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Outlook Lifestyle ALTON HILLS OUTLOOK Friday March IS 1 Celebrate spring with strawberries TAKE advantage of spring strawberries lo make templing muffins By Claire Spring is in the air What better way to begin a day an with J fresh strawberry muff Serve these for breakfast with soft cream cheese apricot preserves or your own strawberry apple butter Send these along with the driver who snacks on the way to work or tuck into a school lunch FRESH STRAWBERRY MUFFINS cup coarsely chopped ft cup sugar 1ft cap aOpurpoee flour unsifted ft teaspoon baking soda teaspoon ground nutmeg ft teeapoonsalt eggs beaten ft cup butter or margarine matted pur extract In a small bowl combine strawber ries and ft cup sugar Set aside for hour Drain and reserve liquid and strawberries separately Preheat oven to degrees Grease 1 cups in a muffin pan set aside Combine Dour baking soda nut meg and salt set aside In a medium mix eggs butter vanilla ex tract remaining ft cup sugar and from strawberries Add Hour ture stir Just until combined Fold in reserved strawberries Spoon into prepared muffin cups Bake until a cake tester Inserted into the center comes out clean about minutes Serve warm This kitchen tested reel makes muffins pint cup pealed and sliced cooking applea about pound cup sugar Water leaipoon grated orange peel ft teaapoon ground nutmeg Hull strawberries Place in con of an electric blender or food processor fitted with a metal wing blade Whirl at high speed until reed scraping down sides of contain If needed makes about cups Remove and set aside In a medium size enamel or stain lesssteel saucepan combine apples sugar and just enough water about cup to keep apples from slicking to pan Bring to a boll Reduce heat and simmer covered stirring occasional ly until softened about 15 minutes In food processor whirl half of the apples at a time until pureed Return apples to saucepan along with orange peel nutmeg and reserved puree Bring to a boil Reduce heat and simmer covered stirring fre quently until thickened about 1 hour Mixture is thick when a spoonful placed on a cold saucer has no mois ture seeping from the edges Immediately pour into hot canning jars leaving ft Inch bead space Adjust caps Process In boiling water bath according to directions for minutes Cool Check seal Remove rings before stor ing Or refrigerate without processing in a tightly covered container for about weeks This kitchen tested recipe makes 2 Jars CANCER INFORMATION SERVICE CALL 18002636718 WOOF ffilarious book for kids Allan is perhaps best known for pictures books created In collaboration with his wife Janet Each Peach Pear Plum limit In corpora lea nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters Into a cumulative rhyme Janet is the illustrator and her husband writes the text Their other books Include Peekaboo in which the game of Peekaboo can be played through strategically placed boles in the page and The Baby Catalogue 1962 which followed the discovery that their own baby first reading material was mailorder catalogues In WOOF Allan has struck out on his own creating an hilarious story about a ten yearold boy unexpectedly turns into a Norfolk terrier The first time this transformation occurs Eric Banks Is bed trying to sleep He feels an around the collar of Library book review Eric spends the next few hours as pup chasing cats begging for food and tracking scents He is mildly alarmed at what has happened to his body but before panic strikes he feds himself returning to his former homo state This mefamor lakes place rather frequently throughout the book Eric is never given any warning that it is Declin ing nor does he know if or when he will return to being boy Allan Ahlberg may hovt been a dog in an earl life for he clearly understands the r habits and behaviour the boy shares many of the character trails of Eric the dog be is timid but dignified kind to his little sister and always loyal to his chum Roy In short Eric makes a very believable dog Eric views the world around him in a methodical seemingly deadpan way He Li curious and Interested to discover be has become a dog but never resorts to hysterics Using this calm unflinchingly rational ap proach adroitly takes teachers libraries parents food bullies the author wry lions make fair game of them all This romp is easy enough for a child in Grade or to read by himself I would heartily recom mend WOOF to anyone looking for a story to read aloud as the humour Is within the reach of a child and developed enough to sustain an adult interest Courtesy of Ha I ton Hills Public Libraries