37 - Wednesday, March 1, 1989 - North Shore News

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Tried and true recipes the best

MY RECIPE file goes back
to the time I met my first
serious boyfriend.

Suddenly, ! had no interest in
anything but domesticity, driving
all my friends’ parents nuts with
recipe requests and dogging their
paths in their kitchens.

My adolescent beloved got
dragged through china shops and
kitchen displays and got the
dubious reward of sampling my
kitchen creations.

Finally, he got tired of touring
modef homes and went back to
modei airplanes, leaving me with a
stack of recipes and a firm resolve
to hide my domestic streak from
future suitors.

beaters
Barbara McCreadie

That didn't stop me from coliec-
ting recipes wherever I went as a
tattered collection of stained file
cards prove.

My daughters have a way of
mistrusting any old recipe on a
clean card — obviously it couldn’t
be too great or it would show more
wear.

Here are a few oldies taken from
the gmingiest: cards in my collec-

tion: Barb G.’s Pineapple
Refrigerator Dessert

Crust:
2% cups grabam wafer crumbs
aoe melted batter

1 de crashed pineapple, drained

For the crust, combine crumbs
and butter. Reserve % cup of the
mixture for garnishing.

Press the remainder on the bot-
tom of a !0-inch square cake pan.
Beke at 350F, 10 minutes. Cool.

For the center, whip the sugar,
egg and buiter together and spread
on cooled crust.

2 =

For the topping, whip cream and
combine with drained pineappie.
Spread over center mixture and
sprinkle with remaining crumbs.
Chill well. It can be frozen.

This is very rich and serves 10.

Olive’s Braz Muffins
1 cup boilisg water
i cap all-bran
% cup shortening
1% cups sugcs
2 eggs
2 cups buttermilk
2 ceps bran buds
3 cups Nour
2% teaspoons baking soda
Vr teaspoon salt

Pour boiling water over all-bran
and fet stand. Beat shortening,
sugar and eggs until fluffy.

Add buttermilk, bran buds and
all-bran mixture.

Sift flour, soda and salt and stir
in lightly.

Store mixture in refrigerator and
bake as needed at 400F for 15 to
20 minutes.

This mixture fs said to be good
for up to three weeks storage, but |
find by the fifth day the flavor
alters.

Also, I consider it unwise to
keep any mixture containing eggs
for more than a few days. Make it
up when you're expecting a big
crowd of houseguests!

Olive used to have it ready when
five McCreadies would descend on
their isolated farm near Alexis
Creek and none ever went to
waste,

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One of my daughiers has a
whole cookbook of cheesecake rec-
ipes — ‘most of them take two
hours to make and $25 worth of
ingredients.

This recipe of my cousin’s whips
together in a few minutes and is
inexpensive.

Donna’s Cheesecake

1% cups graham cracker crumbs
% cap batter, melted

Filing:

1-8 oz. package cream cheese
Ya cup suger

1 tablespoon lemon juice

4 teaspoon vanilla

fresh or frozen rasoberries or
strawberries

Combine crumbs and butter and
press into a shallow, eight to nine-
inch pie plate.

Bake 10 minutes at 350F. Cool.

Soften cream cheese and whip
uatil fiuffy, gradually adding
sugar. Add lemon juice, vanilla,

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salt and eggs, one at a tirne,
beating weli.

Turn into crust and bake at
325F, 25 to 30 minutes.

Combine sour cream with sugar
and vanilla and pour over cheese
mixture. Bake 10 more minutes.

Serve topped with fruit. Serves
6.

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