Place a dish upside down in the bottom of your salad bowl before putting the salad into the bowl.  The inverted bowl/dish will serve as a shield to allow the juices or excess dressing to flow under the dish and hold the salad ingredients above the excess dressing or juices, keeping it fresh and eye appealing.

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AMERICAN FLAG PIZZAS

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1 pkg. 2 pkgs.(14 oz. ea.)             Refrigerated pizza crust
1 cup 2 cup Prepared pizza sauce
3/4 cup 1 1/3 cups Shredded sharp cheddar cheese
6             12                           Cheese sticks or string cheese (about 1 oz. ea), quartered    lengthwise (18 pieces total) (class 9 pieces
12 25 Pepperoni slices, quartered
11×17-inch pan

Preheat oven to 400?F.

Lightly coat two nonstick 17×11-inch (class 1 pan) baking sheets with cooking spray.

Unwrap pizza dough.  Roll each one out onto a prepared baking sheet.  Starting at the center, press out dough with hands to edge of pan.  Place on center oven rack; bake 8 minutes.  Remove crust but leave oven on.

Spoon 1 cup pizza sauce on each crust.  Using back of spoon, spread evenly over crusts.  Sprinkle cheddar cheese so that it covers upper left quarter of pizzas.

Arrange 24 cheese strips on each pizza to resemble stripes of the flag.  Place some strips end to end of necessary to make stripes across the width of the crust.

Place 50 pepperoni quarters on the cheddar cheese to represent the 50 stars (states).

Return one pizza to middle rack of oven, bake 8 minutes or until cheese has melted and edges are golden brown.  (Do not over bake.)  Remove from oven, set aside, and bake second pizza. 

To serve, slice each flag into 16 pieces when cooled enough to handle.

NOTE:  For peak flavors, assemble the pizzas and refrigerate once baked and serve cool.  This recipe does not stand up well to reheating in a microwave oven.

Yield: 1/2 Recipe 16 pieces  Complete Recipe 32 pieces.

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BASIC COOKIES

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1/2 cup 1 cup Butter
*1 1/2 3 Eggs (egg substitute)
1/2 tsp. 1 tsp. Baking soda
1/4 tsp. 1/2 tsp. Salt
1 1/2 cup 3 cups Flour
1/2 cup 1 cup Raisins**
1/2 cup 1 cup Coconut**
As desired as desired Nuts**
1/2 cup 1 cup Dates, ground, optional**
1/2 cup 1 cup Chocolate chips**
* Use equivalent amount to 1 1/2 eggs of egg substitute or 1egg plus 1 yolk or 1 white.
** These ingredients can be substituted with other things like chopped dried apricots or other dried fruit, various flavored chips, sesame seeds, omitted, or change amounts as desired.  Cocoa can also be added to make them chocolate.

To make a softer cookie, you can add applesauce or yogurt (2 Tbl. for 1/2 recipe or 1/4 cup for “Recipe”).
Sift together the flour, soda and salt.  Set aside.

Cream butter with the sugar. 

Add eggs. 

Blend in flour mixture.

Add raisins, chocolate chips, coconut, dates and nuts.

Chill.

Drop off spoon or form into balls.

Bake at 350? on lightly greased cookie sheets until light brown.

Yield: Depends on how large you make them.
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COOL?AS-A-CUCUMBER SALAD

1/2 cup Mayonnaise
1/4 cup Half-and-half cream
1/4 cup Sugar
1/2 tsp. Celery seed
1/2 tsp. Dill weed
3 medium Cucumbers, sliced

In a bowl, combine the first five ingredients; mix well.  Add cucumbers and stir to coat.

Refrigerate until serving.

Yield: 4-6 servings

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