Chef Guide for Chefs: Thanksgiving Recipes
Chef2Chef Recipe Club - Volume 3 Issue 101 - November 15, 2002
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Hello Recipe Club,

There are only 11 more days to Thanksgiving! This week I've got 24 traditional and not so traditional recipes for your Thanksgiving feast. Many of them will be perfect for the upcoming religious holidays as well, so you might want to save these to a special file or folder. I'll start with a soup and a couple of bread recipes today and work towards desserts by Friday. Here is a list of this week's recipes, just so you have an idea what's coming.

Monday
Split Pea Soup
Moist Golden Cornbread
Cranberry Bread

Tuesday
Sherried Sweet Potatoes with Pecans
Steamed Sweet Potatoes
Boursin Mashed Potatoes
Green Bean Saute
Harvard Beets
Maple Glazed Carrots

Wednesday
Chipotle Cranberry Sauce
Cranberry Orange Sauce with Ginger
Apricot Ginger Cranberry Sauce
Apricot Walnut Brown Rice Stuffing
Cranberry Bread Stuffing
Easy Oyster Stuffing

Thursday
Perfect Giblet Gravy
Turkey Tips and Cooking Guidelines
Upside Down Turkey
Apricot Glazed Turkey with Onion and Shallot Gravy

Friday
Peach Brown Betty
Rhubarb Pudding
Rice and Sun-Dried Cranberry Pudding
Boston Cream Pie

Have a great day!

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Split Pea Soup

Serves 6

Ingredients:

2 1/2 quarts water
1 pound split peas
4 pounds ham bones or smoked shanks
2 carrots, sliced
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1/2 teaspoon garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon marjoram
2 dashes bottled hot pepper sauce
3 sprigs parsley
1 to 2 chicken bouillon cubes

Combine all ingredients (except the bouillon cubes) in a heavy stock pot and bring to a boil for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to a simmer and continue to cook for 4 hours or until the soup has thickened and the meat on the bones is "melt in your mouth tender" and falling off the bone. If the soup needs a little salt, dissolve a bouillon cube into it and taste again.

Remove the bones and any loose meat from the soup and allow to cool until they are easy to handle. Pick through the bones and meat and put the cleaned meat back into the soup.

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Moist Golden Cornbread

Serves 9

Preparation Total: 35

Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1 cup corn meal
2 tablespoons sugar, Optional
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups buttermilk
1 egg, beaten
1 tablespoon butter, melted

Procedure:

Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Mix flour, cornmeal, sugar, soda and salt. Mix buttermilk and egg. Stir buttermilk mixture and butter into cornmeal until blended.

Grease 8-inch square pan. Pour batter into pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden on top and wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.

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Cranberry Bread

Ingredients

2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 orange; juice of and grated rind
1 egg; beaten
2 tbsp. melted shortening or salad oil
1 cup cranberries; coarsely ground
1/2 cups walnut meats; coarsely chopped

Instructions:

Mix dry ingredients together very well in a large mixing bowl. Put the juice and grated rind in a measuring cup and add enough boiling water to make 3/4 cups liquid. Add to the dry mixture.

Add the egg and shortening or oil and mix just enough to moisten the flour mixture. Add cranberries and nut meats. Bake in a greased loaf pan 60 to 70 minutes at 325o. Store 24 hours before cutting.

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Shopping Lists:

1 pound split peas
4 pounds ham bones or smoked shanks
2 carrots
2 stalks celery
1 onion
Garlic
Marjoram
Bottled hot pepper sauce
Parsley
Chicken bouillon cubes

Flour
Corn meal
Sugar
Baking soda
Salt
Buttermilk
1 egg
Butter

Flour
salt
baking soda
sugar
baking powder
1 orange
1 egg
shortening or salad oil
1 cup cranberries
walnuts

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