Stuffed Artichokes

The Recipe
This is a old family recipe that I'm sure my grand mother got somewhere else. However I always looked forward to Momma making these once a year. They are {fattening} delicious.

Ingredients:
4 - Artichokes
1 Cup - Parmesan Cheese
3.5 - Sticks of Margarine
1/3 Cup - Vegetable Oil
4 Cups - Italian Bread Crumbs
1 tsp - salt

How to prepare:
Before anything, you want to cut of the bottom stems of the artichoke to where it can sit by itself. Then wash them without pulling the leaving apart, drain well. Melt your margarine. Add your Italian bread crumbs & cheese together with your margarine. {Should be moist, not soupy}. Stuff as many leaves using 1 tsp of your mixture. Make sure you push bread crumbs down as best as possible.

Next you find a large pot - fill with 3 inches of water, your oil & your salt & place your artichokes in the pot. Bring water to boil {on high} & then cover and reduce to medium.
Cook for two hours. {Or until the leaves will just pull off very easily. Should not have to tug.

I had to use two pots. A smaller pot for just one artichoke. The one by itself cooked for 2 hours, however the other three I cooked for 3 hours.

You do not eat the leaves itself, however you bite down on the the leaf and pull with your teeth.

You'll love it.

You can thank  me later!