Two cups scalded milk One tablespoon butter One-fourth teaspoon nutmeg One-half teaspoon salt Bake in pie shell like a pump kin pie- Mrs.-Herr adds: Christmas is not far off and I have so many wonderful cookie iccipes. Here are a few Cookies are nice for Thanksgiving also. - >« * * DATE AND NUT COOKIES Mrs. John G. Herr, HI Gordonville One cup Spry One cup brown sugar One-half cup granulated sugar Two eggs beaten Three and one-half cups sifted flour Three-founth teaspoon baking soda One teaspoon salt One teaspoon vanilla Five tablespoons milk Three-fourth cup crushed nut meats Two cups chopped dates Bake 12 to 15 minutes in a 350-degree oven. Makes six doz en cookies. * ♦ • CHOCOLATE NUT COOKIES Mrs. John G. Herr, HI Gordonville One-half cup butter Two ounces chocolate, melted, One cup brown sugar One egg. beaten One-half cup milk DESK YOU WANT Something to treasure ig a youngster or grown-up can his life ... a fine desk from «r's, has a deep-rooted desire to own, personal desk. Perhaps it’s >ver from early childhood when ' "played school”; or, perhaps, cction of our ingrained training :at and orderly. Whatever the 'desk does seem to be the ideal choice. filing that ad4s to the charm u>tne . . . something every mem le family can enjoy ... a truly from Van Sciver’s. Down >» to Poy Charge if paid 1 3 months Give Teen-Agers Nutritious Snacks Foods that supply energy val ue needed by fast-growing teen agers are cereal and milk,-and sandwiches of enriched or whole gram bread with nutriti ous fillings A national study of teen-age food habits shows that most young people eat snacks between meals Usually the foods selected are high in calories and low in nutritive value, reports Louise Hamilton, extension nutrition specialist of the Pennsylvania State University For a nourishing snack, give the teen-ager a bacon-tomato sandwich, or a scrambled egg sandwich with a glass of milk. This snack beats the soft drink doughnut combination. ♦ * Mrs. John G. Herr, Rl Gordonville One cup butter One and one-half cups con fectioner’s sugar One well beaten egg One-half teaspoon vanilla One-half teaspoon almond ex- Maple finish with nine drawers with nine drawers, 59.75 and brass hardware, 67.50 B Beautifully engraved Gift Certificates available in any denomination ... just the thing for hard-to-please friends . One and one-half cup flour, sifted One-fourth teaspoon salt One-half teaspoon soda One teaspoon baking powder One teaspoon vanilla One cup nut meats BON BONS Maple flat-top desk <20"x40"), 54.25 Maple sidechair, 14.25 __ tract ! Two and one-half cups sifted flour One teaspoon soda One teaspoon cream of tartar Drop from a teaspoon and bake 10 to 12* minutes in a 350- degree oven. » * * Have you ever wondered what to do with some stale cake or cookies which nobody wants to eat and which is too good to throw away? Giace Chalfant, 805 Paoli Pike, West Chester, say: Stale cake or cookies can be turned into a delicious dessert this way Put them in mixing bowl. Add contents of one can crushed pineapple. Let stand one hour. Mix together and pour in to greased baking dish Dot with butter Bake in moderate oven for 30 minutes (350 degrees) This is very good You can use other kind of fruit Mrs. Chalfant also sends us this household hint; When washing overalls do not put them through the wringer. Just hang them on the line when washed and let them drip dry. They will need no ironing. Let’s turn now from desserts to main dishes. Several weeks ago we had a request for clam cakes and here are several reci- X. * Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov. 30, 1956 ror the i ~ =T T[ : Farm Wife and Family pes Says Mrs J Wanen Snavely, R 4 Lititz We are enjoying this farm paper. I like the recipes on the Farm Wife and Family page. I am enclosing one for clam cakes. CLAM CAKES Mrs. J. Warren suavely, R 4 Lititz Onehall dozen clams chopped fine or put thiough a food grinder One cup mashed potatoes (cold) One and one-half cup dried bread crumbs One teaspoon salt Pepper to season One onion chopped Two hard boiled eggs chopped Parsley, if desired Mix with two eggs and enough milk to form cakes Fry m deep fat, or sometimes I lust pan fiy them CLAM CAKES Emma Fox, R 3 Ephrata One quart clams, shelled One cup fine cracker ciumbs One-half clam liquor Two eggs, well beaten Dram clams and save one-half cup liquor Remove the black from soft part Put the necks through a good chopper. Put clams in a dish and add clam liquor and enough cracker crumbs to absorb all the moisture Let stand 10 minutes Add eggs Shape into flat cakes Drop in to hot deep fat (375 degrees F ) and cook to a golden brown Another reader writes Received my copy of LAN CASTER FARMING. Enjoy It a lot. Recipes in of lots of friends. Here is one for clam cakes. A reader from Landisville asked foi it. Todays Pattern Inf Pattern 9329 Child’s Sizes 2, 4,6, 8 10. Siz* 6 ..acket and jumper, 2T» yards 35-‘.:ich nap; blouse. % yard 35-lnch fabiic Send Thirty-flva cents in coins for this pattern—add 5 cents for each pattern if you wish Ist-class mailing. Send to 170 Newspaper Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St, New Yoik 11, N Y. Flint plainly NAME, ADDRESS with ZONE, SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. CO] 'v'—''v CLAM CAKES Mrs. Elmer V. Good r R 1 Lititz One dozen clams One pint milk Two raw eggs Two onions Parsley Thiee hard boiled eggs, chop ped fine Pepper and salt to taste Bread crumbs till stiff enough to make in cakes. Here is a nice treat foi the kiddies Shouldn’t be too hard to do, so why not let them help 9 SUGARCOATED POPCORN Mrs. Elmer V. Good, HI Lititz Four quarts popped corn One cup granulated sugar One tablespoon butter Three tablespoons water Boil five minutes Pour on corn, stir till cold To make dif ferent colors, add cake coloring for some of water I made two lard cans full last Christmas of white, red, blue, green and yellow. Looks very pretty mixed, Mrs. Good adds. It seems that Mrs Frank Baer of Salunga didn’t have a cracker recipe so some ol you nice ladies have been helping her out. Here is one answer to her request I read in the LANCASTER FARMING last week that Mrs. Baer was asking for a cracker receipt. I am sending a few. CRACKER RECEIPT Mrs. Abram H. Weilcr, R 1 Ephrata » Seven cups flour One cup lard One teaspoon soda One teaspoon cieain oi tartar One and thiee-iouith cups wa ter Roll thin and cut in squaie blocks Bake at 375 degices GRAHAM CRACKERS Mrs. Abram H. Weller, R 1 Ephrata Two eggs Two cups biown sugar Two cups white flour One cup graham flour One cup shortening One-half cup sweet milk Three-foui th tablespoon soda One tablespoon baking powder Mis Weller also includes a lecipe foi Montgomeij Pies She sacs this is enough tilling for four pies (Continued on page ten) Lots of Turkey Available For December Meals Hainsbuig Tinkers head the list of Pennschania farm foods that are expected to be in plen tiful supple during the month of December, the State Depait ment of Agriculture repoits The home-giowu ciop of moie than two million birds is being maiketed bj glowers to cairy over the hoMdac season into la ter winter and spnng months due to consumer demand that now: extends into e\ci> month of the >ear Broiler and Inei chickens also will be plentiful on all market' during the coming month, along with eggs, beef, potatoes, cabbage onions, all dairy products and new pack canned sweet com Greatest suppflj of tuike\s wll be m the larger size-* of tne heav\ meat ttpe buds the Slate Bureau of Mai kets sa> s The lai e er birds will be m demand tol - family reunion dinne; = and the hotel and restate ant trade 9
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