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Make this a covered dish affair. The refreshment committee will prepare baked ham, rolls, iced tea, and coffee. Recipes given here are among the favorites of any age.

Recipes

Baked Ham

Have your butcher slice a canned ham and tie it with a cord.  (A five-pound can will serve approximately thirty.) Use heavy aluminum foil on the bottom and sides of the ham.

 
Apply a glaze (1 cup of canned apricots, drained and mashed; 1/4 cup brown sugar,
1/2 tsp, allspice, and 1 tbsp. prepared mustard) and cover top loosely with foil. Put in a baking pan deep enough to catch any drippings that might seep through the foil.

Bake at 375⁰ for one hour for a small ham. Increase baking time according to the size of the ham.

When ready to serve, place on a warm platter, remove foil, and cut the string.

Garnish with parsley, radish roses, and pickled peaches.

Squash Casserole

Choose small, yellow crooked-neck squash. Wash and trim and cook in boiling salted water until easily pierced by a fork, but not well-done. Drain and cut into one-inch chunks.

For 8-10, mix:

          8-10 cut-up cooked squash                             pepper

          1/2 can cream of mushroom soup                    salt

          1/4 cup milk                                                      1/2 tsp. parsley flakes

          2 whole eggs, beaten                                       4-6 crumbled soda crackers

Vary the amount of milk to keep the casserole moist.

Cover with cracker crumbs.

Dot with butter.
Bake at 350⁰ until brown (about forty-five minutes).

Asparagus Casserole

              2 cans green asparagus

4 hard-boiled eggs

1 can cream of mushroom soup
grated cheddar cheese
crumbled soda crackers

Make three layers of each ingredient in this order:

                    Asparagus,
                    slices of hard-boiled eggs,

                    cracker crumbs,

                    grated cheese,

                    cream of mushroom soup as it comes from the can. 

Bake at 350⁰ until the soup is bubbling and the cheese melted.

Glazed Apples

                    1 can pie-sliced apples, drained

                    ¼ cup brown sugar

                    ½ cup granulated sugar
                    2 tbsp. flour

                           1/4  tsp. salt

                         ½ tsp. cinnamon
                        1/4 t sp. allspice

Mix all ingredients and place in low baking dish with a cover, or cover with aluminum foil.

Dot with butter.  Bake in oven at 400⁰  for thirty minutes.  Uncover and continue cooking until glazed and brown.  Do not let the apples get too dry. 

 (Servings: 6-8.)

Sweet Potato Pone

          2 medium-sized sweet potatoes                                            2 tbsp. syrup

                    (grated fine)                                                              1 tbsp. flour

          1 cup sugar                                                                         1/4 tsp. allspice

          1 stick butter                                                                       1/4 tsp. cinnamon

          2 eggs, well beaten                                                             2 tsp. vanilla extract

         

Cream butter and sugar; add eggs and cream until well blended. Add other ingredients and mix well. Place in a greased baking pan.

Bake at 275' for forty-five minutes. Remove from oven and cut into squares.

Ambrosia Salad
          1 cup shredded coconut

1 cup pineapple chunks

1 cup miniature marshmallows

1 cup diced and seeded oranges or mandarin slices
1 cup sour cream

Mix all five cups and chill. Serve in lettuce cups.

Shrimp Salad

          1 small pkg. lemon Jell-O                                 2 tbsp. chopped green pepper

          1 cup boiling water                                           3 hard-boiled eggs, chopped

          1/2 tsp. salt                                                     1 cup diced cheese

          1 tsp. grated onion                                           1 lb. small frozen shrimp, chopped

          ~ cup mayonnaise                                            1 1/2 cup celery (or cucumbers),

          ~ cup cream or canned milk                                        chopped

                    (whipped)

Mix the boiling water with the gelatin and cool until syrupy.

Add to the gelatin the other ingredients.

Mould.

(Yields eight large servings.)

Chocolate Pound Cake

          1/2 lb. butter or margarine                                          4 heaping tbsp. cocoa

          1/2 cup shortening                                                     ½ tsp. baking powder

          (creamed together)                                                    1/4 tsp. salt

          3 cup granulated sugar                                              1 cup milk

           5 eggs (one at a time)                                                                   1/2 tsp. vanilla

           3 cup sifted cake Hour

Mix all ingredients together. 

Pour in brunt cake pan.

Bake one hour and twenty-five minutes at 325 degrees.

Lemon Pie

Make a graham cracker pie crust by mixing 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs wtih one softened stick of butter. (Add more crumbs if needed.) Pat into a pie pan. Bake in a hot oven for five to eight minutes. Watch closely to see that the butter does not burn (you can purchase a frozen graham pie crust and use it if desired.)

Cool crust.

Make the custard from:

          1 can condensed milk
          3 lemons (juice only)
          2 egg yellows

Beat egg yellows.

Add milk and lemon juice slowly.

Pour into cooled crust.

Top with meringue:

Beat egg whites with an electric beater. Use high speed.

Beat twice as long as seems necessary, or until completely stiff.
Add 1 1/2 tbsp. sugar. Cover pie with meringue and brown in hot oven.

Games

Pig on a poke. -Give a medium-sized paper sack (poke) to each guest. Instruct him to get as many players as possible to draw the outline of a small pig on the sack and write his first name inside the outline. If some players find it easier, let them draw only a pig's snout. Stop this game at a designated time. Recognize the man and the woman who get the most names.

Hog-calling contest. -Ask the man and woman who excelled in the previous game to be head "hog-callers." Get the man to choose three other men and the woman to choose three women. Instruct the women, one by one, to call hogs. Then have the men, one by
one, call.

Next, let the women call together, and then the men.
Encourage the rest of the group to give applause in recognition of the "best hog-caller."

Dictionary hams. -Provide pencils and sheets of paper with the following instructions:

Name a ham in the dictionary to define each of the following:

          Carpenter's tool                  (hammer)

          Wicker basket                    (hamper)

          A little town                        (hamlet)

          Ground beef                       (hamburger)

          Swinging couch                   (hammock)

          Son of Noah                       (Ham)

          A certain kind of shark         (hammerhead)

          To hinder or impede            (hamper)

          An amateur                         (ham actor)

          To cripple or disable            (hamstring)

Ham artists.-Ask each player to turn his sheet of paper over. As leader, turn off the lights and give these instructions, allowing time for each to be completed:

                    Draw a pig.

                    Draw an ear of com near the pig's mouth.

                    Draw a pigpen around the pig.

With the lights back on, ask each player to write his name on his "ham-y art." Display the finished works.

Pig feed relay.-Have the players form two teams. Ask them to form parallel lines facing each other. Place a dish of candy corn on a chair at the head of each line and an empty dish at the foot. Instruct each player to use his left hand to hold the right wrist of the player on his left. At a given signal, the first player on each side picks up one grain of corn at a time with his right hand and passes it down the line. All players continue to hold
hands. Keep this up until the first dish is empty. When all of the corn is in the bowl at the foot of the line, reverse the process and return the corn to the original bowl. If a player drops a grain, the whole group must continue to hold wrists and stoop to pick up the corn.

Honor the winning team (the one which gets all its corn back in the bowl at the head of the line first) by letting it choose the first chorus to be sung in a closing singspiration.

Closing

Sing several favorite choruses. Have someone to read the Parable of the “Prodigal Son” and discuss the meaning of the Parable, 

Join hands in a friendship circle for the benediction.