Holderschmarren (elderberry Scramble)

The greatest awakening in the history of the church took place when…(preachers) were bold enough to proclaim the Word of God and saw their task to be presenting the unembellished, undiluted, unvarnished Word of God. That is why they pored over the texts of Scripture, being careful of their exegesis before they entered the pulpit. Because that was the center of their task, they were fearless. Their fearlessness, their boldness, their courage came from the conviction that what they were preaching and teaching was the Word of God.

R.C. Sproul

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy	German	German	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

500	g	Elderberries, stems removed
		a generous lb
250	g	Peeled, [cored] pears
		sliced a generous 1/2
		lb
250	g	Very ripe, pitted damson
		plums a generous 1/2 lb
150	g	Rye bread, or white [French]
		bread crust removed
		Thinly sliced, a generous 5
		oz
1/2		Milk, 2 cups plus 2 Tbsp
50	g	Butter, 3 1/2 Tbsp
1	pn	Salt
		Sugar and cinnamon to taste
2	T	To 3 tb flour
		Juice of 1/4 lemon

INSTRUCTIONS

From the Ries area.  Melt the butter and briefly saute the fruit.  Make
a thin paste of the  flour and milk and add the mixture to the fruit.
Add the remainder of  the milk.  Add the sliced bread, and cook until
the plums are soft.  Season with salt, sugar, cinnamon, and lemon
juice.  Serves 4.  From:  D'SCHWAEBISCH' KUCHE' by Aegidius Kolb and
Leonhard Lidel,  Allgaeuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten. 1976.
(Translation/Conversion:  Karin Brewer) Posted by: Karin Brewer,
Cooking Echo, 9/92  From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at
www.synapse.com/~gemini

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What is the worst the opposition can do? Kill you – though doubtless that will occur, at least for now, in this country. But even if that were case, the Scripture strips away that excuse citing that death for the Christian is the greatest event possible because only death has the ability to break the seal and usher you into inexpressible glory. Could the problem be that we simply have a too great a fascination with the things going on here and not enough desire to spend eternity with Christ? If we really “prefer” to be “home with the Lord” (2 Cor. 5:8), intimate, personal, visible communion with Christ that far exceeds our communion with Christ here (Heb. 11:10, 13), then we must be “absent from the body” (2 Cor. 5:8). In other words, we must die. Therefore death from that perspective doesn’t sound so bad. Only death can release me from “absent from the Lord” to be “home with the Lord.” So the worst the enemy can do is send me to paradise!

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