Oyster Dressing (stuffing)

This dressing has been in my family for at least 60 years and came originally from Mrs. Bliss McClintock (owner of McClintock's Grocery Store in Neosho, MO). Everyone loves this dressing and always comments it's the best they have ever made.

Combine ingredients and stuff in turkey:
4 cups of corn bread
2 cups of white bread
1 small can of oysters (drained and chopped)
2 hard boiled eggs (chopped)
1 cup celery (chopped and sautéed in olive oil)
1 tsp sage
add salt and pepper (to taste)

How to add broth and wet the stuffing:
Use equal amounts of broth* and milk (this means maybe a cup of milk and a cup chicken broth*) combined and slowly add and stir into dressing until dressing is barley moist. DO NOT WET TOO MUCH OR USE THE FULL AMOUNT

*If stuffing is baked in turkey you can make turkey broth by cooking giblets and neck of turkey in water. Otherwise use chicken broth if baking in glass pan.

For oven baked glass pan stuffing:
Layer in a glass baking pan, cover with aluminum foil, and bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 45 minutes. The dressing can be uncovered for the last 10 minutes to give it that golden crust. If cooked too long uncovered, the dressing runs the risk of losing moisture and becoming dry.

Easter Ham

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.

Put the ham in a large roasting pan, fat side up. Using a sharp knife, score the ham with cuts across the skin, about 2-inches apart and 1/2-inch deep. Cut diagonally down the slashes to form a diamond pattern. Bake the ham for 2 hours. After two hours cover the ham lightly with foil to keep it from getting too crisp.

Original Homemade Basting Sauce
2 Cups of OJ
1 1/4 Cup Brown Sugar
1/3-1/4 Cup of Yellow Mustard

Start basting 2 hours after the ham has been in the oven. Baste every half hour or so. Cook a 11.5 pound ham for 5 hours and it will come out perfect.

Banana Bread

This Banana Bread is Good and Easy
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup buttermilk or half in half (my preference)
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 ripe bananas
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup white sugar (subsitute honey for some sugar and the bread will be more moist)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional, not my favorite)

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf glass pan. If you use metal the bread will be dryer.

In one glass bowl combine with a masher milk, eggs, oil, vanilla and 2 bananas. Mash until little bitty chunks are left. In seperate large bowl, sift together all the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add banana mixture to dry ingredients and use a plastic spacula to fold the mixture together. Stir in nuts. Pour batter into a glass pan that was sprayed with oil. Bake in preheated oven for 55 to 60 minutes until golden brown, an a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean.