10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 17, 1968 ferent relish to serve with your
— Christmas dinner.
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Christmas
Add variety to your traditional Christmas
dinner. Vegetable casseroles are easy to pre
pare, keep hot and serve.
Sweet potatoes are almost as traditional
as turkey, but they can be changed into a
gourmet treat. Add either chopped walnuts,
drained canned crushed pineapple, nutmeg,
or orange juice and grated rind. Or, mash
the sweet potatoes with a combination of
nutmeg, powdered cloves and grated orange
rind. For convenience, use the new instant
mashed ’yams. Or, bake the sweets in their
jackets for 45 minutes at the same time as
the turkey.
An
SPENCE colonial days is succotash. Add sauteed, slic
ed mushroom or a dash of nut-rooms or minced parsley. Top
meg to the traditional com-lima broccoli with sauteed mush
bean succotash or try a mix- rooms, onion rings, slivered
time of green beans or peas almonds or grated carrots,
with com for a different kind Combine cauliflower with peas;
of succotash. or add butter or margarine
Steamed or baked acorn and mustard, curry, chili pow
squash is another fall favorite, der or grated cheese.
Try filling the squash halves
with buttered peas, Brussel
sprouts or creamed onions.
For another idea bake the
halves with honey and cinna
mon or brown sugar and but-
ter. Hubbard squash, another
oM-timc food, has gone modem
in a frozen pureed form for
casseroles. Add orange juice,
grated orange nnd and nut
meg and top with marshmal
low bits and brown.
To vary creamed onions, add
either slivered nuts, buttered
diced avocado, grated
peas.
American cheese, nutmeg or
sauteed, minced green pepper.
"Whole cooked onions can be
Stuffed with, seasoned chopped
BBpach.
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aq*T either small seedless
gr&pes, chestnuts, buttered
peas, sauteed, sliced mush-
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Dinner With A Flair
American favorite dating from
Plain green beans take on a
festive note when combined
with onions, slivered almonds
or sauteed mushrooms. Or,
serve the beans creamed with
fried onion rings.
Mashed ~yellow turnips are
deliciously different sprinkled
with crisp bacon bits or grat
ed American cheese, or added
seasoned mashed potatoes. You
might add peas or grated
cheese to diced white and yel-
low turnips
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RAISIN RELISH
1M cups seedless raisins (ap
proximately % pound)
1 cup firmly packed brown
sugar
3 cups water
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon grated lemon
peel
Vi cup lemon juice
2 teaspoons finely chopped
candied ginger
% cup chopped pecans or
walnuts
Combine raisins, brown sug
ar and 3 cups water in sauce
pan. Bring to boil and sim
mer, uncovered, for 30 min
utes or until raisins are ten
der and liquid is cooked down.
Blend cornstarch and 2 table
spoons water to make a smooth
paste. Star into raisin mixture;
bring to a boil and cook, stir
ring frequently until corn
starch is thoroughly cooked,
about 10 minutes. Add grated
lemon peel and juice, candied
ginger and chopped nuts. Re
heat for a few minutes. Makes
2 cups relish. Serve warm
with turkey, ham or pork.
May be made ahead of time
and reheated just before serv
ing.
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Here’s a make ahead salad
that’s colorful, nourishing and
thrifty.
RED APPLE SALAD
4 firm tart apples
IVz cups sugar
V* (teaspoon salt
Vz cup red cinnamon candies
3 cups water
Vz cup cottage cheese, or 3
or 4 ounces cream cheese'
V* cup chopped green pepper
Pare and core the apples.
Add sugar, salt and candies to
the water. Put over heat and
stir until candies are dissolved.
Cook apples slowly in this
syrup in a covered oan until
just tender, turning occasion
ally to color evenly. Drain and
chill. Mix cheese with green
pepper and stuff the apples.
Serve on watercress or other
dark greens. 4 servings.
SERVING SUGGESTIONS;
As a main dish salad for Sun
day supper triple the ingredi
ents for cottage cheese mix
ture. Stuff the apples and
mound the rest of the cheese
mixture in the center t of a
platter and place the apples
around the rim. As an extra
variation, place pineapple
slices around the mound of
cheese and stick a red cherry
in the center of each slice.
Here is a tasty stuffing for
your traditional Christmas tur
key—
CRANBERRY-CORN BREAD
DRESSING
l cups chopped fresh cran
berries
Yz cup sugar
1 cups chopped onion
! cups chopped celery
Yz cup buttef or margarine
One recipe corn bread,
coarsely crumbled*
I cups dry bread cubes
teaspoons ‘salt
2 teaspoons sage
1 teaspoon poultry season
ing
Vz teaspoon pepper
4 eggs, slightly beaten
iVz cups water
Combine cranberries and
sugar; set aside. Saute onion
and celery in butter. Combine
corn bread, breM cubes, cran
berries, salt, sage, poultry sea
soning and pepper in large
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Qiik lightly. Gradually add
egg* and- water, losing lightly,
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dressing lightly into body Cav
ity and neck region of turkey.
Roast according to standard
roasting directions. Sake .'re
maining dressing’in a covered
1 % quart casserole during last
45 minutes of roasting time.
Enough for one IZ-pOund tur
key and 1 % quart casserole'.
•CORN BREAD
1 cup sifted regular ail-pur*
poSe flour
V.i cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
% teaspoon salt
% teaspoon baking soda
1 cup yellow corn meal
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk
2 tablespoons melted butter
In a large mixing bowl sift
together flour, sugar, baking
powder, salt and baking soda.
Thoroughly mix in com meal.
Make a well in center of dry
ingredients. Add egg, butter
milk and butter. Stir together
quickly until dry ingredients
are moistened. Pour immedi
ately into buttered fl-inth
square pan or 12-stick: but
tered com stic. pan. Bake in
preheated 42L degree oven
for 20 minutes.
Check Vegetables in Storage •'
Make sure ventilation is ade
quate and remove any decaying
vegetables. Decay spreads
rapidly, reminds James 0.
Dutt, Penn State extension
vegetable specialist.
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