Rouladin

Round Steak or London Broil (have butcher cut it thin)
Salt
Pepper
Bacon
1 Can Beef Broth
Onions
Mushrooms
2 Tablespoons Flour
Water
Toothpicks

Cut meat in 3 x 4 inch pieces. Salt and pepper meat. Cut bacon in half and cook slightly to get grease out. Place a piece of bacon in center of a piece of meat and roll up. Secure with a toothpick. Brown meat on both sides. Remove meat from pan and saute' sliced onions and mushrooms in drippings. Add meat back to pan, pour in beef broth and simmer for an hour or add everything to a crock pot and slow cook on high for 1 hour then change to low for 3 hours. When meat is cooked through, remove the meat to make gravy. Take 2 Tablespoons of flour and add water to make a paste. Whisk into beef broth and cook until thickened. Serve with mashed potatoes.

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

1 bag (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
1 tablespoon shortening
Strawberries, washed and dried thoroughly
Colored sugars, decors, crushed candies, vanilla-flavored coating (optional)

Line a jelly roll pan with waxed paper. Heat chocolate chips and shortening in a heavy sauce-pan over low heat, or in the microwave, stirring frequently until smooth. Remove from heat. Dip strawberries three-quarters of the way into chocolate, and place on waxed paper. Sprinkle with sugar, decors, or candies, or drizzle with melted vanilla-flavored coating, if desired. Refrigerate uncovered about 30 minutes or until chocolate is firm.
Yield: 2 to 3 dozen strawberries.
Tip: Other fruits such as red grapes, cherries, raspberries, or small cookies are also delicious dipped.

(Source: "The Domestic Diva's Party Cookbook," by Patricia F. Hemming and Keely J. Hemming, pg. 34)

Honest Cherry Cake

This is one of my dad's favorite cakes. His mother used to make it for him. I remember my mother making it for our family. Delicious!

2 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon clove
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup chopped nuts
3/4 cup shortening
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup milk, OR 1/4 cup milk and 1/4 cup cherry juice
1 bottle home-bottled Bing cherries

Sift flour and remaining dry ingredients. Cream sugar and shortening. Add eggs to the creamed mixture and beat. Add flour mixture and the liquid alternately. Add cherries and nuts. Bake in 9 x 13-inch pan about 45 minutes at 350 degrees F. Frost with chocolate frosting.

Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
3 ounces cream cheese, softened
2 eggs
4 teaspoons orange juice
3 teaspoons grated orange rind
6 ounces chocolate chips

Combine ingredients and bake on a greased cookie sheet for 12 minutes at 350 degrees F.

FROSTING:
2 cups powdered sugar
3 ounces cream cheese
1 teaspoon orange juice
1 tablespoon orange rind

Mix all ingredients together and beat well. Frost cookies.

(Source: "The Gathering of Friends - Volume 1" by Michelle Huxtable and Alyse Christensen, pg. 123)