HEALTHY BISCUITS 2 c. whole grain flour OR 1 c. flour 114 c. corn meal 114 c. oats 114 c. soy flour 114 c. wheat germ· -. ! 3/4 to 1 c. buttermilk or yogurt 4-5 T. oil 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. .baking powder january 1977 RAIN Page 17 CORN BREAD 1-114 c. coarse corn meal 1 tsp. salt 114 c. whole wheat flour 3 tsp~ baking powder 2 T. honey 1 egg 1 c. milk 3 T. melted butter or oil Mix ingredients together well, kneading slightly; form into biscuits either shaping them by hand or rolling dough out and using a cutter. Bake on an oiled surface for 8 to 12 minutes at 500°. Combine ~ry ingredients well, beat egg, add to other liquid~ , stir in melted butter and combine all ingredients tiH smooth. Pour into heated oileq pan (cast iron fry.pan is good, or a corn breaq pan). B;:tke at 425° for.20 to 25 minutes till done. Corn off one fresh ear 'rhay be substituted for 1/4 c. of corn meal. I like to add sunflower seeds te my cornbread, and I sometimes use orange juice inst-ead of milk; I also like a sesame seed sprinkle across the top.oefore I pop it into the oven. To vary these biscuits a number of things may be added, such as: garlic, fines.herbes, dill weed, paprika, onion, chives, cayenne, caraway, etc. Good eating. See ya! IN TOUCH: NORTHWEST NW Habitat Conference Update After spending three days with parts of 200 people, I woke up Mortday morning with dreams, conversations and feelings for Robin, Charles anp Jane ~n Vancouver, BC, and Mark in Arlington, and Inge, Alwin and Dale in Corvallis, and David in DC, and Brownraven in Enterprise, and Kerry and Bruce in Portland, and Piper in Edwall, and Skeeter in Colville, and NancyBell and Utah Bob in Spokane, and Rainbow on the road ... and unfinished conversations ... and wanting to find out more. It was a fine conference. Given the limitations of what money can buy (we were headquartered at Spokane's Davenport Hotel), the organizers of the conference, the Northwest Regional Foundation, spent a significant portion of their grant to subsidize transportation for the participants-and there was no conference fee, both important factors in attracting a diverse array of folk. Interest groups were set up around Built Environment, Neighborhoods, Rural Land, Appropriate Technology, Co-ops, Mental Health, Global Concerns, Citizen P,articipation, Community Development, Environment and Communications. One thread that ran through all the groups was a concern for how to stay in touch with each other and how to share information about people and groups , and ideas with communities back home. And at the close, someone said, "See you at the next site-wherever and whenever it may be." So ... Announcement: Conferenc~ on Regional Cooperation. Monday's mail brought news from Brian and Marshall of the Cascadian Regional Library (CAREL) in Eugene about pl'ans for the next regional conference to be held March 25, 26, 27 at Sandy, Oregon. Proposal: Regional Networking. And how do we stay in touch between conferences? Brian and Marshall, through CAREL, are working on setting up an Information-Action Clearinghouse for the Northwest. By the time you read this they'll know whether their proposal for a grant for this project has been funded. If not, they will be going ahead anyway, though at a slower time frame. But you don't have to wait-a networking tool is already available ... In Print: Leap Year Papers. CAREL has also just (finally) published the proceedings of the Leap Year Conference. held last February in Sandy, Oregon. In addition to giving address access to hundreds of groups involved in regional cooperation, the booklet includes papers on: How Different Co-ops Structure Themselves, What It Takes to Start a Politically Oriented Bank, How Land. & Equipment Can Be Placed in a Community Trust, How to Develop a Co-op Bookkeeping Procedure Everyone Can Share, Guidelines That Can Be Used to Insure Smooth 'Runr:ting of a Group Meeting, and How to Organize & Supply a Large-Scale Conference. Northwest Regional Foundation (NRF) Box 5299 N. 507 floward.St. Spokane,·WA 99205 509/455-9255 ~ob Stilger, Susan Virnig, Don flornbeck Organizers of the NW Habitat Conference. Published The Challenge of Habitat 1 & 2, $3 apiece, resource packets· prepared for the conference by the editors of Futures Conditional, NancyBell Coe and Roseanne Nolan. Cascadian Regional Library (CAREL) Box 1492 Eugene, OR 97401 Brian Livingston, Marshall Landman Contact CAREL for information on the upcoming conference on regional cooperation, their regional networking proposq.l, and The Leap Year Papers, 64 pp., $1.95. -Rhoda Epstein
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