ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, March 13, 1996 TAG: 9603130032
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 8 EDITION: METRO
Savory Pepper-Apricot Glazed Corned Beef served with a round, golden loaf of Irish Wheaten Bread and a side of Colcannon-Style Potatoes make perfect celebration fare. Or you might start a new tradition by combining corned beef and potatoes to create a perfect pizza for a casual evening meal with family and friends. Either way, a rich, showy, delicious and deceptively simple to make chocolate pie makes a finish worthy of celebrating.
If you'd like to experiment further with the flavors of Ireland, Scotland and England, ``The Best of Gourmet'' (Random House, $28), includes an Irish Country Supper.
The cookbook is filled with 30 menus and 90 pages of full-color photographs, plus more than 200 recipes that can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
In the ``Cuisines of the World'' section of the cookbook, editors of Gourmet magazine take readers across the Atlantic Ocean for an Irish country supper, an English afternoon tea and a Scottish dinner. Each menu features favorite traditional dishes from each country.
Among the dishes in the Irish country supper menu: baked scrod in cider; lamb, turnip and parsnip pie; blackberry fool; creamed mushrooms with chives; mashed potatoes with leeks; Irish soda bread; and sorrel, watercress and beet salad.
Old-fashioned boiled cabbage, boiled corned beef and skillet creamed potatoes are among the recipes in Jane Watson Hopping's new cookbook, ``The Pioneer Lady's Hearty Winter Cookbook'' (Villard, $25).
``My grandmother planted shamrocks in her yard to be worn on St. Patrick's Day,'' Hopping writes.
Darina Allen offers ``The Complete Book of Irish Country Cooking'' (Penguin Studio, $27.95) with recipes for poultry, lamb, beef, potatoes, breads and desserts. Allen has her own cooking series on Irish television.
For 225 potato recipes to take you from appetizers to desserts, send your name and address with a check for $4.95 to: All American Potato Cookbook, Dept. FF, P.O. Box 483, Stevens Point, Wis. 54481-0483.
To receive free bread machine recipes for the Irish Wheaten Bread and St. Pat's Potato Pizza, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: St. Patrick's Day Recipes, P.O. Box 7004, San Francisco, Calif. 94120.
To receive more beef deli meat recipes, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Meat Board Test Kitchens, Dept. FF/EMM, 444 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60611.
- ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER CAROL DEEGAN CONTRIBUTED INFORMATION TO THIS STORY
Recipes for:
PEPPER-APRICOT GLAZED CORNED BEEF.
COLCANNON-STYLE POTATOES
IRISH WHEATEN BREAD
ST. PAT'S POTATO PIZZA
SHAMROCK CHOCOLATE CREAM CHEESE PIE
LENGTH: Medium: 63 linesby CNB