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Food For Thought<br />
How Sweet It Is!<br />
BY ENID DAMER<br />
Dr. Barry R. Weaver<br />
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On a mid-June Saturday<br />
morning, we take our weekly<br />
walk through the<br />
Farmers’ Market, enjoying<br />
the abundance of fresh produce.<br />
We are glad to see the<br />
return of trout, both fresh<br />
and smoked, after an<br />
absence of two years. Now I<br />
have to decide on our weekly<br />
treat — smoked trout or<br />
sheep cheese in olive oil and<br />
herbs. Decisions! Decisions!<br />
There are lots of bedding<br />
plants remaining but<br />
they will soon be replaced<br />
by lettuce, radishes, green<br />
onions and strawberries.<br />
Already there are bunches<br />
of spinach and asparagus,<br />
hot house tomatoes, cucumber<br />
and peppers.<br />
However, this Saturday<br />
my focus is on honey. There<br />
are several vendors selling<br />
their home-grown product,<br />
sweet and fresh and at a fair<br />
price. I buy a small tub from<br />
our former stock-broker and<br />
hurry off home to make a<br />
batch of granola and some<br />
honey-butter (2 tablespoons<br />
Becel mixed with 3 tablespoons<br />
honey) for our<br />
Sunday morning breakfast<br />
pancakes. There is something<br />
about honey which<br />
adds a flavour very different<br />
from sugar.<br />
Honey has a long history<br />
as a sweetener. It was<br />
regarded by the ancients as<br />
the food of the Gods and a<br />
symbol of wealth and happiness.<br />
In the Bible, the<br />
Promised Land is described<br />
as “the land of milk and<br />
honey” In the Middle Ages,<br />
honey was used medicinally<br />
and to make mead, an alcoholic<br />
beverage made with<br />
honey, yeast and ginger.<br />
Mead is too sweet for my<br />
taste but if anyone would<br />
like to make a batch, here is<br />
a recipe as printed on a souvenir<br />
tea towel bought in<br />
Cornwall, England.<br />
18th Century Mead<br />
3 pounds honey<br />
1 gallon water<br />
1 ounce yeast<br />
2 ounces Jamaican ginger<br />
Boil water for half an<br />
hour. (I can’t think why<br />
www.seniorconnector.com<br />
unless it is to drive off any<br />
impurities)<br />
Add honey and boil for<br />
an hour, skimming off the<br />
scum as it collects. Cut up<br />
ginger and bruise it, place in<br />
a muslin bag and add to the<br />
liquid. Put in yeast when it<br />
is almost cold. Pour into<br />
bottles and when the action<br />
of the yeast ceases, cork<br />
tightly. Drink hot or cold.<br />
Another old recipe using<br />
honey is Bar-Le-Duc. It is<br />
fiddly to make because you<br />
have to stem each black currant<br />
but it is delicious<br />
poured over ice-cream.<br />
Bar Le-Duc<br />
Wash and stem 3 quarts<br />
black currants. Crush a few<br />
at the bottom of the pot.<br />
Bring to the boiling point,<br />
then boil 2 minutes. Add 6<br />
cups heated sugar. Boil 2<br />
1/2 minutes. Add 1/2 cup<br />
honey in a slow stream so as<br />
not to disturb the boiling<br />
point. Boil 2 1/2 minutes<br />
longer. Pour into sterilized<br />
jars and cover with wax.<br />
As a child, the first<br />
honey I tasted was wild<br />
honey in the comb, given<br />
me by a friend whose father<br />
was adept at tracking bees<br />
to a bee-tree and smoking<br />
out the bees. As I chewed,<br />
trying to separate the wax<br />
from the sweet stuff inside, I<br />
decided that honey was definitely<br />
over-rated. My first<br />
encounter with commercial<br />
honey was an embarrassement<br />
when, being invited to<br />
a friend’s house for supper, I<br />
was passed an unused tin of<br />
creamed honey. I had never<br />
seen anything like that<br />
before (it looked like lard)<br />
and, much to the amusement<br />
of my hosts, had no<br />
idea what to do with it!<br />
In Victoria, we bought<br />
Babe’s honey in gallon jars<br />
from an unattended fruit<br />
stand on a side street. They<br />
sold on the honour system<br />
— customers dropped the<br />
correct money into a sealed<br />
box and helped themselves.<br />
2003 Terry Fox Run<br />
for Cancer Research<br />
September 14, 2003<br />
• Theme: “Unbreakable Spirit”<br />
• Run, walk, bike or skate all across Canada<br />
• Pledge sheets available in numerous<br />
stores across BC<br />
• Online pledging at www.terryfoxrun.org<br />
• 89¢ of every dollar goes directly to the<br />
National Cancer Institute of Canada<br />
For more information call<br />
1-888-TFOXRUN (836-9786)<br />
That was over 40 years ago<br />
and I doubt that Babe still<br />
sells honey that way.<br />
Here’s a recipe good for<br />
an outdoor summer meal.<br />
Honeyed Garlic Chicken<br />
Wings<br />
1/4 cup soy sauce<br />
1/2 cup liquid honey<br />
2 cloves garlic, minced<br />
1 teaspoon sherry<br />
2 or 3 pounds chicken wings<br />
Combine soy sauce,<br />
honey, garlic and sherry.<br />
Bake the chicken wings in a<br />
shallow pan 325 degrees for<br />
about an hour, basting with<br />
the honey sauce until it has<br />
all been used. Watch carefully<br />
towards the end of the<br />
cooking time in case the<br />
wings become charred<br />
By the time you read<br />
this column, it will be <strong>July</strong>.<br />
I hope you all have a very<br />
pleasant summer and I’ll see<br />
you at the Market!<br />
Art Knapp/CNIB<br />
GARDEN TOUR<br />
View the gardens of some of<br />
the family and friends of the<br />
Art Knapp Garden Centre<br />
Sunday, <strong>July</strong> 6 - 9am-3pm<br />
Cost: $10<br />
All proceeds to CNIB<br />
Pick up an address list of gardens<br />
on the tour at Art Knapp’s.<br />
Hot dogs and drinks will be for<br />
sale at 5030 Cammeray.<br />
For more info: 374-8080<br />
or visit Art Knapp’s<br />
JULY, 2003<br />
Unbreakable spirit<br />
Carolyn Ehrier is a young<br />
girl whose compassion and<br />
commitment to make this<br />
world a better place surpasses<br />
most. One year ago,<br />
Carolyn witnessed her<br />
grandfather losing his battle<br />
with cancer and since has<br />
decided to help make cancer<br />
a disease of the past.<br />
What could an 11-yearold<br />
really do that would<br />
make a difference<br />
As a toddler, Carolyn suffered<br />
from alopecia, a disorder<br />
that causes hair loss. As a<br />
result, when she was able to<br />
grow and keep her hair she<br />
cherished her long, blonde<br />
locks. She loved having it<br />
styled and planned to keep it<br />
her whole life. In February<br />
2002, Carolyn and her mother<br />
Christine were discussing<br />
cancer and how unfortunate<br />
it is that many people lose<br />
their hair through chemotherapy<br />
treatments. Carolyn’s<br />
mom mentioned how<br />
some people shave their hair<br />
to encourage people to<br />
donate money and time in<br />
support of cancer research.<br />
Carolyn just said, “I could do<br />
that and people would probably<br />
give a lot of money and<br />
that could help find a cure.”<br />
Christine was surprised at<br />
her daughter’s statement saying<br />
that, “Carolyn was a popular<br />
girl who valued her<br />
looks, social and fashion status<br />
greatly.”<br />
However, as time passed<br />
Carolyn’s determination and<br />
spirit to make a difference<br />
strengthened. She forged<br />
a<br />
when her family learned that<br />
the entire community of<br />
Sparwood had raised a total<br />
of $6,900 the previous year.<br />
However, as people learned<br />
of Carolyn’s endeavours, she<br />
was able to not only meet,<br />
but surpass her goal of<br />
$5,000 and raised a total of<br />
During her campaign,<br />
people would ask how short<br />
she was going to cut her hair.<br />
She always looked sort of<br />
puzzled, and replied that she<br />
would be shaving it all off, of<br />
course. After all, she was<br />
doing this both to raise<br />
money for research and to<br />
show her support of those<br />
who lost their hair to treatments.<br />
In this way she kept<br />
the spirit alive and encouraged<br />
people to remember the<br />
importance of donating for<br />
The theme for this year’s<br />
Terry Fox Run is “Unbreakable<br />
Spirit,” reflecting not<br />
only on Terry’s spirit, shown<br />
during his 1980 Marathon of<br />
Hope, but also that of supporters<br />
like Carolyn. If you<br />
would like to show your spirit<br />
and help beat cancer,<br />
please come out and support<br />
take place all across Canada.<br />
This year we are proud to<br />
announce a new feature<br />
for online pledging. For<br />
more information please contact<br />
our national website<br />
ahead<br />
ing<br />
setting<br />
$5,000<br />
goal<br />
for<br />
of rais-<br />
cancer<br />
research.<br />
appeared<br />
Carolyn’s<br />
to be unattainable<br />
goal<br />
$6,810.<br />
cancer research.<br />
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Fox<br />
September<br />
local community<br />
Run<br />
14.<br />
on<br />
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