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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Safe. Omoa
Thursday, Dee. 10, 1953
Many Like
Cocktails
Of Fruits j
Many people like a fruit
cocktail with their holiday din
ner, and popular appetizer is
one mede of oranges and avo-
eadot.
Avocados are on the market
again in abundance and in
reach of everyone'! pocketbook.
While avocadori are In 'the
gourmet clan they can be In
cluded In every-day menus at
present day price. Make thil
"Holiday Fruit Appetizer" for
any festive occasion. It'i so
easy to make, and Inexpensive.
Holiday fruit Appetiser
1 large orange
1 large avocado
Lemon juice
Pare and section oranses.
Cut avocado into halvea and
icmove seed and skin. Cut
fruit into crosswise ilicei and
sprinkle with lemon juice. Ar
range orange sections and avo
cado slices in individual serv
ing dishes, reserving most per
. feet pieces for top of dishes.
Hakes 4 servings .
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Christmas
Candle Cake
Decorative
If you are planning to put
fruit cake on your Christmas
gift list this year here's a quick
and easy recipe plus an idea
for presenting. Three cakes
are baked in 1-pound coffee
cans. When ready for giving
they are stacked on on top of
the other and wrapped In clear
or red cellophane, with the
top twisted and secured into
a flame shape with cellophane
tape. Complete with ribbon
bow and holly.
Christmas Candle Cak
t cups sifted all-purpose
flour
1 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon each salt,
cinanmon
V teaspoon each cloves,
allspice
ltt cups each cut-up candled
cherries, pineapple,
citron
IVt cups seedless raisins
IV cups (7-oi. can) mixed
- salted nutmeats
1 cup currants
cup each cut-up candied
orange, lemon rinds
cup shortening (part but
ter or margarine for
flavor)
i cup sugar
4 cup brown sugar, firmly
packed
3 eggs
cup orange Juice
areas three 1-lb. coffee
cans, line with brown paper;
grease again.
Sift dry ingredients over
prepared fruits and nutmeats
In a large bowl or flat pan;
toss and stirr gently to coat
well
Crisis shortening with su
gars until very light and fluf
fy. Use a rotary or electric
beater for creaming . . . have
the shortening at room tem
perature and you will find
they blend easily.
Beat in eggs, one at a time,
beating well after each addi
tion; stir in orange juice.
Pour mixture over floured
fruit and nutmeats, folding and
stirring gently until well com
bined. Spoon into prepared
pans.
Bake in a slow oven (300 de
grees F.) 1 hours. Place a shal
low pan filled with water on
the lowest rack of the oven
during baking. The steam will
help make the cakes plump
and moist.
Remove cakes from pans;
cool on rack, peeling paper
down irom sides, when cold,
wrap well and store in the
freezer or tightly covered con
tainer until ready to
Makes 3 1 H -lb. cakes.
Note: This same amount of
batter will fill 3 (1-qt. size)
Nsserole cakes or 3 (1-qt. size)
aluminum freezer containers.
Bake at the same temperature
for the same time.
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Date Bars
With Honey
Are Liked
Finding new eooki recipe
that pleases the famjly is al
most as much fun as buying a
new dress. What bomemaker
doesn't tire of making the same
old ' recipes over and over
again?
This one will please the fam
ily and will please the cook
as well, for it is simple and
quick to make. It is a Honey j
Data Bar recipe.
Any cook who likes angel
food cakes will also like this
recipe. It uses 8 egg yolks, a
rapid way to ltilize the yolks
that are left over from an angel
food cake.
Honey Date Bars
i cup shortening
1 cup honey
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs or S egg yolks
Hi cups sifted all-purpose
flour
1 teaspon baking powder
Vt teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped dates
1 cup chopp-d nuts
Confectioner's sugar
Blend shoitenlng, honey and
vanilla until creamy. Beat in
eggs one at a time. Sift dry in
gredients into egg mixture.
Blend; Add nuts and dates
and stir just enough to distrib
ute evenly. Spread In a greased
9xl2-lnch pan. Bake in a mod
erate oven (2S0 degrees F.)
until golden brown, 30 to 33
minutes. Cool. Cut into bars
and roll in confectioner's sugar.
Three dozen lx3-inch bars.
Sweet Potato Bolls
Different, Tasty
Here another way to fix
the sweet potatoes so plentiful
at holiday time:
Sweet rotate Balls
4 large yama or sweet
potatoes
t. tablespoons melted butter
or margarine
Vt teaspoon nutmeg
tt cup chopped walnuts
0 marshmallowa
Finely crushed cornflakes
Scrub sweet potatoes and
cook In small amount of boil
ing water until tender. Drain
and cool sufficiently to han
dle. Peel and mash thoroughly
BUnd in butter, nutmeg and
walnuts. If mixture seems dry
add a a mall amount of milk.
Shape Into balls and push a
marshmallow down into each
Pat potato mixture over the
marshmallow. Roll in crushed
cornflake. Place on shallow
greased pan. Bake In hot oven
(429 degree F.) about 30 min
utes, until thoroughly heated
and ariap oo, outside. Serves 6.
Holiday Yeast
Bread Easy; Nice
For Special Gift
Think about giving food gifts
to some of your close friends
and neighbors this year .
you couldn't delight them more,
particularly if the present is
this special and delicious yeast
bread! And if you are inex
perienced with raised dougna,
don't hesitate a moment about
taking over with this recipe . . ,
It a simple and easy.
Holiday Yeast Bread
A cup sugar
3 egg yolks
1H teaspoons salt
Vi teaspoon cardamon
cup butter or margarine,
softened
Hi cups milk, heated until .
just lukewarm
I cakes fresh compressed
yeast
8 cups sifted all-purpose
flour
1 tablespoon grated lemon
rind
1 cup seedless raisins
H cup each of cut-up candied
pineapple, halved cand
ied cherries and broken
nutmeats or use 1 cup
mixed candied (glace)
fruit and Vi cup nut
meats Beat together in a large bowl
sugar, egg yolks, salt, carda
mon and butter or margarine.
Stir in milk; crumble in yeast
and beat until yeast dissolves.
Add about half the flour and
beat well. Stir in remainder
flour and other ingredients to
make a soft dough.
Turn out on floured board
and knead gently until dough
la smooth and elastic; place in
lightly grensert bowl, cover
with a damp cloth, and let rise
until double in size, about 2
hours.
Punch down and let rise
again to double, about 1 hour
Divide in thirds; shape each
portion into a ball and place in
greased No. 2j can. Let
rise to double in size, about 45
minutes to 1 hour.
Bake In a moderate oven
(35UF.) 35 to 40 minutes. Re
move from oven to cooling
rack. While still warm, brush
tops with a thin glaze ( l cup
silted powdered sugar blended
with about 1 tablespoon hot
water, and flavored with a few
idrops vanilla), sprinkle with
bits of candied (glace) fruit.
Makes 3 loaves bread.
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Honey Nut
Ring for
Holidays
Have you heard of a decora
tive hot yeist bread that has
all of the festivity of a Christ
mas stollen yet can be made
in a matter of minutes? You
don't believe It? Then try this
recipe for Honey Nut Ring,
and aee.
Honey Nut Ring is made of
a packaged hot roll mix,
thereby eliminating the time-
consuming steps of measuring.
And it is dolled up with honey.
Make this Honey Nut Ring
tomorrow morning while you
are waiting for your iron to
get hot, then accept your
guests compliments with a
smug wink to yourself as you
hear them exclaim, "How
did you ever find the tlmel"
Honey Not Ring
1 package hot roll mix
(14-tt or.)
H cup sugar
H teaspoon cinnamon
Vi cup butter
H cup honey
1 cup chopped nuts
1. Prepare roll mix according
to directions on package.
2. Cream sugar, cinnamon
and butter together until
well blended. Stir in honey.
3. Divide roll dough In two;
roll out each halt on a
lightly-floured board or
pastry cloth to an oblong
about 14 Inches by 10 inch
es. 4. Spread honey mixture eve
nly on dough. Sprinkle with
nuts. Roll up Jelly-rail fash
Ion, beginning at long side.
Seal by pressing edge
against roll.
5. Join ends of each roll to
form a ring and place In a
greased heat-resistant glass
round cake dish with sealed
side of roll down.
8. Mark each ring into 16
equal sections. With kitchen
shears cut through roll on
these marks to about 4 inch
from center of ring. Twist
each piece halfway over on I
its side, turning all pieces'
in same direction.
7. Grease two five-ounce glass
, custard cups on the outside
and place one uprigkt in
center of each ring. These
keep centers of rings In per
fect circles during baking.
8 Cover and let rise in warm
place until double in bulk.
Bake at 375 deg. about 2
minutes. Remove custard
cups before serving. Makes
about 8 servings (2 twists to
a serving).
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Frequently you will hear: "If you can't find just what you want else
where go to your favorite BUSIC MARKET." And, more than that,
you will find all the every-day foods at prices no higher often low
erthan you'd expect, plus service not available elsewhere!
Meat Department featuring the Quality and Price
you'll want. ,
Dinmav DiAAH Sliced, a good Breakfast
banner Bacon Bacon pend
Swift's Breakfast
Damn rio,e ''ce( ean
DtilUil tender bacon lb.
Economy Beef
Poi Roasts
Choice Grade Beef
Pol Roasts
Economy Steaks
Sirloin or Round
Standing
Rib Roasts Choice Grade
Smokies
Pork Sausage County style
Young Plump
STEWING HENS
Neatly Dressed, ready for the
kettle 3 lbsor over
$B19
lb.
lb.
lb.
per lb.
package
per lb.
55'
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43'
Each
Young, 30 to 34 oz.
Plump, Tender
FRYERS
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Fines
1
Neatly dressed ready for the pan; no
waste. They are the finest quality.
$119
Each
Ripe,Juicy
Navel Oranges Zl'tl 23'
Nice Size Firm
Ripe Avacodos
Beautiful Jonathan
2 nice OC'
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Pillsbury lb. $009
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PINEAPPLE
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Razor Clams
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CHEESE
Pabst-ett lb. ftCi
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DENNISON'S
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Beans AcansnS
Del Mont Sliced
PINEAPPLE
3 for63
cans
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TOWELS
2 tor 35
Large Assortment Christmas Boxes, including the famous
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