COCO JAM

Ingredients:

Mature coconuts
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup glucose (corn syrup may be used instead of glucose).


Materials:
Grater
Cooking utensils
Sterilized jars


Procedure:
1. Grate coconut.
2. Squeeze up to 5 cups of coconut milk by using a minimum amount of water.
3. Boil milk extract slowly until soft curds and oily streaks appear on the surface.
4. Add sugar and boil for 20 minutes more.
5. Add glucose. Boil in low fire for 45 minutes or until jam consistency is reached, stirring constantly.
6. Cool mixture.
7. Pour into jars then seal.

Low fat Garbanzo Mayonnaise

Ingredients

2          cups water

3          tablespoons garbanzo flour

4          2 teaspoons salt

⅓   cup edible oil

¼   cup lemon juice

Materials

Cooking stove and utensils

Sterilized jars

Blender

Procedure

1. Ina saucepan, combine the water, garbanzo, flour, and salt. Cook over medium fire, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens. Lower fire and cook for another 3 minutes.
2. Put mixture in blender and blend slowly, adding oil a little at a time, then the lemon juice in same manner.
3. When mixture has thickened, place it in sterilized jars and refrigerate immediately.

Jackfruit-Pineapple Marmalade

Ingredients

1    cup jackfruit, finely sliced

3    cups pineapple (cut into small pieces)

2    cups white refined sugar

1    cup glucose

Materials

Sterilized jars

Cooking utensils and stove

Procedure

1. In a saucepan, put jackfruit, pineapple, sugar and glucose.
2. Cook this, constantly stirring until mixture becomes thick.
3. Pour into sterilized jars while mixture is still hot, allowing air bubbles to escape.
4. Half seal and sterilize the jars again for 30 minutes in boiling water.
5. Seal completely and store in a refrigerated area.

Kasuy (Cashew) Pastillas

Ingredients

1          can condensed milk

11      tablespoons kasuy nuts, ground

2          tablespoons corn syrup

2          teaspoon flavoring (of your choice)

white sugar ( as needed )

Materials

Wax papers (for wrapping)

Board and rolling pin

Knife

Cooking stove and utensils

Procedure

1.      Combine ingredients in a saucepan.

2.      Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until a soft dough is formed.

3.      Transfer dough onto buttered board and roll out to ¼-inch thick.

4.      Cut into desired pieces.

5.      Wrap in wax papers and store.

Quick-Setting Homemade Soap

The homemade, quick-setting soap has become an economic miracle among families that use laundry soap in washing clothes. This quick-setting soap can be made in less than 30 minutes and can help save money for food. The homemade, quick-setting soap bar can also become part of a product line in a small-scale, income-generating project.

Below are the steps in making homemade, quick-setting soap bar.

Ingredients:

1 kilo    cooking oil (Coconut oil can be used. Crude coconut oil is also utilized in      

             making this inexpensive soap.)

200       grams caustic soda

2          teaspoons sodium silicate

100 g    soda ash

8           drops perfume ( Lemon oil, ilang-ilang oil, citronella can be used.)

Materials:

Plastic pail

Wood or stainless steel spoon (Please do not use aluminum because of the reactions.)

Cup for water

Measuring scale of any kind.

Molds (Any plastic materials, soft-drink cups, or any plastic cups.)

Procedure:

1. Pour two cups of water into the plastic pail.
2. Add 100 grams of soda ash and stir until mixture dissolves in water.
3. Add 200 grams of caustic soda to the mixture. Stir carefully without spilling the mixture on skin or clothing. Be careful without not to allow children to be around in order to avoid accidents; the caustic soda will heat the water solution and make fumes.
4. Add one kilo of oil to the mixture and stir in one direction for 15 minutes. The solution becomes thick  at this time. (Give your soap a desired color by adding dye to the oil.)
5. Add sodium silicate and perfume to the solution and sir in the same direction for another 15 minutes or until the solution gets thick.
6. Pour the solution carefully into the molds and keep it there for six hours. (Be sure the soap has already thickened before removing it from the molds.)
7. You may use this creamy-white wash soap after leaving it aside to settle for three days.

Economic importance. The raw materials are cheap and can be obtained from a commercial chemical company. The economical homemade soap bar can help you save some of the money you would normally spend for commercial soap bars.

Making Mayonnaise (Uncooked Method)

Ingredients

1          cup water

⅔    cup milk powder (any kind)

1          cup edible oil

1         teaspoon salt

1          teaspoon citric acid (food grade)

Materials

Blender

Sterilized

Procedure

1. Pour water into blender.
2. Add milk powder, oil, salt, and citric acid into running blender.
3. Blend until mixture becomes thick.
4. Pour mixture into sterilized jars. 
5. Refrigerate immediately

Banana Preserve

Ingredients

6    pieces ripe saba bananas

3    cups refined sugar

1½ cups water

Materials

cooking stove and utensils

sterilized jars

Procedure

1. Wash and clean the bananas in running water.
2. Boil and peel the bananas.
3. Make a syrup (mixture of the sugar and water)
4. Cook the bananas in this syrup for 15 minutes.
5. Pack the bananas in the sterilized jars.
6. Fill the jar with the syrup. Remove the air bubbles from the jars.