Adventures In Elegance
Adventuring with new recipes is part of whatmakes homemaking enjoyable. Each discoveryhelps to add your special touch to thefoods you serve to family and friends.
With foods like sparkling-bright cannedfruit pie fillings available to you, it’s easyand fun to create new dishes. These fresh-fruitpie fillings can be used in a myriad ofways right from the can ... as toppings forcheese cakes, sauces for sundaes or hamslices or as rich fillings for quick-to-fix pies.You’ll want to try them, too, as the masteringredients in breads and cakes, cookies andpretty party desserts. Sample the offeringshere and then go adventuring on your own;canned fruit pie fillings can add the magicthat will set your meals apart from the rest.
Heavenly Homebaked Breads
Set a mood that’s both glamorous and homey with the warm fragrance and taste of breads fresh from your oven. They’re wonderful any time, for any occasion!
Bonny Berry Bread
½ cup butter
¾ cup sugar
1 egg
⅓ cup milk
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 No. 2 can (2 cups) blueberry pie filling
Cream butter and sugar; beat in egg. Blend in milk.Sift together dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture.Spread half the batter in a greased 8x8x2-inchpan; cover with ¾ can blueberry pie filling. Spread remainingbatter over pie filling; top with remaining piefilling. Mix ½ cup sugar, ½ cup flour and ½ teaspooncinnamon; cut in 2 tablespoons butter. Sprinkle crumbmixture over bread. Bake at 375° for 30 to 40 minutes.
Kwicky Cherry Kolaches
2 cans refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
1 No. 2 can (2 cups) cherry pie filling
1 tablespoon orange juice
1 cup sifted confectioners’ sugar
Unroll packaged refrigerator roll dough; place 1 squaremade up of 2 triangles on a floured surface. Roll or patto even dough and make a 6-inch square; cut in halfas marked to make 2 triangles. Place triangles on ungreasedbaking sheet. Place 1 tablespoon of cherry piefilling in the center of the triangle. Pick up the 2 longends, fold over filling, bringing them together at thecenter point to form a square; pinch edges to seal. Repeatwith remaining rolls and pie filling. Bake at 375°for 15 minutes or until browned. Blend orange juiceand confectioners’ sugar; drizzle over the hot rolls tog