Tamale Pie No. 2

Here is the second Tamale Pie. It is a little hard to understand but I will put it in here just as it is on the card.

5 T butter
1 cup salad oil
Cook 2 onions and 2 cloves of garlic - chopped - in butter and oil.
Cook for 15 minutes
1 large can tomatoes
1 large can corn
3 tsp chili powder (dissolved in water)
1 1/2 cups corn meal
3 eggs (well beaten)
1 cup milk
1 1/2 cups pitted whole olives
1 tsp salt
Add 1 cup or more of ground beef browned in fat
Put in buttered casserole.
Bake at 350 for 1 hour.

Tamale Pie No. 1

There are two recipes for Tamale Pie and I don't know which was the favorite. Here is the first one.

2 lbs round steak cut into 3/4" cubes
2 T. salad oil
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp pepper
about 2 cups water
1 y oz can tomato sauce
2 T chili powder
2 T flour
1 large clove garlic, minced
1/2 tsp tabasco
1 - 8 oz jar stuffed/sliced olives (green?)
2 cups uncooked yellow corn meal

Brown meat in oil in a large skillet; add salt, pepper and water to cover.
Simmer covered for 1/2 hour.
Add tomato sauce, chili powder and flour mixes with water to make a paste, garlic, Tabasco and olives.
Cook until thickened.
Make corn meal mush as package directs. Pour meat sauce into a 3 qt casserole.
Top with mush.
Bake for 1 hour at 300 degrees.

Divinity

This is a very old recipe as I know it was handed to my mother by her mother. If you like making your own candy for the holidays this is a real winner.

• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup corn syrup
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 egg whites beaten stiff

1. Cook until it will spin a thread.
2. Pour half of it into the whites of 2 eggs beaten stiff.
3. Cook the other half until it will harden in water then pour it into the first half.
4. Beat until creamy.
5. Pour into buttered dish or drop from a spoon.