Elvira's Recipe Book

         

Elvira's Spooktacular Snack Mix

In a large bowl, mix the following (substitutions allowed are in parenthesis)...

1/2 c. blood drops (red hots); 1/2 c. cats eyes (blanched almonds) or (gum drops); 1/2 c. cats claws (sunflower seeds); 1 c. chicken toenails (candy corn); 1 c. colored flies (M & M's); 1 c. butterfly wings (corn chips); 1 c. ants (raisins); 1 c. earthworms (cheese curls); 1 c.cobwebs (Triscuits) or (Golden Grahams); 1 c. snakes eyes (peanuts); 1 c. bats bones (shoestring potatoes).

Serve with several pints of blood (cherry punch).

Elvira's Mystical Punch

Ice cube tray; Raisins; 4 1-pint bottles cranberry juice; 2-1/2 c peach juice; 1 c fresh lime juice; 2 c orange juice; sugar to taste.

Place raisins in ice cube trays. Add water. Freeze. this will make them look like there are they have insects in them. Keep the juices refrigerated  until ready to use them. In a punch bowl, combine all the juices. Add the ice cubes and serve.

Live Mice Meatloaf

MICE BODIES... 1/2 c Catsup; 2 Egg whites; beaten; 6 oz Ground turkey; 6 oz Ground beef; 1 Onion; chopped fine; 2/3 c Oatmeal; uncooked; Salt and pepper to taste.

GARNISH... Carrots; Spaghetti noodles; uncooked; Raisins; Spaghetti sauce, canned

First cut 2 coins per mice out of the carrots for ears. Then make long thin strips out of the remaining carrots for the tails, one for each mouse. Steam until they are crisp tender. DON'T OVERCOOK!! Preheat oven to 350F.

Mix together the ingredients for the mice bodies and shape into 4 little mice shaped loafs on baking sheet. Have them shaped to a point in the front  and rounded in the back. Bake for 45 minutes in preheated oven or until  desired doneness. Take and cut little slits for the ears about 1/3 from the   pointed end. Place the carrot coins in the slits for the ears. Make a tiny slit in the rounded wide end for the tail and place one of the carrot  strips in the slit for the tail. Use the raisins for the eyes. Break the  uncooked spaghetti noodles into pieces and place around the "nose" (pointed end) for whiskers. Heat the spaghetti sauce. Place a large spoonful of  sauce on a plate. Place a meatloaf mouse on top of the spaghetti sauce to serve.