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- From: reid@decwrl (Brian Reid)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Margaret Rudkin's stuffing
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- Date: 21 Nov 86 04:46:41 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE BREAD-STUFF-1 S "19 Nov 86" 1986
- .RZ "MARGARET RUDKIN'S BREAD STUFFING" "A stuffing recipe from the founder of Pepperidge Farm"
- Margaret Rudkin founded the Pepperidge Farm bakery as a health-food venture
- in 1937 because one of her children was allergic to white bread. Her family
- lived on a farm in Connecticut that had a lot of pretty sourgum trees that
- the locals called ``pepperidge trees,'' hence the name. Rudkin's
- pediatrician asked to buy loaves of her whole-grain bread for other children
- with white-flour allergies, and so the business was started. If you look in
- cookbooks published in that era, they mostly say that it is
- impossible to make bread from whole grains because the flour was too coarse
- and the bread would not hold together. In its time, this was a very risky
- venture.
- .PP
- In 1963, Margaret Rudkin published a cookbook with all of her family
- recipes. It's called \fIThe Margaret Rudkin Pepperidge Farm Cookbook\fR,
- (Atheneum Press). It is a rare book, and has been out of print for 20
- years. In 1965 Grosset and Dunlap republished it with much wider
- distribution, but that book is also out of print.
- .PP
- In general I have found that the recipes in this book are nearly identical
- to the products sold by the Pepperidge Farm bakery, and it's a lot of fun to
- make your own. Here is her recipe for Thanksgiving turkey stuffing.
- .IH "Serves 8"
- .IG "1 lb" "bread" "500 g"
- .IG "1" "white onion,"
- chopped fine
- .IG "1 tsp" "salt" "5 ml"
- .IG "" "fresh-ground pepper"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "sage" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "thyme" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(14 lb" "butter," "125 g"
- melted
- .PH
- .SK 1
- On the weekend before Thanksgiving, set aside some homemeade
- bread, to dry out. Leave it unwrapped so that it will dry thoroughly.
- .SK 2
- Thanksgiving morning, cut the bread into thick slices and remove the crust
- from each slice. Dip each slice into cold water, and wring out carefully.
- After squeezing each slice dry, crumble it into a large bowl
- by rubbing between your hands.
- .SK 3
- Add salt, pepper, sage, thyme, and chopped onion to the bowl, and stir
- gently. Pour on the melted butter, and toss like a salad.
- .NX
- Rudkin's notes say ``taste and sniff as you go, because you might like more
- sage or thyme.''
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 4 days drying bread, 10 minutes preparation.
- .I Precision:
- no need to measure.
- .WR
- Brian Reid
- DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, USA
- reid@decwrl.DEC.COM -or- {ihnp4,ucbvax,decvax,sun,pyramid}!decwrl!reid
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