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Show Wednesday, March7, 1984 Sun Advocate, Price, Utah5B Scandinavians add prunes to pork roast CECILY BROWNSTONE By AP Food Editor broth, thyme, garlic and bay leaves. Place pork loin, fat side up, on top of the bones. Roast oven until uncovered in a preheated about 10 minutes. pork is lightly browned Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees. Continue roasting uncovered, basting occasionally, until a meat thermometer inserted in the center of the meat registers 170 degrees about 1 Vi hours. ( If liquid is needed in the pan during this period, add a little water. ) teaspoon pepper 4 cup coarsely diced onion 4 cup sliced celery 4 cup sliced pared carrot ( 1 cup dry red wine 1 beef broth cup clear e 4 teaspoon dry thyme leaves, crushed 1 garlic clove, crushed 2 bay leaves Remove and reserve the bones from the pork loin. Make a pocket in the loin to hold the prunes: with a - to sharp pointed knife, cut a lengthwise slit through the center of the meat, about 2 4 inches wide, from one end to the other. Fill with prunes. Fold flap of meat around roast. Tie roast with string in 4 places. Stir together the salt, rosemary and pepper; rub over meat. In a large roasting pan surround the reserved bones with the onion, celery, carrot, wine, 500-degr- (4-inc- Scandinavian cooks have a traditional way of roasting a joint of pork with prunes inserted in it. The prunes add good flavor, and the roast looks most attractive when it is sliced. Now an American cook has developed her own version of the dish. Instead of inserting the prunes in small slits in the loin, she bones the meat and cuts a pocket in it to stuff with the dried fruit; then she rolls and ties the pork. Her particular seasonings and style of roasting produce a delicious accompanying sauce. PORK ROAST WITH PRUNES 334 pounds pork loin (bone-in- ) package pitted prunes 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon dry rosemary leaves 4-inc- h) fat-fre- Remove meat and keep warm in a low oven. Remove bones and bay leaves from pan and discard. Remove liquid and vegetables from the pan and puree half at a time, in an electric blender; or use a food processor for pureeing. If necessary, add enough water to make 2 cups sauce; heat. Slice the pork loin about thick and serve with the hot sauce. 7- 4-in- Makes 6 to 8 servings. Italian fennel makes a lovely garnish and unusual soup By CECILY BROWNSTONE AP Food Editor Now that cooks in the United States are more interested than ever before in exploring the world of fresh vegetables, fennel (sometimes called by its Italian name, finocchio) may gets its due. At one time it could be found most often in shops in Italian neighborhoods, but these days an increasing number of supermarkets carry it. It has a licorice flavor and its appearance has some resemblance to celery. Its broad leaf stalks overlap each other at the base of its stem, forming a bulb like structure (3 to inches in firm, white diameter) that and sweet inside. Fennels leaves sometimes called ferns are needlelike and a beautiful green color. They make a lovely garnish. Fennel, fairly thickly sliced, may be served as part of a raw vegetable platter. Or the slices may be steamed, mixed with a cream sauce, sprinkled with grated Par- pears. We found the recipe in a worthwhile new menu cookbook, Cuisine for All Seasons by Helen Hecht (Atheneum). Mrs. Hecht says of her fennel and pear combination, It is a pureed soup made without milk or cream. It is therefore lighter and more intensely flavored than a creamed soup would be. Both calorie-watcheand devotees of light cuisine may want to try her recipe. HELEN HECHTS topping. Recently, however, we came across an unusual way to use in a soup along with fennel 3 4 is first-cour- se rs mesan cheese and broiled briefly to achieve a golden FENNEL SOUP fennel medium-larg- e bulbs (about 3 pounds un trimmed ) large potato (4 pound), peeled and sliced 1 medium onion, peeled and coarsely chopped Several sprigs parsley 34 cups chicken stock or broth 1 cup peeled, cored, and chopped Bose pear 1 teaspoons minced fresh tarragon or 4 teaspoon dried 1 scant tablespoon Pernod 2 Salt d white pepper Garnish: minced fennel ferns Trim the stalks off the fennel bulbs and discard. Slice the bulbs crosswise about 1 inch thick. Put the fennel in a large saucepan with the potato, onion, parsley, and chicken stock. Cover tightly, bring to a sim Fresh-groun- mer, and cook for 15 minutes. Add the pears and cook for 10 minutes longer, or until the vegetables and pears are soft. Puree the solids in a food processor or blender, adding the stock in a thin stream. Return the soup to the saucepan and stir in the tarragon, Pernod and seasoning to taste. Reheat before serving. Garnish each portion with minced fennel ferns. Yield: approximately 8 cups or 10 servings. From Cuisine For All Season, by Helen Hecht (Atheneum). Needed space may be found in what's already there By BARBARA MAYER The solutions we show work AP Newsfeatures Your present home can be rearranged to provide more room than you ever thought possible, say Sally Clark and Lois Perschetz, two decorating writers who recently gathered into a book some of the spacemaking ideas they have come across over the years. The title of their book tells it all: Making Space: How to Decorate and Renovate to Get the Space You Need from the Space You Have. Most people assume they must do without needed space or move, ignoring the space they already have, the two women say. Instead, they suggest you look for extra space along the walls, at ceiling height or in the corners of rooms. If necessary, create what you need by building or buying two freestanding closets along one end of a room and using the space between for shelves, a desk or table, a sofa or bed. Our goal has been to show it is possible to improve any space, explained Ms. Perschetz, a former editor at House Beautiful Magazine. in all types of homes, added Ms. Clark, also a former editor at House Beautiful. To householders and apart- ment dwellers who find their their possessions space, the two offered some over-runni- suggestions room-by-roo- m improving the situation. Approach terms home your for in of needs instead of focusing on the traditional use of the room, said Ms. Perschetz. For example, in a dining room, move the table out of the center of the room over to one side. This frees the room to become something more than the rarely-use- d setting for it is in most that dinners holiday homes, she said. Moving the table makes it possible to bring in bookshelves or home electronic equipment and some seating and convert the room to a family center. With careful planning, youll still be able to use the room for holiday dining by moving some of the new furniture to one side. If you dont have a dining room, but want one, look for a spot that can be converted. One home is illustrated in their book carved person whose a dining room out of a foyer by table that employing a drop-leseats six conifortably when opened. In the bathroom, the space most often wasted is the area above the shower head and below the ceiling. The two suggest you build shelves above the tub for towels and other af items. Both admitted to pet peeves against standard bathroom vanities. They are too small, said Ms. Clark. Instead, she suggested mirroring the area the sink and building more commodious shelves to one side. If two bathrooms would relieve the morning rush, but there isnt room or money enough to cover their construction, try adding a second lavatory and toilet and continuing with only one tub. By creating a second small halfbath that connects to the existing tub, youve solved the problem and used less money and space than a second full above bath would require. Using wall space more creatively is also a way to get more mileage out of your kitchen. They suggest employing products such as grids or pegboard to hang utensils out in the open. An overhead pot rack accommodates pots and pans and makes them more accessible. It also frees valuable cabinet space for other items. They see three possibilities when dealing with a tiny kitchen. Depending on your decorating taste, you could opt for cabinets and no clutter. Or, you could outfit the kitchen with niches and nooks so there is a place for everything. A third idea would be to use kitchen utensils as accessories. Hang plates on cabinet suspend herbs from the ceiling, display knives and other utensils in decorative pitchers. In a room, opt for establishing two levels of activity. You can build in and carpet platforms that open to reveal storage or stack mattresses one, two and three high to create a series of seating steps. Unused spaces exist in every home, they said. Look for them under the stairs, in corners or in narrow hallways which can be likely resting places for narrow pieces of furniture. floor-to-ceili- Under the stairs, for example, you could install a bunk bed for occasional guests, a small halfbath or a household desk and WATiERlBEDS Natures Most Perfect Food Centam aM tssmtul mtnMto, enzymes rtamiiu, miner ah ng We intend to take down all the old wallpaper in our Q. living room and repaper the whole room. The paper not only is in poor condition, it is lumpy in places, caused by the fact that the previous owner had overlapped the seams. 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