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
Good morning, friends. At the moment of this writing, I sit in someone else’s kitchen far away. In the absence of the cook, I have time and space to look around for fare to share, and perhaps some of the spirit behind the fare to share. But first, as usual, some requests. Read below, cake lovers, for some challenges. And this: Johnnie Dial has a bumper crop of okra and wants to know what to do with fresh okra besides frying.
In the neighborhood of our visiting resides a woman who is as fond of shortcuts as any of the rest of us. Said Kathy, “I make brownies from a mix and buy day-old angel food cakes at Walmart and top with Cool Whip or ready-made frosting. But I would like to try some good old-fashioned cakes like I used to make decades ago. My requests are for strawberry cake made with frozen strawberries, Lane Cake, Italian Cream Cake and yellow cake in very thin layers with chocolate frosting. I believe you use sewing thread or fishing line to split the layers horizontally.”
On the counter is a copy of a recipe with this comment: “Haven’t tried these but the picture looks yummy and they are bound to be good for snacks.”
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