Classic Oven-Baked Chex Mix

     Chex mix is anther one of my family's Christmas staples.  My grandma used to make huge tubs of it for when we were all around.  My mom makes it every year too.  My brother Clint can eat his weight in it.  My brother K.C. says chex mix is his favorite Christmas cookie! ;-)  I remember getting out the chex mix pan and making it every year.  You bake it, stirring every so often until it is just right.

The family's official chex mix pan.  It was on of my great-grandma's roaster pan, right MiMi?

    So imagine my surprise when all of the chix mix recipes had you "bake" it in the microwave!  Not my chex mix!  I had the official chex mix pan out and ready to go.  I wasn't turning to the microwave now.  So, I finally found a recipe and made it the way I remembered it.  Yum!

Classic Oven-Baked Chex Mix

Ingredients:

3 cups corn chex

3 cups rice chex

3 cups wheat chex

1 cup peanuts

2 cups pretzels

2 cups cheese crackers

6 T butter

2 T Worcestershire sauce

1 1/2 tsp seasoned salt

1 tsp garlic powder

1/2 tsp onion

1. Preheat oven to 250 F
2. Place butter in the bottom of a large roasting pan. Put in oven until butter is melted.
3. Stir in Worcestershire, seasoned salt, garlic and onion powders.
4. Stir in cereal peanuts, pretzels and cheese crackers.
5. Bake for an hour, stirring every 15 minutes.
6. Allow to cool completely before placing in an airtight container to store.