Leaping into March - Odd Ramblings for 2012

Cooking Tips
Culinary Quiz
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UPCOMING FOOD HOLIDAYS
Food Funnies * * Foods They Won't Even Sell at Convenience Stores: * *
Howard Johnson's Boston Brown Bread
Culinary Quiz Answer

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Cooking Tips

* To frost a cake quickly without having it crumble, freeze the layers in the cake pans for about one hour, then remove them from the pans and frost them. This also prevents the layers from splitting in the center.

* To keep a cake from sticking to the pan, grease the pan with one part shortening and two parts flour mixed until it has a sandy consistency.

* To keep loaf cakes fresher longer, cut slices from the middle rather than from the end. When you're finished slicing, firmly push the two leftover sections together to reform a loaf. This way, you eliminate an exposed, quick-to-dry-out "end" slice.

* To prevent cake filling from soaking into the cake, sprinkle layers lightly with confectioners' sugar before spreading filling.

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Culinary Quiz

(Answer at the bottom of page)

What is a tomato-based Italian stew that has a variety of fish and shellfish in it?

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Quote

"We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons."

- Alfred E. Newman

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UPCOMING FOOD HOLIDAYS:

March is: National Nutrition Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Peanut Month
National Sauce Month
National Flour Month
National Noodle Month

February 28 - National Chocolate Souffle Day
March 1 - National Peanut Butter Lover's Day
March 2 - National Banana Cream Pie Day
March 3 - National Mulled Wine Day
March 4 - National Pound Cake Day
March 5 - National Cheese Doodle Day
March 6 - National Frozen Food Day
March 7 - National Crown Roast of Pork Day

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Food Funnies * * Foods They Won't Even Sell at Convenience Stores: * *

9. Tofu Jerky

8. Bleu Cheese Ice Cream

7. Diarrheatos

6. Pickled Twinkies

5. Rocks-from-the-Road Ice Cream

4. Shingles Potato Chips

3. Slimfast Jims

2. Chock Full o' Gnats Coffee

... and the #1 Food They Won't Even Sell at Convenience Stores ...

1. Roadrage! Supercharged Energy Drink

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Howard Johnson's Boston Brown Bread
Makes 1 loaf.

1 cup unsifted whole wheat flour
1 cup unsifted rye flour
1 cup yellow corn meal
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
3/4 cup molasses
2 cups buttermilk

Grease and flour a 2 qt. mold. Combine flours, corn meal, soda, and salt. Stir in molasses and buttermilk. Turn into mold and cover tightly. Place on trivet in deep kettle. Add enough boiling water to
kettle to come half way up sides of mold; cover. Steam 3 1/2 hours, or until done. Remove from mold to cake rack. Serve hot with baked beans.

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Culinary Quiz Answer:

Cioppino

Cioppino came about from the Italian fishermen of the San Francisco area in the late 1800s. It was often made out at sea and then brought into port. The feature fish was typically the catch-of-the-day. It is
often served over long pasta with the shells still on the crabs and other shellfish. Eating this treat might take some extra effort!

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