Name: Bread in Jars: Chocolate Applesauce
Ingredients: 1 c Margarine -- softened; 3 c Granulated sugar; 4 Eggs -- whipped; 1 tb Vanilla; 1 ts Almond extract; 2 c Applesauce -- at room; Temperature; 3 c Unbleached flour; 3/4 c Cocoa powder -- sifted; 1 ts Baking soda; 1/2 ts Baking powder; 1/8 ts Salt

The Puritans…were great souls serving a great God. In them clear-headed passion and warm-hearted compassion combined. Visionary and practical, idealistic and realistic too, goal-oriented and methodical, they were great believers, great hopers, great doers, and great sufferers. But their sufferings, both sides of the ocean (in Old England from the authorities and in New England from the elements), seasoned and ripened them till they gained a stature that was nothing short of heroic. Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings us today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do, and the Puritans' battles against the spiritual and climatic wildernesses in which God set them produced a virility Of character, undaunted and unsinkable, rising above discouragement and fears, for which the true precedents and models are men like Moses, and Nehemiah, and Peter after Pentecost, and the apostle Paul.

J.I. Packer

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Holiday, Gift, Ideas	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Margarine — softened
3	c	Granulated sugar
4		Eggs — whipped
1	tb	Vanilla
1	ts	Almond extract
2	c	Applesauce — at room
		Temperature
3	c	Unbleached flour
3/4	c	Cocoa powder — sifted
1	ts	Baking soda
1/2	ts	Baking powder
1/8	ts	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven at 325.  Place a baking sheet onto middle rack and remove top
rack from oven.  Before starting batter, wash 8 (1 pint) wide mouth canning
jars with lids in hot soapy water and let drain, dry, and cool to room
temperature.  Generously prepare jars with margarine.  In a mixing bowl,
combine margarine, sugar, eggs, vanilla, almond extract, and applesauce. In
another mixing bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking
soda, and salt.  Mix wet ingredients with dry ingredients just until
moistened.  Spoon 1 level cupful of batter into each jar.  Carefully wipe
rims clean, then place jars on baking sheet (or they'll tip over) in the
center of oven.  Bake 40 minutes.  Keep lids in hot water until they're
used.  When cakes are done, remove jars which are HOT from oven one at a
time.  If rims need cleaning, use moistened paper towel.  Carefully put
lids and rings in place, then screw tops on tightly shut.  Place jars on a
wire rack; they will seal as they cool.
Once jars are cool, decorate with round pieces of cloth and then glue on
flowers, ribbons, etc. on lid, ring and side of jar.  Unscrew the ring (the
lid should be sealed by now) and place a few cotton balls on top of the lid
(makes it poofy on top), then a piece of cloth (about 3" larger than the
lid) on top and screw the ring back on.  Decorate as desired (example
pinking shears).
Recipe By     : 365 Ways To Prepare For Christmas
File ftp://ftp.idiscover.co.uk/pub/food/mealmaster/recipes/mmdja006.zip

A Message from our Provider:

“Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited – until you try to sit in their pews.”

But we would do well to think of ourselves in the same way we used to think about the lost people of the mission field. We have become the new heathen. We Americans are the ones now in thrall to primitive superstitions, such as believing in the power of positive thinking and having faith in ourselves. We are the ones held back by a materialistic worldview that has little conception of the supernatural. We are the ones with brutal customs, such as aborting our infants, neglecting our children, and abandoning and sometimes euthanizing our elders. We have simple, pounding music, and we are uneducated about the realities outside of our tribe. With our limited mind-set, we have trouble grasping the truths of Scripture.

Gene Edward Veith