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Ida Risser *
My many houscplants seem to
soak up water so fast and need to
be watered quite often. My hus
band received several dish gar
dens during his hospitalization
and they added to my collection.
I keep starting new plants as
older ones die. It keeps me busy
tending almost 100 plants during
the cold months.
Sometimes I wonder how
things can get dusty behind
closed glass doors. Dishes need to
be washed and shelves dusted
more often than I’m willing to do
it. After all, there are so many
more interesting things to do like
reading a magazine or a newspa
per.
And it is nice to get out of the
house now and then not only
on Sunday. One day I taught our
Bible Study group, and another
day I attended a women’s lun
cheon at our church. It is pleas
What Children Need To Know To Start School
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child care providers and interest
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workshop, What ChDdren Need
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there’s a wide variation between
what parents think children need
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ant to eat with friends.
The other Saturday I took a
bus tour of Landis Homes and
farms. The 1728 Snavely-Landis
house in Manheim Township is
the second oldest house in Lan
caster County. At one time it was
used for worship by a Mennonite
congregation. It has a Bible cab
inet built into the two-foot stone
wall, a built-in jeUy cupboard, a
large arch cellar, and an attic
smokehouse.
We also visited the Mennonite
Historical Society where we saw
their archives. The trip started
and ended at Landis Homes on
the farm of my grandfather, Ben
jamin R. Landis. It was a rainy
day but the trip was quite worth
while if only to renew acquain
tances with long lost cousins.
Some of them came from other
states to view the homes of their
ancestors.
teachers expect. The workshop
will focus on teacher expectations
and what childcare providers and
parents can do to prepare chil
dren to meet these expectations.
The workshop is part of a
statewide Better Kid Care chDd
care provider training program
presented by Penn State Cooper
ative Extension and partially
funded by the Pennsylvania De
partment of PubUc Welfare, and
the Pennsylvania Pathways
training system.
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Is ( White Chocolate’ Really Chocolate?
COLUMBUS, Ohio Accord
ing to the government, white
chocolate really isn’t anything.
That is, white chocolate doesn’t
yet have an official ‘Standard of
Identity” recognized by the Food
and Drug Administration.
Temporary permits to market
“white chocolate” products have
been issued since late 1993, but
the agency hasn’t yet approved a
final standard definition of
“white chocolate.”
But chocolate experts know
what “white chocolate” is, and it
doesn’t seem to quite add up to
being chocolate. White chocolate
is typically a blend of cocoa but
ter, milk, sugar and possibly
some flavorings.
Real chocolate must contain
chocolate liquor. Chocolate li
quor isn’t alcohol but that’s
what they call it anyway. Choco
late liquor is what you get when
you grind up roasted cocoa beans
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Childcare providers can re
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Welfare training credits for par
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For more information on the
program, support materials and
other services from “Better Kid
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and is basically a mixture of
cocoa butter and cocoa powder.
The mixture contains so much
fat that when the beans are
ground up, the mixture becomes
a thick liquid chocolate liquor.
That liquid can be poured into
molds and allowed to solidify.
That’s what is known as un
sweetened chocolate. Or, the so
lids can be separated from the
fat, the results are called cocoa
powder and cocoa butter.
Real chocolate contains the
whole kit and caboodle from the
cocoa bean. White chocolate, as
mentioned above, contains just
the cocoa butter.
Interestingly, white chocolate
doesn’t keep as long as regular
chocolate. Although cocoa butter
is known for its stability, some
thing in the cocoa solids seems to
help prevent the milk in milk
chocolate from going rancid over
time. White chocolate doesn’t
have as long of a shelf life.
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