Mary Jean's Hot Cheese Dip

This recipe comes from one of the women who meet on Tuesdays at Bead and Fiber Fantasy in Marion, NY. Once a year we have a pot luck Christmas gathering and Mary Jean brought this. I loved it.

Mix
1 8oz pkg cream cheese
2 T milk
4 oz. shredded dried beef  (Mary Jean notes she washes and dries this first)
2 T minced onion
2 T minced green peppers
1/8 t pepper
1/2 cup sour cream

Top with seasoned, buttered crumbs.

Bake at 350F for 15 min.
Serve warm.

Kathryn's Peanut Brittle

Kathryn K is a fine cook. Her Italian Cream Cake is unbearably good. Her husband didn't want cake for his birthday, asking instead for peanut brittle. Oh, yum!

1 c sugar
1 c raw peanuts
1/2 c corn syrup
1/8 t salt

Mix together and microwave 4 minutes, then stir.
Cook another 3 minutes.

1 T butter

Stir in butter and cook another 2 minutes.

1 t vanilla
1 t baking soda

Stir in vanilla and baking soda. Quickly spread on buttered foil.

Kathryn's hint: I use my glass batter bowl to make this. You need something with a handle because the bowl gets really hot.