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Fare Exchange: A primer on sugar substitutes, plus 2 summer desserts

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Good morning, fare friends. Your nostalgic challenge today is to help Mary Coffey dig up a recipe from childhood that she simply called “Gam salad. It contained dry Jell-O with something creamy — maybe Cool Whip, maybe cottage cheese — and fruit. It was easy and delicious, and if anyone can find it, would you tell me whether it would work with dry sugar-free Jell-O as well as the one made with sugar?”

In addition to this lone new query, we always seek your current kitchen favorites, including more ice cream recipes.

(READ MORE: Creative ice cream flavors could make this a sweet, savory, scoop-worthy summer)


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