Green Dinner

Green Progressive Dinner

Last year (ed. note = 1985), when Wil Argudin started the Ospringe Pathfinders she organized a Progressive Dinner. Each girl's family were responsible for a part of the meal, so everyone got to know each other very well!

The dinner also had to be ALL GREEN! One girl made appetizers - celery sticks stuffed with green cream chees; another made a delicious pasta dish using green (spinach) fettucini noodles.

Here is a recipe you will enjoy

Green Cake

from Eva McLaren (used at the Ontario Pathfinder Think Tank 1984)

• 500 gms butter or margarine
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 6 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 bottle (1 1/2 oz.) almond extract
• green food colouring

Beat butter and sugar until fluffy.

Add milk and mix well.

Sift flour with baking powder; add to the mixture, with 1 egg at a time.

Add the almond extract and food colouring last.

Put into 2 - 28 x 12 inch pans and back at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes.

Green Cake is a Danish specialty, and loved by all who try it. Eva and her daughter Annette say that they hope you enjoy making this cake as much as they enjoy eating it!

Used by permission from Guidestuff and Green Machine, Nov.1986 no.81, Green Week Issue