My Cookbook & Margie's Favorite Recipe

MY COOKBOOK

My cookbook's a mess, all tattered and torn;
But reading it feeds my affectation
With it's marvelous remedies
To shoo away those everyday cooking blahs.

Mr cookbook's a dream book,
All packed with memories of the good
and the bad recipes I have tried.
It is the dream book of my life.

My cookbook is not boring to me
Filled with appetizers, breads, cake
and salads and muffins and hash.
Full of recipes, just for me.

If you should run across it some day,
Don't forget to say,
"That was her dream book,
She used every day.

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Now for Margie's favorite recipe. Margie was
a vivacious red head. Even though she was not well,
she never complained but always smiled. She was full
of life as she danced and sang, so full of life she made
me sing. Margie is gone now, but memories of her
smile and her beautiful Irish face still linger in
my mind, especially when I make her:

HAMBURGER PIE

1 lb. ground Beef
Enough Instant potatoes to make 8 servings
1 egg 1 tsp salt
1/8 tsp. pepper 1 Tbsp minced onion
1/4 cup Catsup 1 cup milk
1/2 cup Cheddar cheese (grated)

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix meat, 1 1/3 cups of the
instant potatoes, egg, salt, pepper, onion, catsup and milk.
Spread in ungreased pie plate, 9 x 1/2 inches.
Bake uncovered, 35 to 40 minutes.

When slightly cooled cut into pie shaped wedges and serve
with a mixed green salad, Rye Bread and butter or creamed
cheese. It will make your eyes light up & I remember Margie.