Recipe for "tzimmes"

NAME

     TZIMMES - Vegetable and fruit casserole for Passover
     The original version of this recipe  came  from  the  Jewish
     Holiday  Cookbook, by Gloria Kaufer Greene. It benefits from
     being made ahead and then heated for the Seder.

INGREDIENTS (serves 8)

     4         large sweet potatoes, peeled and diced
     1         butternut squash, peeled and diced
     4         tart apples, peeled, cored, and diced
     250 g     prunes, pitted and halved
     100 ml    water
     100 ml    sweet red Passover wine
     60 g      sugar
     5 ml      ground cinnamon
     2 ml      ground nutmeg
     2 ml      ground ginger

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Combine all of the ingredients in  a  large  bowl.
               Mix well to distribute the liquid evenly.
          (2)  Dump into a baking dish and seal the  baking  dish
               tightly with aluminum foil and a lid.
          (3)  Bake 1 hour at 175 deg. C.  Cool.
          (4)  To serve, reheat, then empty into a serving  dish.
               Don't  serve  it  out  of the pan you cooked it in
               (the  movement  into  the  serving  dish  squeezes
               juices out of the fruit).

RATING

     Difficulty: easy.  Time:  10  minutes  preparation,  1  hour
     cooking.  Precision: no need to measure.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Brian Reid
     DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto CA
     reid@decwrl    -or- decwrl!reid