Healthy eating (2), making our own lemon honey

Tawa Montessori Preschool has several fruit trees growing in their garden.  We have an apple tree, a pear tree, a mandarin tree and a lemon tree.  Our lemon tree is heavy with lemons. This year we decided to use the lemons to make lemon honey.

This is how we make our own lemon honey.

Ingredients: 50 gm butter, 3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, and a few lemons.

Harvest the lemons.

Wash the lemons.

Squeeze the juice of of the lemons, lots of them.

Use a zester to get the rind of the lemon peel.

Add melted butter and sugar.

Collect some of our chicken eggs.

Add the eggs, the lemon juice and rind and mix and cook in the microwave.

Sweet!

Gardening, cooking, serving and eating, composting— these are truly basic things, but the lessons they could teach are drowned out by the clamor of the media and the insidious temptations of consumerism. Kids today are bombarded with a pop culture which teaches redemption through buying things. School gardens, on the other hand, turn pop culture upside–down. They teach redemption through a deep appreciation for the real, the authentic, and the lasting—for the things money can’t buy—the very things that matter most of all if we are going to lead sane, healthy, and sustainable lives. Kids who learn environmental and nutritional lessons through school gardening—and school cooking and eating—learn how to lead ethical lives. —Alice Waters

- Anja
 

Alice Waters, “A World of Possibilities,” in Margo
Crabtree ed. The Edible Schoolyard, (Berkeley, Learning in
the Real World, Center for Ecoliteracy, 1999), p. 15.
71 Author’s Interview with Rochelle Davis, Illinois Healthy
School Campaign, July 9, 2004.