6—Lancaster Farming, Friday, December' 23,1955
For the
Farm Wife and Family
Things are humming m the
kitchen this weekend, the cookie
jars are being filled and the
house redded up for the big
event, Christmas dinner. The
British have their roast of rib
and Yorkshire plodding, but
here it’s turkey and the trim
mings or roast chicken
Just recalled a tip you might
use to perk up the holiday
serving. If you want to serve a
Planting pudding, dip a cube
of sugar in a small dish con
taining lemon extract. Just be
fore taking the dessert to the
table, light the cube with a
match. You’ll have a beauti
ful blue flame that soon diet
out when the sugar carmelize*.
Just the thing to serve when
lights are low and holiday festivi
(ties >are ast their (peak.
Let’s take a look at the mail.
Puddings, cakes and cookies.
Must return a card from Mrs,
Dulan D- Newton over at Blue
Ball- Looks like it came out of
her recipe card file, and some
of these days she may be look
ing for it
♦ *
Mrs- Emily Keene, R 3 Lititz is
this week’s winner of a free sub
scription to Lancaster Farming
for one year, with a series of re
cipes that look tasty as can be.
Try them and let us know:
KING’S SUGAR CAKE
Two cups brown sugar
One half cup lard
One teaspoon salt
Ome egg
One teaspoon soda
One teaspoon cinnamon
Two and one-half cups of flour
One and one-half cups sour
milk
CRUMBS FOB TOP
One tablespoon butter
One cups brown sugar
Three-fourths cups of flour
One teaspoon of cinnamon
Cream sugar, lard, add egg and
salt- Sift soda, cinnamon and
flour, add alternately with milk-
For topping, mix sugar, flour,
cinnamon; add butter and mix
until fine.
“A delicious coffee cake,” Mrs
Keene adds
We have a couple more from
this Lititz reader, one for
APPLE SALAD
Six apples
Three-fourths cups chopped
celery
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One half cup crushed peanuts
Two hard boiled eggs
Salad Dressing
One cup granulated sugar
One half cup vinegar (scant)
Let come to a boil
Add;
One egg, beaten
One tablespoon com starch
Boil well then mix with
One-half cup sweet cream
18011 again and let cool
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Mrs. Newton, we’re returning
your recipe card, and - quoting
your letter:
“First, I want to say thank you
for the-free copies of Lancaster
Farming. lt is a very well writ
ten paper and it can be said
again and again . . • we’re all for
that.
“I have enclosed a recipe for
Uncooked Pineapple Cake. It|
doesn’t matter where I go and
take a dish of it, it’s always wel
come. I’m Pennsylvania Dutch,
but my husband is a Texan, and
that’s where the recipe comes
from- Hope you like it.”
UNCOOKED PINEAPPLE CAKE
Vanilla wafers
One cup _ crushed pineapple
drained *
One package Cherry (or any
flavor) Jello
One-half cup butter at room
temperature
Three-fourths cups hot water
Three-fourths cups sugar
Two eggs, separated
Dissolve Jello in 'Water, cool-
Cream sugar, butter and egg
yolks. Then add cooled Jello and
crushed pineapple- Lastly, fold
in stiffly beaten egg whites-
Sprinkle bottom of- loaf pan,
which has been greased with but
ter, with Vanilla Wafer crumbs-
Pour mixture in dish and top
with more crumbs. Place in re
frigerator and let stand for sev
eral hours-
it »«s
Here’s an idea maybe it’s
already in use why not
make a scrap book of clippings
from this column? There have
been recipes of all kinds here,
and some you may want to
refer to again some of these
days.
Mrs -Charles Shreiner up at
R 2 Lititz has given me a boost
this week with a recipe for one
of my favorite foods, Tollhouse
Cookies. Until I came to Penn
sylvania, I didn’t realize the part
the Tollhouse played in the
country’s early development, but
I imagine there has been con
siderable variation since that
time in the recipe-
Mrs. Shreiner adds: “We
like Lancaster Farming very
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Pennsylvania' Home EconomisFOfficers
Pennsylvania Association, of--Extension
Home Economists officers for-1956. Seated
from left, treasurer, Ruth Kredell, - York
county; president, Mrs. Mayme L. Mitchell,
Chester-county; president-elect, Mrs. Grace
much. It’s interesting and has
lots of good news in it. We
enjoy reading it”
But here is her
CHOCOLATE CHIP
or
TOLL HOUSE-COOKIES
-cup butter
One-half cup brown sugar
One-half cup granulated sugar
One egg
One and one-half cup flour
One-h'alf teaspoon salt
- One-half teaspoon soda
One package of chocolate bits
(7 oz.)
One tablespoon hot water
One teaspoon vanilla
One-half cup chopped nuts
(optional)
Cream shortening and sugar
together, add egg, water and
vanilla and boat until fluffy- Sift
flour. Measure and add salt and
soda- Sift again, add sifted dry
ingredients and beat until
smooth- Add chocolate bits and
nuts and blend into mixture.
Drop by teaspoonsful onto
greased baking sheet spaced
about Itwo to three inches apart.
Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minu
tes, or until light brown-
Makes about four and one-half
dozen cookies.
“They are easy to make, and
also are very good,” Mrs- Shrein
er adds-
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Since Christmas is so near
and it’s time soon to stuff the
turkey, we’d better add another
recipe for Chestnut Filling just
to bring it back to mind Here’s
one mailed by Mrs Cleta H Hahn
of Terre Hill:
CHESTNUT FILLING
Two cups toasted bread crumbs
Four white onions, chopped
Three tablespoons diced cel
ery
One cup ground fresh pork
One-half cup medium mush
rooms
One cup blandhed chestnuts
Thyme, just a pinch
Butter j
One half cup Port wine
Salt and pepper to taste
Mix the ground pork (no fat)
with the bread crumbs. Saute the
onions in butter and add. Then
add pinch of thyme, celery, raw
mushrooms, salt, pepper and
blanched chestnuts. Pour half
cup of wme or more and mix all
ingredients thoroughly Don’t
pack too tightly-
There are some variations
here, the mushrooms, the pinch
of thyme, that might make, this
excellent. Thank you, Mrs.
Hahn.
American Airlines placed a
$135 million order with the Boa
ting Airplane Company for 30
(tuilbo-jet airliners m a ibid to
provide the first regular domest.c
service
L. Voord, v reene county; standing from left,
secretary, Ruth Kimble, Lancaster, county;
first vice president, Frances Vannoy, Bucks
county; second vice president,.Joanne Wag
ner, Clarion county;- '
Catsup or ketchup has
been badly struck by many, but
It’s wonderful stuff. Now that it
comes in plastic containers for
serving, a new day, has been
opened. Read a story the other
day of a thick driver who pour
ed catsup over every item-oh his
plate- His reason, he said, was
that in his travels he hit so
many- places where the food was
lousy that he- just -poured ket
chup on everything to make it
all taste the same, good or bad.
Here’s a poem we found that
follows the same line:
COOK’S CRY
(Edna Thomas)
A. pinch of this a dash .of
that
To get ithat just right season-
ing
[ bake and baste and salt and
taste
And then against all reasoning
Friend hubby smothers luscious
steak
’Neath ketchup red and mustard-
I’d like to dash right in his face
My beautiful yellow custard!
We like ketchnp nothing
better on scrambled eggs in
the morning, but when it comes
to steak, a steak properly cook
ed should stand /on its own
without a dash of this or that-
Frankly I like mine rare, and
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- Miss Hutli Kimble, Lancaster,
was elected .secretary of the
Pennsylvania Association of Ex
tension Home Economists at its
annual .meeting Dec. IS in' State
College. Miss Kimble, extension
home economist in Lancaster
county since May'of this year,
attended the meeting held during
the annual extension staff con
ference.
. Other officers of the Associa
tion are president, Mrs. Mayme
L- Mitchell, Chester county; first
vice president, Frances Vannoy,
Bucks county; second vice presi
dent , Joanne Wagner, Clarion
county; treasurer, Ruth Kredell,
York county-
Mrs. Grace L- Boord, Greene
county was named president
elect and will become president
of the Association in Dec. 1956.
Twenty-one home economists
who joined the Extension staff
during the past year became
members of the Association.
The Association gave formal
recognition to two of its mem
bers - who received awards for
outstanding service to rural peo
ple from the National Home
Demonstration Agents’ Associa
tion- These home economists are
Mary E. Anderson, Fayette coun
ty, and Mrs- Irma S- Klein, Elk
county. *
Governor Williams of Michi
gan, has proposed a $16,640,000-
-000 Federal aid to education pro
gram over the next five years-
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