Nibbles
This party food, or just anytime snack recipe originated in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Total Time
2-2½ hours
Servings
20
2 boxes (16 cups/1 kg/2.2 lb) rice Chex cereal
1 box (8 cups/500 g/1.1 lb) wheat Chex cereal
⅔ box (5 cups/320 g/11 oz) Cheerios
1 bag (3 cups/250 g/8.8 oz) thin pretzels
1 lb (6 cups/450 g) peanuts
1 lb (6 cups/450 g) pecans
1 can (3 cups/250 g/8.8 oz) cashews
Salt to taste
3 sticks (375 g/13.2 oz) margarine
Heaping ½ cup (150 g/5.3 oz) bacon grease
1¾–2 tablespoons garlic salt
2 tablespoons plus 1 dash Worcestershire sauce
Heaping ½ teaspoon Accent seasoning (MSG)
2 heaping tablespoons peanut butter
Melt and combine the sauce ingredients.
Combine all dry ingredients except salt in a large canning pot.
Sprinkle a little of the sauce mixture over dry ingredients, and shake well. Repeat until sauce is gone.
Salt the mixture by sprinkling and shaking in the same way.
Bake 1½–2 hours at 200 °F (95 °C) in covered canning pot.
2 hours
Remove frequently to shake.
- •Put the sauce in a canning jar, and punch several holes in the lid. Sprinkle by turning the jar upside down.
- •It took up to seven times of sprinkling and shaking to salt the mixture.
- •It is possible to substitute some vegetable oil for the bacon grease, but the result is less authentic.