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Recipe Roundup
Favorites from Employees of Aloha Airlines and Island Air

LETTUCE-WRAPPED MUSUBI
Cynthia Aoki (Contract Services)
21/2 cups rice
23/4 cups water
2 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. sake
3/4 cup frozen peas (blanched)
2 whole umeboshi, seeded
and mashed
15 each of blanched lettuce leaves, iceberg and Manoa (ribs removed)
8-by-8-inch square cheesecloth
Wash rice until water is clear; drain. Add 23/4 cups water; soak for 30 minutes. Add salt and sake; cook in rice cooker. When rice is done, let stand for 10 minutes. Gently add the peas to half of the rice. Set aside.
Fold 2 mashed umeboshi into other half of rice. Set aside.
Place a lettuce leaf on cheesecloth; add a heaping tablespoonful of rice in the center of lettuce leaf. Bring corners of cheesecloth together and gently squeeze into ball.
NOTE: Iceberg and Manoa lettuce are suggested for a pleasing presentation because of the different hues of green.

BANANA NUT BREAD
Vern and Jodi Enriques
(Contract Service Agents)
2 blocks melted butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
3 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups bananas (mashed)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup raisins (optional)
Mix in large mixing bowl with electric mixer: butter, sugar, eggs and bananas. Add flour, one cup at a time, while mixing. Then add vanilla, baking soda, nuts (and raisins if desired). Pour batter into loaf pans lined with waxed paper or into cupcake holders. Pour batter to at least 3/4 full. Bake at 300 degrees for 40 minutes, or until golden brown.
NOTE: Mangoes can be substituted for bananas (for mango nut bread).

DRUNKEN CHICKEN
Dawn Itai (Finance)
1 whole fryer chicken, washed
and dried
1/2 cup sake
1/2 cup cherry wine
6-8 cloves grated garlic
2-inch piece of grated fresh ginger
Hawaiian salt mixture with different herbs
Rub sake and wine all over chicken and inside cavity. Then rub grated garlic and ginger and sprinkle salt mixture all over chicken and inside cavity. Marinate in air-tight container in refrigerator for 4 days. Roast uncovered in oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 400 degrees.

BISQUICK PANCAKES
Lorraine Teixeira (Marketing)
1 cups Bisquick
1 cup milk
1 Tbsp. sugar
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
2 tsp. baking powder
2 eggs
Sift all together until blended. Pour desired size on hot gribble and cook till edges are dry. Turn and cook till golden.
confetti jell-o
Robyn Omuro (Marketing Services)
3 pkg. (3 oz.) flavored gelatin
(lime, strawberry, orange)
4 cups hot water
4 envelopes unflavored gelatin
1 can (12 oz.) sweetened
condensed milk
Mix each package of flavored gelatin with 1 cup hot water. Pour into separate bowls. Chill till set, then cut into small cubes. Mix one can sweetened condensed milk with 11/2 cans hot water and 1/2 can cold water. Stir until dissolved. Mix 1 cup hot water with four envelopes unflavored gelatin. Mix into condensed milk mixture and let cool. Place cubed flavored gelatin into a 9-by-13-inch pan, then pour cooled condensed milk mixture over cubes. Chill to set.

Miniature tart
Robyn Omuro (Marketing Services)
1 3 oz. pkg. cream cheese
1 cup flour
1 block butter, melted
Mix together. Chill 1 hour. Roll thin. Cut with small biscuit cutter. (I just make a round ball and press and shape dough in each muffin cup.)
Fill in miniature muffin tin. Fill with mixture:
2 eggs, separated
1 cup sugar
1 block melted butter
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped pecans
Beat egg yolks. Add other ingredients. Fold into well-beaten egg white. Fill muffin tin (not too full). Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Makes 3 dozen.

SALMON CROQUETTE
Cynthia Aoki (Contract Services)
1 can (16 oz.) salmon, drained
1/2 tsp. celery salt
dash of pepper
2 tsp. chopped onion
2 Tbsp. chopped parsley
1 cup thick white sauce (recipe below)
bread crumbs and flaky panko
2 egg whites, slightly beaten
2 Tbsp. water
oil for frying
Combine salmon, seasonings, onion and parsley with white sauce. Chill. Form into 12 croquettes. Roll in bread crumbs, then in egg white mixed with water. Roll in panko. Heat oil to 375 degrees and fry till golden.
WHITE SAUCE:
3 Tbsp. vegetable oil
1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
dash of pepper
1 cup milk
Blend oil with flour and seasonings in small, heavy saucepan. Add milk gradually. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly till mixture pulls away from the pan and forms into a ball.

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