Stewed rhubarb or rhubarb compote Ingredients: 6 cups of cut up rhubarb 1 cup of sugar (white or brown) 2 tablespoons of water, for a slightly different flavour use orange juice Directions: Cook over medium heat till sugar dissolves in liquid turn to low heat and simmer for about 15 minutes until rhubarb softens If it is a bit too watery you can thicken with some cornstarch before you remove it from the heat. Cool, divided into portions and freeze Will keep in fridge for 4 or 5 days This is delicious on toast as it is almost like jam,
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‘Soup’er Sunday – Parsnip and Apple Soup
~ With the onset of cooler Fall weather I’ve been making different soups, some to eat now and some for the freezer for those colder winter days. A new soup for me to try this year was parsnip and apple soup. I found this recipe at The English Kitchen and there is a link to the printable recipe there. As usual I tweek recipes to suit me. This meant leaving out the salt and pepper, only using part of a really big sweet onion, and adding a veggie stock cube to the water. Parsnips aren’t everyone’s choice for a vegetable,
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Printable Recipe – Banana Bread
Banana bread recipe originally from my mother, 50 years ago, the original source is not known. Ingredients: 13/4 cups sifted flour 2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup shortening 2/3 cup of sugar 2 eggs, unbeaten 1 cup mashed bananas, 3 medium Directions: Heat oven to 350 degrees Grease loaf pan or line with parchment paper Mix shortening, sugar and eggs with medium speed of mixer, about 4 minutes till light and fluffy Beat in flour, sifted with baking powder, soda, salt alternately with mashed bananas until smooth Turn into
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Printable Rhubarb Apple Crumble Recipe
Rhubarb Apple Crumble Recipe Rhubarb Apple Crumble adapted from the Fruit crumble recipe from the Dairy Book of Home Cookery, revised edition 1977 Britain Ingedients 250 grams of rhubarb 250 grams of apples 100 grams to 175 grams granulated sugar Crumble topping: 150 grams of plain flour 75 grams butter, room temperature, slightly soft 50 to 75 grams caster sugar some brown sugar to sprinkle over the top before baking Method: Cut rhubarb and apple into pieces and put into a 1 litre baking dish, mix in the sugar, as rhubarb will sink when cooking don’t be afraid to mound the fruit up
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Printable Sweet Potato and Carot Soup Recipe
With the print friendly option you can choose how much or how little you want to print, just mouse over the text for the option to delete. Images can be included or not. Sweet potato and carrot soup from craftygardener.ca Ingredients 500 gram sweet potato, cubed 300 grams of carrots, diced small 80 grams sweet onion 4 cups of water 1 cup of milk stock cube is optional, or substitute water for veggie stock seasoning of your choice Directions Saute onion in butter till translucent Add water, carrots, sweet potato and stock cube if using. Instead of water you could use
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Printable Bean Soup Recipe
With the print friendly option you can choose how much or how little you want to print, just mouse over the text for the option to delete. Images can be included or not. Bean Soup Recipe by Stephanie Rose of Garden Therapy, originally in her ebook, Homemade Gifts from the Kitchen Makes 2 jars (500ml each) Ingredients ½ cup red lentils ½ cup great northern beans ½ cup red kidney beans ½ cup black turtle beans ½ cup split green peas ½ cup green lentils Spice Mix: 2 tbsp dried basil 2 tbsp dried parsley 2 tbsp dehydrated onion 1
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Printable Green Pea Soup Recipe
Green Pea Soup The recipe was in The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook. Ingredients 1 1/2 cups of green split peas 1 medium onion, 1 medium carrot, 2 tbsp grated ginger, 1 stalk celery, 1 tbsp ground cumin, 1 tbsp ground coriander, 5 cups vegetable stock, 2 cups of frozen peas. Soak the split peas in cold water for 2 hours, then drain and rinse well. Lightly pan fry the onion, celery and carrot in a little bit of olive oil for about 3 minutes until soft but not brown. Stir in the cumin, coriander and ginger and cook about another minute.
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Printable Leek & Potato Soup Recipe
With the print friendly option you can choose how many of these images you want to print, just mouse over for the option to delete. Leek & Potato Soup from craftygardener.ca http://www.craftygardener.ca Ingredients: 300 grams leeks, white and light green parts only, thinly sliced 2 celery stalks, thinly sliced 300 grams potatoes, peeled and diced 3 cups of water 2 cups milk salt and pepper to your taste, stock cubes are optional, or you can replace some of the water with ready made stock Directions: Melt some butter in a pan and add leeks and celery and seasoning if you
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Printable – Ham & Potato Soup Recipe
Ham & Potato Soup With the print friendly option you can choose how much or how little you want to print, just mouse over the text for the option to delete. Images can be included or not. from craftygardener.ca Ingedients: 1 can cream of mushroom soup (or your choice), 4 cups thinly sliced potatoes, 1 cup diced onion, 1/2 cup chopped celery a few sliced mushrooms, 1 cup chopped carrots, 1 cup cooked ham, water seasoning to your taste Method: Chop potatoes, celery, mushrooms, carrots, onions, and ham and add to your crock pot dish. Mix the soup with a can of
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Printable – Zucchini Bread Recipe
With the print friendly option you can choose how much or how little you want to print, just mouse over the text for the option to delete. Images can be included or not. Zucchini Bread http://www.craftygardener.ca/zucchini-bread/ 2/3 cup shortening 2 2/3 cup sugar 4 eggs 2/3 cup water 3 cups shredded zucchini 3 1/3 cup all purpose flour 2 tsp baking soda 1 1/2 tsp sale 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp cinnamon 2/3 cup chopped nuts 2/3 cup raisins 2 tsp vanilla Mix shortening and sugar in large bowl. Add eggs, zucchini and water. Mix till smooth. Add in
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