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Down East Cooking
By REBA W. MITCHELL
There is more than apple butter when it comes to different
butters to put on toast or biscuits. There are ways of using fruit
butters other than using them as spreads and toppings, but
many people do not know about them. In desserts, you can
avoid fattening creams by using thick fruit butters to line
baked tart shells or fill tiny pastries. For an even "skinnier”
dessert, try stewing fresh or dried fhiit in a mixture of 2 cups
fruit juice and 'A cup fruit butter.
For appetizers, fold together one part fruit butter and one
part yogurt and use for a dip with fresh apple, pear and peach
slices. You can thin the dip with bit of juice and make a
dressing for fruit salad.
To use for a glaze for roasting chicken, try thinning 'A cup
fruit butter with fruit juice. Spread the glaze on the chicken
before roasting. Try creating your own combinations, like
cranberry-grape, apple-pear or apricot-lime. When making
fruit butters, always use a pot with a heavy bottom.
high for 20 to 25 minutes, or until tender, giving dish a quarter-
turn every 5 minutes. Mash pumpkin if desired. Makes 3 to 4'A
cups mashed pulp or 5 to 6 cups of cubes.
Touted Pumpkin Seede
I cup pumpkin* iecfk
1 lb*, butler
'/* Up. ull
Wash the seed and drain well, removing fiber. Spread seeds
in a single layer to dry. stirring ft-om time to time.
Line a 9-inch plate with 2 layers of paper towels. Sprinkle
seeds on towels. Microwave on high for 13 to 14 minutes or
until seeds or dry but still white. Stir every 5 minutes during
drying process and then let stand for 5 minutes. Place butter in
a 2-cup measuring cup and melt in microwave. Add seeds and
salt and stir to coat. Serve as a snack.
1 Vt minutes or until butter melts. Stir in walnuts, oats, graham
cracker crumbs and Vt cup sugar and mix well.
Press mixture evenly over bottom and sides of pie plate then
microwave on high for 1 or 2 minutes.
Combine pumpkin, brown sugar, half-and-half, eggs, apple
juice, cinnamon, ginger and salt, mixing well. Microwave on
high for 6 to 8 minutes or until mixture begins to thicken,
stirring every two minutes. Pour into crust and microwave on
medium (50 percent) power for 10 to 15 minutes or until set,
giving pie plate a quarter-turn every 5 minutes. Serve with
whipped cream if desired.
Along The Pathway
Grape Butler
6 pound* of grape*
'A cup water
Honey
In a large, heavy-bottomed kettle combine grapes and wa
ter. Cook for about 30 minutes, stirring and mashing fre
quently.
Run the mixture through a food mill to remove seeds and
hulls. Return the mixture to the kettle with the honey to taste
(if desired). Cook until thick, about 2 hours. Fill clean 'A pint
jars, put on lids and screw bands tight. Process in boiling
water for 10 minutes. Makes 3'/2 cups. Fruit butters can be
frozen. To serve, defrost in refrigerator overnight.
Aulunui Fruit Chutney
Pumpkins are for mor than just carving and decorating.
Pumpkins can be used for pies and other baked treats. Pump
kin is great for the microwave.
Quick pumpkin pie features a crunch graham cracker, oat
and walnut crust that is mixed in the pie plate it’s cooked in.
The filling is cooked in the mixing bowl. As it begins to thick
en, it can be stirred, then it’s poured into the crust. That creates
a real saving on dirty dishes.
Pumpkin’s nut-like flavor makes it a perfect partner to serve
with meat. Autumn fruit chutney combines cubes of pump
kin, apple and raisins seasoned with orange juice, cinnamon
and ginger. It is a delicious relish to savor with pork or poultry.
'A orange juice
I cup (irmly packed brown augar
1 tbs. lemon juice
Vt tap. ginger
V* tap. cinnamon
1 cup cubed apples
1 cup cooked pumpkin cube*
'A cup golden raisin*
Combine orange juice, brown sugar, lemon juice, ginger and
cinnamon in a 2-quart casserole. Stir in cubed apples. Cover
tightly with plastic wrap, fold back a small edge to Mlow steam
to escape. Microwave on high for 2 minutes or until apples are
crisp and tender. Add pumpkin and raisins, cover and micro-
wave on high for 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated. Stir
after 1 minute. Serve with pork, poultry or ham.
Cooked Fresb Pumpkin
1 5- to 6-pound pumpkin
Cut pumpkin in half crossways. Remove seeds and set aside.
Peel and cut pumpkin into 1-inch cubes, place in shallow
2-quart dish. Cover tightly with heavy plastic wrap, fold back
small edge of wrap to allow steam to escape. Microwave on
Quick Pumpkin Pie
Vt cup plus 2 Iba, butler
Vt cup chopped walnut*
Vt eup uncooked oats (quick cooking)
Vt cup graham cracker crumb*
2 cup* cooked mashed pumpkin
Vt cup brown sugar
Vt cup sugar
1 cup half-and-half
3 eggs, slightly beaten
2 lbs. apple juice
1 Isp. cinnamon
V* Isp. ginger
Vt Isp. salt
whipped cream (optional)
Place butter in a 9-inch pie plate, microwave on high for 1 to
Along the pathway of life you may have failed to commit
your life to the Lord before your children grew up and began
lives of their own. You may now wonder how to turn your
children around to the ways of the Lord. With you, it is im
possible. With God, all things are possible if you will really
trust Him.
If you have waited to commit your life to the Lord after your
children have gone out to face the world without real Chrisfiah’
training, or maybe your children are teen-aged, there is still a
job for you to do. Let them see the change the Lord has
brought in your life. Tell them what He has done for you and
what He can do for them. If they will commit themselves to the
same Jesus that has set your free, they can be set free from sin
also. Keep them before God always in prayer, knowing that He
does really hear you and will deliver them. God does not fail.
He never lost a battle yet. ’The answer does not always come
when we first ask. It may be days, weeks or longer, but remem
ber if we wait on the Lord, He will renew our strength.
We see the woman of Canaan that came to Jesus in behalf of
her daughter. In the Book of Matthew, chapter IS, verses 15
through 28, verse 28 tells us Jesus answered, “O woman, great
is thy faith: be it unto you as thy wilt.” And her daughter was
made whole from that very hour.
If we fail to get results, we need to check our faith. Are we
really believing without a doubt? Are we really living a Ife that
is Christ-like? Do we wait on the Lord with patience? The
answer may not always come at the time we think it should,
but if we continue in faith the answer will come. God will
deliver just has He has promised. He never fails.
Co-op’s
Publication
Gets Honor
Carteret-Craven Electric Mem
bership Corporation’s (EMC)
consumer-member newsletter
has been cited for outstanding
achievement in an evaluation
program for the state’s EMCs’
newsletters.
The Communicator was one of
10 winners in the inaugural prog
ram, sponsored by the N.C. Asso
ciation of Electric Cooperatives
(NCAEC)—the trade association
for the state’s 28 EMCs. Frank L.
Lloyd, editor, received the news
letter’s "Award of Excellence” at
an editor's workshop in Raleigh.
The Communicator is the
EMC’s monthly publication
circulated to over 23,000 consum
er-members of the co-op.
The newsletters were rated by
a panel of three judges and
awarded points for the coverage
of EMC activities, the co-op’s role
in the community, clarity and
forthrightness and reader
appeal.
Newsletters that met estab
lished requirements were hon
ored.
Other EMCs honored were:
Blue Ridge EMC, Lenoir; Cres
cent EMC, Statesville; Edge-
combe-Martin County EMC, Tar-
boro; Four County EMC,
Burgaw; Halifax EMC, Enfield;
Piedmont EMC, Hillsborough;
Roaoke EMC, Rich Square; 'Tri-
County EMC, Dudley and Union
EMC, Monroe.
Pray Without Ceasing
God, you know where my loved ones are today.
If one falls along life’s way,
I know you were there, you did see,
I know you will hear my earnest plea.
I will keep them before you day and night.
On them you will shine your great light.
So they will plainly see their great need.
My loved one from destruction you will lead.
Because in prayer I keep them before you.
Trusting that you will make the anew.
In their lives old things will pass away.
As they step out in a brand new day.
With all things by you made, made anew.
Set free, dear Lord Jesus, by you.
Because I will pray without ceasing.
And upon you dear Lord I am depending.
■ Reba VF. Mitchell
Uoyd receives award from James M. Hubbard, NCAEC vice president
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