B—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 18, 1956 For the Farm Wife and Family We’re still in the midst of Leb Kuchen, but there’s more in the morning’s mail, poems, house hold hints and recipes. It’s a busy season, and quick meals are in order. But they must be hearty as well as speedy- Winner of a one-year subscrip tion to Lancaster Fanning this week is Mrs. Eva Hoover, R 3 Ephrata, who, among other items, includes a recipe for Aunt Hannah’s Leb Kuchen. This we printed last week, so we’ll pass over that and cover the rest of Mrs Hoover’s letter: “We enjoy Lancaster Farming, so I’m sending you some things you can use: “First a poem UNFINISHED STILL A baby’s boot and a skein of wool. Faded and soiled, and soft, Odd things, you say, and no “2||| TITE-0N SHINGLES Sh* n lfl e Locked Down) Resisted Hurricane Hazel Especially designed tor re-roofing over old shingles and other types of roofing We do the job for you with men who know how 1 1000’a of satisfied customers 1 FREE ESTIMATES ' EASY TERMS IF YOU DESIRE ' PAUL CLOCK - EASI PETERSBURG, PA Phone Lane. 2-6124 ' Or Landisville 2897 E,il f bB ' DEALERS L H. BRUBAKER-R. 4. Lane. & R. 3, lititz SAUDER BROS.—New Holland JESSE B. DOURTE R 3 E-Town 7-3881 ROY W. MARTIN Marietta 6-9358 AMMON HOOVER Lititz R 3. Ph. 3-1743 Free To Women... One year- charter subscrip tion to LANCASTER FARM ING to one housewire eacn week who submits tne neat letter . . . recipe . . . home making hint. Send your letter to LANCASTER FARMING, QuarryviUe, J-a- doubt you’re right Round a seaman’s neck this stormy night Up in the yards aloft. Most like its folly, but, mate, look here When first I went to sea A woman stood on the far off strand HIESTAND INC.—Marietta CUSTOM APPLICATORS CLARENCE RUTT New Holland 4-8721 or 4-9797 AMOS N. MILLER Strasburg .OV 7-3630 ROY ERB Peauea HIESTAND INC. Marietta 6-9301 L. B. BRUBAKER Lititz R 3 Ph. 6-7766 FARM WOMEN 6 Society of Farm Women 6 will be guests of Farm Women 9 Saturday in a meeting at Mar tic Forge. In the most recent meeting, Mrs. John Hershey of Lititz gave (an illustrated talk on the Holy Lands- Farm Wom en 8 will be guests of Society 6 June 2 at the home of Misses Stella and Lela Coble, R 3 Elizabethtown. W/ith a wedding ring on a small, soft hand Which clung so close to me. My wife, God bless her! The day before She sat beside my foot And the sunlight kissed her yellow hair And the dainty finger, deft and fair Knitted a baby’s boot. The voyage was over. I came ashore What, think you, I found there’ A grave the daisies had sprink led while; A cottage empty, dark as night And this, beside the chair. J The little hoot, ’twas unfinished still The tangled skein lay near But the knitter had gone away to rest. With the babe asleep, on her quiet breast, Down in the churchyard rear. > # * Mrs. encloses some items she calls WIFE SAVERS Use a hot knifeblade for cat ting fresh bread, and a wet knife for cutting soft cake. In making tea, never use water that has boiled before or has been standing in the kettle. Use fresh water and bring it to the boiling point. The shell of a coconut can be cracked easily if the nut if put in a hot oven for a few minutes. Pin small stockings together when you take them off They will not get lost as quick when they go through the washing ma chine. ' "~ 5 “ Pattern s Il l\ y \ f f \ % \ n v' 1 SIZES \ 9026 6-K Pattern 9026: Girls’ Sizes 6, S, 10. 12, 14. Size 10 shirt, 1 yard 35-inch, pedal pushers, IVz yard*; sun-top and skirt, 2% yards. Send Thirty-five cents in coins for this pattern —aad 5 cents for each pattem i£ you wish Ist-clas* mailing. Send to 170 Newspaper Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11. N. V. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS with ZONE, SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. Icing will not sugar or grain when it dries on a cake if a pinch of salt is added to the ingredients. Here’s an old-time recipe that Mrs. Hoover offers, instructions on how to , DRY BEEF 20 pounds of good, fresh kil led beef (the rounds) Onejpmt fine salt One teaspoon saltpeter One-fourth pound brown sugar Mix these ingredients weH, rubbing out all lumps. Divide the mixture into three equal parts. Place meat in a large bowl and rub thoroughly with one portion of the' above mix ture. Let stand one day. Turn meat several times daily. Allow meat to remain in bowl for seven more days. Then hang in a warm place until meat stops dripping. When dripping has stopped, hang in a cool shed about six weeks to dry thorough ly. Wrap meat in a clean muslin bag and keep in a cool place- Jf, in six months, it becomes too hard, soak in cold water for 24 hours and wipe dry. Wrap again in muslin bag and hang in cool place. “We usually smoke it in our smokehouse, and we had no trouble with it getting hard,'” Mrs. Hoover adds. By the way, Mr. Berus (who started this shower of Leb Kuchen recipes), Mrs. Hoover suggests you try Aunt Hannah’s Leb Kuchen. EDITOR SHOWS SLIDES Ernest J. Neill, editor of Lan caster Farming, Thursday flight showed colored slides of trips to Mexico and New Providence Is land in the Bahamas before a meeting of the Green Tree Thimble Club at Middle Octorara Presbyterian Church. < -u \A PENNSYLVANIA COMMUNITY TELEPHONE COMPANY A Subsidiary of the DALLAS, PA. Commonwealth Telephone Co. QUAPRYVILLE. PA. % * 1 J a i H Farm Women 21 Entertain Mothers Farm Women 21 entertained their mothers as guests -at Long wood Gardens near Kennett Square Thursday. Enroute they stopped at the Red Rose for> refreshments. The next meeting will be June 14 at the horns of Mrs. Betty Martin, New Providence. Mabel Bucher will give a book review. We have another recipe for Walnut Pie. This *week our con tributor is Mrs. Levi Sheneberg er of R 4 Lititz: WALNUT PIE Mix together One cup sugar One cujr molasses ■ • Two tablespoons flour One cup hot water One egg One cup walnut meats Mix together crumbs to put Make A Point To Visit Our Animal Health Department . THE QUARRYVILIE DRUG CO. QUARRYVBLLE, PA. PHONE 1 O O INDEPENDENT
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