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Youngsters offer their versions of favourite recipes

This week's recipes come from kids and include Tristin’s chocolate chip cookies, egg salad, and blueberry soup
FromTheKitchen_withJoyceWalter
From the Kitchen by Joyce Walter

New cooks have often bemoaned their lack of knowledge of just what Grandma meant by “a pinch of salt or a little bit of sugar.”

All of us have seen those old scraps of paper upon which seasoned kitchen leaders have attempted to write down their favourite recipes for use by subsequent generations. In their own minds they knew exactly what a pinch meant but perhaps had trouble translating that information into actual measurements.

Those kinds of directions came to mind recently while I was looking through the cookbook, A Harvest of Recipes, produced by the Mortlach School Fundraising Committee. Members of the committee had the inspiration to include a section, In Their Own Words, a section that would feature “kids’ versions of their favourite recipes.” This addition is hilarious as it conjured up visions of these youngsters in the kitchen and of others trying to interpret their directions.

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Tristin’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

Servings: Just two, you and me (mom)
Prep time: 6 minutes
Cook time: 7 minutes
Cost: I don’t know how many they cost.

Ingredients:
chocolate chips
cake
sugar
margarine
vanilla
eggs
flour

What to buy: Oh, ummm shirts and snacks.

Instructions: We need a bowl. We put stuff in the bowl. Stirring. Use a scooper to pick ’em up and put ’em on a pan. Pan holds them. On your own. I do not know. Throw them in the oven. And then you eat and I’m outta here.

Submitted by Tristin Fradette, then aged 4.

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Egg Salad

You need a lemon
And another lemon
And a tomato and some cucumbers
And another tomato
And broccoli and peas
And some cheese
Then crackers and an orange and a strawberry.
And some watermelon and some eggs
And another egg.
And then you’re all done.
Submitted by Cassa Dreger, then a kindergarten student

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Blueberry Soup

First you put in some eggs.
You chop up some watermelon.
You chop up some grapes.
You cut up a strawberry.
You cut up bread.
You need a little cut up waffle.
And you need lemon. No need to cut it up until it’s almost done.
You need the knife. Cut up some pizza in there. And taste test it. It’s good! 
Submitted by Chaz Haliwyz, then a Grade 1 student.

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The cookbook, published in November 2020, also features regular recipes with more detailed instructions, recipes submitted by students, parents, grandparents, staff and community members.

The cookbook is available at Co-op outlets in Moose Jaw, Mortlach Post Office and Farmstand in Mortlach, the grocery store in Chaplin and through the project committee at 306-355-2332.

In next week’s column, I will feature some of the more traditional recipes and details about the fundraising project.

Joyce Walter can be reached at ronjoy@sasktel.net

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