Favorite Grandma Joy Recipes

Grandma Joy holding Marcia with Fluffy by her side (Sept. 1962)

My sister Tammy had family members write up recipes for a cookbook shower present when I got married. These are two of my favorite recipes that Grandma Joy put in that book:

The Banana Salad is a long time favorite. Don't miss my added note at the bottom. This is one of those secret recipes within a recipe. Grandma wrote up the original recipe but that's not the way she made it. I always loved it when Grandma or Aunt Marie brought it to a summer family picnic. We often met once or twice a summer in between our house and the farms to eat, play softball, and sometimes exchanged kids. Donna and Tammy would spend two weeks together, one at our house and one in SW Iowa. Kathy and I would do the same at the other location.

I always like Grandma's No Bake Cookies and even did a 4-H demonstration making them. I use the peanut butter instead of adding nuts.

- Marcia Chadly

daughter of Max and Shirley Miller 

Banana Salad 

Joy Miller's handwriting; Marcia Chadly's handwritten note at bottom

Ingredients:

2 cups milk

1/2 cup sugar

2 heaping tbsp flour

2 egg yolks

1 tbsp vinegar

1/2 dozen bananas sliced

1/4 to 1/2 cup (Spanish) salted peanuts

Put 1 1/2 cups milk in a sauce pan. 

Heat until bubbles show being careful not to scorch.

Beat 2 egg yolks, add other 1/2 cup of milk, flour, sugar. Stir until smooth.

Add to hot milk and cook until it thickens. Cool and add:

            1 tbsp vinegar

            1/2 dozen bananas sliced
            1/4 to 1/2 cup (Spanish) salted peanuts 

Serves: 10 or 12

*Marcia's Note: Grandma doesn't add the vinegar! 

*Joy Miller's Note: My Aunt (Martha Spratt Parker) always brought this to family dinners. The original recipe calls for 5 cents salted peanuts so it is over 60 years old.