Recipe – “Overnight Fruit Bowl”

“Overnight Winter Fruit Bowl”

“Fare for Friends – Cookbook”

 

3                 egg yolks, beaten

2                 tablespoons white sugar

2                 tablespoons white vinegar

2                 tablespoons pineapple juice or syrup from can

1                 tablespoons butter

Salt to taste

2                 cups seeded grapes or drained pitted cherries

2                 cups pineapple chunks, drained

2                 cups mandarin oranges, drained

2                 cups tiny marshmallows

1                 cup whipping cream, whipped

 

Combine the first six ingredients in a double boiler.  Cook and stir until thick.  Do not boil!  Fold this cooled sauce into whipped cream, and then fold into the fruit.  Place in large serving bowl and garnish the top with fruit if desired.  Place in the refrigerator for 24 hours.  Serve cold.   Serves 8 to 10.

Pairing with tea blends:

Lover’s Leap

Gunung Dempo (Sumatra)

Recipe – “Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Brownies”

“Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Brownies”

“Fare for Friends”

 

Chocolate Chip Batter

1                 cup shortening

1                 cup brown sugar, packed

½                cup sugar

1                  teaspoon vanilla

3                  eggs

2                 cups all-purpose flour, un-sifted

1                 teaspoon baking soda

1                 teaspoon salt

1-1/2        cups chocolate chips (pure & semi-sweet)

 

Cream cheese batter

2                 packages (each 8 oz.) cream cheese, softened

¼                cup sugar

2                 eggs

1                 cup pecans, chopped

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.  Cream shortening, sugars, and vanilla; add eggs and beat well.  Combine flour, baking soda and slat.  Add to creamed mixture and stir in chocolate chips.  Spread one half of the chocolate chip batter in the bottom of a lightly greased 13” x 9” baking pan.  To make the cream cheese batter, combine cheese with sugar and eggs in food processor or mixer and blend until creamy.  Pour on top of chocolate chip batter in pan.  Sprinkle with nuts.  Spread or drop remaining chocolate chip batter by small spoons-full over cheese filling.   Do not be alarmed by tiny sections not filled in by batter – it will spread in the cooking process.   Bake in oven for 45 minutes.  Cool and cut into pieces.    Makes about 36 pieces.

Pairing tea blends to go with recipe:

Chocolate Mint

Belgian Chocolate Rooibos