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Real cocoa for grownups
Now that there’s a nip in
the air, it’s time for hot
cocoa. For those who’ve for
gotten about it, or never had
it, here’s a timely tip. The
“real” stuff is a little more
trouble, but well worth it.
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup hot water
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
(oi‘ 1/3 cup if you want a
deeper chocolate flavor)
4 cups milk
1/8 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
extract
Mix cocoa, sugar, water
and salt in a saucepan. Do
NOT leave the salt out. Cook
until mixture boils and stir
until well blended. Add the
milk and heat thoroughly
(Do not boil). Add vanilla
before serving. Makes four
cups. Grownups might like
to add a little Kahluaha.
Peanut butter and what?
What do your kids like on
their peanut butter sand
wiches? If you’ve got a cre
ative sandwich maker in
your house, here’s a neat
contest with a
$5,000 savingsj
bond for the win
ner.
Kids, 6-12, are
invited to enter the
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Jif Ultimate Peanut Butter
sandwich competition.
Entries must include lists of
all ingredients, and can
include photos or drawings.
Check it out at (Jif.com)
Taco Soup
Here’s an easy taco soup
recipe, easy enough for teens
to cook, that can be made in
minutes and served with
corn chips.
1 pound ground beef,
browned and drained
1 onion, chopped, browned
with ground beef
4 cups tomato juice
1 15-ounce can whole ker
nel corn, drained
1 15- ounce can kidney
beans, drained
1 8 ounce can tomato sauce
1/2 (1.25 ounce)
package taco seasoning mix
Directions
Cook ground beef and
onions together, and drain of
any fat. Add the tomato
juice, corn, beans, tomato
sauce and taco seasoning.
Stir well and heat without
boiling.
New in bamboo
Pandas love it,
and it grows and
replenishes itself
about as fast as
kudzu. Bamboo
is also the latest
thing in cutting
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boards, with naturally
honey-colored strips held
together by a permanent
non-toxic grade clue. To take
a look or make an order, see
Totallyßamboo.com.
Chef Audrey says -
Chef Audrey George gets
great end results by starting
off organized. Here’s her tip
for the week: “Before start
ing any recipe, measure all
ingredients needed and set
aside in order to prepare the
recipe from beginning to end
without interruption. For
consistency, fol
low the recipe
every time.
D° not
count on
your mem
ory."
Eve, Isaac Newton, Johnny Appleseed
Old recipes
and new for a
time'honored
and tempting
treat
“If you want to make an apple
pie from scratch, you must first cre
ate the universe. ”
Carl Sagan
By Charlotte Perkins
HHJ Lifestyle Editor
From that earliest temp
tation until the discovery
that they’re packed with
antioxidants, apples have
had a way of holding their
own as a popular favorite. It
was, after all, the lowly
apple that gave Sir Isaac
Newton his brainstorm
about gravity, and the hum
ble appleseed that John
Chapman spread across the
new land for future genera
tions.
And no wonder apples are
beloved. They can be eaten
raw with known benefits to
dental health. They can be
dried, crushed for cider,
simmered into sauce or but
ter, covered with taffy or
baked in a pie. Crisp apples
also make a great addition
to salads and even to stir
fries.
So, just in time for the
harvest, and thanks to the
U.S. Apple Association, here
are some recipes for apple
lovers.
Perfect Pie
6 to 8 large tart apples
Pastry for 2-crust 9-inch
pie
1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cups firmly
brown sugar
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
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What khfd of apple eater are you?
There are almost as many
ways to eat an apple as
there are apple varieties.
What kind of apple eater
are you? Compare your
munching method with
these apple profiles.
Compulsive Wedger:
This apple eater can’t eat
the apple whole; must have
perfect, core-free wedges
neatly arranged op a plate.
Each wedge must equal
one-eighth of an apple.
Splitter: This apple
eater hates to deal with the
core, but isn’t compulsive
enough to bother with
wedges - just chop the apple
in half, remove the core and
much contentedly.
Muscle-bound types show a
off their brute force by m
twisting the apple in half®
with their bare hands®
(though in fact it's really®
not that difficult). V
Circle Stickler: This \
rebellious sort slices the
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edges. Bake for 30 minutes.
Lower temperature to 325
degrees and bake for addi
tional 20 to 25 minutes, or
until apples are tender. Let
cool.
Makes 6 servings.
Optional: brush top with
thin confectioners’ sugar
icing; decorate with
chopped candied orange
peel and chopped glace
cherries.
Approximate nutritional
analysis (per serving): calo
ries, 439; fat, 20 g; choles
terol, 0 mg; sodium, 254
mg; fiber, 5 g, percent calo
ries from fat, 41percent.
Source: U.S. Apple
Association
Peach Baked Apples
6 medium baking apples
1/4 cup peach preserves
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup apple cider or
apple juice
3/4 cup crumbled chewy
oatmeal cookies
Cut apples in half and
core. Plane in 13 x 9 x 2-
inch baking pan, cut side
up. Combine preserves, cin
namon and apple juice or
cider. Drizzle over cut sides
of apples. Cover pan tightly
with foil. Bake in 350 Q F
oven about 35 minutes or
until apples are just tender.
Sprinkle crumbled cookies
over cut surface of apples
and drizzle with preserve
mixture in bottom of pan.
Bake 5 minutes longer,
uncovered. Serve warm or
cold. Can be topped with
whipped topping or frozen
vanilla yogurt, if desired.
Makes 6 servings.
This is an official 5 A Day
his icwpe is
approved by the “5 A Day-
For Better Health”
Program because it pro
vides at least one serving of
fruit and/or vegetable per
serving, and gets less than
30% of its calories from fat,
less than 10% of its calories
from saturated fat, has less
than 100 mg of cholesterol
and not more than 480 mg
Approximate nutritional
analysis (per serving): calo
ries, 23.5; fat, 5 g; choles
terol, 0 mg; sodium, 105
mg; fiber; 5 g; percent calo
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slices of cheese at hand.
This person knows that
round apple slices are much
better than crackers!
Top-to-Bottom Type:
This methodical muncher
starts at the stem and
munches all the way down
to the bottom. He doesn’t
change the apple’s position
until one vertical top-to
bottom pass had been com
pleted. He then rotates the
apple to contin
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Apple pie is an all-American treat, especially made from scratch.
thinly sliced
1 1/2 teaspoon vegetable
oil
1 dried basil,
crushed*
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ChinesJpba pods
1 tablespoon water
1 medium baking apple,
cored and thinly sliced
1 tablespoon oil
2 cups cooked rice
Stir-fry cubed chicken
breast in 1 tablespoon veg
etable oil in non-stick skil
let until lightly browned
and cooked. Remove from
skillet. Stir-fry onion, car
rots and basil in oil in same
skillet until carrots are ten
der. Stir in pea pods and
water; stir-fry 2 minutes.
Remove from heat; stir in
apple. Add to chicken,
serve hot over cooked rice.
Makes 4 servings.
This is an official 5 A Day
recipe. This recipe is
approved by the “5 A Day -
For Better Health”
Program because it pro
vides at least one serving of
fruit and/or vegetable per
serving, and gets less than
Equator Eater:
Probably the most common
approach, this muncher
takes bites out of the center
of the apple all the way
around, until the apple
looks something like a
mushroom on a mirror. The
nibbler then attacks the
top, and finally the bottom,
which is somewhat less con
venient as there is no place
left to hold apple with get
ting one’s fingers juicy - but
she doesn’t mind!
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30 percent of its calories
from fat, less than 10 per
cent of its calories from sat
urated fat, has less than
100 mg of cholesterol and
not more than 480 mg of
sodium.
Approximate nutritional
analysis (per serving): calo
ries, 365; fat, 9 g; choles
terol, 62 mg; sodium, 71
mg; fiber, 3g; percent calo
ries from fat, 22 percent.
Source: Washington Apple
Commis sion
Apple Butter
10 pints apples, peeled
and sliced
4 cups raw sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground all
spice
1 quart water
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cipves
Combine the apples and
water in a large kettle.
Bring to a boil and simmer,
covered, until apples are
soft. Pass through a food
mill. Combine strained
applesauce with remaining
Hie Streak: This eater
WBBwr
prefers to eat his apples in
the nude - the apple, that
is! He does not care about
what he’s been told about
all those vitamins and fiber
in the skin, peeling the stuff
right off, preferably in one
long winding piece. Once
the peeling is complete, he
either eats the apple whole
or sliced. The latter method
is usually employed, as the
apple’s skinless state can
lead to copious juice drip
pings.
Core-Free
Cruncher: This
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U.S. Apple Association
ingredients in a clean ket
tle. Bring to a boil, stirring
until sugar is dissolved.
Cook gently, uncovered,
until mixture becomes quite
thick, at least two and a
half hours, stirring often.
Pour into hot sterilized jars
and seal.
Makes about 2 quarts.
Serving size: 1 tablespoon.
Approximate nutritional
analysis (per serving): calo
ries, 42; fat, 0g; choles
terol, 0 mg; sodium, 1 mg;
fiber, 1 g; percent calories
from fat, 2 percent.
Source: U.S. Apple
Association
Apple Chicken Stir-Fry
1 pound cubed boneless,
skinless, chicken breast
1/2 cup onion, vertically
sliced
1 cup (2 medium) carrots,
thinly sliced
1 1/2 teaspoon vegetable
oil
1 teaspoon dried basil,
crushed
See APPLE, page 7A
sonalities. Type B loves
gadgets and small appli
ances. He eats a lot of
apples because he gets to
use that nifty “apple corer”
gadget. Type A is a seedo
phobic and doesn’t care
whether she gets to use a
gadget, knife or sharp fin
gernails - she just has to get
those darned seeds out of
there before she’ll even
take one bite! The Type A
personality does avoid core
disposal issues, however.
Stem Piucker: Before
the first bite, this apple
muncher grabs the apple’s
stem and twists, saying one
letter of the alphabet with
each turn. The letter at
which the stem comes off
has profound meaning, usu
ally interpreted as the first
initial of the name of the
future spouse. (Married
munchers, take note: Turns
can be modified to ensure
the stem comes out at the
See EATER, page 7A