Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook - Softcover

Dawn J. Ranck; Phyllis Pellman Good

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9781561485741: Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook

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ISBN 10: 1561485748 ISBN 13: 9781561485741

Publisher: Good Books, 2000

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Slow cookers are having a comeback. With good reason. They are friends on a day of running errands. They allow easy entertaining with no last-minute preparation. They are miracles for potluck meals, whether in your home or someone else s. And vegetarians won t find a better way to work with dried beans. Slow cookers are gently with the food budget less expensive ingredients flourish in their slow moist heat. Fit-It and Forget-It Cookbook offers more than 800 recipes the whole range of recipes slow cookers do well. Tips and Hints are dropped in throughout, urging one additional small step for lots of extra flavor, offering way to make your cooker a complementary appliance, explaining seasoning to maximum effect. Bring and element of simplicity and quality to your pressured life! Let your slow cooker work for you.

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About the Author:

Dawn J. Ranck has been a convinced slow-cooker user for years. She, along with her many friends, have been lining up their various-sized cookers on their kitchen counters before they set off each morning--and coming home to richly flavored full dinners.

Ranck , who lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, is the co-author of A Quilter's Christmas Cookbook and Favorite Recipes with Herbs.

Phyllis Pellman Good has been part of many cookbook projects, authoring The Best of Amish Cooking and The Festival Cookbook, and co-authoring Recipes from Central Market, Favorite Recipes with Herbs, The Best of Mennonite Fellowship Meals, and From Amish and Mennonite Kitchens.

Good and her husband, Merle, live in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and are co-directors of The People's Place, a heritage interpretation center in the Lancaster County village of Intercourse, Pennsylvania.

Beef Stew

Wanda S. Curtin, Bradenton, FL
Paula King, Harrisonburg, VA
Miriam Nolt, New Holland, PA
Jean Shaner, York, PA
Mary W. Stauffer, Ephrata, PA
Alma Z. Weaver, Ephrata, PA
Makes 6 servings
2 lbs. beef chuck, cubed
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4-1/2 cup flour
11/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. paprika
11/2 cups beef broth
half garlic clove, minced
1 bay leaf
4 carrots, sliced
2 onions, chopped
1 rib celery, sliced
3 potatoes, diced
1. Place meat in slow cooker.
2. Combine flour, salt, pepper, and paprika. Stir into meat until coated thoroughly.
3. Add remaining ingredients. Mix well.
4. Cover. Cook on Low 10-12 hours, or High 4-6 hours. Stir before serving.
Baked Apples with Raisins
Vera Schmucker, Goshen, IN
Connie B. Weaver Bethlehem, PA
Makes 6-8 servings
6-8 medium-sized baking apples, cored
2 Tbsp. raisins
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 Tbsp. butter
1/2 cup water
1. Remove top inch of peel from each apple.
2. Mix together raisins and sugar. Spoon into center of apples.
3. Sprinkle with additional sugar and dot with butter.
4. Place apples in slow cooker. Add water. Cover and cook on Low 7-9 hours, or on High 21/2-31/2 hours.
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