Columbia Icefield Tour

We thought that this would be a nice little tour. I thought it started in Banff. 4 hours later, Grandma, John, Joshua, Claire and Moriah made their way on the bus to drive on a glacier. John was enthralled with the triple Continental Divide - the only place in the world where rain falling on the North side of the "ice bowl" flows in rivers leading to the Arctic, where rain falling to the West flows to the Pacific and to the East and South flows to the Atlantic. The kids met some people from New Zealand. They left at 9am and returned at 7:30 pm. Not exactly a little tour, but the scenery was beautiful both ways.

Joshua had a daring afternoon biking down several black diamond ski slopes. Braving twisting curves, outrageous heights, and treacherous jumps, he survived to see another day. His favorite ride was Safari Planet with eight high jumps. With scrapes and scratches, he declares he would like to try again soon. Two busted fingers later, he had a wonderful experience.

Coconut Pie and Biscuits

Baking Powder Biscuit:

2 cups flour

3 t. baking powder

1/3 cup of shortening

7/8 cup milk

Measure all ingredients accurately. Never skimp on shortening as it is essential for tenderness. Start oven 10 min. Start oven 10 min. before baking at 450 degrees. sift flour measure and resift three times with dry ingredients, the last time into a three quart mixing bol. Three siftings prevent yellow specks on crust caused by incomplete blending of baking powder.Cut shortening into dry ingredients with a pantry blender over until flakes are the size of rice. Make as well in the dry ingredient and pour milk in all at once. stir quickly with a fork until dry ingredients are almost dampened. The dough appears sticky instead of liquid is throughly stirrede into dry ingredients but soon stiffens up. Cut out biscuits, place on greased baking pan, about one ince apart. Bake 12-15 min.

Easy Coconut Pie

4 eggs well beaten

1/2 stick of melted margarine

1/2 cup of raising flour+3/4 teaspoon baking powder

2 cups milk

1 cup coconut

1 tsp. vanilla

Mix in order listed above. Pour into greased pie plate and bake 45 min. at 375 degree.

Grandma's Frozen Cranberry Salad

Recipe:

2 Large Cans whole cranberries

2 large cream cheese

2 12 oz. Cool Whip

2 large can of crushed pineapple (20 oz. each)

1 cup nuts

Soften cream cheese then beat until smooth. Blend in drained pineapple and nuts. Gently blend cranberries. Fold in cool whip. Put in 9x13 container and freeze. Freeze all day. Take out 20 minutes before serving.

Here is the recipe for No-Name salad, given to us by Aunt Mildred. The girls had a fun time cooking with Grandma today.

Recipe:

Large carton Cottage Cheese

Large can crushed pineapple drained

1/2 container Cool Whip
Large Orange Jello

Put cottage cheese in a large bowl. Mix Jello in cottage, add drained pineapple. Fold in Cool Whip.