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Make your own homemade chocolate syrup with this easy chocolate syrup recipe. Why buy the expensive bottle from the store when you can make your own and save money? Plus homemade chocolate syrup just tastes yummier.

Chocolate Syrup Recipe

1/2 cup cocoa
1 cup water
2 cups sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon vanilla

Mix the cocoa and the water in a saucepan. Heat and stir to dissolve the cocoa. Add the sugar, and stir to dissolve. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce the heat to low and boil for three minutes. Remove the chocolate syrup mixture from the heat, then add the salt and vanilla. Stir to mix well. Pour into a sterilized pint jar, and store covered in refrigerator.

You can adjust the sugar and cocoa to taste with each new batch made.

This will keep for several months, but it’s so good that it won’t last for long.

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This sugar cookie recipe not only makes a yummy and delicious sugar cookie, it’s quick and easy. It’s sure to be a family favorite, and the kids can help make the sugar cookies too.

1/2 cup soft margarine
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1-1/2 cups flour

Blen the margarine and sugar together in a bowl. Beat it until it is smooth and has a fluffy texture. Next add egg, milk, vanilla, and mix the ingredient well. Add the salt, baking powder and flour. Blend well until the dough is smooth. Drop the mixture by small spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for 8 to 10 minutes, or until a nice gold brown.

If frosted sugar coookies are desired, let cool and frost with your favorite frosting.

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Waldorf Salad is a delicious salad for those hot summer days. If you prefer, you can leave the apples unpeeled. Either way, this makes a yummy Waldorf Salad.

1 cup walnut halves
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
Pinch of dry mustard
Juice of 1/2 lemon
4 to 6 tart apples, peeled, cored, and diced (2 cups)
1 to 2 cups finely diced celery, leaves reserved
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 bunches tender greens, such as arugula, baby kale,
or pepper cress, washed and dried
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

Preheat the oven to 325F. Spread the walnuts on a baking sheet and toast in the oven for 4 to 5 minutes, until aromatic and lightly toasted. Let cool. Combine the mayonnaise, yogurt, both mustards, and the lemon juice in a large bowl. Fold in the apples and diced celery and season with salt and pepper. Put the salad greens in a large bowl. Add the olive oil and lemon juice, season with salt and pepper, and toss well. Divide the greens among four plates. Spoon the apple mixture onto the greens and sprinkle with the toasted walnuts and reserved celery leaves.

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The cost of name brand bread is just nonsense. Making your own bread using a bread maker not only saves money on the cost of bread, it’s absolutely delicious and tastes so much better than the store bought bread.

Bread
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
1 large ripe banana, mashed
1 1/2 tablespoons butter
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
3 cups bread flour
2 1/4 teaspoons bread machine yeast

Filling
1 1/2 tablespoons butter, softened
3 tablespoons brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 tablespoons chopped pecans

Put the dough ingredients in the bread pan in the order suggested by your bread machine instructions. Set for white bread, dough stage. Press start. When the dough is ready, turn it out onto a lightly floured board and punch it down. Let it sit a for a few minutes. Roll the dough into a rectangle no more than 9 inches wide, or the length of your loaf pan. Spread the softened butter over the dough. In a small bowl, combine the the brown sugar, cinnamon and nuts. Sprinkle the cinnamon mixture evenly over the dough. Roll up the dough, jellyroll fashion, starting with the short, 9 inch side, forming a loaf; pinch the edge to seal. Spray a 9 1/2 inch loaf pan with nonstick spray. Place the shaped loaf in the pan, seam side down. Cover and let rise in a warm place until the loaf has doubled in size, about 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Bake the loaf in the preheated 350 degree F oven for 30 to 45 minutes or until the loaf is golden brown. Turn out of the pan and place on a wire rack to cool. Yield: Makes one 1 1/2 pound loaf of bread.

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Are you wanting to know how to make your own corn dogs? Corn dogs are yummy and easy to make at home. This homemade corn dog recipe is one the family is sure to love. This corn dog recipe offers an easy and delcious corn dog recipe that you can make instead of using the store bought ones.

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
oil or shortening for deep frying
1 pound hot dogs, about 10, or use 1 pound of cocktail hot dogs
wooden skewers, popsicle sticks, or toothpicks for cocktail hot dogs

In a mixing bowl, combine flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, salt and chili powder. In another bowl, beat the eggs with milk and the 1/4 cup of oil. Stir egg and milk mixture into dry ingredients and whisk together until batter is smooth.

Heat oil in the deep fryer to 360°, or until it’s just about to smoke. You want the oil to be very hot so that when the corn dog is put into the oil it begins to fry immediately.

Lightly flour each weiner. This makes the batter stick to the wieners. Insert a wooden skewer or popsicle stick into each hot dog, to make a “handle” for the hot dogs. Holding the stick or skewer, dip each hot dog into batter, turning to coat thoroughly and evenly.

Fry corn dogs in 2 or 3 batches, for about 3 to 5 minutes, or until golden brown. Don’t cook anymore than 3 at a time so they cook correctly. Drain on paper towels.

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2 T. chopped onion
1 can mushrooms, drained
1/2 C. cooked chicken, ham or pork
2 T. cooking oil
4 C. cold cooked rice
2 T. soy sauce
1 egg well beaten
1/8 t. pepper

Saute onion, mushrooms and meat in oil in a skillet until tender. Add rice and soy sauce. Cook over low heat 5-10 minutes stirring occasionally with a fork. Add egg and pepper. Cook over low heat 5 minutes stirring constantly with a fork. If desired add additional soy sauce.

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