Sunchowder Needs your help! Looking for your favorite recipes for fundraiser

[sunchowder]

Hello Mums! My 11 year old DD was interviewed last week and accepted to participate as a member of the People to People Student Ambassador Program. She is going to get to go on a 20 day trip to your side of the pond this summer with the delegation!! She will travel to Ireland, Wales, England, France, Holland and Belgium. The objective of the program is to promote international understanding while building leadership skills among America's youth. The only down-side is that the tuition is very steep (expensive) and we need to do fundraising to make the trip possible. So....I am taking on the project of publishing a cookbook as the main fundraiser! I am doing the original art for the cover and dividers and it will be plastic comb sprial bound and laminated. I am hoping the price will be between $10 and $12 American Dollars. I would love it if you would be willing to share your most favorite recipes on this thread along with your either your real name or mumsnet name (doesn't matter to me!) and I will use your recipes in the book and print your name along with each recipe. The book will be called "Sunchowder's Emporia", A Collection of Recipes for the Heart and Soul. I am getting an ISBN and everything. I am terribly excited about it. I have incorporated about 75 of my mums and my most treasured recipes and I have sent out requests to 50 of my friends here in the States, so I hope to have a gorgeous book at the end of all of this.

I don't want to request or pressure anyone to purchase the book (unless you want to!), I was just hoping for contributions to make the cookbook richer and more diverse. I appreciate anything you want to contribute and can't wait to see your responses. If we are successful, the book should be published in March 2006. I am going crazy trying to get the advertising in line to help defray the printing costs so I have my hands full, but I am enjoying it and my DD is hard at work printing and collating and delivering things to help support the effort. Thank you, Thank you so much. XO Sunny

Oh GGG, this looks unbelieveably good, thank you so much. I would love and appreciate a few french recipes, my DD is also going to Paris, so it would be lovely to have a few "authentic" recipes. Carmenere was good enough to post me her Mussels recipebut the other two sound so nice, Zucchini Tart and Yogurt Cake possibly in Americanif you have time, I would so appreciate them. I will publish this under GGGlimpopo!!!

Just had an awful thought - have you cleared this with Mumsnet HQ? They claim copyright of all postings!

PrettyCandles, no I didn't clear it with Mumsnet HQ and didn't realize there were any Copyright issues either! This thread has been around for a bit, I believe if there was a problem, someone would have said by now, right?

Ok hang on a mo for happy hour

Will go and get those recipies....

I can only find 3 but never mind..

Kiwi Margarita
15ml/ 1/2floz Tequila
" " Triple Sec
" " Lime Juice
" " Sugar Syrup with lemongrass and red chillis
1 Kiwi, pureed and strained.

• Frost rim of glass with salt
• Shake ingrediants together
• Pour into glass and serve

Bellini

1 Lime (juice only)
1 tbsp caster sugar
handful of ice
1 peach, stone removed
1 orange, juice only
Champagne

• Place lime, caster sugar, ice and pieces of Peach and Orange in to a blender and blend till smooth. *Pour in to a tall glass and top with Champagne.

**This works really well with Strawberries too.

Mojito

Fresh mint
2-3 tsp caster sugar
1 lime, cut in to wedges
crushed ice
50ml/3/4 floz cuban rum
soda water

*In a tumbler, muddle the mint, sugar and lime. Add some crushed ice. Stir in the rum and soda.
*Finish with a sprig of mint.

I'll give you this recipe that another Mnetter posted a while ago.
I made it today and it is very yummy.

Chocolate Tiffin

100g dark choc
300g milk choc
100g butter
3 tbsp golden syrup
275g of digestive biscuits, crushed
250g maltesers

*Melt the dark choc, 100g milk choc, butter and syrup together. When melted then stir in digestives and then gently stir in the maltesers.

*Tip in to a lined tray and level out.

*Melt the remainding milk choc and pour over the rest of the mixture, smothing surface carefully. Cut when cold.

It's very bad for you but it doesn't matter

Thanks NBG, those look really tasty!!! I already had the tiffin, thanks so much for that again! I appreciate you taking time time out for these--I will print them up and add them to my cocktail section! Thanks again.

No problem

The tiffin is so so good

6 ozs of butter

6 ozs of caster sugar

3 eggs

10 ozs of flour

1 small teaspoon of baking powder

1/4 lb of sultanas

grated lemon rind

1 oz of mixed peel

A little milk if required.

TIN 7x 3

Beat the butter and the sugar to cream, add each egg seperately and beat well. Stir in the flour and baking powder, then add the sultanas and peel and grated lemon rind.

It needs to be a fairly stiff mixture.

Transfer to a lined and buttered tin.

Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes at 170 .

Thank you LGJ!! It looks nice, I want to go make it now and try all those cocktails too.... Thanks again for taking the time to post it. I will have this printed under your name with a credit to Great Grandma!

Sunchowder, I wouldn't guarantee it. Although the board is monitored by the PTB of Mumsnet, they might nonetheless miss something that remains an issue. It would be awful if it was spotted later, once you were committed to the cost of printing. Also, people are much more likely to consider sympathetically what is, in effect, a charitable effort if they are consulted from the begining, rather than having a fait accompli thrust upon them.

PrettyCandles--I have put in a word to Mumsnet to make sure this is alright. Thanks.

Mumsnet believes this is just fine PrettyCandles, I have pasted them the URL this morning so that they can make a comment on the thread if they choose to do that. Thanks again for your recipes, I have some smoked salmon and I am going to try your recipe for the dressing over the weekend.

So....if anyone else has anything they would like to contribute, DD and I would love to have it and I thank you in advance.

Oh good. My gut feeling was that they would be OK with this, but I've worked in publishing and know that things could have got very sticky had approval not been arranged before publication.

Excellent.

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