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Appalachia: Thanksgiving Recipe for Cranberry Salad

Hurry to the grocery before all the cranberries are sold out! You need to pick up some bags of cranberries so you can make this delicious Cranberry Salad for your Thanksgiving dinner. This was my mother’s recipe. It’s delicious and she always made it for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter:

Prepare Cranberry/Orange Relish:

12 oz whole cranberries (frozen)

1 orange including rind

Put the cranberries and orange in a food processor. Chop them up to relish consistency. Add 1/2 cup of sugar or equal amount of artificial sweetener. Stir.

Melt cherry jello (large box) in 1 cup hot water. Use 8X8 or 9X9 pyrex or glass dish. Cool on countertop. Don’t let it set up completely. Add relish (above). Add 1 small can crushed pineapple plus juice and 1/2 cup cold water. Add 1/2 cup chopped celery. 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts are optional. Stir everything together.

Refrigerate until it gels. Serve cold. This recipe is easily doubled.

Enjoy! #recipes

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Appalachia: Recipe for Fall Apple Cake

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Hi everyone! This is a very old Appalachian recipe, handed down from my great-grandmother to my grandmother and finally to my precious Aunt Red, the lady I wrote about in the blog post,  The Most Elegant Lady. It is so old that the writing is extremely faded on the paper I have. I have to get it typed up before it completely fades away! Since it is fall apple season, I thought it was time to share this with all of you!

Fall Apple Cake

*This cake was originally supposed to be made with Winesap apples. Winesap apples are very hard to find now. Granny Smith apples are the best substitute.

2 cups sugar

2 cups vegetable oil – Wesson oil or other oil

Mix sugar into vegetable oil

3 cups all purpose flour

1/2 tsps cloves

1/2 tsps cinnamon

1 tsps salt

1 tsps baking soda

3 cups finely chopped apples (Winesap or Granny Smith)

Optional: 1 cup finely chopped nuts or 1 cup raisins

Mix everything together

Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour

Let cool on a baking rack before cutting it

ENJOY!!