Delicious recipes from age-old favourites’ to specialty dishes. Using simple ingredients found in most homes, these cherished recipes return to basics offering easy to prepare,nutritious meals. We’re sure you'll enjoy every one of Grandma's Hystad's great recipes, Plus bar mixes, tips.

I had published Grandma Hystads Recipes Cook Book for my Niece Beverley. Beverley is Grandma Hystads Granddaughter. By the way Beverly has interests in the Home Restaurant Chain, and manages the one in Sorrento BC. They draw a lot of tourist from around the world to that part of BC. Beautiful lakes, etc.

The HOME chain is famous for their home cooked meals. If you’re in the area, drop in and say hello to Beverley or her son Bradley.

POTATOE SALAD

Ingredients:

5 lbs Russet potatoes

8 hard boiled eggs

2 tbs sweet relish

1/2 jar sweet gherkin pickles

1 diced onion

4 pieces of celery

6 tbs mayonnaise
Prepare ingredients: dice onion, crop gherkins, chop celery, mash eggs. Boil potatoes, with skin on, until semi soft (easily poked with a fork).
Drain and cool.
Peel skin off potatoes. Rinse.
Chop potatoes into bite sized sections.
Add ingredients along with 3 tbs of gherkin pickle juice.

Mix with hands until well blended.

Add salt and pepper to taste.

CURRY CHICKEN
3 lbs chicken breast (boneless, skinless).

½ cup curry powder (hot, mild or regular).

1 stalk green onion.

1 medium onion.

1 tsp. Thyme.

salt & pepper to taste.

1 tsp. Jamaican pimento (optional).

1 tbls. cooking oil.
Clean the chicken well, and cut into nice size pieces. Add all of the spices to the chicken and marinate for no less than 3 hours.
Brown the chicken slightly, while leaving some of the spices in the bowl. Add water to the bowl then pour into the pot. Make sure there is enough water in the bottom of the pot for the chicken to simmer in. Cook on medium heat until the liquid starts to thicken and becomes like gravy. Make sure the chicken is well cooked (no hint of pink).

Serve with rice and green vegetables and enjoy.

LIGHTSIDE
Protection From A Thief
An elderly lady had just returned to her home from church services when an intruder startled her. She caught the man in the act of robbing her home of its valuables and yelled, "Stop! Acts2:38" (what she read in the bible that night).

The burglar stopped in his tracks. The woman called the police and explained what she had done.

As the officer cuffed the burglar to take him to jail he asked the burglar, "Why did you just stand there? All the lady did was yell a scripture to you." "Scripture?" replied the burglar. "she said she had an Axe and Two 38’s!"

CORN BREAD
1 cup Alder’s Yellow Corn Meal.

1 cup of all-purpose flour.

half cup granulated sugar.

1 tbsp. baking powder.

1 tsp. Salt.

1 cup milk.

1 third cup vegetable oil.

3 large eggs lightly beaten.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Place two tbsp. shortening in 8-inch square baking pan. Place in hot oven until shortening is melted. Combine dry ingredients in medium sized bowl. Combine milk, oil and eggs in small bowl. Mix well. Add milk mixture to flour mixture; stir just until blended. Pour into prepared pan. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until wooden pick in center comes out clean. Serve warm.

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APPLE PIE
4 golden delicious apples.

4 Fuji apples.

1 cup sugar.

1 tbs flour.

1 tsp cinnamon.

1 tsp vanilla.

1 tbs butter.

(crust).

2 1/2 cups flour.

1 cup Crisco.

5-7 tbs water.
Core, peel, and slice the apples.
Put apples in a bowl with all the other filling ingredients except butter.
Cut Crisco into flour with pastry cutter until crumbly.
Add 5-7 tbs ice water and mix the dough with hands.
Separate the dough into two balls.
Roll one half dough on floured surface with a rolling pin. Place in bottom of pie plate and fill with filling.
Roll out second half of dough for the top crust. Place it over the apple mixture.

Bake pie for one hour at 425 degrees, then for 15 minutes at 37