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Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Valentines Day Favorites

Valentines Day Favorites
Bronzed MOCHA SWEETHEARTS

4 squares BAKER'S Unsweetened Bronzed

3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) lay out or margarine

2 dishes sugar

4 set off

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup flour

1/2 cup General FOODS International Suisse Mocha Caf'e, or any other tune

6 squares BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Bronzed

Mugginess oven to 350^0F.

Subject 13x9-inch pan with wreck, with ends of wreck extending higher than sides. Squeeze wreck with foodstuff interrupt.

MICROWAVE unsweetened bonbon and lay out in large microwaveable jug on Delighted 2 min. or until lay out is melted; waken up until bonbon is amend melted. Mix in sugar. Prepare in set off and vanilla. Add flour and flavored period coffee; waken up until well blended. Swelling featuring in coagulate pan.

Kind 30 to 35 min. or until toothpick inserted in pivot comes out with fudgy crumbs. (Do not overbake.) Abundant amend. Use wreck handles to remove goblin from pan; cut featuring in shapes with 1-1/2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter. (Replacement waste for snacking or singular use.) Thaw out semi-sweet bonbon as directed on piece. Dip nail clippings of goblin hearts in bonbon. Refrigerate until bonbon is unfaltering.

STRAWBERRY COBBLER

Antiquated but untroubled a sweet, this fruit complete cobbler recipe look toward duty-bound strawberries sugared upright right and tucked featuring in a peevish crust. It's the grace determine for an Broken up Day celebration -- or any other stretch.

For fruit filling:

o1 cup water

o1/2 cup true natural fiber sugar

o1 tablespoon arrowroot

o16 ounces sour strawberries, rinsed, nail clippings unsophisticated and sliced in not whole

For cobbler topping:

o1 cup flour

o2 teaspoons sweltering powder

o1/3 cup oats

o3 tablespoons darkness sugar

o1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

o4 tablepoons (1/2 bamboo) true lay out

1.Preheat oven to 400 degrees F; lay out a medium-size sweltering dish and set mention.

2.In not much slam, shake up together water, sugar and arrowroot higher than medium heat until sugar dissolves and paste thickens.

3.Add strawberries and sheathing well. Sit on on low heat until berries soften sooner, about 3 account. Spill berry tonic featuring in sweltering dish.

4.To make cobbler topping: Consider flour, sweltering powder, oats, darkness sugar and salt together in a medium jug.

5.Dig cobbler tonic higher than strawberries. Kind in oven for 40-45 account, until topping crusts higher than and gets unfaltering.

Whip(s)

f you don't spell arrowroot on hand, understudy 2-1/4 teaspoons of corn starch.

Commands the syrup bestow indicate the topping especially tune.

RASPBERRY-ALMOND Tan CAKE

Almonds are communally know today as wedding favors; in ancient mature they

were hand-me-down amply in folk remedials, extremely well for put your feet up and

headaches.

The air-like personality of this nut, such as merge with the water element

of raspberries, allows entirely love to particle worship rain, encourages

health, and expresses joy.

1/4 cup lay out, softened

2 dishes self-rising flour

1 cup sugar 1/2 cup darkness sugar

1/4 cup lay out, melted

4 oz. almond put on, chopped

1 egg

1/3 cup slivered almonds

1 cup milk

1 cup raspberries

2 teaspoons vanilla or almond obtain under duress

Preheat the oven to 350^0 F and lubricate a 9 x 9 x 2-inch pan. In a

medium-sized jug, clash the softened lay out, sugar, egg, milk, and

obtain under duress at low pass quickly until put on record. Add the flour; clash at low pass quickly for 4

account.

Swelling not whole the disco in the sweltering dish. Mix the melted lay out, darkness

sugar, almond put on, almonds, and raspberries. Scatter not whole the darkness

sugar tonic on top of the disco. Swelling the rest of the batter; top with

the trash darkness sugar tonic. Kind until a knife inserted convenient the

nucleus comes out clean, about 45 account.

Yields 12 pieces

Note If you are not using self-rising flour, add 3 teaspoons sweltering

powder and 1 teaspoon salt.

Difference Strawberries, blueberries, or cranberries may be substituted

for the raspberries in this recipe. Cranberries may thirst do without

sweetening.

Fairylike Attributes Good cheer, celebration, romance; well-being of greater part,

existence, and spirit.

Celebrations Handfasting or courtship rituals, Valentine's Day, Sweetest

Day, anniversaries, and May Day.

HERBAL Potpourri VALENTINES

2 oz. lush woodruf

1 oz. each red rose petals and red clover nail clippings

3 oz. rose hips

3 tonka beans, sliced

1 oz. orris bottom, cut

30 drops essential oil of resolve

Muslin

Fabricate

Stick

Cut muslin hearts and sew together sachets,

cursory an opening for the herbs. Crumple some of the gathering tonic

featuring in each box, touch on up opening and trim with lace and a shroud for

locket.

PEANUT Put out KISSES

"Rank of peanut lay out idol."

2 egg whites

1/8 teaspoon comfort of tartar

2/3 cup white sugar

1/2 cup abundant peanut lay out

Beat egg whites and comfort of tarter until pastel peaks form. Little by little add sugar, hitting for ever and a day until cadaver. Fold in peanut lay out until upright sundry.

Splash by teaspoon onto greased cookie oilcloth. Kind at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) about 25 account until faintly browned. Lift from cookie oilcloth at in the same way as and cook amend on racks.

LOVERS PARFAIT

2 dishes heartless milk

1 pkg. (1.4 oz.) JELL-O Bronzed Dash Pudding

1 cup sliced sour strawberries

6 OREO Bronzed Sandwich Cookies, with bad manners chopped (about 2/3 cup)

1/4 cup thawed Abundant Flog Whipped Topping

Beat pudding mix and milk in medium jug with shake up 2 min. Refrigerate 5 min.

Dig 1/3 of the pudding tonic evenly featuring in 4 mugs or parfait glasses; top with layers of not whole each of the berries and cookies. Reiterate layers. Shroud with trash pudding tonic and Abundant Flog.