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Fare Exchange is a longtime meeting place for people who love to cook and love to eat. We welcome both your recipes and your requests. Be sure to include precise instructions for every recipe you send. Mailing address: Jane Henegar, 913 Mount Olive Road, Lookout Mountain, GA 30750 E-mail: chattfare@gmail.com
Jane HenegarIt’s beginning to feel a little like spring – not unlike the winter just past. We are heading into warmer weather with a request from Janet Pittman for “where to buy Immaculate refrigerator cookies. Publix has stopped carrying them.” We too have been looking for this refrigerated dough, finding it several places but never finding gluten-free peanut butter cookies as Lucie Poire prepares topped with a sprinkling of finishing salt.
The next two requests are from “Mr. Faithful Reader,” who wants a recipe for bread made with a poolish (a prefermented starter), as well as some help with a low-carb diet. “I don’t know where to begin,” he began. “I need to know the best low-carb foods, along with a few menus and simple recipes.”
As to flavored finishing salts, Rose Secret “just now happened to see finishing salts at Merchants on Main. They are made by Beautiful Briny Sea.” Ms. Secrest, a vegetarian who has written a cookbook and is in the process of writing another, does not season her recipes with salt, preferring to let the diner season according to his or her taste. These finishing salts, to be sprinkled on top, are ideal for this purpose.
Janet Pittman of Hixson also found finishing salts at the Spice & Tea Exchange, 2115 Gunbarrel Road, Chattanooga. Their phone is 423-826-7707, and their website is spiceandtea.com. We looked, and there are 28 salts and many different flavors.