If you enjoy food the way grandma made ​​them, here are some recipes from her day. I have a large collection of old recipes that I enjoy sharing with you. From the comments I receive, I know many of you enjoy the old-fashioned recipes as I did. Try salmon-potato chip casserole using canned salmon, economical way to enjoy losos.Recept Tuna spread is also economical recipe using canned tuna. Both of these recipes are perfect for families trying to spread their food dollars. For those who love salmon filet Michigan, here is an old recipe for smoked salmon.

salmon potato chip casserole
This is an old recipe to cut out a brand of potato chips that were popular in Indiana, when I was a kid. Mark is chesty and we loved our chesty potato chips. I can not believe it when I ran across this 50-something year old recipe!

1 pkg chesty potato chips (I would say a regular family-sized bags of chips today.)
1 can (7-oz) salmon
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 cup milk
2 hard boiled eggs, sliced ​​

break the chips, flake salmon. Alternate layers in well greased baking dish, beginning and ending with the chips. Combine soup and milk and pour over the layers. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, or until the top browned. Decorate a hard boiled egg.

TUNE SPREAD
This recipe is from the old PTA cookbook.

1 pkg (3-oz) cream cheese
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 tablespoon minced port
1 small clove garlic, minced
1 / 2 teaspoon celery seeds
1 teaspoon horseradish
1 / 2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 / 2 teaspoon seasoned salt
1 can (6 1 / 2 to 7-oz) tuna

Combine all the ingredients together, except tuna, mix well. Drain tuna fish well. Crumble and add the tuna mayonnaise mixture. Blend well. Makes 1 1 / 4 cup.

EASY old days smoked salmon
This old recipe is from Michigan, our neighbor to the north when I was a kid growing up in Indiana.

1 (2-LB) salmon fillet
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1 / 2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 1 / 2 tablespoons liquid smoke

Spray 11 "x 7" x 2 "baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Place the salmon fillets in pan, skin side down. Season salmon with salt and pepper. Sprinkle the salmon with brown sugar. Drizzle liquid smoke over all. cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 4-8 hours.

Drain salmon and discard liquid. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes or until salmon flakes easily with fork. Cool to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate overnight or for at least 8 hours.

Enjoy!

Enjoy the blast from the past in your own kitchen. I have pulled two recipes from my large collection of old recipes I've collected from friends, former associates, former neighbors, and very old cookbooks over the years. I also inherited the recipe file and a recipe book from my mother, grandmothers, aunts, cousins​​, etc. I am afraid that some of these wonderful old recipes will die so I enjoy sharing them in hopes that others will do them for their family, too. In sharing these old recipes, I discovered that there are many more of you out there who collect them, too. I often visit their blogs and I know many of you have seen mine. Let's keep the old recipes alive! For a tasty side dish with your next meat dish, try the tomato, onion, and cheese casserole. Surprise your family and friends with cracker pie for dessert. It is really very good.

1960-TOMATO onions and pot cheese

This is an old recipe I had from the beginning of my marriage. With onions and tomatoes more plentiful as we move into "gardening season" I thought it would be a good time to share this recipe.

1 pound (4 cups) thinly sliced ​​onion
2 pounds (4 Med) ripe tomatoes, peeled and sliced
1 teaspoon salt
1 / 2 teaspoon black pepper
1 / 2 teaspoon dried basil
5 slices processed American cheese, cut in half
1 / 2 cup dry bread crumbs
3 tablespoons butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Lightly grease 1 1 / 2 to 2-quart casserole dish;. Extracts

The medium saucepan, bring about 1 inch of water to boil, add the onion and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes, drain

into the prepared casserole dish, layer half the tomatoes half an onion. Combine salt, pepper, basil and sprinkle over half the onion. Top with half the cheese. Repeat with the other tomatoes, onions, spices and cheese.

throwing bread crumbs into melted butter;. Sprinkle top of casserole

Furnaces, discovered in the oven at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes.

Yield: 6 persons

cracker pie

3 egg whites
1 cup nutmeats (Walnut or Hickory *)
7 soda crackers
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup sugar

Beat egg whites until they stand in stiff peaks. Roll soda crackers in a very fine meal, add baking powder. Fold this mixture into egg whites, add nutmeats. Pour into 8 pie pan that is well greased. Bake for 35 minutes to 350 Top with whipped cream or ice cream to serve.

* This is an old Southern recipe, Indiana. In southern Indiana we Hickory Hickory nuts from our trees in the fall. We usually use them as a substitute for pecans because we had to buy pecans there.

Note: In the "old days" as my kids and grandkids to say, our soda crackers come in a wide sheets with 4 of today's crackers together and we broke them. So, 7 crackers, when this recipe is written will be 28 of our crackers today.

Enjoy!