This is for Blue Witch, who enjoyed the carrot cake recipe. This time of year we have an overabundance of zucchini. Even one plant can provide enough zucchini for an entire neighborhood, so we’re constantly trying to find ways to use them up, or share them.
This recipe for a zucchini tea bread is older than most of our children, and I make it at least once a year. I hope you enjoy it.
Zucchini Bread
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup salad oil
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups shredded zucchini
1 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. and grease and flour a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan.
In a large bowl, combine the first nine ingredients. Mix thoroughly. With a spoon, add the zucchini and walnuts, and spread the batter in the pan.
Bake 70 miunutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool the pan for 10 minutes on a wire rack, and then remove the loaf from the pan. Let cool completely. Wrap to store.
This year, because we are making an effort to cut calories and fat from our diet, I may try replacing the oil with applesauce. I’ll let you know what happens
Daily Archives: August 31, 2004
Technology
Isn’t science amazing!? There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t read something new, from black holes and charming quarks, to astonishing information about how our body works, headlines on cloning, and new information on disease prevention.
We live in an amazing time. My grandfather had one foot in the horse and buggy era and the other planted firmly at a time when men rode rockets to orbit the earth. I can not remember a time when my family didn’t have both television and radio bringing information into the house.
So, you can imagine my amazement at the latest breakthrough in technology. I was grocery shopping. I picked up carton of eggs, and lifted the lid to make sure none of them was cracked. On each egg was a line of red print saying “Use By Sept. 24.”
That’s just incredible! Scientists have tinkered with hens and found a way to get them to print out freshness dates when they lay eggs. They must be using nanotechnology to line the pigment up in the shell, but I can’t figure out how they change the date. I guess I’ll have to do some surfing. Maybe they have engineered it so that chickens have a computer chip passed on to them when they are just a yolk.
I bet the chickens are strutting around thinking, “It’s Tuesday. We get extra grain on Tuesday.” Or, “Four more weeks, and they’ll let me out into the yard!”
I wonder if they try to warn the turkeys when Thanksgiving is coming, or if they keep it to themselves.
It’s a great invention. Now we’ll never have another stale egg again.