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June 13, 2011 1:00 AM
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Cluster No-Bake Cookies 2 pounds (16 squares) white almond bark 1 cup creamy peanut butter 2 cups party peanuts 3 cups crisp rice cereal 2 cups mini marshmallows In a double boiler, melt the almond bark. When melted, stir in peanut butter. In a big bowl, mix peanuts, cereal and marshmallows. Pour melted mix over the dry ingredients and stir well to combine. Drop cookies onto waxed paper. Let harden 1 or 2 hours and store in refrigerator. Editor's notes: Arlington uses a spring-loaded cookie scoop to drop the cookies. She warns the cookies soften quickly in heat, so don't place them on a buffet table in the sun. They will last a month in the refrigerator and can be frozen. Also, many different items can be mixed into these cookies. One idea: Pretzels.
Cluster No-Bake Cookies 2 pounds (16 squares) white almond bark 1 cup creamy peanut butter 2 cups party peanuts 3 cups crisp rice cereal 2 cups mini marshmallows In a double boiler, melt the almond bark. When melted, stir in peanut butter. In a big bowl, mix peanuts, cereal and marshmallows. Pour melted mix over the dry ingredients and stir well to combine. Drop cookies onto waxed paper. Let harden 1 or 2 hours and store in refrigerator. Editor's notes: Arlington uses a spring-loaded cookie scoop to drop the cookies. She warns the cookies soften quickly in heat, so don't place them on a buffet table in the sun. They will last a month in the refrigerator and can be frozen. Also, many different items can be mixed into these cookies. One idea: Pretzels.
LIMA — Dinah Arlington placed in The Lima News Cookie Contest a few years back and now has written a book, “Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah.”
“Everybody's always singing me that song,” she said.
She'll have a book signing from noon to 2 p.m. June 25 at Readmore's Hallmark. The book, with almost 400 recipes, sells for $15 — and at the signing, she'll serve Cluster No-Bake Cookies.
“Everywhere I take them, there are none left. None,” Arlington said, explaining she received the basic recipe from a friend a while ago but has modified it.
Arlington, who works at St. Rita's Medical Center, has been interested in cooking most her life. She is from Spencerville, and she and her two brothers and two sisters were close with her maternal grandmother, Mildred Roberts.
“Everybody in Spencerville knew her as Grandma,” Arlington said. Roberts rode a three-wheeled bicycle around town and was known for always having desserts on her counter at the ready for company.
“Really, the cookbook is a tribute to her,” Arlington said. She learned much about cooking from Roberts, spending a lot of time as a young girl in the woman's kitchen learning in a hands-on way.
“She'd say, ‘If you want the recipe, that's going to be a little bit difficult,'” Arlington said, explaining her grandmother was old-fashioned and used pinches and handfuls of ingredients instead of strict measurements. But they worked together on her classic recipes, with Arlington measuring and taking notes, and they were able to figure it out.
After her grandmother died, Arlington dug into her old brown spiral notebook of recipes to translate more recipes through researching how Roberts cooked and talking with older family members.
Arlington is now a grandmother and wants nothing more than to have her grandchild view her house as a fun place to go and cook, just like she felt about her grandmother.
“I think it's an outlet,” she said “You can put a smile on anybody's face with food.”
Have a suggestion for who should be featured in this spot? Email amcgee@limanews.com.
“Everybody's always singing me that song,” she said.
She'll have a book signing from noon to 2 p.m. June 25 at Readmore's Hallmark. The book, with almost 400 recipes, sells for $15 — and at the signing, she'll serve Cluster No-Bake Cookies.
“Everywhere I take them, there are none left. None,” Arlington said, explaining she received the basic recipe from a friend a while ago but has modified it.
Arlington, who works at St. Rita's Medical Center, has been interested in cooking most her life. She is from Spencerville, and she and her two brothers and two sisters were close with her maternal grandmother, Mildred Roberts.
“Everybody in Spencerville knew her as Grandma,” Arlington said. Roberts rode a three-wheeled bicycle around town and was known for always having desserts on her counter at the ready for company.
“Really, the cookbook is a tribute to her,” Arlington said. She learned much about cooking from Roberts, spending a lot of time as a young girl in the woman's kitchen learning in a hands-on way.
“She'd say, ‘If you want the recipe, that's going to be a little bit difficult,'” Arlington said, explaining her grandmother was old-fashioned and used pinches and handfuls of ingredients instead of strict measurements. But they worked together on her classic recipes, with Arlington measuring and taking notes, and they were able to figure it out.
After her grandmother died, Arlington dug into her old brown spiral notebook of recipes to translate more recipes through researching how Roberts cooked and talking with older family members.
Arlington is now a grandmother and wants nothing more than to have her grandchild view her house as a fun place to go and cook, just like she felt about her grandmother.
“I think it's an outlet,” she said “You can put a smile on anybody's face with food.”
Have a suggestion for who should be featured in this spot? Email amcgee@limanews.com.
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