Log Book for January 6, 2011

Cook's Report

Lucinda Land and Jim Crowell Reporting

1) Was today
- a cooking day? Yes
- a non-cooking day? Yes
- a day of celebration involving special foods? Yes – birthday. Special food: peanut butter cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
(Note: cooking and non-cooking both checked due to a misunderstanding)

2) List the foods served at today's main meal (usually the evening meal), giving full names of each.
Alpine Aire Pasta Alfredo with Shrimp (entrée)
Minestrone soup
Peanut butter cupcakes with chocolate frosting

3) List any main meal foods not finished by the crew (leftovers stored for later use or discarded if inedible)
All main dinner food was finished. We had some leftover cupcakes

4) Recipes for anything more complicated than following package directions exactly, or rehydrating.
Peanut butter cupcakes –adapted from http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Peanut-Butter-Cupcakes/Detail.aspx, recipe halved.

Ingredients
	1 cup brown sugar
	1/4 cup shortening
	1/2 cup peanut butter
	1 egg equivalent of reconstituted dried whole egg.
	3/4 cup milk
	1/2 teaspoon syrup (replaces vanilla extract in original recipe0
	1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
	1-1/2 teaspoon of baking powder (replaces soda and cream of tartar in original recipe)
	1/2 pinch salt

Preheat oven to 350°, grease muffin pan.
Cream together sugar, shortening, peanut butter until light. Rehydrate dried egg and add along with pancake syrup (substitutes for missing vanilla extract) Combine dry ingredients, stir into batter alternately with (reconstituted instant) milk. Spoon into muffin pan, bake 15-20 minutes or until top of cupcake springs back when pressed lightly. Cool in pan 10 minutes, move to rack to finish cooling.

Chocolate frosting:

Ingredients
	1-2 T shelf stable anhydrous butter
	1 ounce cocoa powder
	2 cups confectioners' sugar
	1/4 cup reconstituted instant milk

Frost cupcakes after they have cooled.

5) Comments/questions : none