Frog Eye Salad
Note: This is great for picnics and barbecues. It can be treated as a salad or as a dessert.

¾ cup sugar
1 tablespoon flour
½ teaspoon salt
2/3 cup pineapple juice
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 cup Acini Di Pepe (Acini Di Pepe is a very tiny round pasta)
2 (11 ounce) cans mandarin oranges, drained
1 (20 ounce) can tidbit pineapple, drained
1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
1 (8 ounce) carton cool whip
1 cup miniature marshmallows

In a small saucepan, mix sugar, flour and salt. Stir in pineapple juice and egg.
Cook over moderate heat, stirring constantly until thickened.
Add lemon juice. Set aside and cool. Cook Acini Di Pepe.
Cover, place in refrigerator until chilled. Combine remaining ingredients, stir lightly.
Chill at least 1 hour before serving. Serves 10.


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Wiebe's Wiggly Cake
Morten's Recipe Collection

2 c Brown sugar
2 c Milk
6 tb Butter
1 1/2 c Raisins
2 ts Cinnamon
1 ts Cloves
1 ts Nutmeg 1
1/2 c Prepared worms
3 c White flour
2 ts Baking soda
2 ts Baking powder
2 x Eggs

Instructions Directions:
To prepare worms
(Red Wiggler earthworm) place them in peat moss for 12-14 hours to clean out grit.
Then rinse in clear water and plunge into boiling water flavoured with a bit of lemon.
Remove worms after 2 mins., and repeat plunge into boiling water twice more for 2 min.
with fresh pot of water and lemon each time. Drain thoroughly, spread on a flat tin,
and bake for 10 min. at 350 degrees.
Results look like shoelaces and store well.

to make cake:

Combine eggs, sugar, and butter in a bowl. Beat until fluffy. Add spices,
baking powder and baking soda and flour alternately with milk while beating continuously.
Add raisins and worms. Makes 2 loaf pans or one 9 x 13 inch pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until done.

Recipe by Mrs.Linda Wiebe,Cambridge,Ontario.
Winner of a competition pro- moting the use of worms in cooking
Printed in Issue #13 Harrowsmith Magazine, 1978 Liz Parkinson

Earthly Treasures
Morten's Recipe Collection (Appetizer ?)

1 cup dry white wine
8 ounces fresh earthworms, cleaned
12 large mushrooms
1/4 cup olive oil
2 T soy sauce
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup green onion, chopped
2 T crushed saltines
1/4 t curry powder
3 egg whites
3 T mayonnaise
3 T grated Parmesan cheese

Pour wine over worms and marinate for 1 hour. Clean mushrooms and remove stems.
Combine oil, soy sauce, garlic and pour over mushroom cap and let set for 1 hour.
Pour wine and worms into saucepan and bring to boil. Remove from heat and drain.
Melt butter in large skillet. Sauté drained mushroom caps until lightly golden. Remove from skillet.
Add worms, mushroom stems and onions into skillet and stir-fry until slightly golden.
Stir in crushed saltines and curry powder. Spoon mixture into mushroom caps.
Arrange on greased baking sheet. Into egg whites, fold mayo and Parmesan cheese.
Heap atop worm mixture.
Bake in preheated 425 oven until delicately golden.
Makes 12...

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