Many years ago whenever we went to my inlaws for Thanksgiving or Christmas my mother-in-law made Chex Mix. Our family loved it. A week ago Dear One asked me if I was going to make Chex Mix this year. Well, I had not thought of doing that. I decided to begin thinking about it. I looked for a recipe for Chex Mix. The cereal boxes had recipes.
The recipe rang a bell so I made it. The cereal box chex mix recipe did not give instructions, only the ingredients. SO...I made the mix then cooked the recipe at 300 degrees F. This was obviously too high a temperature.
When I was bemoaning the less than optimal results of my first effort, our daughter said she had her grandmother's recipe. She sent it to me and I made Mother C's recipe.
This was Mother C's Recipe:
Chex Mix
1.5 cup peanuts
1.5 cup pretzel sticks broken in half
6 Tbl butter melted
2 Tbl Worcestershire sauce
1-1/2 tsp season salt
1 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
200 for 1 hour. Stir every 20 minutes
Put all the chexs, peanuts, and pretzels/Cheezits in a large roasting pan. Melt the butter and add the seasonings. Whisk well then pour the mixture over the chex mix. As far as the butter, I did not want 2 Tablespoons leftover so I used the whole 8 Tablespoons of butter. Dear One does not like pretzels so I used Cheezits Crackers in place of pretzels.
The oven at 300 degrees was too hot for the mix so I followed her 200 degree F oven heat.
In the picture on the left below is the Mother C's Chex Mix recipe. On the right is the Chex Mix from the cereal boxes but cooked at 100 degrees too hot. Also that mix has Wheat Chex which burned and gave the mix a rather unpleasant taste. Still...it was not so bad but what some people in our house were able to choke down a good bit of it...!
That is the original recipe and I still
ReplyDeleteMake it every year!