The Wal-Martarticle insanity of today.
Where is a person to turn if they want to leave a small footprint on the earth? In Canada it may as well be law that you have to recycle. At every turn there is a recycle barrel, which is great. However, they don't come with instructions. I don't know what I can throw away or can't. Which color barrel does this coffee cup go in? I must not be the only person confused because in downtown Vancouver they have special garbage cans where you leave your coffee cups around the rim of the garbage can to be recycled.
It is great but daunting. In our own home I try to buy things in bulk. Everything. Bluetooth laughs but hates it. When we go to the store I love the bulk section. I get everything from rice, chocolate chips to chicken bouillon. I then come home and put it all into empty washed out mayonnaise jars or jam jars. The result being that I do all of the cooking because bluetooth does not know what is what.
I'm also into googling everything. Yesterday I told bluetooth I was going to google how to make penicillin because I have a little cold coming on. I was only half joking. If I wasn't the only life source for bugaboo I'm sure I would have done it.
I compromised and made my own poptarts instead.
What steps should a sane and logical person take to leaving a small footprint. Not saying that I'm not logical and sane but...
Homemade Poptarts
4 cups flour
1 3/4 cups vegetable shortening
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 teaspoon vinegar
1/2 cup cold water
16 tablespoons jam , divided
Cut flour and shortening together with pastry blender or two butter knives,
until completely blended (mixture will resemble crumbs). Add sugar, baking
powder, salt, egg, vinegar and cold water. Mix with hands until mixture
forms a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Divide
dough into fourths, refrigerating the portions you are not working with yet.
Take first 1/4 of dough and roll out onto a floured surface. Cut into
rectangles using a sharp knife. It is helpful to make a template the size
you wish your poptarts to be, from cardboard or heavy plastic, so they will
be a uniform size. Spread on tbsp. jam on one half of the rectangles,
leaving a half inch or so on the edges without jam. Cover with the other
half of the rectangles. Crimp edges with a fork. Bake at 350 degrees F. for
12 - 15 minutes or until the pie dough is evenly browned and cooked through.
Cool completely and place into zip baggies for storage until you are ready
to eat them. Repeat with remaining dough and jam until it is all completed.
Variation: Glaze poptarts with a simple glaze made from powdered sugar, milk
and vanilla extract. Be sure to let glaze dry hard before placing poptarts
into storage baggies.
3 comments:
What!? Poptarts are there? You wonderfully crazy woman, I can't wait to try them.
Awesome - homemade Poptarts!
And people have laughed at me for making my own Windex and scrubbing floors with Baking Soda. It makes me very sad that more people don't recycle - or at least try to be less wasteful. I love that you are even aware of your footprint on this earth.
I have found that white vinegar is amazing as floor cleaner. Just a tiny bit in warm water and the floors sparkle. My sad sad life. Do you remember when we tried to dye Easter eggs with pickle juice because I was out of vinegar? Good times. Good times.
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