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MANKATO, Minn. The
“Diabetic Goodie Book” is filled
with recipes for cheesecakes,
cookies, cobblers, pies, and other
tasty desserts. These recipes are
for diabetics and anyone else who
loves to eat desserts without feel
ing guilty.
Written by Kathy Kochan, who
had diabetes since the age of 5, the
recipes are ones that not only
diabetics can enjoy but also family
and guests. The recipes use low-fat
ingredients, small amounts of
sugar, and little or no added salt
“1 look forward to dessert after
dinner and refuse to watch every
one else enjoy their desserts while
I munch on a piece of plain fruit,”
said Kochan.
“Healthy people with diabetes
can incorporate sugar into recipes
as long as carbohydrates are calcu
lated and worked into their meal
plan,” Kochan said.
Because Kochan does not use
artificial sweeteners, most of the
recipes are prepared with fruit for
natural sugar and sweetness, or
small amounts of sugar and fat
“Managing your diet doesn’t
have to mean cheating your sweet
tooth.” said Kochan.
New guidelines for managing
diabetes call for counting carbohy
drates. “The Diabetic Goodie
Book” explains in easy-to-read
language how to control fat car
bohydrate, cholesterol, and
sodium. Complete nutrition
analysis, diabetic exchanges, and
new carbohydrate counts are
included for each delicious recipe.
The softcover 256-page cook
book is the result of Kochan’s
experimentation. She is also a
cooking instructor with the Joslin
Diabetes Clinic in New Jersey and
teaches classes on living with diab
etes without complications.
“The Diabetic Goodie Book” is
available at bookstores or by call
ing the publisher Appletree Press,
Inc. at 1-800-322-5679. Mail
order cost is $15.95 plus $4
shipping.
Here are a few recipes reprinted
by permission of Appletree Press.
CHOCOLATE CLOUD CAKE
Egg whites make this nonfat
chocolate cake light and airy. Prep
time: 15 min. Bake time: 20 min.
Serves: 8. Serving size: 1 slice.
Exchanges: 1 fruit (1 carbohy
drate choice), analysis per serv
ing: 63 calories, 14 g carbohy
drate, 3 g protein, 0 g fat, 0 mg
cholesterol, 204 mg sodium, 0 g
fiber.
'A cup cocoa
'A cup water
'A teaspoon vanilla extract
'A cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
4 large egg whites, at room
temperature
'/ teaspoon salt
A cup sugar
Confectioners’ sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Have an 8-inch round cake pan
ready. Place cake pan on a piece of
wax paper. Trace pan and cut out
wax paper to fit on bottom of pan;
set aside.
In 1-cup glass measuring cup,
use a small whisk to mix cocoa and
water. Microwave on high one
minute, stir, micowave 1 more
minute or until thick and smooth.
Stir in vanilla; cool. In separate
small bowl, blend flour and baking
powder together. Set aside.
In large bowl, with electric mix
er at high speed, beat egg whites
and salt until foamy. Gradually
beat in sugar at high speed until
Diabetic Cookbook Proves
Heaithful Cooking Is Also Tasty
soft peaks form when batter is
lifted with rubber spatuala. Imme
diately add cocoa mixture and beat
just until blended; scrape sides of
bowl. Use a rubber spatula to fold
in flour mixture just until blended.
Do not overmix.
Pour into prepared pan and
smooth top with rubber spatula.
Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until top
cracks and looks dry and pick
inserted in center comes out dry.
Place cake, still in pan, upside
down on wire rack on top of peice
of wax paper that has been sprayed
with cooking spray; cool 20
minutes. Turn right side up;
remove wax paper from top of
cake and run knife around sides of
pan to loosen. Carefully turn out
onto rack to cool;p remove wax
paper; turn right side up. Cool
completely, about 30 minutes.
To serve, place doily over cake
and sprinkle with confectioners’
sugar. Carefully remove doily.
Bees Bring Contaminants Home To Analyze
NEWARK, Del. In days
gone by, canaries warned coal
miners of the presence of the
explosive gas, methane. In mod
em times, scientists have used
bluegill fish to monitor water
quality in streams.
Now researchers are looking to
the honey bee to detect pollution
in the environment.
“Bees pick up contaminants
from everywhere air, water,
soil, and plants,” said Dr. Dewey
Caron, cooperative extension apri
culturist at the University of Dela
ware. “They ingest water and nec
tar from flowers, and electrostatic
charges on their bodies pick up
pollen and dust particles.”
Like flying dust mops, bees
bring contaminants with them
back to the hive. By analyzing the
bees and the air in the hive, said
Caron, scientists can identify what
chemicals are in the area and
monitor changes in the
environment.
Caron is taking part in a study
known as Bee Alert that is using
bees as pollution monitors. The
project, a five-year collaboration
with the U.S. Army Center for
Environmental Health Research at
Fort Detrick, Md., is being con
ducted by Dr. Jerry Bromenshenk
and a team of researchers from the
University of Montana.
Bromenshenk’s team is moni
toring three sites at Aberdeen Pro
ving Ground, Md., where the
Army once manufactured chemi
cal weapons. Last spring, they
installed high-tech electronic
hives, each containing 7,000 to
10,000 bees, at a hazardous waste
landfill; on the former site of a
chlorine plant; and on a farm own
ed by a hobbyist beekeeper.
Caron’s part in the project is to
monitor the bee colonies over the
winter. Last fall, the 28 hives were
brought to UD’s Experiment Sta
tion in Newark, where Caron col
lected data from October through
April. He will keep an eye on
them again this winter.
“We want to find out how use
ful bees are year-round as indica
tors of changes in the environ
ment,” said Caron. “Monitoring
the hives in the winter also gives
the study better continuity.”
Compared with doing ongoing
chemical sampling, maintaining
beehives is an expensive way of
NO-BAKE PEACHY
RICOTTA CHEESECAKE
A tasty no-crust cheesecake.
Prep time: 20 min. Chill time: 4
hrs. Serves: 10. Serving size: 1
slice. Exchanges: 1 slam milk, 1
very lean meat, and 1 fruit (2 car
bohydrate choices). Analysis per
serving: 173 calories, 23 g car
bohydrate, 15 g protein, 2 gfat, 64
mg cholesterol, 248 mg sodium
and 1 g fiber.
2 16-ounce cans juice-packed
sliced peaches
Pasteurized dried egg white for
3 egg whites
Water
4 tablespoons sugar, divided
2 envelopes unflavored gelatin
3 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
'A teaspoon almond extract
3 cups nonfat ricolta cheese
'A cup nonfat dry milk powder
1 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons dried orange peel or
monitoring the environment. And
the monitoring stations are more
cost-effective than they used to be,
said Caron. The bee colonies he is
using are smaller than those used
in other studies too small, even,
to produce honey.
Honey production is not neces
sary for the study, explains Caron,
because honey is not a good pollu
tion indicator. A naturally
processed food, honey is virtually
contaminant-free. Instead,
researchers analyze the air in the
hive, the bodies of the bees, and
bee activity levels.
Six computers one that
keeps track only of weather
record changes in the hive day and
night Hive air is analyzed for
organic compounds, and the bees’
bodies are checked for traces of
West End
JUDITH PATTON
Union Co. Correspondent
LAURELTON (Union CO.)
At the recent West End Fair, 47
exhibitors presented a total of 157
entries in the open and youth dairy
show to Judge James Kahler of
Wellsboro.
Emerging as supreme champ
ion was C Watavue Flora Broker,
West End Fair Dairy Show supreme champion honors went to John Rlshel for his
Holstein grand champion, C. Watavuc Flora Broker, shown here with SUN Area Dairy
Princesses Leslie Kenamond and Kate Gessner.
grated fresh orange peel
'A teaspoon dried lemon peel or
grated fresh lemon peel
Have all ingredients at room
temperature. Drain peaches; set
drained peaches and juice aside.
Spray a 9-inch springform pan
with cooking spray.
In small bowl, beat dried egg
whites and water with electric mix
er at high speed until soft peaks
form. Gradually beat in 2 tables
poons sugar until stiff peaks form
when lifted with rubber spatula; set
aside.
In 4-cup glass measuring cup
combine remaining 2 tablespoons
sugar and gelatin. With same bea
ters, add egg yolks and beat at
medium speed until well blended,
scraping sides occasionally; beat
in vanilla and reserved peach juice.
Microwave gelatin mixture on
high for 3 minutes, stir and micro
wave another 2 minutes or until
mixture comes to a boil; set aside
to cool.
inorganic compounds such as lead
and arsenic. Flight activity, in
hive activity and bee death rates,
which can increase or decrease
with environmental change, are
also monitored.
“So far, much of the research
has focused on collecting baseline
data on honey bee behavior so that
anomalies can be determined
more easily,” said Caron. “Natural
changes in the environment such
as nightfall, rainfall and the
approach of a storm front cause
bee activity to decrease, as does
the beekeeper’s practice of apply
ing smoke to the bee hive. With a
baseline for this type of normal
fluctuation, we can detect envir
onmental problems such as pesti
cide applications or chemical
spills as soon as they occur.”
Fair Presents Awards
a 4-year-old Holstein shown by
John W. Rishcl.
Flora was the grand champion
of the open Holstein show, which
had 73 competitors. The reserve
champion Holstein was Garstlyn
Broker Reba, exhibited by Dou
glas and Jennifer Boop in the
senior 2-year-old class. The youth
show Holstein champion was
In food processor or blender,
process ricotta and dry milk until
smooth, scrape sides. With
machine running, gradually drop
in one cup of reserved peaches just
until small pieces of peach are visi
ble; scrape sides. In large bowl,
combine peach mixture, gelatin
mixture; lemon juice and dried
peels; mix well. Use a rubber spa
tula to gently fold beaten egg
whites into peach mixture until no
white streaks remain. Pour mixture
into prepared pan, spreading
evenly.
Slice each peach slice into 2 thin
slices and arrange slices on top of
cheesecake in a circular manner.
Cover with plastic wrap so wrap
does not touch cake and refrigerate
at least 4 hours or overnight.
To serve, use a sharp knife to
loosen cake from pan. Remove
sides of pan, leaving cake on pan
bottom. Place on serving plate.
Cover and refrigerate leftovers.
Normally, the onset of winter
brings a dramatic decrease in bee
activity. Caron was surprised that
the bees were as active as they
were. Bees left and entered the
hive on about half the days
enough, says Caron, to give useful
information on their surroundings.
“Although this winter may not
have been typical, the data show
that there is a longer season for
monitoring than we had thought,”
he said.
Caron was also pleased to learn
that the bees’ winter location in
Newark appeared to be pollution
free. No abnormal chemical inci
dents were detected during the
winter.
Kevin Gessner’s 5-year-old,
Ritter-Ridge Ryan Peach, with
reserve going to Korey Zimmer
man for Zi-SK-CH Vanguard
Angel Amy, also a 5-year-old.
In the Jersey show, the grand
champion among the 52 entries
shown was also exhibited by
Doug and Jennifer Boop, J & K
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