Recipe - Fruit Cheese Log

One half cup Del Monte® dried apricots
1 cup Water
1 pound Monterey jack cheese;
shredded
1 pack (8 oz) cream cheese;
softened
1/3 cup Milk
1 teaspoon Poppy seeds
One half teaspoon Seasoned salt
1/3 cup Del Monte® golden seedless
raisins
One fourth cup Pitted dates; snipped
Three fourths cup Chopped walnuts
Crackers; for accompaniment

Soak apricots in water for two hours; drain and chop. Blend cheeses. Add
milk, poppy seeds and salt; mix well. Fold in fruit; mix well. Turn out on
foil; shape into a logtype roll. Wrap securely in foil; chill until firm.
Roll in nuts before serving. Serve with crackers. Yield: 1 log,
approximately 2 pounds.

Variation: Substitute 1/3 cup sherry for milk.

Recipe by: Favorite Brand Names Recipes Cookbook, 1981

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #885 by "Crane Walden cranew@foothill.net"
cranew@foothill.net on Nov 1, 1997