*TIS the season for
stuffing!

Volumes and volumes
have been written about
turkeys, the official desig-
nate “to be stuffed.” Our
focus this year is on what

. goes inside that turkey, or
goose. *

Cooked in the interior of
your holiday bird, or ina.
_. baking dish, staffing i is a tra-
- ditional centre of the plate

“feature to a holiday menu.

. -: Cookbooks as far back 2s .

the 16th century make refer-
ences to stuffing: to be

.| forced into meat cavities
(farci) before cooking.

“10 6. white bread crumbs (French bread

‘ts best) :

ko butter >. -

Té &. finely chopped onions
1 ¢, finely chopped celery

1 tep. dried crumbled sage leaves
1 top. dried crumbied thyme leaves

& top. salt or to taste.

_% top. fresh ground pepper

% top. ground nutmeg ©
2 large eggs | a

16. dried BC. cranberies

. are the bird to be stuffed.
. Preheat oven to 450 F. Spread the
: cubed bread on baking sheets in a single

ally Stuffed

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Ingredients for stuffings
have not only varied over
time, but also by culrure. -

In England, a bread-
based stuffing mixture
flavoured with sage and

- onions is traditionally served

with goose and pork. ‘This
version is the most popular

350 F

in Canada.

In Mediterranean coun-
tries rice or rice with meat is
used to stuff meat joints or
vine leaves and vegetables.

Cooks in France,
Germany, and Central
Europe often utilize liver
and bacon pieces as stuffing
components.

On the Iberian peninsula,
shellfish with sausage have
been used for centuries in
stuffings tor meat and poul-
try.

The important thing to
consider is that the stuffing
should complement the

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_ Select a skillet, add butter, onions, cel-

ery, sauté until tra recone Stir in the

Sage, thyme, salt, p
Remove from heat 3 On

| pears, Save the juice.
In a large bowl mix together the onions,
pears, and the toasted

cranberries,

©, and nutmeg.
tT cool Chop the

cubes. Add enough water to the reserved |

pear juice to make 14 cu

Whisk in the

cage. - Add to the bread mixture, mix well.
Salt and pepper the bird cavity and stuff
"in the mixture.

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to 15 minutes before serving ... just
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Wednesday, December 20, 2000 — North Shore News - 27

We Wish You A Healthy and Safe
Holiday Season But...

We Are Very Concerned

911 emergency dispatchers will be working seven days a week, 24-hours a day
during the coming holiday scason to ensure that your emergency calls are
answered as quickly as possible. Still, you may encounter delays when you call
911 because of an ongoing staff shortage. Please be patient and we'll take your
cal] as soon as possible.

The possibility of delays and complications may not be what you want to hear
regarding your focal emergency communication system — especially before _
the holiday season — but at least you know there may be delays and you won't
be surpnsed if it happens to you. Meanwhile, because of the staff shortage our
vacations have been canceled for this season. While we are sorry that we can’t
spend holiday time with our families, we believe that public szfety must be the
priority. We are pleased to do our part...we just wish members of the E-Comm
Board would do the same.

You Make the Cal!

This holiday season, you may want to make a phone call that could make a. .
difference in the new year. Call a couple of local E-Comm Board members and
tell them to stop conning the public and solve the staff shortage immediately.

Don Evans, Jon Harris, Lois Jackson (Mayor of Deita), Les Garis (Surrey Fire
Chief), Jon Kingsbury (Mayor of Coquitlam), Barbara Sharp (Mayor of North ~
Vancouver), Joe Trasolini (Mayor of Port Moody), Dan Cunningham (Emergency
Health Services Commission), Vern Campbell (Vancouver Police Board), Gary _
Briggs (RCMP), Philip Owen (Mayor of Vancouver), Derek Dang (City of

ie

Richmond), Tung Chan (Ci of Richmond).

Local 873-02, on Emergency Dispatchers
You Make the call We'll Make the Difference