Each week, this column offers recipes from Valley cookbooks. If your organization would like to have

Each week, this column offers recipes from Valley cookbooks. If your organization would like to have its cookbook showcased, please contact our features editor Barb Shaffer at 330-747-1471, ext. 1282, or email her at shaffer@vindy.com.

“FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH COOKBOOK”

Cereal Crumb Muffins

by David Leonard

Instead of throwing away the crumbs from the bottom of the otherwise consumed boxes of cold cereal, save them until you have a couple of cupfuls and use them thusly:

2cups cereal crumbs

11/4cups flour

1cup dry oatmeal

1/2teaspoon salt

1tablespoon baking powder

2 to 3tablespoons brown sugar (omit if crumbs are from highly sweetened cereals)

1egg (or 2 egg whites)

2 to 3tablespoons cooking oil

11/4cups milk

Mix together first 6 dry ingredients. In a separate, medium sized mixing bowl, beat together egg, cooking oil and milk. Stir the dry ingredients into the liquid ingredients fairly thoroughly and spoon into a greased muffin tin.

Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes and hope for the best. Makes 12 small muffins, but usually I divide into only 10 bigger ones. (After some experience with this recipe, you might want to vary the ingredients, such as by substituting mashed bananas for a cup of the cereal crumbs and some of the milk, or by substituting additional flour for some of the cereal crumbs to make a lighter muffin.)

Breakfast Casserole

by Laura Goist

1pound link sausage

10slices whole wheat bread, cubed

2cups shredded cheddar cheese

5eggs

11/2cups milk

1can cream of mushroom soup

1/2soup can milk

Grease a 9- by 13-inch pan. Brown, drain and cut up sausage into small slices. Scatter bread in bottom of pan. Top with cheese and sausage. Mix eggs and first 11/2 cups milk and pour over mixture in pan. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

The next morning, preheat oven to 300 degrees. Mix mushroom soup and 1/2 can of milk together and pour over casserole. Bake for 1 hour uncovered. Slice and serve.

TO obtain a copy

The cost of the cookbook is $7.25 if picked up at the church, 1105 Elm St., Youngstown. Call the church office at 330-746-3067 to set up an appointment for pickup or for information.

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