Tasty Seasonal Recipes
A Sauce -y Chocolate Fronting
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What's sauce for the pudding may be trotting lor thi flake! This
fine sauce with the rich flavor of unsweetened chocolate can bo
made into a frosting just by adding two cup* of sugar to tha basic
recipe.
* Fudge Sauce and Frosting
6 squares unsweetened 1 % cup* (1 tall can) undiluted
chocolate evaporated milk
cup butter or margarine t% teafepcoii* va:ii..a
cup* sifted confectioners'
sugar
Melt chocolate and butter in saucepan. Remove from heat Add
sugar, alternately with milk, blending well after each addition.
Place over medium heat and bring to a boil, stirriag constantly.
Then 000k and stir about 8 minutes, or uatil milium heroine >
thick and creamy. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Serve
warm aa a sauce. Makes 3 cups sauce.
To Make F rot ting, use 2 cup* of the above recipe and cool to
room temperature. Then add an additional 2 cup* sifted confec
tioners' sugar, blending well. Makes 2V4 cup* frosting, or enough
to cover tope and aides of two S- or 9-inch layers, or 24 cupcake*.
Herbed Beans Make Hie Meal
Yon can incite ? meal of Hubed Beanl or accent add extend
summer's barbecued meats, the' rows of. winter-time. The simple
ingredient* are Greet Northern bean* ? that large white grown
in-Idaho variety, plump, tender, full-of-flavor ? and a mafic
blending of herbs with a ham bone cooked in or meat drippings
added before serving.
Have you met theee unusual Idaho-grown been* ? the "Great
Northerns" as the attractive bags on your grocer's shelves will
read? They are well worth your acquaintance. Obligingly they
become salad, soup, meat accompaniment, main coutae dishes,
contributing "Good Eating" not only in food enjoyment , ? ,
They, with others of the Bean Family, are sotM of e<lr richest
common sourose of protein among foMs of plant origin. High in
food energy, bean* ate also good suppliers of B- vitamins and aome
of the important mineral*, iron especially.
Hsrbed Beans, Idaho Style . . r
You'll need, lot 6 substantial servings: 2 cuds Idaho Great
Northern (large white) dried beans, 6 cups 'water lot Snakisg and
cooking, 1V4 to 2 teaspoons salt unless ham bona or rind is used,
1 large onion stuck with 1 cloves, 1 smaQ-lsh bay Uaf, J fat doves
of garlic, frsah or dried herbs, pan juices from roast er butter.
To prepare bean* dry bean * cooked without sooMnf take longer
to cook and are not eo tender ae thoee looked overnight ar by the
hot water method. Overnight method: cover wathea beans with
the cold water. Allow to ttand overnight ? It to IS hours. Or
morning method: cover washed bean a with the cold water. Bring
to boiling point over high heat, boil briskly 3 mlnvtH only. Re
move from heat; cover, let stand 1 hour. Us* heavy p?t with Ugbt
fitting cover.
To cook the beans: for full natural flavor and to save vitamin
and minerals, use the soaking water for cooking. Place over high
heat Add 1 teaspoon butter to keep down the foam, and all ingre
dients except herb* and drippings. Bring to boiling pdiht- oovsr
and reduce heat so that water will smfniar. Cook paans about 1
hours or until tender but not mushy. Than stir in 2 to 4 tablespoons
snipped fresh parsley and herbs of your choice, from garden or J*r.
Winter savory, marjoram, thyme make a food combination? -about
% teaspoon each dried crushed herbs, double for fresh. Or try
thyme and oregano or basil. 8tir in pan iuioss from roast lew of
Iamb or other roasted meat or 3 tablespoons butter. Serve piping-hot
Nogs for Summer Sipping
Quick Chocolate Nor will help avoid too light a diet this nirnmPT,
since with thia heveragc, a simple fruit salad or sandwich will
make a delicious and nutritious lunch. The chocolate flavor of
thia Nog is so easy to achieve, using quick chocolate- flavored mix
that dbpanes instantly in milk. TT>*rs ia extra nonrishuaat la
quick chocolate flavored mix because it i* fwlMail wkh vitamin
C and iron.
A wonderfully refreshing drink that is frothy and flavorful,
you'll enjoy Quick Chocolate Nog any day thia ainin. If ffca
heat over-take* you and you ran feel too lackadaisical to tackle
making a Quick Chocolate Nog, then just stir quick chocolate
flavored mix into milk for a nourishing yet even simpler solution
to bemagas that go with summer meal sc bunas. (
Qalek Chocolate Nag
J eggs H cop <?ick choonlato favored mix
V, cap sugar i cups c?4d milk
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Pour into 4 tall glaaase. Yield: 4 serving*.
Note: Mixture tends to separata upon standing; beat wall Mora
serving.
Season ... A New Dessert
plain, and makes interesting sail
son elaborate desserts. Used hen
mm for a rich and testy filling, i
"dapple" ol pineapple. You Will
crumbs and 2 tablespoons sugar. Add batter and mix
irmly into the bottom of an i-inch square pan. Chill,
aeapple, reeerving juice. Dissolve gelatin in boiling wa
neap pie juice. Cool. Meanwhile, combine cream cheeee.
1, s tablespoons sugar and vanilla.
U cup cooled gelatin and the pineapple. Set aside,
sdj remaining gelatin to cream cheese imxture, Uend
aooth. Fold into sour cream. Pour onto graham cracker
I until fin*. Then carefully spoon on the pineapple
U0. Makes about 9 servings.
Ffaseappb Dapple
graham cracker IV* cups boiling water
1 package (3 ounces)
cream cheeee, softened
teaspoon orange rind
3 tablespoons sugar
V4 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sour cream
Porcupine Meatballs Please
Youngsters of All Ages
Youngster* of all ages love porcupine meatballs became
they're lota of fun to eat. The ground beef, mixed with egga,
onion, panley, and ipicea, is cooked in a delicious sauce cre
ated in ? twinkling from canned condensed tomato soup. Qreen
bean* with white onions, brown-and -serve French rolls ? cut
lengthwise? and raw vegetable relishes complete the main
meiL For dessert, theres ice cream with strawberry sauce
and cookies.
PORCUPINE MEATBALLS
1 MM (1IV& ounce*) condensed
1 mad imurf beef
V4 cup uncooked rice
1 e?t. illghllr beeien
V? cup minced onion
I tablespoons asters 1 parsley
1 Iminn salt
1 small ?!?** ?mU*. mtaeed
2 tablespoons shortening
1 cup water
Mix M cup soup with beef, rice, egg, onion, parsley, ana
nit Shape into balls inches in diameter (about 16). Brown
meatballs and garlic in shortening; blend in remaining soup
and water. Cover. Simmer about 40 minutes, or until rice la
tender; stir often. Makes 4 servings.
Breezy Way's Best For Junior Guests
Lucky i* the child who can have hi* birthday party outdoor*
or on a patio or porch. Hb mother M fortunate, too became with
tha formality ol damaak and china packed awav with winter wooU
Tomato Soup Tops Menu
For Good Springtime Eating
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Spring, the light-hearted season, demands meaU ot ? mat^
ing mood. Gay and delightful Tomato c?nfettiSoup?a m?^
riag? of canned condensed tomato soup and beef broth gar
nXd with green pepper and cucumber-is easy on toe eye
and easy on the c?k. Serve it in mugs and sip It with a
?upper of Hamburger Balls and Nutted Green Beans, lasty
Hawaiian Mae?roons will lie just right for dessert.
?UTt*D QUEEN BEANS
H cup butter .
4 jug tailed pauiutt. cut in
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Cook sreea bean* until Under. Drain; add Duiusr
But*. Season to Tote lightly. Makes 4 to ? ?ervin*?.
HAWAIIAN MACA?OOH8
1 box (13 ouncM) OM*nut
macaroon mix
14 (*out ! cup) minted pine
apple chunks
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Pickaback Cookies
Give Soacktime Lift
A new type of cookie comas oat of the cookie kt to make
mack time a complete newer It'* called a Chocolate Pickaback
and it combines two of America's favorite cookie ingredient*, choco
late and oatmeal. The crisp oatmeal baa* supports a creamy choco
late filling, and a smaller oatmeal cookie foes for a rfde on top.
Semi-eweetchocolate moras!*, tfcr nuggets that made Toll House
cookiee famous, turn into a nch-taeting, d e luxe Oiling. These
versatile morsels, which can bo eaten just ae they come from the
package, melt smoothly over hot water. Combined with cream
cheese, they make a soft mixture that contracts nicely with the
crisp cookies. The chocolate and oatmeal flavors am on eacallent
term*, too.
Pickaback fssklns
H cup shortening U teaspoon baking soda
% cup sugar Y* teaspoon salt
1 egg 1% cups rolled oats
V, teaspoon vanilla . - % cup chopped nuts
V{ cup sifted flour
Cream toapther shortening, sugar, egg and vanilla. Sift in Hear,
soda and salt Add oats and nuts. Mix well. Form into equal num
ber* of 1-inch and y.-inch balb. Place on Magr.amd cookie sheet
and flatten with spatula or bottom of glass dipped in floor. Bake
in a moderate own (37 VP.) 10 minutee or until lightly browned.
Cbot Spread Chocolate Filling* on large cookies; top with "
1 6-oonce
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morsel*
V4 cup sifted
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Melt semi-swaet chocolate morsels ,
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Saucy Butterscotch Tops AKj
Buttaracotch, as typical of Scotland as plaids and bagpipaa.
takes a quick trip around the world to join forcaa with crushed
pineapple in an exotic dessert sauce. This meeting of West and
East produces a sauce of mellow color and flavor that glamorises
ice craam or caka.
Thanks to faattoraootch favored morsels, the (sues can he mada
in a few mimiMe and, once made, it keeps well in the refrigerator.
Butterscotch morsels are the same size and shape as the famoua
semi-sweet chocolate morsels that go into Toll House cookies.
Like ihe chocolate morsels, too, they can be eaten as a candy,
put into cookie dough, or melted for use in saucea. fro* tings or
baked goods. But they have a flavor all their own, the Savor so
popular In traditional butterscotch candy. Because thaae rr-rssis
melt so readily, they need only be stirred into the simmer. is
apple to miilnta the sauce.
' - Battencoteh-Plneapple Skill* Saase
1 can <9 ounces) crushed 2 tablespoons butter
' pineapple X B ounce package (1 cup)
v butterscotch ?raisla
Put crushed pineapple with syrup into saucepan. Add butter and
bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat; simmer 6 min
utes. Remove from heat. Add butterscotch morsels and stir until
melted. Yield: Approximately l'/i cups.
Not*: If sauos is chilled in refrigerator, reheat ovsr low beat,
hefaaa serving.
Grapefruit Spring Plentiful
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What would springtime dinners be without Im Bad Florida
grapefruit? Although they usually appear on the menu separately,
these two plantifnti aru a food team when prepared tngilhii as
a dinner antes Sl
The Juicy tartnaa o t grapefruit foes well with ham aad since
the fruit lends itself to broiling it can be done right on the broiler
rack with s tnick ham slice. If you're not familiar with broiled er
baked grapefruit, try it soon and see what a treat tt can be. The
heat iihiis to bring out the sunshine flavor of Florida's prize fruit.
This time of year brings lots of grapefruit from Florida to local
markets so buy enough to serve them often as Juios and halves,
in salads and fruit cups, and in cooking.
Broiled Crapefrait aad Ham
3 Florida grapefruit 3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 ready-to-eat 1-inch thick 1 tablespoon catchup
ham slice Vi teaspoon Tabasco
Cut Florida grapefruit In half; remove core if desired. Cut around
each section I lossalnj fruit from membrane. Do not cut around
entire outer edge of fruit. Place ham in pre-heated broiler; broil
10 minutes. While ham is broiling, blend together sugar, catchup
and Tabasco. Spread part of the topping ovsr cut surface of grape
fruit halves. At end of 10 minutes, turn ham; spread with remain
ing topping. Place grapefruit halves on broiler rack with ham.
Broil ? lowly 15 to 20 minutes, or until heated through. Yield:
4 servings.
Note: If dssirad, ham and grapefruit may be bakad hi a moderate
oven, (3S0*F.) 46 minutes.
Hamburgers Take Shape
Small, large, round or lone ? ? ? hamburgers an the shape of
things to mma. Boom will bo decorated with lettuce, tomato or
onion, other* with rhsm ? or a pickle or olive perched atop a
toothpick.
All thsae hamburgers, irrespective of (hope, die or garnieh, will
have one thin* in common: delicious taste, because Ac'cent baa
brought out thsir fall bwf flavor and juiciness. Once your meat
is wall m? lined, shape it to suit your mood ? and almost any