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Fare Exchange: Brownies, chess pie and muffins are sweet treats

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TO REACH USFare 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• Fax: 423-668-5092

Good morning, good readers. We have a spate of requests from Adelaide E: a seven-layer dip not Mexican style but Mediterranean style; a blond brownie recipe that does not contain baking powder or soda, and anybody’s favorite soup.

“Knowing the benefits of a Mediterranean diet, when I saw a Mediterranean seven-layer dip in a magazine at the doctor’s office, I was intrigued,” she wrote. “Did anybody else see it? I know it contained white beans.

“I am sending below a recipe for blond brownies that I love, but I am really looking for one that doesn’t have leavening in it. Lastly, I am getting hungry for soup and would love anybody’s favorite recipe.”

Here is her brownie recipe, which she credits to Annie Mae Kulp.