Imitation Raspberry Jelly--Grandma's recipes archival project

I've been meaning for years to copy all my grandma's recipes from her recipe box and then pass the box on to another relative, but it just hasn't been happening.  So now, I think I'm going to try to archive them this way, sharing one at a time as blog posts.  I think it is interesting to share as a way to honor my ancestor, as well as being a (mostly) interesting bit of food history.

I don't know if I've ever had all or even any of these recipes and am not planning on trying them all before posting them like I do with my own recipes.  This is an archive project, so I'm just sharing them as is, in the form I find them in, on these little index cards like shown below or the occasional scrap of paper.  Flipping through them, I've seen a number I know I won't try since they contain ingredients like the raspberry jello in this one or artificial sweeteners, but they are still kind of cool from a historical perspective.  To put a little perspective on the time frame these recipes were collected in, without oversharing personal information, my grandma lived from 1915 to 2001.

Great Aunt Marguarite's Johnnie Cake

My johnnie cakes (aka cornbread) had a greenish tinge to them since I used cornmeal made from the green dent corn of my garden.

I'm considering undertaking a project of archiving family recipes on here.  Some of them will be in the handwriting of the person that I got them from, but this is not one of those recipes.  It is a family recipe (Great Aunt Marguarite was my grandpa's sister), but I'm copying this from a typed up (by me) version of the original.  When I make it, I use whole wheat flour in place of the white flour and sea salt instead of "regular" salt (because that's how I roll) and I use milk and butter, rather than the buttermilk and shortening option, but in the interest of preserving family history, I'm copying the recipe exactly as it appears on my copy (where ever I got it from.  I'm not even sure where I got my copy from!).

Great Aunt Marguarite's Johnnie Cake

1 cup freshly ground corn meal

1 cup white flour

1/4 -1/2 cup sugar

1/2 tsp salt

4 tsp baking powder

1 egg

1 cup milk or buttermilk

1/4 cup soft shortening or 1/2 cup butter

Heat oven to 375 degrees.  Grease 8" pan or muffin pan.  Beat together cornmeal, flour, sugar, and salt until just mixed.  Beat in baking powder, egg, milk, and shortening until just mixed.  Pour into pan and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.