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Enviro-Sukkoth Program: Part 5 of 5 - Recipe and Resources
Steve Lipari
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Source: Adam va-Adamah Environmental Society

Enviro-Sukkoth Program: Part 5 of 5 - Recipe and Resources At-a-Glance

Brief Summary:

The misc resources includes the bibliography for all 5 parts and a Sukkoth cake recipe.

Audience:

Ages 8-10
Adults
Seniors

Facility:

Synagogue
Other

Program Type:

Educational Program

Issues:

Eco-Kashrut/Vegetarianism
Environmental Health and Justice

Holiday:

Sukkot

Description

Cake Recipe

Whole-Wheat Carrot, Apple Honey Cake

Delicious, full of fiber and easy to make (Toronto Star, Feb 27, 1991). Use Kosher and organic ingredients whenever possible.

Ingredients

2 cups whole-wheat flour
1 cup oat bran
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1/3 tsp salt
4 eggs
? cup packed brown sugar
? cup vegetable oil
? cup honey
3 cups shredded carrots (about 1 lb/500 g)
2 large Golden Delicious apples (unpeeled), shredded

Instructions

In large bowl, combine flour, oat bran, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.

In separate bowl, whisk together eggs, brown sugar, oil and honey. Stir in carrots and apples.

(May be made ahead to this point. Cover and refrigerate carrot mixture overnight. Cover and let flour mixture stand at room temperature overnight. Let carrot mixture stand 30 minutes at room temperature before baking.)

Stir carrot mixture into flour mixture until well blended. Spread into 13-by-9-inch baking pan. Bake in 350F oven 45 to 55 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.

Place on pan on wire rack; cool.

Cut into squares. Makes 18 squares.

Resources

Bibliography

Weintraub, Rabbi Samuel, ?The Spiritual Ecology of Kashrut?, Reconstuctionist, Winter 1991-1992.

?GE Foods Explained?, Monsanto Corporation, www.monsanto.com

Artson, Rabbi Bradley Shavit, Each After Their Own Kind: A Jewish Celebration of Biological Diversity, www.coejl.org/learn/bd_artson.shtml

Swartz, Rabbi Daniel, ?Jews, Jewish Texts, and Nature: A Brief History,? www.coejl.org/learn/je_swartz.shtml

Greenpeace Canada Shoppers Guide to GMO-Free Food, www.truefoodnow.org

Moliver, Nina, ?Forbidden Mixtures,? Natual Jewish Parenting, Fall/Winter 1999.

Laye, Ron, ?Food for Thought: A Jewish Perspective on Genetcially Engineered Foods.?

Simhal, Nilli, ?The Arba Miniim (4 Species) of Sukkoth and Their Symbolism,? Teva Learning Center, 1999.

Israel, Rabbi Mark, Memo on Genetically Altered Foods, Commission of Social Action of Reform Judaism Domestic Policy Task Force, December 30, 1999.

Hopwood, Laurel, Letter to President Clinton, Sierra Club Biotechnology Task Force, Aug 18, 1999.

?The Facts on GE Foods,? The Council of Canadians, www.canadians.org

Barbolet, Herb, ?Organics and Genetically Modified Foods, Common Ground, Sep 2000.

Mooney, Pat, ?Sewing the Seeds of Discontent,? Briarpatch, November 1999.

Harry, Debra, ?The Human Genome Diversity Project and its Implications for Indigenoous Peoples,? GeneWATCH, October 1996.

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This program added on 2003-04-11.

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