MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2019 CELERY Continued from Page 2B CELERY STIR-FRY Yield: 6 servings 2 tablespoons canola oil or other cooking oil 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper or 3 small dried chile peppers, broken in half 4 cups julienned celery, cut THE OBSERVER HERALD — • 3B THE OBSERVER & & BAKER BAKER CITY CITY HERALD HOME & LIVING into 2-inch pieces 1 to 2 tablespoons soy sauce, to taste A few drops of dark sesame oil, optional Heat the oil and the pepper fl akes in a wok or frying pan over high heat until fragrant, about 60 to 90 seconds. Add the celery and stir-fry for 3 minutes. Add the soy sauce and stir-fry 1 minute more. Remove from the heat and add the sesame oil, if desired. Serve hot or at room temperature. PIE 6. Crimp the edge of the bot- tom crust and the lattice strips together with your fi ngers. Continued from Page 1B Use a fork to make a decora- 4. Heat butter in large deep tive edge all the way around skillet over medium-high until melted; add pears, apples the pie. Use a pastry brush to brush each of the strips and and fresh cranberries. Cook, the edge of the pie with cream. stirring, until nicely coated Sprinkle strips and the edge with butter, about 2 minutes. with the coarse sugar. Cover and cook to soften the 7. Place pie on a baking fruit, 3 minutes. Add sugar sheet. Bake at 425 degrees, 25 and cornstarch; cook and stir minutes. Reduce oven temper- until glazed and tender, about ature to 350 degrees. Use strips 5 minutes. Remove from heat; of foil to lightly cover the outer stir in dried cranberries, orange edge of the pie. Continue bak- zest and salt. Spread on a ing until the fi lling is bubbling rimmed baking sheet; cool to hot and the crust richly golden, room temperature. While the about 40 minutes more. fruit mixture cools, heat oven 8. Cool completely on a wire to 425 degrees. rack. Serve at room tem- 5. Pile the cooled fruit into perature topped with whipped the prepared bottom crust. Use cream or ice cream. To rewarm a very sharp knife to cut the the pie, simply set it in a rolled top crust into 18 strips, 350-degree oven for about 15 each about ½-inch wide. Place minutes. nine of those strips over the fruit fi lling positioning them about ½ inch apart. Arrange the other nine strips over the strips on the pie in a diagonal pattern. (If you want to make a Prep: 20 minutes Chill: 1 hour woven lattice, put one strip of dough over the 9 strips on the Makes: Enough for a double- crust 10-inch pie pie and weave them by lifting up and folding to weave them together.) This is our family’s favorite DOUBLE-CRUST PIE DOUGH CELERY SODA Yield: 8 servings 7 or 8 large ribs of celery, about ¾ pound, plus inner ribs for garnish 1 large lemon 1 tablespoon black peppercorns 8 green cardamom pods 1¼ cups water 1 cup granulated sugar 2 quarts soda water 1. Clean and thinly slice the celery. It should measure about 3 cups when fi rmly packed into a measuring cup. Set aside. 2. Remove the zest in strips from half of the lemon. Lightly crush the pepper- corns and cardamom pods. Set aside. 3. Bring water and sugar to a boil in a medium saucepan. Once it reaches a boil, add the sliced celery and return it to a boil for about 1 minute. Stir once or twice in the process. Remove from the heat. 4. Add the lemon zest, pepper and cardamom to the celery mixture. Stir to combine, then cover the pan and allow to cool to room temperature. 5. Strain the celery syrup through a fi ne mesh strainer into a jar or other suitable storage container. Feel free to nibble on the candied celery, if you like. Juice the lemon and add it to the syrup. Stir to combine. Store covered in the refrigerator until ready to use. 6. To serve, add ¼ cup syrup to a glass, add 1 cup of soda water and top with ice. Garnish with a tender inner celery rib, if desired. tom crust.) Flatten the balls into 2/3 cup heavy whipping cream thick disks. Wrap in plastic and 2 tablespoons dark rum refrigerate until fi rm, about 1 or 1 teaspoon vanilla hour. (Dough will keep in the refrigerator for several days.) Topping: 3 tablespoons butter, softened 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar ¼ cup fi nely chopped Prep: 40 minutes crystallized ginger, Cook: 1½ hours about 1 ½ ounces Makes: 8 servings 1 cup roughly chopped or broken ginger Prebaking the crust helps snap cookies, about 2 ensure the proper texture ounces or 12 cookies in the fi nished pie. You can Whipped cream for garnish foil to lift them out of the crust. Return pie crust to the oven; bake until light golden in color, about 2 minutes. Cool. (Crust can be prebaked up to one day in advance; store in a cool, dry place.) 3. Reduce oven temperature 2½ cups fl our to 350 degrees. For fi lling, 1 tablespoon sugar whisk eggs in a large bowl un- 1 teaspoon salt ½ cup unsalted butter, til smooth. Whisk in pumpkin very cold mix, cinnamon, ginger and ½ cup trans-fat free vegetable cloves until smooth. Whisk in shortening, frozen cream and rum or vanilla. 4. For topping, mix soft 1. Put fl our, sugar and salt butter and brown sugar in a replace the ginger snap into a food processor. Pulse small bowl until smooth. Stir cookies here with just about to mix well. Cut butter and 1. For crust, heat oven to in crystallized ginger; gently any spice cookie; I also like shortening into small pieces; 425 degrees. Roll pie dough stir in the cookies to coat them to use speculoos cookies or sprinkle them over the fl our between 2 sheets of fl oured with the butter mixture. mixture. Pulse to blend the fats homemade molasses cookies. wax paper to an 11-inch circle. 5. Carefully pour pie fi lling The recipe calls for canned into the fl our. The mixture will Remove the top sheet of into cooled crust. Set the pie pumpkin pie mix, which has paper. Use the bottom sheet to look like coarse crumbs. pan on a baking sheet; slide sugar and spice already. 2. Put ice cubes into about help you fl ip the dough into a into the center of the oven. ½ cup water and let the water 9-inch pie pan. Gently ease the Bake, 40 minutes. Remove pie Half-recipe double-crust chill. Remove the ice cubes and dough into the pan, without from oven. Gently distribute pie dough, see recipe drizzle about 6 tablespoons stretching it; roll the edge of the topping evenly around of the ice water over the fl our the dough under so it sits the outer rim of the pie, near mixture. Briefl y pulse the Filling: neatly on the edge of the pie the crust. Return the pie to machine just until the mixture 2 large eggs dish; fl atten attractively with the oven; bake until a knife in- gathers into a dough. 1 can (30 ounces; or two a fork. serted near the center is with- 3. Dump the mixture out 15-ounce cans) pumpkin pie 2. Line the bottom of the drawn clean, about 40 more onto a sheet of wax paper. mix (with sugar and spices) pie crust with a sheet of foil; Gather into two balls, one ½ teaspoon each ground: fi ll the foil with pie weights or minutes. Cool on a wire rack. slightly larger than the other. cinnamon, ginger dried beans. Bake, 8 minutes. Serve cold or at room tempera- (Use this one later for the bot- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves Remove the beans using the ture with whipped cream. pie crust for ease of use with a fl aky outcome. We use vegetable shortening for easy dough handling and maximum fl akiness; unsalted butter adds rich fl avor. 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