Time saving kitchen aids for holidays
Crisco No-Stick Flour Spray combines Crisco oil and Pillsbury flour in an aerosol to grease pans and surfaces without sticking. Reynolds Slow Cooker Liners offer disposable 3 to 6.5 quart liners for easy cleanup and tossing after use. Both items are available in grocery stores at about 2.40 and 2.49 dollars respectively.
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Crisco
Pillsbury
Reynolds
Easy Cinnamon Fudge and Peppermint Candy Treats
Two decorative candy recipes appear here. The first details a cinnamon fudge with nuts and a refrigerated setting, yielding 2 inch squares. The second describes peppermint candy bark layered over melted chips with condensed milk, mint flavor, and crushed candy canes, then chilled and cut.
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McCormick & Co
AllRecipes
Rich holiday fudge takes center stage this Christmas
The article touts creamy fudge as a festive treat for Santa with flavors like eggnog cinnamon and peppermint. It offers practical tips from choosing ingredients to cooking temperatures and safety, plus a no cook option and sources from Allrecipes Hershey's and Better Homes & Gardens.
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the Gazette
Allrecipes.com
Hershey's
Better Homes & Gardens
World tour of Jewish cuisine in Goodman’s food book
Matthew Goodman’s Jewish Food presents over 170 recipes from around the world. The Forward columnist highlights bagels bugel and chopped liver alongside chelou Turkish borekas and Toronto’s shritzlach blueberry pastry.
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HarperCollins
Matthew Goodman
Forward
Goodman
Toronto
Freezing Almond Paste: Safe but Flavor Deteriorates
Almond paste can be frozen safely for long storage. Older labels claimed it couldn’t be frozen, but importer Odense now confirms freezing is fine. For best flavor, use within six months. double bag remaining paste, repack in its box, and keep frozen.
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Odense
Pam Simmons
Andre Prost Inc
Kitchen mishaps from Corridor cooks readers
Readers share light hearted kitchen disasters from Cedar to Cedar Rapids. Oven bags and bookmarks fused in smoke alarms ring warnings as cooks joke about being gourmet eaters. Notes recount burned cookbooks, hard as hockey pucks and a microwaved exploding egg surprise.
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Jim Bjornson
Cedar
National Hockey League
Nancy Burch
Cedar Rapids
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