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It’s that very special time of year wherein we all decide to go absolutely ham for a particular gourd! 🎃 The humble pumpkin, beyond being a symbol of the season, is also wildly delicious in every preparation (save pie, which is a mild abomination and excluded from present conversation). We’re starting October off strong with pumpkin drop cookies: you know ‘em, you love ‘em, you eat ‘em by the handful when you grandma breaks them out at Thanksgiving. Personally, I’m leaving out the nuts and raisins, but that’s up to you! They shouldn’t need any adornment before they head into the oven; however, if you feel like doing something a little fancy, dust some finishing sugar over the cookies after you’ve dropped them onto the baking sheet!

Find the full recipe in HarvestIR: Pumpkin Drop Cookies from Reddy Makes Cookies. https://loom.ly/zMzkj2s

All UFV Library locations will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, September 30th for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. AskAway chat services will also be closed. Regular hours will resume on Thursday.

Find Truth and Reconciliation learning resources on display at our Abbotsford and Mission locations and in our Residential School LibGuide: https://loom.ly/hJWiRqo

The St. John Ambulance Therapy Dogs are coming back to Mission Campus! 🐶 Drop by for some stress-relief and community building. They'll be here tomorrow, Tuesday, Sept. 29th from 3:15-4:15pm in D134, just outside the library.

Find more therapy dog visits in our Library Events Calendar: https://loom.ly/V8kx_vE

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This one’s going to require a little free-form jazz in the kitchen, everyone. Seed-cake surfaces as a treat in Sense and Sensibility, and after doing a little research, it looks like the titular seeds are most likely caraway, which have a lovely earthy flavour. Today’s recipe comes to us not from the published recipes within this book, but from a newspaper clipping pasted to one of the inside cover pages – which is exciting, except for the little wrinkle that whoever clipped the recipe didn’t cut out the whole thing. All we’ve got is a caraway variation that says to use half-measures (of what?) and one and a half teaspoons of caraway seeds to an unknown quantity of cake batter. Maybe it’s best just to give this one a go? Make a basic cake (pound might be good!) and toss some caraway seeds in there just to see what happens. It’s probably great! Trust in Miss Austen’s taste! 🍰

Find the full recipe in HarvestIR: Caraway Cake from McClary's Household Manual. https://loom.ly/zC4X-qs

Save the date for our 5th Annual Student Welcome Back Event! Meet library staff, explore our makerspace, enjoy light refreshments, and win prizes. All are welcome!

When: Thursday, October 15th, 11am-1pm
Where: Abbotsford Library, G Building

Chilliwack Library's new Student Success display has tons of great resources to start your semester strong. Find writing and research guides, citation manuals, historical atlases, statistics information, study tips and more! Drop by to take a look or talk to our staff to find more resources.📚💻📝

AskAway opens today! Staffed by library employees across B.C. and the Yukon, this chat reference service is available when and where you need it. 💻

Get help with:
Conducting research
Citing sources
Using the library
Finding materials
Evaluating sources
Navigating databases
and more!

Visit https://loom.ly/VuWcwXQ to chat with an information expert.

Next up in our Austen month is another recipe inspired by Emma: baked apples! There’s technically two recipes at play here, and you can springboard from either to create whatever you’d like. Baked apples alone are a wonderful base for many, many flavours, but the second page of this simple recipe also contains directions for making stuffed baked apples with a raisin-walnut mixture (which can apparently be served hot or cold). Personally, I might lean much harder into the walnuts than the raisins, but the world is your oyster! Streusel, oats, caramel, cream cheese, pecans, toffee – try anything that tempts you and see where your heart leads! Just be sure to accompany your finished product with vanilla ice cream. 🍎🍨

Find the full recipe in HarvestIR: Baked Apples and Stuffed Baked Apples from Apple Secrets: O K Apples, pp. 14-15. https://loom.ly/WixXtgc

Learn a few important things about UFV Library! We know you are busy, so save this for later. The main things are our amazing staff who are here to help, lots of cozy study spaces, tons of resources for studying or research, and three unique library locations to choose from!

Learn more about UFV Library at our website: https://loom.ly/emeOWZ8

We haven't excluded you on purpose Dental Studies - but now you too, have an anatomy model at the Chilliwack Library. We've received a model series of the development of the jaw and teeth.

If you've forgotten, Chilliwack Library has many anatomy models for borrowing while you are studying Biology, Kinesiology, Nursing, or Dental. Limited options are available in Abbotsford as well, but confirm which ones you need to study.