Ingredients 3 eggs, separated 1 cup raisins 1 cup water Pinch of salt 1 cup sugar 2 heaping tablespoons flour 1 tablespoon vinegar 2 tablespoons butter Baked single-crust pie shell MERINGUE: 3 egg whites 6 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Cook raisins in enough water to plump; drain. Beat in sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until stiff peaks form. Beat egg whites until frothy. Instructions Separate eggs and save whites for meringue. Pour into baked pie crust and top with meringue. In...

March was unseasonably warm, but an unexpected burst of freezing temperatures right around Easter wiped out many fruit crops and hurt the state's corn and wheat. Steve Bost, an University of 10nessee Extension plant pathologist, says the lengthy late freeze is something that's only likely to happen once every 50 years. State farmers lose many fruit crops, corn and wheat. Also faring better was the strawberry crop. But the good news is, much of the state's sweet corn had yet to be planted,...

Union Leader - NH consumers investing in farms and healthy food - Sunday, May. It's called Community Supported Agriculture in which "farms offer produce subscriptions, where buyers receive a weekly or monthly basket of produce, flowers, fruits, eggs, milk, coffee, or any sort of different farm products," according to localharvest.org. And they're making an investment in the future of farming in the process. Goffstown With tainted food making headlines almost daily, more New Hampshire folks...

Savvy farmers all over the country have discovered a practice that might not work as a nationwide agricultural policy, but that has allowed some economically inefficient orchards to thrive: Encourage yuppies and their progeny to come pick your fruit they'll pay handsomely for the privilege, buy more than they'd ordinarily consume, and then shell out for all sorts of other value-added products. Instead of paying workers to pick their fruit, they should try another strategy: making customers...

Because feed represents farms' biggest single cost in raising animals, farmers are serving them a lot of people food, because it can be cheaper. Besides trail mix, pigs and cattle throughout the country are downing cookies, licorice, cheese curls, candy bars, French fries, frosted wheat cereal and peanut-butter cups. Growing demand for corn-based ethanol, a biofuel that has surged in popularity over the past year, has pushed up the price of corn, Smith's main feed, to near-record levels....