Food and cooking tips

Have a Local Food Party : Instead of counting time or distance, simply enjoy the pleasures of local food by organizing a potluck meal in which everything must be local. Keep your fingers crossed that someone will splurge on handmade goat cheese, and don’t forget some local wine, beer or juice. If you’re organizing a big catered event, the Society for Nutrition Education has a downloadable brochure to help you line up local food resources.

Time for cooking is often in short supply, but you can cut cooking time in half by making large batches and eating the leftovers another day. In an age when the average American spends only 32 minutes a day preparing food, strategy is crucial to increasing your consumption of local food.

Buy Local Food : See if you can find out where your food has gone before it gets to your plate. You may be suprised by the results. Often it will make financial sense for companies to transport food enourmous distances by planes, boats and lorries. This dosn't take the environmental cost into account (which of course is likely to lead to greatly increased economic costs in the long term).

Hickory Nut Cake

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Ingredients And Procedures

3/4 c Shortening

1 1/2 c Sugar

2 1/2 c Cake flour

2 ts Baking powder

1/4 ts Salt

1 c Water

1/2 ts Each: almond and vanilla ext

1 oz Unsweetened chocolate; grate

1/2 c Hickory nuts; chopped

1/4 c Maraschino cherries; chopped

4 Egg white

Frosting: 1/2 c Shortening

1/2 c Butter or margarine; softene

1/2 ts Each: vanilla and almond ext

1/8 ts Salt

3 c Confectioner's sugar; s s

1 tb Milk

10 Hickory nut halves; optional

Recipe by: TASTE OF HOME DEC/JAN 1996 See Part 2 -----

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