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ELECTRIC KITCHEN

Mink’s bar cookies
part of school’s
cookbook

"The Electric Kitchen" airing through the first half of March is subtitled "Pau Hana Tea" and features Julia E. McCullen, former librarian at Lili'uokalani Elementary School, with recipes from the school's fund-raising cookbook, "History Comes Alive!" Lili'uokalani students solicited recipes from government leaders nationwide for the collection.

"The Electric Kitchen"
Finish Pineapple Nut Bars with a dusting of powdered sugar.

"Electric Kitchen" airs at 9:30 a.m. Sundays, 8:30 p.m. Mondays, 5 p.m. Tuesdays and 6 p.m. Thursdays on Oceanic Cable Channel 16. It also airs on Maui at 8:30 p.m. Thursdays on Calabash Channel 44 (52 in Lahaina) and on the Big Island at 5 p.m. Mondays and 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays on Na Leo o Hawaii Channel 2 in Hilo and 14 in Kona.

Here is a recipe donated for the cookbook by U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink, D-Hawaii. All the recipes from the show, as well as an archive of recipes dating to 1995, are available at the Hawaiian Electric Co. Web site, http://www.heco.com.

Pineapple Nut Bars

1/2 cup melted butter
1-1/2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1-1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 20-ounce can crushed pineapple, drained
1 cup chopped nuts
Powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 13-by-9-by-2-inch pan.

Beat butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Sift flour, salt and baking soda. Add dry ingredients to egg mixture alternately with the pineapple. Stir in nuts. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 45 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool; cut into 2-by-1-1/2-inch bars. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Makes 3 dozen.

Nutritional information unavailable.

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HAWAII'S KITCHEN

This week's edition of "Hawaii's Kitchen" was a rebroadcast of the Feb. 13, 2000 program that featured dishes prepared by Deb Hopkins of Deb's Southern Comfort. The recipes were published in the Star-Bulletin on Feb. 16, 2000 and may be read at https://archives.starbulletin.com/2000/02/16/features/story3.html.

"Hawaii's Kitchen airs 5:30 p.m. Sunday on KHON Fox 2.

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