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EDITED BY RUTH DIXON
Family Weekly Cookbook
MELANIE DE PROFT, Food Editor
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Tuna-Tamale Pie
1 anbaked 9-lm. pastry shell
3 labia pooas batter or
margarine
V4 cap chopped green pepper
H cup chopped onion
1 1-lb. can tomatoes
1H cap whole kernel corn
1 7-om. can tnna, drained and
separated In piece
$4 enp nneooked yellow corn
meal
1 tablespoon chill powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 H cups ahredded Cheddar checae
Sliced ripe ollvea
1. Heat butter in a saucepan or
skillet; add green pepper and
onion and cook until tender, stir
ring occasionally.
2. Stir in the tomatoes, corn, tuna,
and a mixture of the next three
ingredients. Turn into the un
baked pastry shell.
3. Form a border with the cheese
and garnish with the sliced olives.
4. Set in a 425F oven 15 to 20
min., or until crust is golden
brown and filling is thoroughly
heated. Cool slightly before serv
ing. 6 servings
Crab-Meat Stuffed
Avocados
1 tablespoon butter or
margarine
W enp chopped mushrooms
2 teaapoona batter or
margarine
1 tableapoon flour
teaspoon aalt
teaapoon while pepper
Few graina paprika
96 enp cream
1 egg yolk, sHghtly beaten
1 6H-OB, can crab meat,
drained and separated In
piece (bony tissue removed)
3 tablespoons chopped ripe
olives
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan
checae
1 teaapoon lemon juice '
2 avocados
1. Heat the 1 tablespoon butter in
a saucepan; add mushrooms and
cook until lightly browned, stir
ring occasionally. Remove mush
rooms with a slotted spoon and
set aside.
2. Add the 2 teaspoons butter to
saucepan and heat ; blend in a mix
ture of the next four ingredients
and cook until bubbly. Remove
from heat.
3. Add cream gradually, stirring
constantly. Continue to stir, bring
to boiling, and boil 1 to 2 min.
4. Vigorously stir about 2 table
spoons of the hot mixture into the
egg yolk; immediately blend into
mixture in saucepan. Cook over
low heat 1 to 2 min., or until sauce
is thickened, stirring constantly.
5. Mix in mushrooms, crab meat,
olives, cheese, and lemon juice. Re
move from heat.
6. Rinse the avocados and cut into
halves lengthwise. Remove pits.
Brush the exposed surfaces with
lemon juice. Fill cavities of avo
cados with the crab meat mixture.
Sprinkle with grated Parmesan
cheese. Set in a shallow baking
dish containing in. hot water.
7. Set in a 32GF oven for 20 min.,
or until thoroughly heated.
8. Garnish each serving with a
pimiento strip pulled through a
pitted ripe olive, if desired.
i servings
Creamed Oysters
De Luxe
3 tablespoons butter or
margarine
H cup sliced mushrooms
1M tablespoons grated onion
1 tablespoon flour
H teaapoon aalt
teaspoon white pepper
Few graina cayenne pepper
34 teaspoon prepared mustard
teaspoon thyme
1 enp cream
34 pt. medJumelied oysters,
drained (reserve 2 table
spoons liquor)
2 tablespoons pimiento strips
1. Heat butter in a saucepan; add
mushrooms and onion and cook
until mushrooms are lightly
browned, stirring occasionally. Re
move mushrooms with a slotted
spoon and set aside.
2. Blend a mixture of the next
four ingredients into the butter in
saucepan ; heat until mixture bub
bles. Remove from heat and blend
in mustard and thyme. Add cream
and reserved oyster liquor gradu
ally, stirring constantly. Continue
to stir, bring to boiling, and boil
1 to 2 min.
3. Add oysters and cook over low
heat 1 to 2 min., or until edges of
oysters begin to curl. Remove from
heat and stir in the pimiento and
mushrooms.
4. Serve hot over toasted but
tered bread rounds sprinkled
with ground nutmeg, or on chow
mein noodles.
About 6 servings
The amount of liquor in a pint of
oysters varies. This recipe was
tested using 2 tablespoons, but
slightly more or less will not affect
the recipe.
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