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It's holiday party season! Hubby wanted to do this classic party mix recipe for people to be ready to entertain this season. It's a super easy recipe (especially after that incredibly complex recipe last week!) and it is a highly addictive party food! If you put bowls of this out at your party, they will disappear! It goes by a lot of different names: Party mix, snack mix, Chex Mix (if you've got Chex on hand), but we just call it Trash.
Obviously, it is highly customizable. Replace any of the cereals with something similar. Replace the Goldfish crackers with any sort of cheesy cracker (Cheese Nips, Cheez-Its), use your favourite nuts, make it spicier with more Tabasco, whatever suits your tastes. A few things we usually find are indispensable, though: Plain Cheerios, Crispix, and those seasoned Planters dry-roasted peanuts. It is very much a mix-and-match sort of recipe of whatever you like. Warning: It is highly addictive and you will just want to keep putting it in your face.
northoftheborder
(7,566 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,159 posts)You should subscribe to this channel, IMHO. Good recipes well explained, and supporting a DU member
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Equipment:
(very) large mixing bowl
small sauce pan or microwave safe measuring cup (for melting butter)
flat-bottomed roasting pan or sheet pans (with walls)
Ingredients:
2 cup Cheerios or similar
2 cup Post Shreddies or similar
2 cup Crispix or rice or corn Chex
2 cup pretzel sticks
2 cup Cheese Bits or similar small cheese cracker
1 lb dry-roasted peanuts with coating
12 oz pecan pieces
12 oz walnut pieces
12 oz deluxe mixed nuts one can
3?4 lb butter melted
1?3 cup Worcestershire
1 tsp Tabasco
Saviolo
(3,270 posts)Totally flubbed that when filling in the description
The Polack MSgt
(13,159 posts)But , copy pasters would've had some very hot but not very salty, party mix.
Like the channel cousin.
Saviolo
(3,270 posts)Freddie
(9,232 posts)Came down on stone tablets from Grandma.
1 box Cheerios
1 box Rice Chex
6 cups thin pretzel sticks (more or less)
1 cup salted peanuts
Mix together in large roaster pan (I use disposable turkey pans)
Melt 1.5 sticks margarine. Stir in:
1.5 tsp garlic powder
.5 tsp onion salt
.5 tsp celery salt
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Mix with cereal stuff, trying to coat as much as possible.
Oven 250
Bake 1 hr covered w foil
1 hr uncovered
Stir every 15 min.
Cool and eat. Store in tightly covered container.
I believe this might be the actual original recipe as there is nothing modern in it like Crispix or Goldfish or bagel chips. (When I was a kid in Pennsylvania Dutch country we didnt know what a bagel was!)
Saviolo
(3,270 posts)There's gotta be about as many variations of this recipe as there are families who make it!
PennyK
(2,300 posts)When I cheat this is something I always get (and I hide it from my husband. I can make a simulation using just nuts, but obviously the Chex or other cereal are the main attraction.
Saviolo
(3,270 posts)They soak up a whole ton of the butter mixture and shrink when they're baked and concentrate all that flavour. So good.