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(31) the National Cranberry Assn. held its 29th annual meeting in 1959, food writer Clementine Paddleford made the rounds. Or, (32) she described it, she "went begging ideas from growers’ wives. "This was not unusual, really, (33) the food editor of This Week magazine, a Sunday supplement to The Times. For years she had scoured the country, (34) for new ways to turn simple ingredients into (35) dishes.
One year before her cross-country journeys would end, Paddleford (36) that 150"ladies had gone traveling with their husbands" to the Hanson, Mass. , cranberry meeting. So she would not let the (37) pass to find "new ways to use the bouncy little berry."
(38) she had a "chat" with Mrs. Milton Reeves of New Lisbon, N. J. , who advised that fresh cranberries be (39) in the freezer for year-round use.
Then she spoke with Mrs. Thomas B. Darlington Jr. , who (40) her cranberry pudding recipe—"a hand-down from old times."
Cranberry pie and cranberry torte recipes quickly followed. These were (41) by Mrs. Newell Jasperson of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. , whose husband was a third generation cranberry grower.
(42) in her office, Paddleford reprinted the recipes in This Week magazine on Nov. 15, 1959. (43) the headline, Cranbernes Don’t Need Turkey! she reported that the 1959 cranberry crop was estimated at 1 263 000 barrels, (44) 100 pounds to a barrel. (According to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the forecast (45) 1999 is "a record high" of 5.81 million barrels. ) Also, 60% of those 1959 cranberries would be used for jellies, sauces and cranberry cocktails. (Today, about 95% of the cranberry crop is processed (46) juice and sauce, while only 5% is (47) for hand-to-mouth eating. )
As for Mrs. Jasperson’s cranberry torte, the cranberries are combined with dates, walnuts and orange zest, which gives the dessert a hearty, fruity and decidedly California (48) . We’d call it a cake instead of a torte, however, since it contains a fair amount of flour and makes do (49) a butter cream or jam filling.
In fact, we bet some might call it a terrific Thanksgiving (50) .