European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Maple sugar pumpkin pie by Ottosi Dosti los Angeles times a Reader of my food column wrote me la Ashe and her husband and enjoyed wonderful pumpkin pie Flavoured with Maple sugar at Aux a dons Cana tens restaurant. In Quebec. I have made several unsuccessful attempts at duplicating their recipe and wonder if you can help obtain the recipe Lor this memorable dessert in Lime Lor  the res Laurall s spokesman said that the chel gladly parted with the recipe for the popular Maple Flavoured pumpkin Pio which is a specially of the traditional Canadian cuisine. I Lor another would love to be served this unusual pumpkin pie this thanksgiving. Aux ancient canadians pumpkin pie ,. 1 cup Brown sugar packed j cup pumpkin Puree strained Vieu milk i cup Maple syrup a Teaspoon Salt a Teaspoon ground cinnamon dash ground Ginger dash ground Nutmeg " one 9-Inch unbaked pie Shell beat eggs. Add sugar pumpkin milk Maple syrup Salt cinnamon Ginger and Nutmeg blending Well after each addition. Pour into unbaked pie Shell bake at 375 degrees 50 o 60 minutes until browned do not Over bake. Serve hot or cold with whipped Cream if desired. Makes one 9-Inch pie. Last fall wrote another Reader you had a recipe for beef Stew cooked in a pumpkin she. The recipe was super and i have prepared it Many limes to Many raves. Now i be lost the  what an idea for Holiday entertaining translation sorry we did not gel the recipe to you in Lime for you know what".". " beef Stew in pumpkin Shell 2 Pound beet blew meat Cut in 1 i Inch cubes 1 Large onion chopped z cloves garlic minced 3 Tablespoons Oil 2 Large tomatoes chopped 1 targe Green Pepper chopped Salt Pepper 1 Teaspoon sugar 3 White potatoes peeled and diced 3 Sweet potatoes peeled and diced 2 cups beet Broth 1 medium pumpkin about � pounds Butler or Margarine melted i cup dry Sherry 1 1 Pound can whole Kernel Corn drained chopped Parsley trim any excess fal from beef and saute with onion and garlic in Oil until meat is browned. Add tomatoes Green Pepper 1 Tablespoon Salt it Teaspoon Pepper sugar White potatoes Sweet potatoes and Broth. Cover and simmer 1 a hours. Meanwhile Cut lop Oil pumpkin. Scoop out seeds and stringy membrane. Brush inside of pumpkin with melted butter and Sprinkle lightly with Salt and Pepper. Stir Sherry and Corn into Stew and bring to boil. Spoon Stew into pumpkin shelf reserving any excess to reheat later and replenish pumpkin Shell. Replace pumpkin top. Place tilled pumpkin in shallow pan and bake at 325 degrees 1 Hilo 2 hours or until pumpkin meat is Lender. Garnish with chopped Parsley. Place pumpkin on serving plate and ladle out Stew scooping out some pumpkin with each serving. Replenish with any remaining Stew. Makes 6 to b Servings. Neat Elrode i seems to be becoming extinct probably because of its labor intensive Cost and the waning popularity in the United states of Sweet and creamy pies. The pie enjoyed Peak popularity irom the turn of the Century to the 60s, fitting out of favor. I would guess when the great Nesselrode pie Cooks began dying Olf and health consciousness set in actually the pie is not All that caloric and certainly Worth the Effort of baking it yourself especially Tor Holiday entertaining. Its characteristic mixed candied fruit in the Tiffin gives he pie a festive appearance ideally suited to christmastime. Nesselrode pet .1 envelope Una voted Gelatin 1 cup matk / cup sugar. A Egga separated / Teaspoon Salt 2 Tablespoon rum i cup diced mixed candied fruit 1 9-Inch baked pie Shell shaved chocolate soften Gelatin in milk in top of double boiler. Add it cup sugar egg Yolks and Salt. Beat just enough to blend. Cook stirring Over simmering water until mixture chickens and Coats Metal spoon. Remove irom heat and 1 sir in rum chill until thickened but not set. Beat egg whiles until Loamy. Gradually add remaining 1a cup sugar beat Iii until still bul not dry. Fold egg. Whites and fruit into Gelatin mixture. Turn into pie Shell and chill until firm. Garnish with chocolate shavings makes one 9-Inch pie. Heip. Nowhere can i find a recipe for sos writes a Reader who has retired irom military service. We used to look Forward to sundays when we ordered it at Mcchord no open mess at Mcchord fab in  Many readers May not know thai sos in military jargon figuratively translated cannot be repealed in a family newspaper bul it is the code for save our ship which creamed chipped beef no matter How dreadful it was and could be did save the ship and Mote. Sos creamy chipped beef 2 ounce dried beef 1 Tablespoon butter or Margarine 1 10 to ounce can Cream of potato soup mushroom soup or Cream Gravy Vij cup milk buttered Toast pour hot water Over dried beet then Drain. Melt butter in Saucepan. Add meat and Brown lightly. Stir in soup and milk and heat to serving temperature stirring occasionally. Serve Over Toast. Makes 3 to 4 Servings. Page 14 the stars and stripes  by Charl me Varkonyi Baltimore Sun yes. We knew they were called cranberries when we were growing up but i swear on a Lam Turkey we never saw a real Berry on the plate. You see mom had a phobia concerning the traditional thanksgiving dinner and would  Only under protest Ever since lie/1 Home she has made her own signature Holiday dinner anchored with lobster tails and shrimp Bui Bach to the berries. The trimmings with the Turkey in my childhood included enough Yummy Side dishes to feed the 6th Fleet. Then there was that funny looking wiggly red Jelly stuff with stripes on the Side the impressions from the can could l they at least make the stripes in an appealing design ugh i Neaily boycotted cranberries. It was Many years later that i realized you could make. Your own Cranberry sauce with the honest to goodness Tarl berries. Now the Orange Cranberry sauce from my aging Doubleday Cookbook has become my Holiday tradition ,. And Row. More than a decade altar my Berry discovery Here i was in Carver mass., with move than. 100 food editors and writers standing on the Banks of a Lake rifled with Floa Linig cranberries. Ii mom could see me  " Carver claims to be a Cranberry capital of the world Massachusetts has 12,000 acres of cranberries and More than half of them Are to Carver. The berries Are. Harvested irom mid september through Early november with a Kinky combination of old time Yankee labor and \. 20th.century technology. ".t--i.v, most of the berries about 85 percent of the Harvest Are gathered Inlet harvesting. These Are the berries that end up in the cans and in All those Cranberry fruit. Combination drinks Jere Downing Manger of horticulture development for Ocean Spray cranberries inc., says that tha bogs Are hooded 6 to 12 inches deep right before  berries Are shaken irom the vines by a machine they Call an egg Batter mechanical water reels churn a water to loosen the berries. Because the berries Are hollow they pop onto the surface. We watched As a couple of workers wearing rubber hip waders pulled primitive wooden booms to Corral the floating berries. The men  berries onto conveyors that Lake them up into trucks. The fresh fruit Only about 10 percent of the crop is Harv sled with a machine resembling an old fashioned Lawn Mower. The berries Are brought by conveyor to boxes which areal filled by helicopter to a truck wailing outside the bog. Unfortunately two dry harvesting the consumer s source of the Irish fruit is the shrinking part of the business according to Downing. But there is some Good rials Lor american Cranberry lovers this year. Despite the drought of the past summer the . Department of agriculture Speaks of a Boom Harvest om.82s million barrels from Friday. Noven