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47 - Wednesday, December 7, 1988 - North Shore News

GREAT WITH TURKEY SOCUP
umplings a true budget beater

LAST WEEK I included a
couple of soup recipes in the
column. A reader called,
“Why didn’t vou include
your recipe for dumplings?’’

She has been using it with great
success since I printed it years ago
and noted that it is another real
“Budget Beater’’ because it is bas-
ed on bread — an excellent use for
leftover heels and slices that are
past the sandwich stage.

Bread Dumplings

3 cups stale bread crumbs, ¥2-inch
Y% cup all purpose flour
1 tablespcon grated onion
1 tablespoon snipped parsley
Y% teaspoon baking powder
I egg, lightly beaten

Y cup milk

1 tablespoon butter, melted
Combine the bread, flour,
onion, parsiey, and baking

powder. Add egg, milk and butter.

Allow mixture to sit in the
refrigerator at least 15 minutes.
Form into walnut-sized balls.

Drop into simmering broth and
cook, uncovered, for about 10
minutes,

These are especially good with
chicken or turkey soup — try them
with the soup you prepare from
the upcoming turkey carcass.

wk kt

There’s a lot of concern just
now about lead levels in water that

budget
beaters

Barbara McCreadie

has been allowed to sit in pipes,
and we are advised to “‘flush’’ the
pipes before drinking the water.
May I take that warning one step
further?

Many people use hot water from
the tap (o get a head start on boil-
ing water for tea, cooking
vegetables or where hot water is
needed in a recipe.

Don’t.

‘Water that is heated in a hot-
water tank is fine for washing
clothes or taking a shower but also
may be adulterated with chemicals
leached from the tank.

Often, the temperature of water
heated in a tank is insufficient to
kill bacteria so hot tap water is no
substitute for *‘boiling water’’.

eRe

1 had a request for a brown
bread recipe that goes well with
baked beans. This is one that I’ve
used for years.

This recipe is easy to make and
makes two loaves. If you can’t use
both loaves on the day they are
baked, freeze the other (to use
jater. For some reason, this brev 3
doesn’t keep well at room
temperature.

Molasses Brown Bread
1% cups boiling water
1 cup rolled oats
Ys cup shortening

¥ cup table molasses

1 tablespoon salt

2 packages active dry yeast
¥2 cup warm water

2 eggs

5 cups all purpose flour

Combine boiling water, oats,

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shortening, molasses and _ salt.
Cool to lukewarm. Dissolve yeast
in “% cup warm (not hot) water.
Add to oats mixture. Beat eggs
lightly and add. Finally, stir in
flour.

Cover and let stand 15 minutes.

about an hour.

Divide dough in half. Flatten
No kneading is required.

slightly and turn over ends and
sides to form each half into a loaf.
Place in greased bread pans and
let rise in a warm place until dou-
ble. See Purchase
Bake at 350°F until brown — Page 48

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