Congo bars for troops and mail in the Korean War era
A 1950s style dense moist Congo bar recipe suited for overseas mail, with optional coconut omitted for shelf life. Includes chocolate chips, nuts, and variations like white chocolate or macadamia tweaks, plus a note on aging and serving.
Unclear food order leaves diner puzzled over raw mushrooms
Chrissy recounts a dining mishap where a hoagie arrived with raw sliced mushrooms. The server confirms the mushrooms were uncooked by default, offering to cook them if requested. The bite leads to a decision to switch dishes, while Chrissy also doles out praise for Betty Crocker mixes and a family-friendly muffin pancake recipe.
Spice Islands Cuban sandwich idea plus reader memories
Spice Islands offers a Cuban spice mix and a different take on a Cuban sandwich using crisp Cuban bread rather than Kaiser. Readers share kitchen memories including a biscuit dough for strudel with butter cream cheese flour ratio and an Overnight Salad with fruit marshmallows cream apple cranberry sauce pineapple mandarin oranges grapes and walnuts linked to holiday meals.
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German casserole from Wisconsin grandmother recipe request
Reader seeks help identifying a layered all in one dish from a German Wisconsin community. The dish reportedly includes sauerkraut, apples, potatoes and leftover meat such as roast pork with thick bacon or sausages. Contact Linda Cicero at LindaCiceroCooks aol com.
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Linda Cicero
LindaCiceroCooks
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Cheap nutritious meals from rice and beans guide
Environmental Working Group and Share Our Strength released Good Food on a Tight Budget in late August to help Americans stretch food stamps. Drewnowski studies the Nutrient Rich Food index and links diet quality to time spent cooking. Carlson urges more fruit and vegetable spending. about 40 percent of budgets should go to produce. The piece includes a Puerto Rican rice and beans recipe with sofrito and optional Sazon Goya.
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Environmental Working Group
Drewnowski
Pears and Pear Based Dishes From The Sweet Life And Ball
Pears chips bake at 225 degrees until dry and crisp with a sugar syrup glaze. A quick salsa combines pears with peppers and spices, then hot-filled jars are processed for 20 minutes. A pear cake and a pear pie use pears, flour, sugar and spices, baked until tender with crumb toppings optional.
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