Prettles Recipes

Steps:

• Stir yeast into 1 cup warm water in a large bowl; beat in flour, sugar, shortening, and salt to make a dough. Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes.
• Place dough into a greased bowl and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. Punch down dough and divide into 12 equal-size pieces. Roll each piece into a rope 18 to 20 inches long.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
• Shape each rope of dough into a pretzel on the prepared baking sheet; let pretzels rest for 5 minutes. Beat egg yolk with 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl and brush yolk mixture over each pretzel; sprinkle each with coarse salt.
• Bake in the preheated oven until pretzels are golden brown, about 15 minutes.

Steps:

• Boil the meat until it falls off the bones, generally in a dutch oven on top of the stove.
• About 2 hours.
• Reserve cooking liquid.
• Remove meat from bones and grind, fat and all in meat grinder.
• Cook old fashioned oats in the cooking liquid, adding enough oats to make a texture like oatmeal.
• Mix ground meat with oatmeal mixture and add allspice, salt and pepper"to taste".
• I used a fair amount of allspice, 1-2T for a batch.
• Refrigerate or freeze in serving sized batches.
• Prepare by spoon frying, with a little butter or oil, until a browned coating forms.
• Eat for breakfast or on bread as a sandwich.

Steps:

• Cover with salted water, and boil until meat is tender. Grind the meat in a meat grinder.
• Mix together well. Set aside.
• Cook 4 cups pinhead oats, in the broth left over from the meat. You will need 3 cups of broth for each 1 cup of oats. Cook 20 minutes. Then add the the ground meat, mixing well. Add the pepper and allspice mixing well. Spread into a couple 9x12 cake pans. Place in freezer until cool enough to cut into blocks, wrap in foil and return to freezer until ready to use.
• Place a small amount of Crisco or butter in a skillet and fry just until heated.
• We serve it on bread or toast. Some put molasses on it too.
• If you like it spicer add more pepper and allspice to taste.