ROASTED GARLIC

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Remove the papery outer covering of whole garlic head, but do not seperate the cloves or peel them.
• Place as many whole heads of garlic on a large square of heavy-duty aluminum foil as there are people to be served.
• Fold up foil so that the cloves are completely wrapped.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour 15 minutes.
• Serve each diner a head of garlic and some bread and butter.
• Separate cloves.
• Hold a clove over a piece of buttered bread and squeeze.
• The garlic puree will pop out, like toothpaste from a tube.
• Spread and eat.
• GARLIC PUREE:
• To make a batch of Garlic Puree for later use, let roasted heads of garlic cool, unwarapped for at least 5 minutes.
• Gently separate the cloves and squeeze each one over a fine meshed sieve, so that the softened garlic pops into the sieve.
• With wooden spatula or wooden spoon, rub garlic through the sieve into a small container or bowl.
• Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate the puree if needed.
• QUICK PUREE:
• If you are in a hurry, you may skip the refinement of the sieve.
• Simply squeeze the cloves, one by one, over a bowl.
• When they have all been squeezed, use a rubber spatula to push the puree into a neat mound cover tightly with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until needed.
• It will keep for months.
• To keep indefinitely, cover with a film of olive oil.