Quick! Name the four Bonines who competed in the 1986 Cookie Cook-Off.

Duncan, Randall T, Russell, and Liz the Wiz (Mary)?

Correct! Make one of them give you a cookie!

I think that was the year that Russell made the raisin and ketchup cookies. Sounds bad, but they were actually quite tasty.

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I'll take Bonine family history for $2000, Alex....

[This message has been edited by Richard Bonine, Jr. (2/17/2011)]

I've been trying to get my hands on that recipe for a couple of years.

It was the only time that I won a wooden spoon!

I've been trying to get my hands on that recipe for a couple of years.

My guess is that it is in a box...

Ketchup and Raisin Cookies

1 c. margarine
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 3/4 c. sifted flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/8 tsp. salt
1/4 c. ketchup
3/4 c. raisins

Beat margarine until light. Gradually add sugars, beating constantly. Beat until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla to blend well.
Sift together dry ingredients. Stir into creamed mixture alternately with ketchup. Fold in raisins. Drop heaping teaspoons of dough 2 inches apart on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Remove to cooling rack. Brush on Lemon Glaze while hot. Makes 4 dozen cookies.

Lemon Glaze
1 1/2 c. sifted powdered sugar
2 T. strained lemon juice

Stir until smooth. Add more juice 2 drops at a time if needed to make a transpaent glaze. Makes 1/2 cup.

"Correct! Make one of them give you a cookie!"

Give a man a cookie and he eats for a minute. Give a man a recipe for a cookie and he can have his wife make him a whole batch.

Now Mary - be fair. Russell will probably make his own batch.

Amorette - your mom was such a good sport to come judge cookies, take pictures and write stories about those cook-offs, and numerous other events.

I remember my first wooden spoon. . .
(and not the one that was in my mouth when i was born)

I remember my first wooden spoon. . .
(and not the one that was in my mouth when i was born)

Makes you a sliver-tongued devil...

Thanks for starting this, Amorette.

Hey...ketchup in the cookie or not, wooden spoon or not, the Bonines are some of my favorite people from back home! Here's to ya.

Thanks, Shu.


(I also remember my fourth spoon)

If the Bonine family was like our family, you needed a lot of wooden spoons. Mom kept breaking our wooden spoons on us boys' rear ends! (well, not mine, I was perfect)

If the Bonine family was like our family, you needed a lot of wooden spoons.

The Bonine family was NOTHING like your family.

Next time the Library does trivia night, they should have a Bonine category.

I was going to say that those ketchup and raisin cookies couldn't be beat. But after reading the recipe, I stand corrected.

From an outsider, how many Bonine's are there?

My grandparents moved to Miles City in the forties and had several businesses on Main St. My parental unit had 13 kids. There is nearly a quarter of a century between the oldest (myself) and my youngest brother. I may have one niece who still lives in , but the rest of us have moved and are scattered to the ends of the earth. Most all of us were in 4-H and FFA, and other things in school.

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Richard: Russell and Mary were in the Prairie Scooters 4-H Club when Betty Randall and I were the organizational leaders. Where are Russell and Mary and what are they doing these days?

From an outsider, how many Bonine's are there?

a bakers dozen

Because there is already a thread with our name on it....
Let this post serve as a thirty day notice to the citizens of Miles City and the surrounding area that the Bonine clan will be converging in their hometown for a long-awaited and much-anticipated family reunion.
Prepare accordingly!

Prepare accordingly!

Mr. Allison might want to invest in a W..........I..........D.........E angle lens.

Let this post serve as a thirty day notice to the citizens of Miles City and the surrounding area that the Bonine clan will be converging in their hometown for a long-awaited and much-anticipated family reunion.

"Liz-the-Wiz" makes it sound like the Rainbow Family is coming to town. It's not that bad.

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Thank goodness it's next month after I'm back in Utah. My mom thought it was this weekend.

I'm hurt that you didn't want to see me and buy me a beer.

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Please keep us informed regarding the whereabouts of the gathering so that some of us who had "investments" in the union that started all this can meet and greet.

...so that some of us who had "investments" in the union that started all this can meet and greet.

Hmmm...sounds like a story I perhaps haven't ever heard.
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I have always thought it a shame that one of us Bonine boys didn't have the vision to marry one of the many cute Zook girls and another marry a Baldwin... the whole county would have been officially related.

Richard,

I can only handle one Bonine at a time.

Please keep us informed regarding the whereabouts of the gathering so that some of us who had "investments" in the union that started all this can meet and greet.

Bill - Guesthouse Inn will be primary headquarters. . .and Richard I've heard stories from Aunt Kay - in particular about Bill at the wedding - with leftovers from the bachelor party.

ready or not...

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Saw an excess of Boninage at the Range Riders yesterday for lunch! Hope you all had a good time. The hot rolls were very tasty. The kitchen workers snitched a few before we put them on the tables!

With the exception of the extended photo session. We had a great time. Thanks for the great meal and washing the dishes.

I also want to say thanks to Tab Fleming and his crew for the great lunch today in the park. The potato salad was the best I have ever eaten. I like to get the recipe for that if I could. Great Job.