Nanny's Cracker Pudding

This cracker pudding is incredible! Sweet, creamy with a little bit of the cracker lumps...Just what I needed after a long, hard day at ........ school! :)

Nanny's Cracker Pudding

1 quart milk
2 eggs
Scant 1/2 cup sugar
Vanilla to taste
1 cup Ritz crackers
Baker angel flake coconut (short kind)

Heat milk but don't scald or burn. Add sugar and dissolve. Crush crackers and add to the milk.
Turn off the heat under the milk. Take a small amount and slowly beat into the eggs, making sure the pudding base is cooled a bit.
Once its well mixed, put it back into the pudding base and cook a bit longer.
Add the coconut, stir.

Sadie Lebo's Famous Coconut Cake!

Sadie Lebo and I aren't related, but she was a dear, dear woman I met through our many trips to the now-defunct Reinholds Athletic Club. She was a waitress there and she and her husband, Popeye, were great people.
This cake was famous throughout the area and no one could ever hope to duplicate it.
Thanks to Sadie's daughter-in-law, Janet Miller for sharing it with me. When I was a Charge Nurse at the Denver Nursing Home, Janet's father was a patient there. I asked her about the recipe and she not only got it for me, she handed it to me, in Sadie's handwriting! I value this as I do my own grandmother's recipes. Thank you Janet, and thank you Sadie.

Sadie Lebo's Coconut Cake (as served at the Reinhold's AC)

2 cups of granulated sugar
1/2 cup of butter
4 egg yolks
Mix these three together.

2 cups of flour
Pinch of salt
3/4 cup of sweet milk
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup of coconut
1 tsp vanilla
4 egg whites beaten stiff ( mix in last)

Cream the butter, sugar, egg yolks, adding ingredients alternately with the milk.
Add the vanilla, then coconut.
Lastly fold in egg whites.
Put in oven, bake at 360 degrees for 4o minutes.

Enjoy!