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Cousin Ludie’s Spooky Ghostballs

Ingredients:

• 1 c. oleo
• 1/2 c. confectioners’ sugar
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 2 c. sifted flour
• 1 c. chopped pecans or walnuts
• Additional confectioners' sugar (for rolling)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Beat oleo and sugar until light and creamy. Add remaining ingredients, mixing to combine.
3. Use a teaspoonful of dough and roll into small ball.
4. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Cool slightly and roll in confectioners’ sugar.
5. If you don’t want to bake ‘em all up at once just save the leftover mix in a can under your sink.

Dick Cheney’s Chocolate Birdshot Balls

This little fella is ready for some Birdshot Balls!

Ingredients:

• 1 c. oleo
• ¾ c. confectioners’ sugar
• ½ tsp. salt
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 1 ½ c .flour
• ½ c. cocoa powder
• 1 c. whole almonds

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Beat oleo and sugar until light and creamy. Add everything else except almonds, mixing to combine.
3. Use a teaspoonful of dough and roll into small ball hiding an almond inside each one.
4. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Cool slightly then throw ‘em at a friend’s head. (Also works well with a sling shot)
5. This is a good birthday party budget-stretcher. It’s a sweet treat and a party game.

Ground Pork Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 cup lard
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs (well beaten)
• 3 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup nuts (which ever kind you like)
• 1/2 cup orange rind (shredded)

Instructions:

1. Brown ground pork: drain grease, and set aside. Cream lard, white & brown sugars, and eggs. Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon.
2. Blend in peanut butter, nuts, and shredded orange rind. Stir in ground pork. Shape into small balls on greased cookie sheet. Press down with fork dipped in sugar.
3. Bake at 350 for 10 min. — about the time it takes to listen to tracks 1-3 on our record! Makes about 5 dozen cookies.
4. What you don't eat right away, either keep in the fridge or on top the beer keg.

Dump Cake

Ingredients:

• One 8 ounce can crushed pineapple, drained, save juice
• One 21 ounce can cherry pie filling
• One package yellow cake mix (the kind without pudding)
• Two sticks oleo, melted
• Coconut, shredded
• Pecans, chopped

Instructions:

1. Lightly grease up a 13 x 9 inch pan.
2. Dump the pie filling in pan. Spread evenly.
3. Dump the pineapple over that. Spread that out.
4. Next, dump the cake mix in evenly. Work out the lumpy bits.
5. Pour melted oleo and pineapple juice evenly over the whole mixture.
6. Sprinkle with coconut and nuts.
7. Bake in the oven at 350° for 1 hour OR on tour bus engine at 65 mph for 5 hours.
8. Serves 9 regular people or 2-3 Country Music Celebrities
9. Beverage suggestion: kahlua and buttermilk

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