donate food, canned food, long-life cakes (fruit cake etc) for southland farmers. I'd like to bake something, but know fruit cakes will be abundant. I'd make ginger loaf, but have run out of golden syrup.... what baking can I make? Any sugestions will be really appreciated....please....&- thank you!!!
huntermac,
Sep 27, 8:06am
why not just go for the tried and true fav cakes, one that you can freeze down if needed. They are going to love whatever you send, trust me, we farmers love good home cooked food of any kind. What a kind person to even go to the effort.
babytears,
Sep 27, 8:10am
Awwwwwwwwww shucks...thanks huntermac....
kob,
Sep 27, 5:58pm
what a great idea, biscuits a re great if you have one of those air sucker things, as it prolongs the shelf life, or maybe just bag and suck air out.OR see if your local supermarket will properly shrink wrap them for you tell them what your doing they may jump on board, but that way the air will be trapped and they will last heaps longer, bakerys have them as well
cookessentials,
Sep 27, 6:06pm
The pumpkin loaves and lemon yoghurt cake have good keeping qualitiies and also freeze well.
griffo4,
Sep 27, 7:58pm
Fruit cakes are always great to have and they last so long They always come in handy and they keep you feeling fuller for longer especially with the long hours they are putting in down there
lythande1,
Sep 27, 8:16pm
Why? I know a few of them. The last thing they need is food. Most of them have food, they aren't poverty stricken. They have lost lambs - how does a bunch of things they probably don't even like help replace the lambs?
pickles7,
Sep 27, 8:43pm
They should be made to cook and eat, lambs tails!!!
cookessentials,
Sep 27, 8:57pm
I am sure there are those that would appreciate it.
donnabeth,
Sep 27, 9:15pm
It's the young sheep farmers who are struggling. They needed two incomes as well as getting help from their children before the heavy losses because they wanted to invest in sheep instead of ruining the landscape and land with high return dairying. The days of heavy govt. lamb subsidies and inheriting Daddy's farm are long gone. I wonder whether the govt will boost farmers' coffers with as much as they did the struggling cash investment company coffers.
Babytears I'm sure they won't be fussy and they'll gratefully accept whatever you decide to gift. Most of them would recognise and appreciate the time and effort(and expense) that you went to for them.The whole family can enjoy a fruit cake; even more when they have all been out in the wet and cold for hours.
lythande1,
Sep 28, 12:31am
So give them the cost of the lamb. Each. Not cans and cakes.
chrisynz,
Sep 28, 1:30am
why! its not their fault the snow was so very heavy, alot of farmers experience loss, though floods, snow and drought and its very hard to predict the weather is it not.
cookessentials,
Sep 28, 1:35am
This IS the request is it not?
madison15,
Sep 28, 1:36am
What a good idea babytears ...just ignore the couple of assh*les that have graced us with there unwanted presence in the thread
babytears,
Sep 28, 1:44am
Sound advice there madison15 - sheesh some people aye!
levintofu,
Sep 28, 3:00am
you can do frozen bread dough, with baking instructions so it goes in to their freezer and baked when they are ready.
nik12,
Sep 28, 8:48am
The food is a gesture. To let people know that they are being thought of, no they aren't starving.. but when the overdraft bill that was meant to be paid with early weaned lambs comes due.. things are going to be tough.
nfh1,
Sep 28, 8:51am
Wow - how sad your life must be.The food is not because they are poverty stricken, it is a token for goodness sake.
missrat,
Sep 28, 2:11pm
Yum&yeah, they probably already do that :)
missrat,
Sep 28, 2:13pm
My mums 'Station Brownie'recipe, if I knew where it was, is a good keeper babytears.Baked in a roasting dish.
babytears,
Sep 28, 7:08pm
Hmmm 'Station Brownie'.... I wonder if I have that somewhere... thanks missrat
donnabeth,
Apr 23, 7:49am
Wow - how sad your life must be. The food is not because they are poverty stricken, it is a token for goodness sake. Quote nfh1 (272 )9:51 pm, Tue 28 Sep #18
The TV ad may say "Say it with flowers" but NZ people "Say it with food". The cake is a symbol of caring.
I have just been in a period of grieving and was surprised at how much people's gifts of meals, baking and flowers meant. It could be said my family didn't 'need' it either, but I can tell you now that any small gesture in a time of tragedy makes a huge emotional difference.
Regardless of their bank balance, these people need to know that others care about them.
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