Clafouti (cherry Flan) – We Love God!

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Eggs		Desserts, To post	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/4	c	Milk
1/3	c	Granulated Sugar
3		Eggs
1	T	Vanilla Extract
1/8	t	Salt
2/3	c	Sifted Flour
3	c	Black Cherries*, pitted
1/3	c	Granulated Sugar
		Powdered Sugar For Garnish

INSTRUCTIONS

Use fresh black, sweet cherries in season. Otherwise, use drained,
canned, pitted bing cherries.  Place milk, sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt,
and flour in blender. Cover  and blend at top speed for 1 minute.
Butter a 2-quart fireproof  baking dish, 1 1/2 inches deep. Pour a 1/4
inch layer of batter in  the baking dish. Set over moderate heat for a
minute or two until a  film of batter has set in the bottom of the
dish. Remove from heat.  Spread the cherries over the batter and
sprinkle on the sugar. Pour  on the rest of the batter and smooth the
surface with the back of a  spoon. Place in middle position of
preheated 350Â° oven and bake for  about 55 minutes or 1 hour. The
Clafouti is done when it has puffed  and browned and a needle or knife
plunged into its center comes out  clean. Sprinkle top with powdered
sugar just before bringing it to  the table.  Serves: 6 to 8  Source:
"Mountain Measures" --Junior League of Charleston, WV ed. 1974  NOTES :
The Clafouti need not be served hot, but should still be  warm. It will
sink down slightly as it cools. Recipe by: Mrs. Thomas  P. O'Brrien
Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by "Bill Spalding" <billspa@icanect.net>  on
May 10, 1998

A Message from our Provider:

“Religion is external, faith is internal.”

Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 205 Calories From Fat: 31 Total Fat: 3.5g Cholesterol: 97.1mg Sodium: 108.5mg Potassium: 124.2mg Carbohydrates: 36.1g Fiber: <1g Sugar: 25.5g Protein: 6.3g

As the flower in the garden stretches toward the light of the sun, so there is in the child a mysterious inclination toward the eternal light. Have you ever noticed this mysterious thing that when you tell the smallest child about God, [he or she] never asks with strangeness and wonder, “What or who is God – I have never seen Him,” but listens with shining face to the words as though they soft loving sounds from the land of home. Or when you teach a child to fold [his or her] little hands in prayer that [he or she] does this as though it were a matter of course, as though [it was] opening for [the child] that world of which [he or she] had been dreaming with longing and anticipation. Or tell them, these little ones, the stories of the Savior, show them the pictures with scenes and personages of the Bible – how their pure eyes shine, how their little hearts beat.

R.C.H. Lenski

Proverbs 1:7, 'The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction' (cf. 9:10). Do you see an interesting connection? Knowledge of the Lord's ways dispels fear, but the beginning of knowledge is fearing the Lord? Could it be the more we fear displeasing God and approach Him with reverential awe, the greater He will appropriate Himself in our lives? And the more we have of God, the less we will battle the short-lived, trivial fears of the world? Could it be that if we fear God there will be no one and nothing else left to fear? Wasn't this the teaching of Jesus? 'Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell' (Mt. 10:28).

Randy Smith