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Kitchen Tip : Solid disk elements and radiant elements under glass stove tops are easier to clean than conventional electric coil elements, but they take longer to heat up and use more electricity.

Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.

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Governor Martha Layne Collins Brownies Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

3 squares unsweetened baking chocolate

1/2 pound butter

2 cups sugar

4 egg

1 1/3 cups flour

1 cup chopped pecans

powdered sugar

Melt chocolate with butter in top of double boiler. Remove and add sugar. Let cool and add well-beaten eggs, flour and pecans. Bake in two well-buttered 8" by 8" baking pans at 400F for approximately 18 minutes. Take from oven, cut contents of each pan into thirty six brownies, immediately roll in powdered sugar and store in tin cake pan.

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