Recipes--I warned you there might be recipes.

Besides writing columns for the two local newspapers over the years, I also wrote cooking columns for both, until I gave up "Aunt Jean's Kitchen", which appeared in The Hometown Journal, a few months ago. I had always collected cookbooks for years and even gave most of
them away last Christmas to family and friends, except for my very favorite recipe books.
Party mix must have been "invented' when I was a teen-ager (so very long ago) because I remember the first time I sampled some of it, it was love at first taste--and I still love it, although the strange thing is, I really don't like cereal and rarely eat it for breakfast. Weird,
huh?
I have my own recipe for party mix that I have tweaked over the years, but when I saw this
recipe in the Guideposts magazine, it interested me because it made such a huge batch.
The family who came up with the recipe for it calls it "Clutter Snack Mix", and it is as follows:

3 cups Rice Chex
3 cups Wheat Chex
3 cups Corn Chex
3 cups Kix
3 cups Cheerios
3 cups thin pretzels
1 pound mixed nuts (about 3 cups)
1/2 pound party peanuts (about 1 2/3 cups)
1/2 cup canola oil
1/2 cup bacon fat
1/2 cup butter (1 stick), melted
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon allspice
1 teaspoon celery salt
1 tablespoon Accent flavor enhancer (optional)
1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon red pepper (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place all dry ingredients in a large roasting pan. Mix oils, Worcestershire sauce and spices, pour over dry ingredients, basting every 20 minutes. Serves several dozen.

And this recipe I got from my friend, Bill Atwood--it is Velvetta Fudge:

1/2 lbs. margarine (or butter)
1/2 lbs. Velvetta cheese
1/2 cup cocoa
2 lbs. powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup chopped nuts
Melt margarine (or butter) and cheese over low heat (double boiler) or microwave. In large bowl, mix powdered sugar and cocoa together. Pour hot margarine and cheese mixture over the sugar and cocoa mixture. Mix thoroughly. Add vanilla and nuts. Press into a 9x13" pan. Put in refrigerator 15 minutes before cutting.
I made a batch last night. Very tasty.
To me a perfect evening would be a good helping of party mix, followed by some Velvetta
cheese fudge!!