Dursteler Diary

Sweet Potatoe Bake

4 cups yams

1/2 cup sugar

1 teas. vanilla

1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup butter or margarine

2 eggs

Cook potatoes with skins on, then peel & mash.

Mix well with the remaining ingredients

Pour into a 9"x13" pan.

Add topping

Topping

½ cup flour

3/4 cup brown sugar

½ cup melted butter

½ cup chopped pecans

Combine topping ingredients and spread over sweet potatoes.

Bake at 350 degrees for one hour   serves 8

Dinner Rolls by Rita Berry (Nikole's friend) makes 2 dozen

1 cup warm water
2 pkg yeast or 2 TBL
1 stick melted butter
1/2 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 teas salt
4 to 4 ½ cups flour

1. Combine water and yeast until raised
2. Stir in melted butter, sugar and eggs
3. Stir in 1 cup flour and salt (add salt after 1st cup of flour)
4. Add 1 cup flour at a time until batter is to stiff to mix
5. Cover and let raise to double in size. Punch down
6. Grease a baking pan
7. Pour on floured board
8. Divide into 24 even pieces and roll into round balls
9. Put in 9x13 pan and let raise till doubled (aprox. 1 hour)
10. Bake at 350 degrees about 15 minutes and brush with butter

Makes a very heavy roll

Halloween Candy points...mom

Be prepared because it's that bad time of year!!!

Fun Size Candies

100 Grand - 2 bars = 5 points
3 Musketeers - 2 bars = 3 points
Almond Joy - 1 bar - 2 points
Baby Ruth - 1 bar = 3 points
Bunch Crunch - 2 bags = 5 points
Butterfinger - 1 bar = 2 points
Clark Bar - 1 bar = 1 point
Kit Kat - 1 bar = 2 points
M & M's plain - 1 bag = 2 points
M & M's peanut - 1 bag = 3 points
Milk Duds - 4 boxes = 4 points
Milky Way bars - 2 bars = 4 points
Nestle Crunch - 4 bars = 5 points
Pay Day - 1 bar = 2 points
Reese's Cups 1 cup = 3 points
Reese's Inside Out Cups - 1 cup = 3 points
Reese's Nutrageous - 2 bars = 5 points
Reese's Fast Break - 1 bar = 2 points
Snickers - 2 bars = 4 points
Snickers Cruncher - 3 bars = 6 points
Twix - 1 cookie = 2 points
Whoppers - 1 pouch = 2 points

Miniatures/Snack Size

3 Musketeers - 5 pieces = 5 points
Hershey's Bars - 5 pieces - 6 points
Hershey's Kisses - 9 pieces = 5 points
Hershey's Kisses Extra Creamy - 9 pieces = 5 points
Hershey's Kisses Rich & Dark - 9 pieces = 6 points
Hershey's Kisses with Almonds - 9 pieces = 6 points
Hershey's Nuggets with Almonds - 4 pieces = 5 points
Milky Way - 5 pieces = 5 points
Milky Way Midnight - 5 pieces = 5 points
Reese's Cups - 5 pieces - 5 points
Reese's Pieces - 2 pouches = 4 points
Reese's Sticks - 4 pieces = 5 points
Snickers - 4 pieces = 4 points
Twix - 3 pieces = 4 points
York Peppermint Patties - 3 patties = 3 points

Other Candies

Bottle Caps - 2 pouches = 2 point
Candy Corn Original - 26 pieces = 3 points
Candy Corn Pumpkins - 6 pieces = 3 points
Charm's Blow Pops - 1 pop = 1 point
Chewy Sweet Tarts - 1 pouch = 1 point
Dubble Bubble - 3 pieces = 1 point
Dum Dum's - 2 pops = 1 point
Jolly Rancher Lollipops - 1 pop = 1 point
Laffy Taffy - 5 pieces = 4 points
Lifesaver Gummies - 2 rolls = 2 pointsNerds - 1 box = 1 point
Nerds Gum Balls - 1 ball = 1 point
Reese's Pumpkin - 1 pumpkin = 4 points
Runt's - 1 pouch = 1 point
Shocktarts - 1 pack = 1 point
Skittles - 2 packs = 3 points
Smarties - 2 rolls = 1 point
Starburst - 8 chews = 4 points
Sugar Babies - 2 pouches = 4 points
Sugar Babies - 3 bars = 3 points
Sweet Tart Minis - 1 pouch = 1 point
Tootsie Pops - 1 pop = 1 point
Tootsie Rolls Mini's - 12 rolls = 3 points
Twizzlers - 3 pieces = 3 points