Saturday, 9 July 2011

Homemade Violet Crumble / The Eskimo Cook Book / How to Peel Ginger



Blog Post & Recipe: Let's Do the Hokey Pokey!


So if you are asking why bother with scratchmade honeycomb if you can get Crunchie or Violet Crumble, I would say, because you can use better chocolate, that's why.


Blog Post & Recipes: The Eskimo Cook Book


The Eskimo Cook Book is a collection of recipes brought together by children at the Shismaref Day School in 1952 and published as a booklet by the 'Alaska Crippled Children's Association'.

Cranberries ... Blueberries ... Lincod Eskimo Ice Cream ... Ahzeeach and Ahlowe'-kuk ... Buegwakuk ... Tomcod Liver and berries ... Ah-pick ... Willow Meats ... Eskimo Ice Cream ... Sue'wok (dried salmon eggs) and berries ... Eggs (duck or sea-gull) ... Conch ... [etc]


Blog Post & Video: How to Peel Ginger


All those little nooks and nubs make peeling ginger with a paring knife a veritable nightmare. Think of the waste! Intolerable. So Amanda dreamt up a trick that requires nothing more than a small spoon and Merrill has a hand at demonstration: you use the spoon's edge to quickly scrape away the root's surprisingly thin skin. It's so safe you could even enlist the wee folk for this task!



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