Enjoy a taste of spring with fresh, local strawberries

arbara

IT WON’T be long now until

bride could cook.

Now I squash up the berries and
use Garden Fare-brand thickener.
The jars zo in the freezer and we
don't get a thousand calories when
we eat it — Garden Fare calls for
very little sugar. .

Here are a few fresh strawberry
recipes to have ready for the
California crop.

STRAWBERRY-ORANGE

CHEESE PIE

1 8-inch pie shell — make your
own or do as 1 do — buy
frozen

Filling:

8 oz. regular cream cheese

4c. sugar

i tsp. grated orange rind

2 Tbsp. fresh orange juice

3 Thso. whipping cream from a
250 mL container

Topping:

3c. sliced strawberries
Glaze:

1% ¢. strawberries, crushed
4c. sugar

1 Tbsp. cornstarch

Prick and bake the pie shell.
Soften the cream cheese and beat
with the remaining filling ingredi-
ents. Spoon into cooled pie shell,
Top with sticed strawberries
arranged in Overlapping circles.

Mix the glaze ingredients
together ina small saucepan, Bring
to a boil and simmer a few minutes,
stirring. Cool. Pour over the top and
chill several hours or overnight.

To serve, top each slice with the
remaining whipping cream,
whipped and flavored with a bit of
vanill

This serves cight to rave reviews.

This next recipe is a great dip
for any fruit for casual entertaining.
If you like, you can serve it

spooned aver individual dishes of

sliced herries.

FRESH FRUIT ORANGE DIP
4 medium eggs ;
‘ec. butler or margarine
Ac. sugar
4 tsp. grated orange rind
Pinch salt
%c. freshly squeezed orange juice
1 Thsp. freshly squeezed Iemon

juice

In a blender, combine every-
thing except the juices. Blead well
and then add juices. Place in double
boiler over simmering water and
stir constantly until chick, Cover
and chill.

You cun also cook this in a glass
bow! in the microwave — it takes |
io 14 minutes. Stir frequently.

WHITE CHOCOLATE
CHEESECAKE WITH
STRAWBERRIES

Crust:

fc. graham wafer crumbs

2 Thsp. butter, melted :

2 oz. white chocolate, chopped
fine

Combine and press into bottom
of a 9-inch springform pan. Place.
on a cookie sheet and bake on mid-
die rack of oven — eight minutes at
325°F. Cool.

Filling:

2 8-02. packages cream cheese
3/4 c, sugar

3 eggs

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California sends us megatons
of strawberries and the price
. drops to binge levels.
‘Personally, I prefer the fla-
vor of locally grown berries
although some years provide
a lot of variation in quality.

- Is any other fruit as popular? In
the days before recfers were run-
ning up the coast with truckloads,

Strawberry season was brief.

The churches and ladies’ clubs ‘ ;
celebrated with Strawberry Teas — en . ; :
awful events that my mother insist-  § Re ; .
ed I participate in. . oH Ba ATi hj ‘B
- Dressed in a white blouse, black Bea IME OF EW EGINNINGS
skirt with red bows on my pigtails, eh i §

I was one of those prissy little brats ; AND RESH TARTS!
.” who gingerly passed teacups and ; :
slices of strawberry shortcake. — -
“.../ The redeeming feature was the |
leftovers ~ we ate ourselves sick -
after the tea. - os ‘
Now this is going to sound deca-
‘dent as hell but ‘Brian picked up the
taste for this in Italy —‘strawber-
-riesywell sugared, with gin spooned
‘over the top. ~~ ; .

My favorite strawberry dessert is
decadent, too. It’s a pie — an
-ordnge custard creation with Fresh
Strawberries and 4 strawberry glaze.
-Itis a guaranteed knockcut and 171
reprint the recipe later.

And then there’s strawberry jam.
fused to make gallons of the tradi-
tional boiled jam, prepared with
Lert. ;

it was loaded with sugar but it

«was lovely on hot homemade bak-
ing powder biscuits. And it looked
wonderful in the storage cabinet —
proving to the world that this new

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