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Cranberry Dessert

Cake:

3 Tbs butter or margarine
1 c sugar
2 c flour
3 tsp baking power
1/2 tsp salt
1 c milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 c cranberries

Cream butter and sugar.  Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Add vanilla to milk. Add flour and milk mixtures to butter mixture alternately in 3 steps. Add whole cranberries. Put batter in greased 8×8 pan. Bake at 350° F for 35-45 minutes.

Lizzie note: I usually double and put in a 9×13 pan because this goes fast!

Sauce:

1/2 c butter or margarine
1 c sugar
1 c whipping cream

Melt butter. Add sugar and cook until it is brown. Slowly add the whipping cream. Serve sauce warm over cake.

The browner you get the butter, the firmer the caramel will be.

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Shrimp or Chicken Curry

1 Recipes by Lael - Shrimp or Chicken Curry

 

Ingredients:

3 Tbsp. oil
1 medium onion, diced
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tsp. ground fresh ginger
1 bay leaf, crumbled
1 Tbsp. coriander
1 tsp. cumin
1 tsp. cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp. fenugreek
1/2 tsp. turmeric
1 tsp. salt
1 c. water
1/4 c. lemon juice
3 shakes of salt
2/3 c. dried coconut
Cooked shrimp or chicken

Directions:

Brown onion, garlic and ginger.  Add spices, fry for 5 minutes on medium heat, add water, salt, lemon juice and coconut and simmer in a covered pan, for 10 minutes.  Add shrimp or chicken and simmer for an additional 5 minutes.  Serve over a bed of hot rice.

Serves: 4

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Introduction to 1980 Recipes by Lael

Recipes by Lael - Title Page

Date: December 12, 1979

To: Bob, John, Joan, Jim, Kate and Pook

From: WOW

Subject: Recipe Book

This collection of recipes is dedicated to all you eager eaters, ready and willing to try anything new.  If you hadn’t been so adventurous, this collection could never have come into being.  As you will see when you look through it, this is not a general cookbook.  Most of you have copies of “Joy”.  That is the Bible.  Rather, this is a collection of recipes from all over, recipes that you have asked for.

You will notice, as your read through this collection, that in most cases, I have not specified the amount of meat to be used.  This can be as much or as little as you choose.  This is also a collection of cheap recipes.  The meat is mainly for flavoring.  For the chicken recipes, buy chicken breast.  They are more expensive, but you get more meat and less bone, so in the long run, it is cheaper.

And now what is needed are, Polish recipes (Caron), Hungarian, Alsatian specialities, Italian, Swedish and South American recipes.  Who knows, this could go on and on, a new edition every few years.

And now, finally, with much love, BON APETIT!