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The Best Orange Dote
Bars
IV4 Cups all purpose flour
V2 Teaspoon baking powder
y4 Teaspoon salt
% Cup (lVi sticks) butter or margarine
% Cup sugar
1 Egg
- 2 Teaspoons grated orange peel
1 Package (8 oz.) chopped dates
1 Cup coarsely chopped pecans
Orange Cream Cheese Icing
Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease a
13X9X2-inch baking pan. Sift together
flour, baking powder and salt into mixing
bowl; set aside. Melt butter in large
saucepan over low heat. Remove from
heat and stir in sugar, egg, flour mixture,
orange peel, dates and pecans; mix well
after each addition. Spread batter into
prepared pan. Bake 25-30 minutes or until
lightly browned and edges begin to pull
' way from sides of pan. Cool completely on
wire rack. Frost with Orange Cream
Cheese Icing. Store covered in
refrigerator. Cookies freeze well. Makes 36
lx 3-inch bars.
Orange Cream Cheese Icing: Combine 3
, oz. softened cream cheese, 1 cup sifted
confectioners’sugar and 1 teaspoon grated
'orange peel in small mixing bowl; blend
‘ well.
Rye And Molasses Bread
IVi Pkgs. active dry yeast
Va Cup warm water
1 Teaspoon sugar
% Cup molasses
1 Tablespoon grated orange rind
1 Tablespoon salt
lVt Teaspoons ground fennel seed
2 Cups buttermilk
Vi Cup rolled oats
Vz Cup wheat germ
2% Cups dark rye flour
lxk Cups Graham flour
1 Cup unbleached white flour (approx
imately)
2 Teaspoons whole fennel seed
Dissolve yeast in water with sugar. Set
aside in a warm place to proof, about 5
minutes.
Mix one tablespoon of the molasses with
one tablespoon warm water. Set aside to
use as a glaze. Combine remaining
molasses with orange rind, salt and
ground fennel in a small saucepan. Bring
to a boil, then mix with buttermilk in a
, large bowl. Stir in the yeast mixture.
Stir in the oats, wheat germ and rye flour
with a wooden spoon. Add the Graham
flour, half a cup at a time, to make a soft,
somewhat sticky dough. Turn dough out on
a board liberally spread with unbleached
white flour. Knead the dough until soft,
smooth and fairly elastic, adding
unbleached white flour as necessary.
Kneading should require 10 minutes. The
dough should still be soft but most of the
stickiness should be gone.
Place dough in a buttered bowl, cover and
set aside to rise until doubled, lVfe-2 hours.
Punch dough down, knead briefly and
divide in half.
Shape each portion of the dough into a nar
row, plump oval and press half the fennel
seeds into the top of each loaf. Set loaves
on a buttered baking sheet and set aside to
rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Brush each loaf
with molasses glaze prepared in step 2,
and bake in the middle of the preheated
oven until the loaves sound hollow when
tapped, about 35 minutes. Brush glaze on
loaves once or twice during baking.
Cool on racks loosely covered so crust re
mains soft. Do not slice until completely
cooled. Makes 2 loaves.
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Plan Super 1
Bowl Parties
With all due respect to the Super
Bowl, there are as many superlatives
associated with Super Bowl TV view
ing parties as there are with the big
game itself.
For example, according to the Na
tional Football League Public Rela
tions Department in New York City,
Super Bowl XXIV holds the world’s
record for the greatest number of
viewers of a single televised sporting
event. An estimated 109 million
Americans tuned in on Jan. 28,1989 to
watch the San Francisco 49ers defeat
the Denver Broncos. In addition,
another 750 million people in 54
foreign countries also watched the
game on home TV sets.
Super Sunday is one of the most
popular days of the year to throw a
party, a fact confirmed by the Na
tional Food Merchants’ Association.
The association says the 48-hour
period preceding the Super Bowl
kickoff is busier than nearly every
other two-day shopping period with
the exception of Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
And, a spokesman for the National
Association of Pizza Operators says
more customers order pizza
delivered at halftime of the Super
Bowl than at any other delivery
deadline of the year.
According to professional party
planners, all of these Super Bowl
phenomena provide insight on how to
plan and execute a successful Super
Bowl party.
First of all, make sure you have a
couple of TV sets with crisp color
quality.
second, snop your supermarket
party supply section early to scoop
up plenty of paper plates, cups and
napkins imprinted with football or
Super Bowl themes.
When guests begin arriving, make
sure you control the passing
game—keep passing trays of simple,,
easy-to-prepare snack foods. Chips,
dips, veggies, party mix, beef sticks
and cheese chunks all keep visitors
huddled around snack trays.
But the Super Bowl party foods that
score best are those pizza-style bits
and bites from the freezer case at
your supermarket.
The popularity of frozen pizza
snacks at Super Bowl parties is con
firmed by food industry sources.
'Sales of Bagel Bites, our unique
pizza topped mini-bagels, peak every
year just before Super Sunday,” says
Kate Kloos, Bagel Bites brand
manager. “Frozen pizza-style snacks
like Bagel Bites are popular at sports
viewing parties for two reasons—they
taste good and they are very con
venient.”
A whole tray of Bagel Bites, for ex
ample, can be prepared in a conven
tional oven in a matter of minutes.
And Bagel Bites come in four
varieties to please every
taste—cheese, sausage, pepperoni,
and a cheese, sausage and pepperoni
combo.
So, passing is the key to a suc
cessful Super Bowl party. As long as
the host and hostess keep passing
trays of Bagel Bites and other
delicious, easy-to-prepare snack
foods, they can take time out to enjoy
the game and still make their Super
Bowl party a real winner with their
guests.
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1 tap. celery salt
*A cup water (for desired
moisture)
Picadillo Stew
PICADILLO STEW
Picadillo Stew is a delicious twist on the traditional ground meat favorite.
1 pound beef stew cubes
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1 (28-ounce) can whole
tomatoes, undrained and
broken up
1 cup chopped green bell pepper
Mi cup sliced pimiento-stufTed
green olives
green
‘A cup raisins
2 teaspoons Wyler’s1' or
Steero® Beef-Flavor
Instant Bouillon or
2 Beef-Flavor Bouillon
Cubes
'/* to V4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
V* teaspoon curry powder
W teaspoon each ground allspice
and cloves
Hot cornbread
In large skijlet. brown meat and garlic. Add remaining ingredients except
cornbread; bring to a latil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 1 hour or until
tender Serve over cornbread. Refrigerate leftovers.
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Coffee-mate Adds To Good Eating
"Fun and Festive Foods with
Coffee-mate Liquid Non-Dairy
Creamer" is now available free to
consumers. This is the fourth
brochure in the “Good Eating with
Coffee-mate Liquid Non-Dairy
Creamer” recipe brochure series
from Carnation Co. The recipe
brochure series features a variety of
recipes made with Coffee-mate Li
quid. It was created in response to
consumers’ growing interest in
eating inwop.fat and lower
cholesterol dishes.
The new brochure offers an array
of breads and desserts that are quick
and easy to make using Coffee-mate
Liquid. It provides a flavorful alter
native to cream, half and half, and
other nondairy creamers. It is blend
ed to taste rich and creamy and can
be used in cooking and baking.
Recipes include Apricot-Apple
Bran Muffins, Holiday Stollen, Old
Fashioned Bread Pudding, Crunchy
Pecan Tart, Classic Cheesecake.
Kieh Hum H.iiMii .saury. Cappuccino
Freeze and Bittersweet Chocolate
Fudge Sauce. Each specially
developed recipe also includes the
calories, total fat, saturated fatty
acids, and cholesterol saved com
pared to a similar recipe using tradi
tional ingredients.
Consumers can receive a free copy
of this new brochure by sending a
self-addressed, stamped business
size envelope to “Fun and Festive
Foods," P.O. Box C-2524, Young
America, Minn. 55399-2524