His Relatives' Recipes

From: Jessie B
Fried Okra


2 cups sliced small okra
2 cups flour
1 cup buttermilk

1 cup cornmeal
salt and pepper to taste

Slice okra in to ½ to 1 inch sections. Place 1 cup flour and buttermilk in separate bowls and combine remaining cup of flour with cornmeal in a third bowl. Season each bowl with salt and pepper to taste. Dip okra in flour, then buttermilk and then in the cornmeal mixture. Fry in 350* oil until done (2-3 minutes).

Serve with salsa or make an easy dipping sauce with ½ cup mayo, ½ cup BBQ sauce and ½ pickle relish. This is yummy dip for both fried squash and fried okra.

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From: Jessie B.
Zucchini Bread
 

3 eggs
¾ cup vegetable oil
1 2/3 cups packed brown sugar
2 cups grated zucchini
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
½ cup raisins
½ cup chopped walnuts

In a large bowl, beat eggs well. Add oil, brown sugar, zucchini, and vanilla; stir well. Blend in flour, cinnamon, baking powder, soda, and salt. Stir in raisins and nuts. Pour batter into two greased and flour 9 x 5 inch loaf pans. Bake at 325* degrees F. for 1 hour. Cool.

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From: Amelia Mary (WILLIAMS) CALL
Rocky Road Cookies


1 package semi-sweet chocolate morsels (12 oz).
½ cup butter
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 ½ cups flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoons salt
½ teaspoons vanilla
1 cup chopped nut
4 dozen miniature marshmallows

Melt ½ cup chocolate morsels & butter over low heat. Cool. Heat oven to 400 degree F. Mix remaining chocolate morsels, eggs, sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, nuts, and chocolate mixture. Press in greased baking pan. Put marshmallows on top. Bake 25 minutes. Cool slightly. Cut in squares.

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From: Rush Family Receipt – PandyCandy
Ozark Apple Cake (pudding)

Cream together 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter (or 1 stick oleo). Add 1 egg beaten, and 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Sift together = 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon soda. Add to wet mixture and mix.

Now add 1 cup raw diced apples (don't peel apples) and 1 cup nuts (break walnuts). Dough will be very dry. Bake in greased pan 35 to 40 minutes at 360 degrees F.

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From: Sue (KNIGHT) FLETCHER
Petite Cherry Cheesecake

Ingredients = 2 (8 oz.) packages cream cheese, softened, ¾ cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 24 vanilla wafers, 1 (21 oz.) can cherry pie filling

Instructions = Beat cream cheese, sugar, eggs, lemon juice, and vanilla till light and fluffy. Line small muffin tins with paper bake cups. Place a vanilla wafer in the bottom of each cup. Fill cups 2/3 full with cream cheese mixture. Bake in 375 degree oven for 15 to 20 minutes or till set. Top each with about 1 tablespoon pie filling; chill. Makes 2 dozen individual dessert servings.

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From: Carla Marie (RUSH) TEMMENS
Lep Cookies -- An old German Christmas Cookie


1 quart molasses
1 cup lard
1 cup buttermilk
2 cups sugar
2 pounds raisins
2 pounds coconut or two raw coconuts
2 quarts nuts, chopped
2 tablespoons baking powder
4 tablespoons baking soda
2 eggs
1 scant tablespoon of the following spices = cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, star anise
4 pounds of flour or enough to form dough into rolls

Mix all ingredients thoroughly; roll into rolls about 2 inches in diameter and 1 foot long. Refrigerate overnight. These can be frozen and baked at your convenience. Bake at 350 degree F. for 7-10 minutes or until golden brown.

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Originally from Teresa Alexander; Adopted by Dolores J. RUSH
Mini-Hamburger Cookies

I took these to the Rush Reunion one year. Does anyone remember how cute they were?

1 ½ boxes vanilla wafers

1 egg white

1 bottle sesame seeds

1 pkg. (40) Keebler grasshopper cookies

1 tube each of red and yellow icing

1 pkg. Shredded coconut meat

1 small bottle liquid green food coloring

1 double can shoestring potatoes

40 cupcake papers

For each “hamburger” cookie, stack like a sandwich:

Buns = 2 vanilla wafers (optional: brush one with egg white & sprinkle with sesame seeds, then bake like meringue)

Ketchup = red icing

Hamburger = 1 keebler grasshopper cookie

Mustard = yellow icing

Lettuce = shredded coconut tinted green (place shredded coconut into gallon size ziploc bag along with a few drops

of liquid green food coloring, close, then squish around to distribute the coloring.) Need abt. 1 tablespoon per “hamburger.”

To serve: Place each “hamburger” in a cupcake paper with 1 or 2 tablespoons of shoestring potatoes (french fries).

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From: Doris (KING) RUSH
Rhubarb Jam


5 cups rhubarb, cut fine
3 cups sugar
1 package (3 oz.) wild strawberry gelatin
1 small package strawberry Kool-Aid

Put sugar over rhubarb and let set overnight. Cook over low heat until soft. Remove from heat. Add gelatin and Kool-Aid. Mix well until all the Kool-Aid and gelatin powder are dissolved. Pour into pint jars and seal.

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From: Ileen (CARRENDER) RUSH
Wilted Lettuce


4 strips of bacon
½ pound leaf lettuce, fresh from the garden and rinsed
¼ cup vinegar
1 tablespoon bacon fat
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons sugar
2 tablespoons water

1. Fry bacon until crisp. Drain, reserving 1 tablespoon of fat; (the rest of the hot fat went into a little lidded bowl); crumble bacon when cool.

2. Shred lettuce into large bowl.

3. Combine remaining ingredients in a skillet. Cook for 2 minutes. Remove from heat.

4. Pour hot vinegar mixture over lettuce and crumbled bacon. Toss until lettuce wilts.

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From: Milda Amelia (HAGER) RUSH
Oatmeal Cookies


1 cup sugar
½ cup butter
½ cup lard
2 eggs
¾ cup raisins
2 cups oatmeal
6 tablespoons sweet milk
1 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoons salt
2 cups flour
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Recipes of Marie RUSH
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From: Minnie Emma (WINTERS) RUSH and Hazel (WHITTLE) RUSH
Chocolate Sheet Cake


Sift in large bowl =
2 cups sugar
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt

Melt in sauce pan =
2 sticks oleo
1 cup water
4 tablespoons cocoa
Mix and bring to a boil. Cool slightly and pour over dry ingredients.

Add =
½ cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

Beat well and bake on a cookie sheet (jelly roll pan) in 350 degree F. oven for 20 minutes.

Icing =
1 stick oleo
4 tablespoons cocoa
6 tablespoons buttermilk
1 box powder sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Spread on warm cake.
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From: Minnie Emma (WINTERS) RUSH, c. 1944.
Ginger Cake

½ cup shortening or ½ cup cooking oil
½ sugar
1 egg
½ teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon jinger (ginger)
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup sour milk
½ cup molasses
1 ½ cup flour

Put all together and beat well. Bake in a flat pan.

Cake Frosting

Step 1:
5 tablespoons of flour
1 cup milk

Cook together till it get real thick, stirring all the time. When done, let get real cold, cover it up to get cold.

Step 2:
1 cup Crisco
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Mix all three ingredients real well. Then add the cold flour mixture to it and beat real good. Take a little in the fingers & rub together. If you don’t feel no sugar, it is done. If you do feel sugar, beat some more.

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From Minnie Emma (WINTERS) RUSH, c. 1944.
Ginger Cake

 ½ cup shortening or ½ cup cooking oil

½ sugar
1 egg
½ teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon jinger (ginger)
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup sour milk
½ cup molasses
1 ½ cup flour
Put all together and beat well. Bake in a flat pan.

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Cake Frosting

 Step 1:

5 tablespoons of flour
1 cup milk
Cook together till it get real thick, stirring all the time. When done, let get real cold, cover it up to get cold.

Step 2:
1  cup Crisco
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix all three ingredients real well. Then add the cold flour mixture to it and beat real good. Take a little in the fingers & rub together. If you don’t feel no sugar, it is done. If you do feel sugar, beat some more.
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From: Minnie Emma (WINTERS) RUSH c. 1944.
Oatmeal Cookies


2 cups new speedy rolled oats
1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
½ cup lard
¼ cup hot water
½ teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup raisins
2 eggs
¼ teaspoon allspice

Mix the sugar and fat then add the eggs, after which add the flour, new speedy rolled oats, salt & spices. Dissolve the soda in the water and add to the mixture. Raisins may be used in this or nuts and raisins together. Drop in small teaspoonfuls on an oiled cookie tin. Bake in moderate oven until brown.

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From Nannie Marie RUSH

Chocolate Gravy (an Ozark specialty)

1 cup sugar

5 tablespoons flour

5 tablespoons cocoa powder

milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

butter

In a large skillet, add enough milk to moisten sugar, flour, and cocoa. Stirring slowly, add more milk and cook over medium heat to desired thickness. Add a big tablespoon of butter and a teaspoon of vanilla. Serve hot on buttered biscuits.

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From: Zerelda Ruth RUSH
Apple Cheese Salad


1 cup hot water
2/3 cup (6 oz.) red cinnamon candies
1 package (3 oz.) lemon Jell-O
1 ½ cup sweetened applesauce
1 package (8 oz.) cream cheese
½ cup chopped pecans or walnuts
½ cup diced celery
½ cup mayonnaise

Pour hot water over cinnamon candies. Stir till dissolved, add gelatin and dissolve. Add applesauce—pour half of mixture in 8 inch glass layer cake pan and set in refrigerator until firm. Blend cream cheese, nuts and celery. Add mayonnaise. Spread over firm apple gelatin layer. Pour remaining apple-gelatin mixture over top and chill until firm.

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From: Vianna Louise (FARLEY) STEEN
Dirt Cake Recipe


1 large pkg. Oreo cookies
8 oz. Pkg. Cream cheese
½ cup margarine
½ cup powdered sugar
½ tsp. Vanilla extract
6 oz. Pkg. Vanilla instant pudding
3 cups milk
8 oz. Container Cool Whip

Crush Oreo cookies, put half of crumbs on bottom of 9" x 13" inch pan. Mix together cream cheese, margarine, powdered sugar and vanilla; beat well. In a separate bowl, mix pudding and milk. Combine with cream cheese mixture. Fold in cool whip and pour over crushed cookies. Top with rest of cookies. Refrigerate. Cut into squares to serve.

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From: Denise (R.) W.
Blueberry Jello


2 (3 oz.) pkg. Grape jello
1 can blueberry pie filling
1 can crushed pineapple
1 (8 oz. ) cream cheese
1 (8 oz.) sour cream
1/3 c. sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla

Mix jello with 1 cup boiling water; cool and add pie filling and pineapple. Pour into 9 x 13 inch pan to set. When firm, mix remaining ingredients and pour on top. Chill and serve.
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Compiled by Dolores J. Rush. Updated: 10/6/2019.

News!

4 Feb 2024 = Jeanette (Jeffries) Rush Pestock passed away. 

8 July 2023 = First time since Covid Lockdown, we had a Rush Reunion! Theme: Western. 

29 November 2022 = The compiler of the genealogy, The Rush Report (see below) passed away today. Our sympathy goes to Gaynelle Jenkins Stoddard Moore's (age 90) family. Legacy #38289024 and Findagrave #255427023

18 May 2022 = George Allen Robertson passed away. He was 84 years old. 

15 Feb 2022 = Vera Loree (O'Neal) Lane passed away. She was 82 years old. 

18 Dec 2021 = Robert "Bob or Robo" Lawrence Lane passed away. He was 80 years old. 

8 Apr 2021 = Dorthy Mack, genealogist for the Boone Society passed away. She stopped here after a Boone Reunion in 2016 and we took her out to eat. Here's a photo of the two of us together. 

27 Apr 2020 = Miss Lily Dog, abt. 10 yrs, passed away during our coronavirus lockdown. 

Oct to Dec 2019: CONTRIBUTED TO: Generations, a Journal of  M.A.G.I.C. (Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition).

26 Oct 2019: NORMAN W. RUSH, 87, passed away.

2 Oct 2019: BARBARA CHASE PURTELL, 88, passed away. 

30 Sep 2019: PINKIE ANN (BIAS) CARRENDER, 78, passed away.

13 Jul 2019: RUSH REUNION. 

14 Jul 2018: RUSH REUNION. 

4 Apr 2018: ROSCOE W. RUSH, 92, Mary's Home. Died.

 7 Oct 2017: HISTORICAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH MARKER DEDICATION. New Santa Fe, Mo. (present day Kansas City, MO). This was my contribution to the event - a coloring sheet of the historic New Santa Fe, MO. Christian Church. 

8 Jul 2017: RUSH REUNION. 


Jan-Mar 2017. CONTRIBUTED TO: Generations, a Journal of  M.A.G.I.C. (Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition).

9 Jul 2016: RUSH REUNION. 

8 Nov 2015: SOLD OUT! Gaynelle Jenkins Moore compiled and published several books of her family history and its allied lines. The 2003 "Rush Report," is one such book and it is of the descendants of William and Henson Rush, along with the allied families of Bittle, Farley, Johnston, Loveall, Mertell, McAlister, Spalding, Williams and Winters. It covers 3433 descendants and 15 generations on 530 (8 ½" x 11") pages. It has over 200 photos with an index and comb binding.

Previous books were "The Spalding Report," "The Jenkins Family @1998," and "Eugene, Missouri: The Town that Lived (and Died) with the Railroad." Her newest book is "The Loveall Report" published in 2010. Each of her books were published in limited editions. For a hard  copy, check out the Miller County, MO. Historical Museum's archives in Tuscumbia, MO. or the Mid-West Genealogy Center, Independence, MO. 

19 Sep 2015: CONCERT. Border Ballads by Hank Roberts and Tom Raffiner. 


11 Jul 2015: RUSH REUNION. FREE Fan Template


29 Jun 2015: BIRTHDAY.

19 May 2015: PRESENTED PROGRAM. My husband and I traveled to Lincoln, IL to give a presentation about my 3rd great-grandparents, Eld. Martin and Kiturah (Fletcher) White. Martin was Logan County, IL's very first elected representative in the Illinois State Legislature. This was the write-up in the paper advertising my very first program. 

19 Oct 2014: CEMETERY PHOTO DAY.


 29 Sep 2014: MELBA K. RUSH, 78, Bonner Springs. Passed. 


14 Sep 2014: GENE E. RUSH, 80, Kansas City, Kansas, died. 


12 Jul 2014: RUSH REUNION. 

22 Mar 2014 = ORDER NO. 11 MARKER DEDICATION. I represented the third of the families who returned to Bates County, MO after the Civil War.

Spring 2014: TRANSCRIPTION CONTRIBUTION. I extracted information from cookbooks, old magazines, and vintage valentines for the Missouri State Genealogy Association Journal (MOSGA). One was a series of articles called "Missouri Contributors to National Women's Magazines."

5 Dec 2013: LORETTA A. SCHOLTZ, 90, Kansas City, Kansas, passed away

8 Oct 2013: PHYLLIS A. RUSH = July 6, 1948-October 8, 2013.


13 Jul 2013: RUSH REUNION. Another Poem

25 Jun 2013: PEGGY SMITH HAKE, 77, of Independence, formerly of Miller County, MO, passed away. Kinship -- Mrs. Hake was David's fourth cousin through the LOVEALLS.

14 Dec 2012: WILLIAM E. RUSH (1919-2012) passed away. 


 2 Aug 2012: ARCHIE TRUEMAN RUSH, Jr. passed away. 


14 Jul 2012: RUSH REUNION Poem and Recap Article


26 Jan 2012: GOLDIE (WINTERS) HOOPER HARRISON passed away. 

11 Nov 2011:  WEDDING: Eldon Church of the Nazarene, Miller County, MO. Pastor Jerry FRYE officiated at not only the bride and groom's wedding, but also the bride's mother and father’s wedding and it was like a reunion of the RUSH and CARRENDER families with three hundred guests, at least! 

11 Nov 2011: VETERAN TOMBSTONES: Two new tombstones have been ordered and delivered from the government for family Civil War veterans - Rev. Alexander SULLENS, Spring Garden cemetery and Isham GORDON, Eugene cemetery. Both will be set later this week. 

16 Jul 2011: STATE FAIR. One of the highlights of country life is exhibiting or working in county or state fairs. While listening in to several conversations going on around me at the reunion, I heard rumors that there might be exhibitors at one of the upcoming county fairs? Great show and tell for all the kid’s hard work this past year in 4-H, Future Farmers of America or in scouting.
I know that several family members have worked at or exhibited at our state fair in Sedalia, Missouri in the past. If you have won a ribbon, congratulations! Please make a note of it in the comments below and tell what you won the ribbon for so all of us can congratulate you also!

9 Jul 2011: RUSH REUNION. Great success! It looked as though we had some newly built picnic tables with stained wood at the shelter, so that was a welcome sight! Sunday morning we attended church at Eldon Church of the Nazarene. I saw quite a few of the Rush family there! Very good sermon on family! Isn’t it amazing how timely God is?

30 Jul 2010: LARRY "KELAN" SPALDING, Age 74, passed away Friday, 30 Jul 2010, in Springfield, MO.

10 Jul 2010: RUSH REUNION. The day dawned beautifully; not too warm with a nice breeze under the picnic shelter at the Eldon Air Park. I heard that Friday's pool party had a good turn-out, but we missed several at the potluck on Saturday. You know one can't beat a picnic to the park with good company and making memories with the kids and grandparents. 

19 Jun 2010: NEW TOMBSTONES. Last year, just before the annual Rush Reunion, two new tombstones were placed on the graves of brothers, James M. "Kain Tuck" Rush and John William Rush, who fought in the Civil War together in the Rush Chapel Cemetery. The Rush family collected enough money last year to replace ten gravestones that were badly deteriorated. They were replaced with new ones by the Kidwell Monument Company, Versailles, MO. in May.

6 Jun 2010: VIANNA LOUISE (FARLEY) STEEN, 72, of Independence, Missouri, passed away. 

Spring/Summer 2008: TRANSCRIPTION. "The Pioneer Wagon" Journal of the Jackson County, MO. Genealogical Society.

Compiled by Dolores J. Rush, Updated: 5/25/2022