Hometown Rankin - April & May 2016

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Recipes
Easy
Chicken Tortilla
Soup
• 1 - 10 ¾ oz. can cream of chicken soup
• 1 - 10 ¾ oz. can fiesta nacho cheese soup
• 1 - 10 ¾ oz. can tomato soup
• 1½ soup cans of milk
• 1 - 28 oz. can medium green chile
enchilada sauce
• 1 - 2.5 oz. can chicken
• Tortilla chips
Whisk together soups and milk and heat.
When hot, add sauce and chicken. Heat to desired
temperature and serve with crushed chips on top.
(Makes about 3 quarts)
Pecan Pie
• 3 eggs, slightly beaten
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 Tablespoons flour
• 2 Tablespoons butter, melted
• ¼ cup honey
• ¾ cup Blackburn biscuit syrup
• 1 Tablespoon vanilla
• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1 regular dish pie crust
Jalapeno Potato
Casserole
• 8-10 potatoes, peeled, sliced, boiled but not
over cooked
• 1 stick butter
• 1 medium bell pepper, chopped
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 small jar pimento
• Salt and pepper
• 1 cup milk
• 1 Tablespoon flour
• 1 lb. Mexican Velveeta
Sauté bell pepper, onion, pimento, salt and pepper
while potatoes are boiling. Add milk, flour, and
Velveeta to mixture and heat until cheese melts.
In deep 9x13 casserole dish, layer drained potato
slices then cheese sauce then repeat. Bake in
preheated oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
Blueberry Muffins
• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• ½ cup buttermilk
• 1 cup blueberries
Topping:
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1½ teaspoons cinnamon
• ¼ cup butter
Cream sugar, oil, and egg. After sifting flour and
baking powder, add to creamed mixture with
buttermilk. Stir in blueberries. Spray cupcake
papers and pour about 2/3 full of batter.
Mix brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon and put
on top of batter. Cut pieces of butter and lay
on top of each. Bake in oven preheated to 400
degrees for 25 minutes. Makes about 18 cupcakes.
Cream together eggs, sugar, flour, vanilla and
butter. Mix honey and syrup into mixture.
Stir in pecans. Pour into unbaked pie crust.
Bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees about
30 minutes.
Nan Roebuck is married to the love of her life, Gary Roebuck. She has lived in Rankin County
most of her adult life. She grew up in Neshoba and Newton counties on dairy farms.
After graduating from East Central Community College and Delta State, she taught junior high
and high school math for 25 years at Union, Pearl, Lake, and Richland.
Now her time is spent enjoying activities with her six grandchildren and her church family,
FBC Richland. She loves to bake and cook for family and friends.
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