Name: Stuffed Tomato with Crab Meat
Ingredients: 6 Firm; ripe tomatoes, peeled & cored; 1 ct (8-oz) small curd creamy cottage cheese; 2 tb Chopped green pepper; Salt & pepper to taste; 1 pt Mayonnaise; 1 Bottle (12-oz) chili sauce; 1 tb Lemon juice; 1 cn (6-oz) crab meat; drained, bones removed & flaked; 2 tb Finely chopped celery

There are basically two ways to read the Bible — as a book of law, or as a book of promise. Our natural religious psychology wants to read the Bible as law: “God is explaining here how I can win his favor.” A law-hermeneutic is the pre-understanding we naturally bring to our Bible reading, every page. But in Galatians 3 Paul explains that he reads the Bible as a book of promise, and he wants us to as well. He sees every page of the Bible as gracious promise from God to undeserving sinners. Is there law in the Bible? Yes. But it was “added” (v. 19). Law was inserted after the promises to Abraham were established. It is promise that comes first (Genesis 12), then law comes later (Exodus 20). It is promise, therefore, that defines the all-encompassing framework within which we are to read everything else in the Bible... Every page [in the Bible], most deeply understood, shines forth as a promise of grace to sinners in Christ.

Ray Ortlund

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Meats		Salad	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

6		Firm; ripe tomatoes, peeled & cored
1	ct	(8-oz) small curd creamy cottage cheese
2	tb	Chopped green pepper
		Salt & pepper to taste
1	pt	Mayonnaise
1		Bottle (12-oz) chili sauce
1	tb	Lemon juice
1	cn	(6-oz) crab meat; drained, bones removed & flaked
2	tb	Finely chopped celery

INSTRUCTIONS

CRAB MEAT DRESSING
Peel tomatoes, core them & cut in eighths, almost to the bottom. Drain. Mix
cottage cheese with chopped green pepper. Salt & pepper to taste. Stuff
tomatoes with mixture & cover with crab meat dressing. Crab Meat Dressing:
Mix ingredients together well & refrigerate. Spoon over stuffed tomatoes.
Good on lettuce and sliced tomatoes. Keeps well in refrigerator.
MRS. THEA EPES
From <Simply Southern>, the Desoto School Mothers' Assn, Helena-West
Helena, AR 72390.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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