Pennies from Heaven

Name: Pennies from Heaven
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 pound, carrots, peeled and sliced 1/4 inch thick; 1/4 teaspoon, grated orange zest plus 1/2 cup juice; 1/4 cup, dried apricots, chopped; 2 tablespoons, lemon juice; , Salt and pepper; 1/8 teaspoon, ground cinnamon; 1 tablespoon, sugar; 1 tablespoon, unsalted butter

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2012

The expression means an unexpected windfall of good fortune. But at first these glazed carrots were anything but a windfall of good flavor.

SERVES4

TIME30 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Pennies from Heaven is a Depression era dish of orange-flavored, glazed carrots with apricots and cinnamon designed to look like newly minted pennies. It sounds promising but most recipes gave us washed out flavors, chewy bits of apricots, ...

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