Cookbook 10-5

2nd place recipe in the Old Farmers Almanac from the 2020 recipe contest. The category was appetizers:

“Stuffed Jalapenos”

1 pkg (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
2 c. shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1 clove garlic, minced
16 jalapenos, halved and seeded
crushed french-fried onions for topping

Preheat oven to 350. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a bowl, combine cream cheese, cheddar, and garlic. Fill pepper halves with cheese mixture and place on prepared baking sheet. Top with the french-fried onions and bake for 15 minutes. Makes 16 servings.

Becky Powers, Charleston, South Carolina

Also, tips on handling jalapenos:
Always use caution when cooking with chile peppers such as jalapenos. Capsaicin, the oil-like compound that contains their fiery heat, is concentrated in the membrane, or rib, of a chile. If you can, wear gloves while handling them; afterward, wash your gloved (or bare) hands thoroughly with soap and cool water. Try not to touch your eyes or face for several hours after working with chili peppers.

2021 Old Farmers Almanac Recipe Contest “Five or Fewer Ingredients (excluding salt and pepper). Entries must be yours, original, and unpublished. Cash prizes awarded for first, second and third places. Deadline January 22, 2021. Enter at almanac.com/RecipeContest or label “Recipe Contest” and mail to The Old Farmers Almanac, P.O. Box 520, Dublin, NH 03444. Include your name, mailing address, and email address.

from last week, How to make Pimento Cheese?
(gave a month ago…..)
“Pimento and Cheese Spread”

3 inch chunk American cheese (let set at room temperature then mash)
then add, 1/2 jar pimentos
12 diced olives
4 T. Miracle Whip
mix well

Lisa Waller, Excello (KWIX Cookbook 1981 edition)

“Pimento Cheese”

16 oz. pkg. Velveeta
oleo stick and a half
melt all together on top of stove. add a small jar pimintos, drained.
add a 1/2 c. Miracle Whip
1/4 c. sugar
stir altogether

“Pimento Cheese”

2, 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
3 T. vinegar
1 T. sugar
large jar of pimentos, drained and chopped
pinch of salt

Mix together and taste, until the right balance of vinegar and sugar. Makes a creamy pimento cheese.

Mildred Haak

Has a Crock Pot Apple Butter recipe. can you modify by grinding up apples, rather than using apple sauce
NOT SURE IT WILL WORK, DON’T KNOW HOW TO JUDGE HOW MUCH

“Apple Sauce”

10 c. apple sauce
5 c. sugar
2 T. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground cloves
place all in a crock pot

Mix and cook with the lid on the crock pot for 4 hours on high. Take the lid off the crock pot, and cook overnight on low. Place in jars next morning hot. Makes 5 pints.

Kathleen Barnes, Centralia

I asked about pink apple sauce. Hazel has used red hots in apple sauce for color and a little different flavor.
May have used the skin.
Add red hots

Can you freeze rhubarb
YES, WASH IT, CHOP IT TO THE SIZE YOU WANT AND PLACE IN A ZIPLOC BAG