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In the Night Kitchen
​by Maurice Sendak

Mickey wakes up one night to a big racket and meets three huge bakers in the middle of baking cake for the morning. He falls into the batter and almost gets baked into a cake. Make Mickey-free Pound Cake for breakfast with Homemade Raspberry Jam.​

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Homemade Raspberry Jam

Complexity: Easy, but dangerous boiling liquids are involved.
Time: 10 minutes.

Ingredients

  • 2 pints (4 cups) red or golden raspberries, crushed 
  • 5 ¼ cups sugar 
  • ½ teaspoon grated lemon peel
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • ¾ cup water
  • 1 package (1 ¾ ounces) powdered fruit pectin

Directions

  1. Mix raspberries, sugar, lemon peel and lemon juice in large bowl. Let stand at room temperature 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  2. Mix water and pectin in 1-quart saucepan. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Pour hot pectin mixture over raspberries; stir 3 minutes or until slightly thickened.
  3. If storing some jam, spoon into freezer containers, leaving 1/2-inches of space on top. Wipe rims of containers and seal. Let stand at room temperature 24 hours. Store in refrigerator up to 3 weeks or in freezer up to 6 months. Thaw frozen jam and stir before serving.

Cook

Pound Cake

Complexity: Easy cake baking. Kids can help with mixing and measuring.
Time: 20 minutes mixing plus 25 minutes baking.

Ingredients

  • 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ½ cup butter or margarine, softened
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ teaspoons lemon extract
  • 2 eggs

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease a small loaf pan.
  2. In a small bowl, stir together flour, salt, and baking soda.
  3. In a large bowl, beat sugar and butter with electric mixer until well combined.
  4. Beat in sour cream, vanilla, and lemon extract until well blended.
  5. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until well blended.
  6. Beat in dry ingredients until combined.
  7. Spoon batter into pan; bake 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of the cake comes out clean.
  8. Serve cake warm or store at room temperature. Cake can also be frozen.

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