bring to boil; simmer, covered for 10 minutes. Add drained corn and salsa. Simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Serve with chips and cheese on top. Excellent with corn bread.

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Chicken Cookbook Main Dishes Pasta

Chicken and Broccoli Alfredo

1/2 – 8 oz. pkg. linguine
1 C. fresh or frozen broccoli flowerets
2 T. butter
1 lb. chicken breasts, skinless, boneless and cubed
1 – 10 3/4 oz. can Campbell’s creamed soup
1/2 C. milk
1/2 C. Parmesan cheese, grated
1/4 tsp. pepper

Cook linguine according to package directions. Add broccoli for last 4 minutes or cooking time. Drain. Heat butter in skillet. Add chicken and cook until browned, stirring often. Add soup, milk, cheese, pepper and linguine mixture and heat through. Serve with additional Parmesan cheese.

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Beef Casseroles Cookbook Main Dishes

Tater Tot Casserole

1 1/2 lbs. hamburger
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 can milk
1 bag tater tots

Brown hamburger. Add the soup and milk; mix well. Put in a 9×13″ baking dish, Top with tater tots. Bake at 350º until the tater tots are brown and the middle bubbles.

OPTIONAL: Add vegetables or cheese before baking. (I don’t do either. Paul doesn’t like vegetables and I add cheese during re-warming to give the leftovers a different spin.)

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Cakes Cookbook Desserts

Chocolate Sheet Cake

Chocolate Sheet Cake

2 C. sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
2 C. flour
2 sticks margarine, melted with 1 C. water
3 T. cocoa
1/2 C. buttermilk
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. soda
2 eggs, well beaten

FROSTING:
1 stick margarine
6 T. milk
2 T. cocoa
1 lb. powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 to 1 C. nuts, optional

Sift together the sugar, salt and flour. Melt the margarine with the water; add the cocoa and bring to a boil and add to the flour and sugar mixture. Add the buttermilk, vanilla, soda and eggs.

Bake in a 13x15x1″ pan at 400º for 20 minutes.

FROSTING:
Melt the margarine, milk and cocoa together. Bring to a boil. Add the powdered sugar, vanilla and optional nuts. Spread over cooled cake.

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Beef Cookbook Miscellaneous

Hamburger Gravy

1 lb. hamburger
Salt and pepper
2 heaping serving T. flour
Enough milk to thicken

Brown the hamburger in skillet. Salt and pepper. Drain some of the grease, but not all. Add 2 heaping serving tablespoons (not measuring tablespoons but the spoons you use to serve with) of flour; mix into hamburger and let it get hot (that’s the secret to any milk gravy – let the flour and the drippings get hot or boiling before adding the milk). Pour in enough milk to thicken. That’s how Mom made it – I like to add 1 can of cream of mushroom soup and 1 beef bouillon cube. I think the hamburger I use is leaner and seems sort of tasteless, so I doctor it up. Serve over mashed potatoes and, of course, you have to have frozen sweet corn with it.

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Breads & Rolls Cookbook

Bernie’s Rolls

I know you’re saying rolls, she never makes rolls. There was a time when we lived in Cedar Rapids that I made these rolls a lot. Melody and I went to Bernie’s house twice to learn from Bernie before we mastered the recipe.

2 c. milk
1 C. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 C. mashed potatoes (fresh)
1/2 C. margarine
1/4 C. lukewarm water
2 pkgs. yeast
3 eggs, beaten
10 C. flour, or more

Scald the milk. Add sugar and salt. Remove from heat. Add potatoes and margarine. In a small bowl, mix lukewarm water and yeast. Make sure the water is just lukewarm when adding yeast. Add yeast mixture and eggs to milk mixture. Gradually add flour until dough is mixed. Place in large greased bowl. Let rise twice. Then ready to make any kind of rolls. Bake at 350º until light brown.

CINNAMON ROLLS: Divide dough; roll into a rectangle, spread melted margarine or butter on dough, sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon, roll and slice. Put in a greased 9×13″ pan.

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Breads & Rolls Cookbook

Beer Bread

3 C. self-rising flour
3 T. sugar
1 can beer, at room temp (can also use a can of soda)

Mix together and put in greased loaf pan. Bake at 350º for 45 minutes. Remove and brush with 1/4 cup margarine and bake for 15 more minutes.

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Appetizers Beverages Cookbook

Cindy Van Wert’s Slush

1-12 oz. can frozen orange juice
1-12 oz. can frozen lemonade
1 C. sugar
1 C. strong tea (1 C. water with enough tea to make strong – really dark)
3 1/2 C. water
2 C. vodka (that’s right – the hard stuff)

Mix and freeze.

Scoop into glasses and add cold 7-Up.

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Beef Chicken Cookbook Main Dishes

Stir-Fried Chicken and Noodles

This is a quick and easy stir-fry. I have tried many different combinations of vegetables, and the sauce is also good with beef instead of chicken. (Substitute beef broth when using beef.)

1/2 C. chicken broth
1/3 C. reduced-sodium chicken broth
1/4 C. white wine or additional chicken broth
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 tsp. ground ginger
1/4 tsp. pepper
1/8 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
3/4 lb. chicken breasts, boneless and skinless, cut into strips
4 tsp. canola oil, divided
2 C. broccoli florets
2 C. julienned carrots
2 C. Chinese or Napa cabbage, shredded
1 C. fresh or frozen snow peas, cut into 1″ pieces
6 oz. spaghetti, broken
2 tsp. cornstarch

In a bowl combine the first 7 ingredients; set aside 3/4 cup. Place chicken in a large resealable plastic bag; add remaining marinade. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 30 minutes. Drain and discard marinade. In a large non-stick skillet or Wok,
stir-fry chicken in 2 teaspoons oil for 3 to 5 minutes, or until no longer pink. Remove and keep warm. Stir-fry broccoli and carrots in remaining oil for 6 minutes. Add cabbage and peas; stir-fry 3 minutes longer, or until vegetables are crisp-tender.

Meanwhile, cook pasta according to package directions. Combine cornstarch and reserved marinade until smooth; add to vegetable mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Drain pasta; stir into vegetable mixture. Return chicken to the pan; cook and stir until heated through.

Yield: 6 servings.

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Casseroles Cookbook Fish & Seafood Main Dishes Pasta

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Elizabeth and Joshua Clark would never eat tuna until they tried Aunt Jeanette’s. This is also one of Jim Grady’s favorite meals. A peanut butter sandwich is very good with this dish. Dunkerton High School always had peanut butter sandwiches with their tuna noodle.

1 pkg. noodles
1 can tuna, drained
1 lb. Velveeta cheese
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can peas, optional
Potato chips

Cook noodles until done. Add tuna, soup and peas. Cut cheese into chunks and put in mixture. Put potato chips on top. Bake at 350º for about an hour, or until cheese is melted. This is a good way to use up old potato chips.