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Spices Add Zest To Your Feast
Most children enjoy pitching
in and helping with the baking, says
a nutritionist at the Children’s Nu
trition Research Center at the U S.
Department o f Agriculture.
’’Cooking together is a great
parent/child activity and with a bit
o f organization, even the littlest
baker can participate, said Corinne
Montandon, an assistant professor
of pediatrics at Baylor College of
Medicine.
Before children arrive, assem
ble all the ingredients and imple
ments you will need.
“It is important to set realistic
limits and assign age-appropriate
tasks,” Montandon said.
Children ages 9 to 12 can pre
pare easy-to-fol low recipes, rol I out
dough for cook ies or pie crust, chop
fruits for muffins and grate vegeta
bles for quick breads.
Children ages 5 to 8 can wash
fruits and vegetables, stir ingredi
ents and cut out cookies with a
cookie cutter. Toddlers can pour
ingredients into a bowl. O f course,
everyone can help decorate cook-
Baked Duck With Raspberry
Sauce (Yields two servings)
4-5 lb. Thawed duck
1/2 tsp. Lawry’s Seasoned Salt.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Trim excess fat from duck (esp.
tail). Place unseasoned duck in
roasting pan (approximately the
size of the duck). Slow cook duck
uncovered in oven for 2-1 /2 hours,
until brown. (Duck will deep-fry
in its own fat.) Remove duck from
oven and let cool. Debone duck by
simply pulling meat away from
bones. Sprinkle Lawry’s Seasoned
Salt over meat to taste.
Raspberry Sauce
(Yields Two Servings)
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Chef Ben Gordon adds spices to a baked duck.
Whether you’re cooking roast
beef and dressing or black-eyed peas
and collard greens for the New Year,
consider adding a little zest to your
holiday feast with this meal sugges
tion from Lawry’s “seasoned veter
an,” Chef Ben Gordon.
“It’s not unusual to wind up in
the cooking rut o f preparing the same
dishes, or the cooking rush, running
to the store to purchase whatever
foods are left by the masses,” said
Gordon. “I think it's important that
cooks experiment by putting a new
spin on an old favorite or adding a
new dish to their holiday menus.”
Gordon suggests the following
delicious menu that is guaranteed
to generate smiles and genuine com
pliments:
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Cream of Mushroom Soup
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Baked duck with raspberry sauce
and wild rice
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Glazed carrots
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Steamed broccoli with butterand
thyme sauce
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Tossed green salad with Bos-
I pint fresh raspberries (washed)
2 quarts water
2 cups o f sugar
2 tbsp. cornstarch mixture (1 tbsp.
cornstarch and 1 tbsp. water.)
• Bring water and raspberries to a
boil. Slowly add sugar and bring to
a boil. Add cornstarch mixture.
Cook sauce for two to three min
utes until it is evenly mixed and
reaches desired consistency. (To
thicken sauce, repeat cornstarch
mixture. To thin sauce, add water.)
Sauce should evenly coat a spoon.
Serve raspberry sauce over duck
and brown or wild rice.
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Montandon reminds parents to
make sure children wash their hands
before and after every step in the
food preparation process.
She also notes that most young
chi Idren have short attention spans.
When a recipe yields dozens of
cookies or muffins, use only half
and chill the rest o f the dough until
later.
M ontandon suggests using
the kitchen tape as a cookie
d ecorating center. M ake sure
each child has easy access to
small cups filled with colored
icings, raisins, pieces o f m ara
schino cherries or dried fruits,
sprinkles, m iniature m arshm al
lows and other decorative good
ies.
To cut down on the mess, place
a small plastic tablecloth under the
chair where a child is working. But
keep in mind, that the kitchen clean
up can be part of the “fun.”
Children can help was dishes,
wipe offcabinet tops and sweep the
floor. Montandon believes it is im
portant for children to experience
all the steps involved in cooking.
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• To make store-bought ranch or
creamy Italian dressing taste home
made, add fresh mint, dill or basil, as
well as vinegar and mayonnaise.
• Spice up canned black-eyed
peas by adding beef bullion cubes,
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flour and butter).
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