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Special Features: The custom cover introduces the story of the gogos (grandmothers) in Malawi, Africa who care for orphaned children due to the Aids pandemic, and the grandmothers here in the United States who come along side their struggle to feed and care for these orphans. The forward pages, include a " Recipe for Serving Up Hope" in Malawi, a page of history about beginning the work with Gogos, and a page about connections with grandmothers here in the United States. The last forward page is called "My Love a Gogo 'Grocery' List, and shared our desire that this cookbook not only serve up delicious food for families here, but life saving food for orphans in Malawi. The nine custom divider pages feature pictures from our Malawi villages and one from the first Gogo group in the United States, along with quotes and scriptures that remind us to remember the poor and hungry in our world.

Description: While we all have amazing cookbooks on our shelves, some of our most treasured cookbooks have been passed on to us by our mothers and grandmothers. One of our motivations for doing the cookbook was that warm connection to our families and love for our own grandmothers. Some of the recipes in our book have come from them. But we also had a new connection to grandmothers in Malawi who have had to bury their own children and are now raising their grandchildren. The "Gogo Cook Book, Serving Up Hope, was designed to raise awareness of their extreme poverty and the compelling needs of the gogos-grandmothers, Africa's unsung heros! The cover, dividers, and introductory pages were designed to tell the gogos' story. They are the poorest of the poor, yet they care for most of Malawi's one million orphaned children. They have only what they can grow in a "garden" field to eat and then cook over an open fire made from three rocks and some sticks. Our cookbook is full of delicious grandma recipes and even a few from the urban grandmothers in Malawi. But, even more importantly, it is a sobering reminder of the children who mainly eat a cornmeal mush called "pala" in a small country where 50% of children under five are malnourished. Our cookbook was designed to bring people together to make a difference in the lives of these children. An African proverb says, " When cobwebs unite, you can tie up a lion." Maybe when these recipes come together we can help tie up some poverty.

Funds raised support: The proceeds from the "Gogo Cookbook, Serving Up Hope", will go to assist the gogos (grandmothers), orphans and vulnerable preschool children in Kawiya Tadziwana village in Malawi, Africa. This village has built a little bamboo shelter with a grass roof and dirt floor where 75 little children gather five days a week from 7:30 to 11:30 in the morning tp be fed, taught and prepared to enter primary school. This is one way to help break the cycle of poverty for these children. Through the sale of our cookbooks we hope to build a permanent school building for the children to meet in. The villagers have made by hand 32,000 bricks as their contribution, in hopes of seeing a school built for their children, so school can continue even during the rainy season. The village preschool also needs a latrine and an outdoor "kitchen" for cooking the daily meal prepared for the children. It consists of corn meal, ground nuts or soy, and a little sugar, cooked as a mush over an open fire in big pots. Water is carried from miles away for washing little hands, cooking, and drinking. We also hope to install a well and pump to provide clean accessible water to these wonderful children and gogos.

Cost: $20.00
plus $5.00 S/H per book.

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• ORANGE CAKE:
• 1 c. butter
• 2 c. sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 4 eggs
• 3 c. flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 c. buttermilk
• 1 c. chopped nuts
• 1 c. chopped dates
• 2 T. fresh grated orange peel
• 1 c. shredded coconut
• ICING:
• 2 c. powder sugar
• 1 c. fresh orange juice
• 1 T. grated orange peel

Use angel food cake pan. Cream sugar and butter. Add vanilla and eggs. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt, then blend into the sugar/egg mixture, alternating with the milk. Beat until well blended. add nuts, dates coconut and orange peel and mix well. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. Icing: Mix all ingredients together and pour over cake while it is still hot, and let it cool. Decorate with Christmas holly.