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Show IOC lakeside the Year ' '' " 'h Throughout Review, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 1981 Modern Cooks. Like Colonists Use Pumpkin in Many Dishes Salt Dough Ornaments By CHERIE HUBER A Tradition Rviw When the word pumpkin is mentioned, most people think of Halloween or Thanksgiving but pumpkin should be seen on your table more often than that. Pumpkins are a traditional part of Thanksgiving and they have every right to be. The American Indians had already been growing and using pumpkins for thousands of years when the first Europeans arrived in the New By CAROL WIGHT Review Correspondent are a good time to bring the family closer together with traditions. CLINTON The holidays One tradition the Leo Barnes family of Clinton has found enjoyable is to make salt dough World. ornaments every year. Each child makes his own and adds to the collection every year. Their mother says they look forward to getting out the ornaments each Christmas and finding those they made the year before. One year they found cookie cutters depicting each sumbol for the twelve days of Christmas, and so made their ornaments from them. Little Kadee Barnes looks forward to making her first one this year. oil-coat- ! - lies. Pumpkins soon caught on with the colonists times in colonial diaries and journals. These lines were written in 1638: We had pumpkins in the morning And pumpkins at noon It it were not for pumpkins Wed be undone soon. Today a few pumpkins are found in almost every garden. Bringing them in before the first frost and storing them at about 60 degrees in a cool dry place will help them to last almost until spring. Then some winter evening when you have an oven meal going, wash a small pumpkin and put it into the oven whole. Let it bake with the rest of the meal and after dinner when it is cool enough to handle, cut it open, remove the seeds and scoop out the pulp to use in favorite recipes. You will have been saved the chore of trying to cut and peel the fresh pumpkin and the seeds will have added a rich nutlike flavor as an extra bonus. From this point you can proceed to pie, biscuits, bread or cookies or simply packing it into a freezer container for later use. Some housewives like to put the baked pumpkin through a sieve and bottle it to use later. To make a pie, measure the pumpkin called for into a blender, add the remaining ingredients, blend well, pour into a pie shell and bake. too and were mentioned many Dough Ornamonts The dough recipe calls for 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, and 1 cup water. Combine the flour and salt in a large bowl and mix well with a spoon. Slowly add water and mix until you form a ball. If the dough becomes to sticky, add a little more flour. Flour hands and work surface; then knead dough for about ten minutes until firm and smooth. Place dough in a plastic bag until ready to used. You can refrigerate it for up to five days. If its too dry when you remove it from the refrigerator, sprinkle with a little water. Mrs. Barnes prefers not to bake her decorations as they take on a puffy, raised texture. She dries them on a screen tray, which gives them a flatter shape that she Ukes for ornaments. If baking is desired they may be baked on a foil covered cookie sheet at oven temperature 325 to 350 degrees. Bake for about Vi hour. Keep an eye on them and reduce heat if theyre browning too quickly. To make the ornaments, roll the dough like pie crust to about Vi inch thickness. Use cookie cutters or use your imagination to form designs. Add interesting textures to the surface of cookies by using fork, spoon, pizza cutter, toothpick. Your children can be ; very imaginative in finding good things to print with around the house. To join two pieces of dough, moisten both edges with water and press together. Make hole at top of dough sculpture for thread to hang ; ornament. Bake and cool thoroughly. Paint the ornaments with food coloring for ' bright colors. Allow to dry thoroughly and then seal with varnish, shellac, or lacquer to protect against humidity. For pastel colors use acrylic ' paint. Sealing is not required if you use arrv- -- 1 Correspondent at salt dough ornaments her family made last year. Kadee will be involved in the family project of creating decorations for the Christmas tree this year. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Barnes of Clinton. KADEE BARNES looks BLACK FOREST TORTE cup cooked pumpkin IV cups sugar ' teaspoon ground cloves teaspoon ground cinnamon ' .. Vz teaspoon salt Vi cup cooking oil 1 flour cups ; n IVi teaspoons baking powder " " Vi teaspoon baking soda Soak raisins in the 12 cup water for 5 Do not drain. In large mixing bowl beat: ; eggs ; stir in pumpkin, sugar, ground cloves and : cinnamon and salt. Add oil, mixing well. Stir together flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Add to pumpkin mixture with half of mixture. Mix well. Add rethe raisin-wate- r raisin mixture; stir to mix. Fill maining greased muffin pans 23 full. Bake at 400 degrees until top springs back when pressed with fingers, about 25 minutes. Makes about 12 large - ! ! . . mi-nute- s. PUMPKIN PIE FILLING 2 Cake: 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar 1V4 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon salt V teaspoon baking powder cup soft type margarine 4 oz. unsweetened chocolate IV cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 eggs Combine all cake ingredients in large mixing bowl and mix 2 minutes at medium speed. Pour into 2 generously greased and floured 9 inch cake pan. Bake at 350 for 0 minutes. Let cool in pans about 5 minutes. Remove from pan and cool on wire rack. When completely cooled, split each cake in half horizontally - total of 4 layers. Chocolate filling 6 oz. chocolate V cup chopped toasted almonds cup soft type margarine Melt chocolate over hot water, then add margarine and al- -' monds. 25-3- 10-1- : semi-swe- et eggs 1 cups pumpkin cup honey Vt teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon Vi teaspoon ground cloves 1 cup evaporated milk cup milk Bake at 425 degrees for 15 minutes then reduce heat to 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until done. Pumpkin, pureed in a blender, can also be added to bread as the Pueblo Indian women do. Try 13 cup of pumpkin per loaf of bread in your favorite recipe. Pumpkin muffins are another good way to "use up the pumpkins from the garden and add a special treat to a meal too. TED BUMILLER and austere structures. Vz 2 person This all-col- morion picture will bring you closer to the magic of Greece - its golden past ond present. PUMPKIN MUFFINS 1 in presents and the AEGEAN SEA Here ore the many phases of Greece - our beautiful heritage of ancient times. The glory of Greece is photographed in architecture, sculpture and its people in modern times. Brilliant Isles in the Aegean astound the eye with severe landscapes GREECE raisins cup water TICKETS: cup 10 o.m. eggs - DEE EVENTS CENTER 6 p.m. Weekdays 626-655- 0 Whip 1 Vi cup whipping cream until stiff. Then layer as follows : cake layer, V cup of chocolate filling, cake, Vi whipping cream, cake, remaining chocolate, cake rest of whipping cream. Decorate top with chocolate curls. Dont frost the sides. Patricia Ogura Bountiful Decorating is'Tui ENGLISH TOFFEE 2 6 3 2 cups sugar tablespoons light Karo syrup cubes margarine or butter ' tablespoon water Cook tcThard crack stage. Pour onto a greased cookie sheet. Top with grated Hershey bar and nuts. Karen Jones Bountiful WITH SELF STICK PRISS PRINTS. 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