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/ d 8 - / Y wr 12 -- = Seufog Cifizen += Tuesday, December 3, 1991 y St ;. os Coon < "Too stuffed for Christmas pudding? Only once a year, that's all, and then I'm usually, too stuffed to fully enjoy it. Sigh. That's the _sdd story of Dorothy's Christmas Pudding, the carrot pudding my mother (Dorothy) makes every yéar on Christmas Day. It is so unbeli€v- am bursting at the scams when dessert is finally served. Still, I can always find a little room for this pudding, the highlight and crown- ing glory of the Christmas feast. The pudding my family enjoys is a » cathy olliffe home cookin' ably good -- unbelievable, because I find it hard to believe anything with beef suet, carrots and Potzioes can taste so great. On Christmas morning, my mom gets up while*it's still dark outside, stuffs the turkey, puts the bird in for roasting, and takes the Christmas Pudding out of the freez- er for defrosting. Later in the day, when the rest of the meal is almost cooked, she re-sicams the pudding and. whips up Basic Pudding Sauce to go with it. The smell of this pud- ding, as it simmers and steams away on the stove, is.as integral a part of Christmas dinner as the turkey is. I look forward to the pud- ding as much as I look forward to anything else going on at Christmas time. Every year, I promise myself I'm not going to eat too much turkey, stuffing, hashed potatoes, turnip, peas, rolls, jellied salad eic., etc., so I'll have lots of room for this wonderful | puddi passed to my mother from my grandmother, Hazel Hooper, who likely learned 'the recipe from her mother and sp on and so on. I've tried the pre-made puddings you «can buy in grocery stores, but noth- ing I've ever bought tastes as fine as my mom's. My mom also bakes up a lot of Christmas cookies, and'my person- al favourite is her recipe for Butterballs, which are small and white and crurihy, yet they melt in your mouth, If you only plan on making one type of cookie this Christmas, I'd highly recommend Butterballs. There's only two more issues of the Citizen before Christmas, so if you have any Christmas recipes you'd like to share with Citizen readers, send them in to me soon. My address here is 36 Water St., Port Perry, LOL 1J2 (in between Don Forder I and Kountry Unfortunately, 1 always eat 100 much Christmas dinner, and thus Bulk and Delicatessen). I'd love 10 hear from you! v ' We have a delightful ' selection of greetings for you to choose from. Butterballs Measure into a Cream 1 cup of butter and 172 6 tbsp pastry abil cup icing sugar until fluffy. # com starch. Blend in 1/2 tsp vanilla and 1 3/4 cup of brown sugar 3/4 cups of flour. + A few grains of salt. Stir in 1/2 cup'of chopped Mix thoroughly. G lly stir pecans. Chill several hours for easy han- dling. Shape into balls 1 neh i in diam-* eter. Bake 20 minutes in 350 degree F oven on an ungreased cookie _sheet. While warm, roll balls in icing sugar. Yields about 3 dozen cookies. Stare in a sealed container. Dorothy's Christmas Pudding 1 1/2 cups of flour 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup beef suet, chopped fine 2 cups seedless raisins 1 cup grated raw carrots 1 cup grated raw potatoes 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt . 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 cup dark molasses Mix well and place in a greased baking dish. Cover with greased paper or foil, steam for three hours. (Mom makes it up to a month ahead of time, and then freezes until Christmas moming, when the pudding is steamed-again' until heated through). Basic Pudding Sauce' The fat for this sauce should be butter. Allow 1 to 2 tsps. of butter for each cup of sauce, stirring it in bit by bit at the last to prevent it from oilifg'out. SCUGOG CITIZEN 36 WATER nat PORT PERRY [ { 3 \ 85- 1410 in 3 cups of boiling .water." Cook, stirring constantly, until smoothly thickeneg: Cover and cook over a* low heat, stirring. occasionally, until no raw flavour of the starchy ingre- dient is evident: 2 or 3 minutes in the case of flour; 8 minutes if com starch is used. At serving time, remove from heat and stir in bit by bit, the butter and 1 tsp of vanilla (or other flavourings -- some peo- ple use rum). Stir until butter is 45 40h and pour over Christmas Tree lighting postponed Last Friday's rain sure put a damper on the B,1.A.'s second annu- al Christmas Tree Lighting ceremo- ny. The festivities were cancelled because of the weather, but will go ahead as planned this coming Friday night, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m., as long as the weather holds out! , Port Perry High School will pro- vide carolers, there will be ho + chocolate and cookies, and the'offi- cial lighting of the downtown Christmas tree -- all the fun hap- pens on Queen St., at the little house where Santa Claus has his picture taken (in between Home Hardware and ge Laurefltian Bank). Speaking of Santa and his pictures, the pho- tographs are being taken by mem- bers of the Scugog Photography b. A portrait with Santa costs $5,% which includes developing by RIM Photographics, with the proceeds going to the club. On Saturday, Dec. 7, the B.LA. begirls free babysitting for shoppers, every Saturday until Christmas, between 10 a.m. to 4 pm,, for chil- dren aged 3 to 10. Pareats simply havg to drop'their children off at the YMCA, register them, and promise to pick them up Chief Scout were Chief Scouts Waldriff of Black k P! Mark Pok d y to (front, left) Tony of ki p and John s of the 1st Ford of Blackstock. The boys are Sea Scouts and the awards were presented at a ceremony at Albert College, Belleville. The boys earned their Pathfinder badges, which entities themyto the Chief Scout award the high- ost in the S the y wih the boys were leaders Fred Ford and Rick Bralisford. CHAMBER of COMMERCE would like to thank all those great people who | made the 1991 Santa Claus Parade so successful; for the donations from our merchants and professional people and service clubs, especially Ringette Elves - Shannon, Kim, Tracy; the Parade Marshalls, Chuck and Debbie; judges, friends, sons and co-directors. 2 PARADE WINNERS WERE ... 1st - Religious - Victory Christian Centre (Happy Birthday Jesus) 2nd - Best Story - Port Perry Rotary Club (Little Engine That Could) 3rd - Humourous - Scugog Shores Museum (Old Woman in a Shoe) 4th - All Round - Jungle Book, Epsom PBolic School .