Good morning, August readers. Summer wanes and school waxes, and hunger persists. Today’s requests: old-fashioned fig preserves, recipes using sprouted ingredients, homemade protein bars, and more frozen fruit salads.
Patsy Lowman-Evitt wrote “in hopes that you and your readers can help me in my search for an easy, old-fashioned fig preserves recipe. My brother has a huge fig tree and we would love to be able to copy, or come close to, our mother’s fig preserves.”
Jennifer W. Cole, attempting to eat more healthfully, has been reading that “sprouted ingredients make the most healthful breads, drinks, etc. I’d like to know why this is so and also have some recipes. I would particularly like recipes for yeast breads using sprouted ingredients. I would also like recipes for homemade protein bars that I could send in my kids’ school lunches.”
Finally, an anonymous reader has asked for more salads that may be frozen.
I’m hoping you will continue sharing your memories of local establishments of long ago, and we would all be glad if you can throw a recipe into that envelope. This week, David Cooper picks up the reminiscence of Oscar’s, where he “remembers going as a child when it was on McCallie Avenue, about where McCallie Avenue and Bailey Avenue converge at a stoplight above the old HealthSouth Hospital. … The new Missionary Ridge Tunnel and Dodds Avenue overpass were installed around 1955, so that’s when Oscar’s moved to Highway 58, one of the very first commercial enterprises on a fairly new highway.