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Autumn Sweets & Season's Treats-October 24, 2007
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Autumn Sweets & Season's Treats |
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Comfort Me with Apples!
Fresh, crisp apples are a sure sign that fall has arrived... You can feel the season's touch every time you open the front door: The air is cooler, the days are shorter and trees are vivid with bright colors. At the local green grocer or farmers' market, bushels and baskets brim with apples. The delicious, sweet reminder of spring's soft blossoms has at last come to fruit.
To commemorate the apple harvest, we offer Mani Niall's Deep Dish Apple Pie for a Dozen. It's perfect for tailgate parties, weekend gatherings or Thanksgiving. In a few of the Wholesome households, this pie is even served warm for breakfast. It's a great way to start the day, and because it's sweetened with Wholesome Sweeteners Organic Blue Agave, it will provide you with slowly metabolizing energy ... giving you a long, sustained, gentle boost without the blood sugar spike. For more recipes, visit Wholesome Sweeteners' Recipe Library. |
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Great Pumpkin Cookies
Instead of waiting for the mythical Great Pumpkin to loom above the pumpkin patch, bring it to life with this easy recipe.
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Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose unbleached organic flour
1 1/3 cups quick or old-fashioned oats
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted organic butter, softened
1 cup Wholesome Sweeteners Organic Fair Trade Sugar
1 cup Wholesome Sweeteners Organic Fair Trade Light Brown Sugar
1 cup pure organic pumpkin
1 large, cage-free egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¾ cup chopped walnuts
¾ cup raisins
Decorating icings, semi-sweet chocolate morsels, candies, and additional raisins or nuts (optional)
Method:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease baking sheets.
Combine flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in medium bowl. Beat butter, milled golden cane sugar and brown sugar in large mixer bowl until light and fluffy. Add pumpkin, egg and vanilla extract; mix well. Stir in walnuts and raisins. Drop ¼ cup dough onto prepared baking sheet; spread to 3-inch circle or oval. Repeat with remaining dough.
Bake for 14 to 16 minutes or until cookies are firm and lightly browned. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely. Decorate as desired with icing, morsels, candies, raisins or nuts. Makes about 20 large cookies.
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Did you know....
· Once upon a time (in the 1700s), a "Jack O'Lantern" was a night watchman who carried a lantern.
· In 19th Century America, a carved pumpkin was the sure sign of a harvest celebration, (long before it became associated with Halloween's ghouls and goblins).
· Pumpkins are in the squash family and are related to zucchini.
· The largest pumpkin on record weighed in at a whopping 1689 lb (766 kg).
· Multiply the number of fruiting sections in a field pumpkin by 16, and you'll have the number of seeds it holds, give or take 10 or so.
· Like carrots and other orange veggies, pumpkins contain large amounts of lutein, alpha-
and beta-carotene, which turn into Vitamin A in the body.
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October is Fair Trade Month
Fair Trade Certified programs benefit so many people. At Wholesome Sweeteners, the focus is on Fair Trade programs for sugar cane farmers in Costa Rica, Malawi and Paraguay, but Fair Trade's reach is world-wide and always growing ... It's also about rice, coffee, tea, cocoa and coffee farmers, as well as fruit, vegetable and flower growers.
Show the folks at TransFairUSA how you connect to Fair Trade through TransFairUSA's online video contest. You and a guest could win a trip to Peru to visit Fair Trade cocoa and coffee farmers. Just create an ad for your favorite Fair Trade product, send a "thank you" video to the farmers, or show us how you live a Fair Trade life. Be as creative as you want!
Some ideas to get you started . . .
1. Show us what Fair Trade means to you
2. Show us how you live a Fair Trade life
3. Show us why you love your favorite Fair Trade product
4. Thank the farmer that produced your favorite Fair Trade product
5. Show us what you think a Fair Trade future looks like
No video camera? No problem! You can still tell us how you connect with Fair Trade through our national sweepstakes and win great prizes. For official rules and details on how to enter click here.
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Connect with Fair Trade Online ...Help TransfairUSA and Wholesome Sweeteners spread the word about Fair Trade with online buttons, banners and links to the special Fair Trade Month website www.connectwithfairtrade.org.
Are you on MySpace, Friendster or Facebook? Post a banner on your page or add us online and help spread the word. For images, artwork and details click here.
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Just in time for holiday meal planning!
Wholesome Sweeteners' Low Glycemic Recipes
These ten great recipes featuring Wholesome Sweeteners Organic Zero and Organic Blue Agave Nectars will sweeten your holidays without spiking your blood sugar!
For your free copy, please write to info@OrganicSugars.biz. Be sure to write "Free Low Glycemic Recipes" in your email's subject line and include your mailing address! (Available while supplies last.)
Coming soon: Due to popular demand!
Wholesome Sweeteners Organic Zero in 1000 count cases of 5g packets and Wholesome Sweeteners Organic Light Blue Agave and Organic Raw Blue Agave nectars in 5-gallon containers. |
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