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- From: kdeck@epaus.island.net (Karen Deck)
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Nesselrode Pie
- Date: 5 Feb 1995 04:54:51 -0700
- Organization: Island Internet Inc. - (604) 753-2383
- Message-ID: <3h2eab$6qj@mack.rt66.com>
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- Title: Nesselrode Pie
- Keywords: Mom's, Pies
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- Has a frozen confection filling with a Christmas garden of cherry
- poinsettias and gumdrop holly atop
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- 3 egg whites
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup coarsely chopped blanched
- almonds, toasted
- 1/3 cup maraschino cherries, cut
- in fourths
- 2 tablespoons maraschino-cherry
- syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/3 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream, whipped
- . . .
- 1 recipe Vanilla-wafer Crust
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- Beat the egg whites till foamy, add the granulated sugar gradually and beat
- till stiff. Fold in the almonds cherries, cherry syrup, and vanilla. Fold
- confectioners' sugar into whipped cream; fold into the first mixture. Pour
- into Vanilla-wafer Crust and freeze firm. Garnish top with cherry
- poinsettias and gumdrop holly leaves.
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- Vanilla-wafer Crust: Combine 1 1/4 cups fine vanilla-wafer crumbs and 1/3
- cup melted butter or margarine. Press into buttered 9-inch pie plate; chill
- till firm, about 45 minutes.
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- Cherry poinsettias: The stem mark of maraschino cherry will be the center of
- flower. Holding cherry at stem end, use sharp scissors to snip it in sixths
- >from opposite end not quite through. Spread "petals" out around stem mark.
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- Gumdrop holly leaves: With rolling pin, roll green gumdrops to 1/8 inch on a
- little sugar between sheets of waxed paper. Snip out holly-leaf shapes.
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