Cold-oven pound cakes and baking science explained
A reader asks about baking pound cakes starting in a cold oven. Food scientist Shirley Corrider notes bottom heat helps certain doughs rise before the top crusts, a holdover from older ovens. If a recipe works, you can continue using it despite modern oven heat variations.
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Shirley Corrider
Kids Recipe Contest Offers Scholarships and Prizes
A sponsor invites families to enter a kids recipe contest with five $5,000 college scholarships and 400 first place cookout carry-alls. Tips encourage weekly family meals, team prep, napkin folding, and global foods. Deadline Oct 31. McClatchy Tribune News
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Mealstogether.com
Chronicle Books
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It's in the Bag Tips for packing healthy school lunches
The Southern outlines concerns about rising child obesity with 61 percent overweight or obese adults and one in five children affected. It advises planning grocery purchases with kids select fruits and vegetables, choose healthier options, and avoid high fat choices while easing kids into the change with practical guidance and simple tips.
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USDA
U.S
Cynthia York-Camden
Heartland Regional Medical Center
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Smart Lunch Packing Tips for Kids
Practical guidance for parents on preparing kid friendly lunches. Focus on small, easy to eat foods, varied textures, and safe storage. Suggests mini portions, prepackaged visual appeal, and using insulated containers for temperature control. Includes ideas for breads crackers and dips, plus simple ways to involve children in assembly. Emphasizes nutrition and familiar preferences to encourage eating.
Tasty Puerto Rican Chicken with Sofrito
A recipe adapted from Joel Rodriguez in San Juan blends culantro and cubanelle peppers into a Puerto Rican coc ina criolla sofrito based dish. Main elements include chicken breasts, beer, long grain rice, peas and pimentos, with cilantro and peppers providing the distinctive flavor.
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Joel Rodriguez
San Juan
Anaheim
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