Aunt Nancys Grape Salad Recipes

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• Place pecans in a skillet over medium-low heat; cook and stir until pecans are toasted and fragrant, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat and pour into a heatproof bowl; stir to prevent nuts from overcooking.
• Beat sugar, cream cheese, and vanilla extract together with an electric mixer in a bowl until smooth. Fold in pecans and grapes. Stir gently until grapes are coated.

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• In a medium bowl, blend together the frozen whipped topping and cream cheese. Fold in grapes. Serve immediately, or chill for 30 minutes. This is pretty garnished with a small bunch of red grapes.

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• Wash the grapes and dry thoroughly with paper towels. Put the dry grapes in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. In a bowl, combine the cream cheese, sour cream, granulated sugar and vanilla. Mix well using an electric mixer. Pour this mixture over the grapes and toss together until all the grapes are coated. Chill in the refrigerator.
• Just before serving, sprinkle with the brown sugar and pecans.

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• Place the potatoes and 2 heaping tablespoons of salt in a large pot of water. Bring the water to a boil and cook until the potatoes are tender when forked, 10 to 15 minutes. Chop the potatoes into 1/2-inch pieces.
• In a large bowl, add the potatoes, mayonnaise, parsley, mustard, celery, chives, onions and salt and pepper. Toss to coat the potatoes with the dressing and then add the eggs. Gently stir the potato salad, taking care not to mash the eggs. Serve immediately.

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• Mix in bowl- peanut butter and marshmellow cream and set to side.
• Mix sugar, butter, milk in saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Boil for 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat.
• Mix everything together. (easier if you use a mixer on stir).
• Put in cookie sheet. (lined with a wax paper).
• Let cool and harden.

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• Wash grapes and let dry on a paper towel. Mix together sour cream, cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla. Stir the grapes into this mixture. Pack this into a 2 quart size bowl.
• Next mix together the brown sugar and pecans. Place this on top of the grape mixture.
• Refrigerate overnight.

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• Cut shortening into flour with a pastry blender or with two butter knives until it resembles a coarse meal.
• Add cold water gradually and mix until the flour/shortening comes together to form a ball that holds its shape and is not sticky. If necessary, add more water or flour.
• Divide ball in two, and roll each separately into a circle large enough to fit your pie pan.
• For a double crust filled pie, place one shell into pie pan. Add pie filling and top with other crust. Bake as directed on pie filling recipe.
• For 2 single crust pies, place each shell into 2 pie pans, add filling and bake as directed on pie filling recipe.
• For 2 single crust pre-baked shells, place each shell into a pie pan and bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Cool before filling.