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BUDGET BEATERS

ASIDE FROM making a lot
of: prepared and = stored
treats, the big secret of run-
ning Christmas smoothly
through your house is
strategic buying.

Anyone knows that a blitz of
the supermarket, buying fancy
treats, takes a mean bite out of
your food budget.

Instead, start right now, buying
a few luxuries each shopping trip.
Check out your favorite recipes
for entertaining and= stock up
gradually on the expensive ingre-
dients.

Let’s consider some. make-
ahead appetizers that freeze well.

Two that I always count on for
the holiday season are meatballs
and small phylo pastries. Both are
excellent keepers.

If you freeze them loose and
then bag, you can take out just as
much as you need without having
to thaw the whole parcel. :
FREEZER PARTY MEATBALLS

It’s much .easier if you bake
these before. freezing. They can be
heated on a. baking. sheet very
quickly — no need to thaw.

‘1 tb. pork sausage meat

(2 ib, lean ground beef

1% tsp. salt

1 tsp. ary mustard

¥2 tsp. alispice

3 eggs

Ye. fine dry breadesumbs

% c. finely sliced yreen onions

Combine all ingredients and
form into 1’ balls. Set on several
cookie sheets (with rims) and bake
at 375°F about 20 minutes.

About halfway through cook-
ing, stir them around a bit so they
brown evenly. -

1 often wrap half of the meat-
balls in % slice of very lean,
thin-sliced bacon, secured with a
toothpick.

Here are a couple of quick dip-
ping sauces you can (oss together
while the meatballs reheat.

RYE WHISKEY SAUCE

This one comes from my friend
Shirley Louie. Shirley puts equal
amounts of:

Ketchup .

Brown sugar

Rye whiskey

together in a small saucepan and
simmers until thick. I do the same

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JELLY SAUCES

1) Mix equal amounts of apple
jelly and finely chopped chutney.
Add a teaspoon lemon juice.
Simmer until hot.

2} Combine equal amounts grape
jelly and chili sauce. Simmer.

PHYLO PASTRIES

If you haven't tried preparing
appetizers from phylo, give it a
try. It's not difficult but the
results are impressive.

Phylo is sold in the frozen food
section in one-pound lots. Thaw
the package overnight in the
refrigerator or about an hour on
the counter. |

4 DAYS ONLY: Nov. 3, 4, 5, 6

Work with phylto at a dime when
you won't be interrupted! Put the
answering machine on.

Reason? Each layer of phyto is
brushed with melted butter and |
get covered with the stuff.

Phylo sheets are paper-thin.
They dry out almost immediately
when exposed to air so you must
keep the stack covered while you
work,

Use a sheet of wax paper and a
damp tea towel. Remove the
sheets one at a time and recover
while you apply the butter.

Before you begin, prepare all
fillings. Melt (wo squares of mar-
garine in a smail saucepan, You'll
teed a pastry brush to spread the
margarine,

Lay one sheet of phylo on the
counter. Brush with melted mar-
garine.

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Lay a second sheet on top. Cut
the sheets into 2°? strips — { find
scissors work the best.

Put a@ secant teaspoon of filling
on the end of each strip and fold
over in a triangle — like you fold
a flag.

Continue folding in triangles
umil you reach the end of the
strip. Place the fittke bundle on a
sprayed cookie sheet and brush
the top with more melted marga-
rine.

Phylo fillings must be thick —
don’t try anything with a thin
sauce or the packages will leak.

FILLINGS
Spinach and cheese:
I ¢, feta cheese, crumbled
| package frozen chopped
spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
2 epps, beaten
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i th. very fean ground beef
4 geeen onions

1 egg, beaten

Ya e. finely chopped walnuts
Salt and pepper

Cook the beef gently, crumbling
as it cooks. Cool and combine
with remaining ingredients,
Shrimp:

Tc. small cooked shrimp

4 green onions, finely chopped
1 epp, besten

1 Tbsp. corastarch

Bake the filled pastries about 15.
minutes at 350°F. You can
prepare these early in the day and: ‘
refrigerate, baking just before ser-.
ving.

I find it easier to bake them
weeks ahead, freeze loose and
then bag. They reheat in about 10
minutes. and the quality is  ex-
cellent.

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