General cooking tips

Making your own lunch instead of buying from a sandwich shop saves on packaging, and could also save you approx £4 a day or £1,000 per year!


Oven Tips : Fan-forced ovens cost 35% less to run than a conventional electric oven.


Buy Organic Foods : There are 12 foods where buying organic makes even more sense than normal.
According to the EWG (Environmental Working Group) the 12 most contaminated foods are:
  • apples
  • bell peppers
  • celery
  • cherries
  • imported grapes
  • nectarines
  • peaches
  • pears
  • potatoes
  • red raspberries
  • spinach
  • strawberries
All tested positive for pesticide residue – even after having been washed! Sweet bell peppers were the vegetable with the most pesticides overall, with 39 pesticides detected on a single sample. Conversely, if you're going to buy conventional, peas, broccoli, onions, pineapples, mangoes, bananas, kiwi and papaya had the lowest occurrence of pesticide residue.


Safety in the kitchen

  • Don't overload sockets - one plug per socket is the rule, especially if the appliance takes a lot of power (like a kettle).
  • Don't run extension cables across the floor as they can become worn.
  • Is the electric kettle leaking? This can be dangerous.

Don't let yourself be distracted while cooking.




Applesauce Date Cake Recipe
Applesauce Date Cake Category Cake Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

2 c Flour (unsifted)

2 ts Soda

1 ts Cinnamon

1/2 ts Allspice

1/2 ts Nutmeg

1/4 ts Cloves

1/4 ts Salt

2 Eggs

1 c Lt. brown sugar (packd firm)

1/2 c Butter (softened)

2 c Applesauce (heated)

1 c Dates (chopped)

3/4 c Pecans (coarse-shopped)

Butter frosting 1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease well and flour a 9X9X2" pan. 2. Into

large bowl, sift flour with soda, spices and salt. Add eggs, brown sugar, butter, and 1 cup hot applesauce; at low speed, beat just until the ingredients are combined. 3. At medium speed, beat 2 minutes longer, occasionally scraping the side of the bowl and guiding mixture into the beater with a rubber scraper. 4. Add remaining applesauce, dates, and walnuts; beat 1 minute. 5. Pour batter into pan. Bake 50 minutes OR UNTIL straw comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan.

 
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