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Show Panguitch Homemak ing Specialist Shares Her Skills With The Nation PANGUITCH Lucile Proctor Proc-tor is known throughout Garfield County for her homemaking skills. As Utah State University Extension Exten-sion Home Economist, she has demonstrated her skills locally for many years. Now, Proctor's homemaking skills have gone national. Her recipe for "Gingerbread with Lemon Sauce" is featured in the NovemberDecember issue of Taste of Home's new Quick Cooking Cook-ing magazine. Since its debut in January, the magazine has attracted more than a million subscribers. Quick Cooking is targeted specifically at families where busy parents return home after a stressful day at work and want top put a good meal on the table fast. Each issue includes in-cludes more than a hundred made-in-minutes recipes and entire en-tire meals that can be made in 30 minutes or less. Proctor's moist spicy cake topped with an old-fashioned-tasting lemon sauce met the magazine's criteria for excellence and was selected both for its mouth-watering taste and its quick-to-fix qualities, prepared entirely in the microwave oven. "This simple dessert is incredibly quick to make, so it's perfect for drop-in guests," Proctor says. "Quick Cooking's perfect for parents who want the family to eat a home-cooked meal together rather than at fast food restaurants," says Kathy Pohl, executive editor of the popular new magazine. "Not only does it feature rapid recipes, but it tells how to get the whole family involved in preparing quick, easy meals. "When both parents work, every minute counts when you get home. Everyone's famished and you need to get a meal on the table in a hurry ... yet one that's healthy," Pohl says. Appropriately, every single recipe, procedure and kitchen tip in Quick Cooking was selected with "time" in mind ... but never at the expense of taste. What speeds up the process is that foods featured in Quick Cooking may seem to be made from N ; -1 J si- Lucile Proctor scratch, but might include a can of soup, a commercially prepared sauce, etc. to hurry along the preparation. The practical publication includes in-cludes features such as "10 Minutes to the Table", "Fast Fixes with Mixes" and "30 Minutes to Mealtime". A section titled "Freezer Pleasers" includes make-ahead recipes and meals that help subscribers stock their freezers with items that hurriedly cure hunger when time is short. Budget-minded families can turn to a section titles "Centsible Foods - Fast and Frugal" along with a special column "Company's "Compa-ny's Coming". A new national recipe contest is announced in each issue of Quick Cooking, and the 12 winning win-ning recipes from each competition competi-tion are subsequently featured in a special recipe-card section. Proctor's now-nationally-known recipe was included in a section of the magazine titled "Microwave Magic." Gingerbread: 14 cup shortening, short-ening, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 egg, 12 cup molasses, 12 cup boiling water, 1-14 cups all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, cinna-mon, 12 teaspoon baking soda, 12 teaspoon ground ginger, 14 teaspoon salt. In a mixing bowl, cream shortening short-ening and sugar. Add egg, molas- (See PROCiuk on page 2-A) PROCTOR From Front Page ses and water; mix well. Combine Com-bine flour, cinnamon, soda, ginger and salt; add to creamed mixture. Pour into a greased 9-inch microwave-safe pie plate. Microwave, uncovered, on high for 7-8 minutes, rotating a quarter turn every two minutes, or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cover with waxed paper; let stand for -5 minutes. Remove waxed paper and invert onto a serving plate. Lemon Sauce: 1 cup sugar, 12 cup butter or margarine, 14 cup water, 1 egg beaten, 2 to 3 tablespoons lemon juice, 1 tablespoon grated lemon peel. In a 1 -quart microwave-safe bowl, combine sugar, butter, and water. Microwave, uncovered, on high for 2-3 minutes or until butter is melted and mixture begins to boil. Add a small amount to egg; beat well. Return all to the bowl. Microwave on high for 1 minute. Stir in lemon juice and peel. Cook 1 minute longer or until slightly thickened. Serve with the gingerbread. Yield: 6-8 servings. . This recipe was tested in an 850-watt microwave. Subscribing to Quick Cooking is easy, too. Just call 1-800-344-6913. Proctor has been with the USU Extension Office for 12 years, having previously taught home-making home-making at Panguitch High School. She earned her homemaking education edu-cation degree at Brigham Young University. |
