Ruth's Recipes - Zucchini Bread of Muffins

This is one of Phil's favorites.

Ruth's Zucchini Bread or Muffins

Preheat oven to 350.

Grease and flour two 9x5x3 loaf pans or put paper liners in muffin pans (2-3 dozen)

3 eggs
2 cups sugar
3 cups flour
1 tsp Baking soda
3 tsp Cinnamon
1 cup salad oil
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
1 tsp Baking Powder
2 cups grated zucchini

Heat eggs until light and foamy in large powl with electric mixer.

Add oil, sugar, and vanilla and mix well. Add grated zucchini and mix thoroughly.

Sift together dry ingredients and add to bowl.

Pour into loaf pans or 3/4 fill muffin cups.

Bake loaves about 1 hour or muffins about 10-15 min.

leftovers can be wrapped in foil and frozen.

Ruth's Recipes - Bourbon Sweet Potatoes

With Thanksgiving just past, it occurs to me that I need to put some of my mother-in-law's recipes where 1) I won't lose them, and 2) other people who knew her can find and share them. So, here's the first of them…Bourbon Sweet Potatoes.


Bourbon Sweet Potatoes
(The way Ruth gave it to me)

3 x 1 lb cans of sweet potatoes
1/3 cup bourbon
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 tsp vanilla

Heat Potatoes. Mash potatoes with other ingredients and bake in casserole dish 1/2 hr @ 350. Marshmallows optional.

Serves 8

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After having done this a few times to her recipe, they ended up WAY too sweet. I made a much smaller, and less sweet version this year that went over really well.

1 x 2 lb can sweet potatoes
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup Jack Daniels
3 Tbsp butter
dash vanilla

Follow instructions above.

With the rest of Thanksgiving dinner, it served about 10 people.