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Scoop up one cup of creamy cottage cheese and place in the center of crisp lettuce. This is the hub! Arrange canned peach halves around to form the “wagon wheel.” Add strips of green pepper for the spokes. Top with a bright cherry. Serve well chilled.
Build a Wagon!
Arrange cottage cheese in a mound on crisp lettuce. Surround with peach slices to form the “wheel.” Add green pepper strips as spokes and garnish with a cherry.
Cream Cheese “Gold Strike” Plate
Good eating! Spread the cream cheese mixture smoothly over crisp lettuce leaves. Arrange canned cling peach slices in a circle and top with a decorative garnish (such as nuts or fruit). Serve chilled.
Recipe Credit: First in Foods
American Dairy Association - archive content
The Aloha Ginger
Breakfast & Drinks
Ingredients:
1 cup sifted flour
1 tsp. ginger
¼ tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. each, salt and soda
1 tsp. baking powder
2 eggs
3 tbsps. sugar
⅓ cup dark molasses
⅔ cup sour cream
1 No. 2½ can Del Monte Sliced Pineapple
Instructions:
Sift dry ingredients except sugar. Beat eggs; add sugar gradually, continuing to beat. Add molasses and sour cream; mix into dry ingredients until flour is just moistened.
Bake in hot waffle iron (placing waffles in a slow oven, without stacking, to keep crisp).
Serve with heated pineapple slices and whipped cream (adding crushed peanut brittle, if desired).
Serves: 6–8
Serve with A Citrus Sipper, OJ or Orangeade
Recipe Credit: Del Monte & Sunkist - archive content
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