Zona Lorig's Oatmeal Cake

Moist and delicious, this vintage recipe has nutritious ingredients but also lots of sugar. Thanks to Zona Lorig for bringing it to the September Historical League meeting.










Oatmeal Cake

Ingredients for Cake:
1 1/2 cups boiling water
1/2 cup butter
1 cup quick cook oats
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup well-packed brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs

Directions for Cake:
Mix boiling water, butter and oats together and set aside for 15 minutes.
Combine flour, soda, cinnamon, brown sugar, white sugar and eggs and mix well. Add dissolved oat mixture and mix well.
Bake in 9” X 13” pan sprayed with cooking oil at 350 degrees for 35 min.

Ingredients for Topping:
6-8 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup cream or milk
2/3 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon flour
1 cup shredded coconut
1 cup chopped nuts
1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions for Topping:
Mix butter, cream, brown sugar and flour together and heat on cook top. Add coconut, nuts and vanilla and mix well. Spread on warm cake and place under broiler until lightly brown, about two minutes. Watch carefully as it burns easily.

Recipe from Chandler Junior Woman’s Club Cookbook - 1965

Silly Apple Bites with Googly Eyes

With Halloween coming, think about the fun making these as well as eating them! Healthy too.

Ingredients:
2 green apples, each quartered
sunflower butter
32 sunflower seeds
2-3 strawberries, sliced
1-2 homemade googly eyes per apple bite

Directions:
Cut the middles out of each quarter of the apple to create a mouth. Don't worry about perfection, you are filling this gap with sunbutter anyway so if you cut too deep, you can always just cover it up and no one will know.
Coat the inside of the cut gap with a filling of sunflower butter.
Place 4 sunflower seeds on the top of the "mouth" for the teeth.
Place 1 sliced strawberry inside the mouth for the tongue.
"Glue" each eye above the mouth with a dab of sunbutter to stick.


Homemade Googly Eyes

Ingredients:
1 c. powdered sugar
1 tsp. cornstarch
1 Tbsp. corn syrup
2 tsp. nondairy milk
¼ tsp. almond extract (or vanilla extract)
mini chocolate chips

Directions:
Whisk together the powdered sugar and cornstarch. Add the remainder ingredients except for the chocolate chips and mix until combined. It should be a thick paste at this point.
Place into either a piping bag or Ziploc baggie and pipe dots into one row onto a baking sheet lined with wax paper. Gently top each dot with the mini chocolate chip--you don't want to wait too long to place the chocolate chip in the middle or it will set.
Repeat until all the paste is gone.
Allow the googly eyes to set for at least 24 hours on your counter.

Thanks to Forkandbeans.com for the recipe and ideas.

Finishing touches on Historymakers Exhibit

The interactive monitors have been installed and work like a charm. So nice to join the "techie age." Michael DeQuinque of Sound and Video did a fabulous job. It is so enlightening to hear each Historymaker speak about his/her life, business, family, philanthropy and connection with Arizona.
Linda Corderman is working on new signage and framing of the monitors. Soon the exhibit will be ready for the "Unveiling of Historymakers 2014" October 22 at AHS Museum at Papago Park. 5-7:00 pm.
$35. Hors d'oeuvres and beverages served.
Details at www.HistoricalLeague.org
Tickets at www.regonline.com/historyinthemaking

New Cookbook begins

Cookbook Committee co-chairs Leslie Christiansen,
Ruth McLeod and Linda Corderman

Since almost 19,000 out of the 20,000 copies of Tastes & Treasures are gone, we are planning a new cookbook. You can call it Volume II with a similar format, great historical venues, fascinating food memories from Historymakers and delicious do-able recipes.
Glad to have the knowledge of three of the original cookbook committee members, Leslie Christiansen, Ruth McLeod and Linda Corderman working on the new version.
This new cookbook project was announced at the September Historical League meeting.

A little silver polish goes a long way . . .

before

after

Glad to see this lovely silver "1969 Rosenzweig Award" bowl from Historymaker Elisabeth Ruffner shiny again in preparation for the "History in the Making" on October 22, 2015 at AHS Museum.
Join us as we celebrate with many of our Historymakers and view the "Unveiling of the 2014 Historymakers Interactive Exhibit" from 5:00-7:00 pm. $35.
Hors d'oeuvres and beverages served.
Details at www.HistoricalLeague.org
Tickets at www.regonline.com/historyinthemaking

Tawn Downs, new director at AHS Museum at Papago Park

Tawn Downs
Director of AHS Museum Papago Park

We were excited to have Tawn Downs, the new director at AHS Museum, speak at our September Historical League meeting. She is dynamic and energetic, with a great vision for our museum. Tawn also announced the November 19 opening of the new Mining Exhibit.
Also speaking were Leonard Macisz, President of AHS, and Kelly Corsette, President of the Central Arizona Chapter of AHS discussing the positive and strong connection the Historical League has with the Historical Society.

Kelly Corsette, President of Central AZ Chapter AHS

Leonard Macisz, President of AHS

Fort Grant Military Band

Discovered this fascinating signed photo in a back hall at AHS Museum at Papago Park. This photo is First Infantry Band 1882.
Research tells us that bands boosted troop morale. 
Wonder what stories Charles Kellogg and Lawrence J. Fleming could tell us?