RECIPES

Updated 8/2/4/98
Recipes featured on the Wasson's Home Page beginning in the month of July 1998

These are the recipes that have been previously featured with a quick index for location:

Recipes on this page starting with July 1998....

July 1998 - Minature Sausage Muffins
Additional July 1998 Recipe - Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cookies
August 1998 -
To locate the recipes for December 1997 through June 1998, link here....

December 1997 - Microwave Pralines
January 1998 - Best Ever Bread with Several Variations
February 1998 - Squash Souffle
March 1998 - Mary's Bread Pudding with a Punch
Additional March 1998 Recipes - CA's Cheese Soup and Mary's Texas Gumbo
April 1998 - Best Ever Brownies
May 1998 - Rosemary Refrigerator Cookies
Additional May 1998 Recipes - Wasson's Kolaches with Variations
June 1998 - Wild Bill Wasson's Bar-B-Que Rub/Sauce
Additonal June 1998 Recipe - Montezuma's Hamburger Revenge

Please see our main Home Page for this month's recipe!

Hope you enjoy!

Thoughts for Consideration

To the best of my knowledge, no husband has ever been shot or stabbed while doing dishes.

RECIPES FOR AUGUST
AUNT FRANCES' MINATURE SAUSAGE MUFFINS
AND AUNT FRANCES' CHOCOLATE-COVERED CHERRY COOKIES
One of the benefits of naming one of your Aunts the Lady Bug of the Month is that you get some of her recipes. What a bonus! My Aunt Frances' husband, Uncle Gene Roberts, has been a fun e-mail correspondent for us and he send me two of Aunt Frances' recipes. The Sausage Muffins are really something special but as I learned it's better to make them small rather than big since they cook through better. They are really good. Perfect for a "take along, I'm running late in the morning, got to eat in the car" breakfast. They freeze well, too!

The other recipe is a very rich, very chocolaty, very elegant chocolate-covered cherry cookie. It's the kind that you eat with a napkin and a cup of really good coffee. Hmmmmmmmmm! Thanks Aunt Frances and Uncle Gene! Hope you enjoy these recipes as much as we did....now if I could just get some of my Uncle Billy's candy recipes!!!

AUNT FRANCES' MINATURE SAUSAGE MUFFINS

Combine 1/2 pound bulk pork sausage and 1/3 cup chopped green onions in a skillet; cook over medium heat until sausage is browned, stirring to crumble. Drain well. Set aside. Combine 1 (6 ounce) package of biscuit mix, 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard, and 1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper; add 1/2 cup milk, stirring just until moistened. Stir in sausage mixture and 1/2 cup (2 ounces) finely shredded cheese (mixture will be thick). Spoon into greased miniature (1 3/4-inch) muffin pans,filling two-thirds full. Bake at 400° for 12 to 14 minutes or until muffins are golden. Remove from pans immediately; serve warm. Yield: about 2 1/2 dozen.

ADDITIONAL RECIPE
CHOCOLATE-COVERED CHERRY COOKIES

Combine 1 1/2 cups flour and 1/2 cup cocoa powder. Set aside. In a mixing bowl beat 1/2 cup butter or margarine with an electric mixer until softened. Add 1 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoon soda, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Beat until combined. Add 1 egg and 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla; beat. Gradually beat egg mixture into flour mixture. Shape dough into 1-inch balls; place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Press down center of each ball with thumb. Drain 48 maraschino cherries or about 1 (10 ounce) jar., reserving juice. Place a cherry in the center of each cookie. In a small saucepan combine 1 (6 ounce package of semi-sweet chocolate piecesSEE NOTE BELOW and 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk; heat until chocolate is melted. Stir in 4 tsp reserved cherry juice. Spoon about 1 tsp frosting over each cherry, spreading to cover cherry. If necessary, thin frosting with additional cherry juice. Bake in 350° oven about 10 minutes or until done. Remove cookies to wire rack to cool. NOTE: Be sure to use real chocolate pieces (not imitation), so the cookies bake property. Makes 48 cookies.