Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 134, Number 51, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 20 December 2012 — Page 8

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Carry on traditions and recipes

The holidays would not be the same without our families and traditions. Some traditions may be preparing special foods, decorating, church and community services, music, lights, family gatherings, and shopping. Christmas, Hanukkah, and other special holidays have more traditions than most holidays. Many of these family traditions are centered on special foods. Some traditions your family practices may have come from foreign countries, while others are created within your family. Let's think about all the foods that are special to you and your family this time of the year. My list begins with good fruitcake, followed by cheese ball, eggnog, cranberry glog, cranberry salad, Christmas cookies, chocolate candies, rum balls, peppermint ice cream and more. I am sure many of you also have special family traditional foods.

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Poultry is a growing industry in Elkhart County. It seems every time you turn a comer in the rural areas, a new chicken or duck bam has been put up. Of course, when you raise poultry, you also create manure. Manure used to be considered a waste, but these days, it has become more of an asset than a liability. I read a recent article by some Extension researchers in Kansas, who studied manure and its value as a fertilizer. Their finds were very interesting. One of the first things they noted was that poultry manure is very high in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, three key nutrients for

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My heritage is Belgian which includes Belgian honey cake. My favorite cookie is a special honey cookie that my mother made for over fifty years, and yes, the dough is really good. My father made smoked turkey breast. For the Cross family, it is date bar cookies, date pudding, and cranberry salad. And for my family, it is cheese ball and cheese spreads. You may go home for the holidays or family members may come home, and the question most often asked is, "What do you want to eat?" For many of you that sense of food with the holidays is just as important as going home. It could be a certain aroma or the memories of a special recipe whether preparing it or sharing it. All of these bring back links to a time past and sometimes a flood of emotions. Some of your family holiday recipes have been passed down

crops. However, the content of the nutrients can vary considerably from farm to farm, and depending on how the manure is handled, the moisture content can vary considerably as well. In practical terms, that means that producers should test the manure to determine the values of the manure on their own farm, and not rely on values from tables in a book or publication. Manure from 67 farms was analyzed. The nitrogen content ranged from 14 pounds per ton to 75 pounds per ton, with the average being 55 pounds. The phosphorus content was 55 pounds per ton, with a range of 24 to 110 pounds per ton. For potassium,

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By Mary Ann Lienhart Cross Extension Educator, Consumer Family Science through many generations. Thpse redoes were prepared for years without being written down. Many family recipes are too easily lost, so learn them and preserve them now! When you have a family recipe, you are working with a piece of the past, remaking it, and connecting with times gone by. Most of us have a cooking link to the past, espedally during the holidays. Many families have family recipe books that are over one hundred years old. These redpe books sometimes carry a lot of family history along with redpes. There is

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Elkhart County By Jeff Burbrink Extension Educator the average ton of manure contained 47 pounds with the samples varying between 9 to 76 pounds per ton. How valuable is poultry manure? This may not be a straightforward answer and depends on several fadors, including the nutrient(s) required for a spedfic field, but here's one example using the aver-

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ing or preparing a redpe you used to make with a family member. You can often picture the experience of the past, as well as smell the aroma. Family recipes are made year round and often you visit memories of the person who shared them with you. Something spedal you could do this year after a family meal is to make copies of shared recipes. A couple of old fashioned ways are to have family members copy them on spedal redpe cards or write them in pretty, bound books. In working with the bound book, you could start your own family cookbook. The modem way would be to work with the computer and share copies of the redpes. The best way to learn and share redpes is in the kitchen, elbow to elbow, actually preparing the food and washing the dishes. What's won-

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age nutrient analysis values from these samples of 55-55-47 (N-P-K lbs/ton): During year 1 about 35 percent of N is in an inorganic (all available) form, and about 65% of the N is in an organic form, with about V* of the N available that first season. The total N available in year 1 is about 28.2 lbs./ton, which at 51 cents per pound is worth about $14.38. About half the phosphorus is available the first year, or about 27.5 pounds per ton. At 65 cents per pound, the P is worth about $17.88 per ton. About 85 percent of the potassium is available the first year, or about 40 pounds per

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derful about the kitchen are the rt stories that get told during redpe preparation. In fact these oral history stories should be induded along with the redpes. I really encourage you to do something with family redpes. Here are some hints to help you get started now. Begin with redpes you love and remember, convert the redpes to measuring tools like spoons and cups. You may also want to make notes about the comments the cook makes using their senses, an example would be the color, feel or aroma. When you're making toffee it'is the color of peanut butter, the feel of dough is that it is soft and not sticky or too firm. Some other hints would be: plan the time to do this! Please don't trust your memory, make notes about brands, and most of all, do this redpe gathering now before it's too late!

ton. At 48 cents per pound, the K is worth about $19.20 in a ton of the average manure. All totaled, our average ton of poultry manure was worth about $51.46 per ton for the nutrients the first year. The value of the remaining nutrients, which would be released over time, would be able $31.55 per ton. With poultry manure being a rich nutrient source, it also could be a source of pollution if allowed to wash into a stream or otherwise runoff. Using good practices to incorporate the manure or cover it while stored can help to reduce runoff, nutrient loss and potential odors.