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Chef2Chef Recipe Club - Volume 3 Issue 125 - December 20, 2002 Chef2Chef Recipe Club Member Forum: http://forums.chef2chef.net Un/Subscribe: http://chef2chef.net/news/subscribe.htm -------------------------------------------------- Hello Recipe Club, Here is the last of the 15 Cookie recipes that Pam used in our Christmas Cookie Platters this year. Once all the cookies are baked, she arranges them on red and green plastic oval platters. Then they are wrapped in clear or colored plastic wrap. Tie two candy canes and a cinnamon stick to the gathered plastic wrap at the top of the plate with decorative ribbon and your cookie platters are done. Leftover cookies can be left for Santa under the tree or given to the UPS, FedEx or Postal folks. They really appreciate them! The team at Chef2Chef will take holiday next week. Your Recipe Club mail will resume on the week of December 30. From the entire team we wish you the happiest of Holidays. -------------------------------------------------- Chocolate Puffs Ingredients: 1/2 cup shortening 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate 2 cups sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla 4 eggs 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder Powdered sugar Procedure: Melt shortening and chocolate together. Remove from heat and add sugar, blending thoroughly. Add vanilla and the eggs, one at a time, beating between each addition. Sift flour with baking powder and stir into the chocolate mixture. Chill overnight. Form into balls and roll in powdered sugar. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. -------------------------------------------------- Athens Foods is the world's largest producer of fillo dough and fillo products. We produce more fillo than anyone, everyday, all over the world! 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Source: Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook -------------------------------------------------- This month Chef Revival is launching it's newest Chef Pant Pattern. It's called "Soho" 10 lucky winners will win a pair of the Executive style and the EZ style. The sets are worth $68 each and Chef2Chef is the only place you can get them. They are not even in their catalogs or on their site yet! http://html.chef2chef.net/goto.php?id=36 There are still two weeks left to register to win a Carmen Miranda Chip 'n Dip plus the Southern Pride Gift Set, value $95! http://html.chef2chef.net/goto.php?id=238 Kentucky Virtual is giving away more great Kentucky products this month. The prize includes a beautiful wooden chopping block, a classic wooden Rolling Pin and a Wrought Iron Book/Plate Stand. This gift is worth over $100 http://html.chef2chef.net/goto.php?id=105 Celebrity Chef of the Month, Janos Wilder has donated 5 of his cookbooks. We'll be giving them away at the end of the month. Register on his Chef of the Month page here: http://topchefs.chef2chef.net/recipes-2/wilder/ Sign up for a FREE Subscription to Food Arts Magazine. The Magazine for the Foodservice and Hospitality Industry. U.S. residents only http://html.chef2chef.net/goto.php?id=242 -------------------------------------------------- Sugar Cookies Note: My great-grandmother Taggart made the best sugar cookies in the entire world (we thought so anyway), and she always had them on hand whenever we went to visit. Ingredients: 1 cup butter 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 well beaten eggs 3 tablespoons sour milk 1 scant teaspoon baking soda dissolved in milk 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 3/4 cup flour (or enough to roll well) Procedure: Thoroughly cream sugar, butter and vanilla. Add eggs, beat well. Add milk and baking soda. Blend flour and salt into creamed mixture. Chill dough for 1 hour. Roll out on lightly floured surface to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut in desired shapes with cutters. Bake on greased cookie sheet at 375 degrees about 6 to 8 minutes. Sprinkle with sugar while warm or decorate otherwise once cooled. Cool slightly before removing from pan. -------------------------------------------------- WWKitchens.com Christmas is coming up! Is YOUR Kitchen ready? World Wide Kitchens (wwkitchens.com) -- featuring holiday specials, promos & more in cooperation with cooking.com. If it's not in your kitchen, try ours! Huge selection of cooking tools, bake-ware, table service & small appliances. Gourmet, specialty and international foods. Even an online butcher shop! NEW contests, cooking forums, our HUGE food glossary, tips & techniques. Did we mention over 5000 recipes?? VISIT us this holiday season at: http://html.chef2chef.net/goto.php?id=232 -------------------------------------------------- Shopping Lists: Shortening Unsweetened chocolate Sugar Vanilla 4 eggs Flour Baking powder Powdered sugar Butter or margarine Sugar Vanilla Flour Pecans Butter Sugar Vanilla 2 eggs Sour milk Baking soda Milk Salt Flour -------------------------------------------------- QUESTIONS, Comments, Technical Support: http://forums.chef2chef.net -------------------------------------------------- ARCHIVE: All Club e-mails are archived each Friday at: http://chef2chef.net/news/club/ -------------------------------------------------- |