General kitchen advice

Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.

Oven Tips : Close the oven door gently - slamming forces out the hot air.

Buy Local Food : The most local food of all comes from your own garden. Plant a new garden, enlarge the one you already have, or extend your growing season by using row covers and cloches.

Shisky (Doughnuts) Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

1/2 lb Butter or margarine(softened

1 c Sugar

1 qt Milk

4 pk Dry yeast

2 ts Salt

1 ts Vanilla

12 c Flour (Approx)

6 ea Eggs

Scald milk. Let cool until lukewarm. Add yeast. Cream butter or margarine with sugar. Add beaten eggs. Now to the butter mixture alternate flour and milk until used up. Knead in bowl until dough does not stick to hands. Let dough rise for 2 or 3 hours until double in bulk. Roll out on floured board to half-inch thickness. Cut with floured glass. Fry in deep fat until lightly brown. Cool and sprinkle with powered sugar or fill with jelly or lekvar. -----

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