I—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Feb. 8, 1957 6- For the Farm Wife and Family A WINTER NIGHT Sylvia L. Sprout, Drumore, Pa. Silently I stand at the crest of the hill Watching with awe-filled eyes For the beauty of winter, so cold and still Surround me on every side The sky is hung with a million stars That sparkle like diamonds rare; And a moon that is big and full and round Sheds its magic everywhere. I can feel the sting of the winter cold As it gives me a frosty kiss, And the air that I breathe is a frozen flame 'Ere it passes through my lips I take a step in the crusted snow that covers the frozen ground Then stop and listen, far off I hear the baying of a hound At last I must go from this fany MUSSER Leghorn Chicks Ftr Urge WW# Egg* DONEGAL WHITE CROSS For irollor Chkto "Who fnm ihm Hmm M*. Jmv MOVNT Mft, PA. Q land; I must break the enchanted spell. For off in the distance I see home lights That beckon me come in and dwell, Come in from thfe cold of the win ter night Come m from the stars and the snow, So putting the beauties of winter behind Reluctantly homeward I go Many thanks to Mrs. Sprout for sending us this timely poem which she says she wrote several years ago. She also sent along her recipe for Smear Case which was requested several weeks ago This is the way she makes SMEAR CASE Mrs. Sylvia L. Sprout, Drumore, Pa. Take one gallon milk. Let stand at room tempeiature until it clabbers very thick (thick sour milk). Spring and summer is thei best time of year to make smear case After milk is thick set pan on low fire and heat until the curd (sour milk) and whey (wa ter) begin to separate. Stir, then stick your finger in center of milk, if it is comfortably warm (not hot), remove from fire and dram thiough cheesecloth bag, collander or large strainer until dry Put into a large bowl, season with salt and mix with one to two cups of thick sweet or sour cream If clabber is over-heated it will get hard If undei heated it will be soft * * We have another answer to the request for Smear Case This reader who does not want her name used says in her letter Enclosed please find a recipe tor Smear Case We saw your re quest for it and as we make a lot of it and like it we will hand it on. We receive the Lancaster Farming and look forward to jrnur recipes. SMEAR CASE Let milk stand until thick, then put in kettle on stove and scald it. (Don’t let it get too hot). Re move from stove and screen through cloth. Squeeze it until all the whey is out. Then pour the crumbs in a bowl and add one heaping tablespoon of baking soda and one scant tablespoon salt to two pounds crumbs and miy well. Try and get all the chunks fine. Place in a crock and let stand in a warm place overnight. To cook it place crock in a large dish pan of hot water on stove. Grad ually add water until it is thin enough. It takes about six pounds of crumbs to make a four-quart crock lull of cheese. Add more water if you want it thinner. Re move from stove and cool and you will have a good cheese spread tor your bread. Another way that is real good, too, is to take the crumbs (be fore adding salt and soda) and mix with cream and a pinch of salt Some also like to add pep per. This is what we call Cream Cheese Do not scald the milk quite as haid for this Montgomery pies are truly a Pennsylvania Dutch pastry We have a recipe for them which comes from Mrs. Amos Beiler, Jr, Paradise. She says this recipe makes four pies MONTGOMERY PIES Mrs. Amos Beiler, Jr., Paradise 2 cups sugar Vz cup butter and lard 1 cup sweet milk 1 egg - 2 teaspoons baking powder 2Vz cups flour Vanilla Liquid part: 1 cup molasses 1 cup sugar 1 egg 2 cups hot water Lemon -flavor Put liquid part in uust first, then top part. * * Maybe you can use some of Today’s Pattern NEW Printed Pattern Easier to cut Sew and fit ■ ■°l ’,*o -o 1 9038 SIZES iQ 70 Printed Pattern Printed Pattern 9038: Misses’ Sizes 10, 12, 14. 16, 18. 20 Size 16, upper version, 1% yards 35- mch, middle version, 1% yards; lower, 2 yards. Send Thirty-five cents in coins for this pattern —add S cents for each pattern if you wish Ist-class mailing. Send to 170 Newspaper Pattern Dept.. 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Punt plainly NAME. ADDRESS with ZONE. SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. these suggestions in your kit chen: 1. When opening a new pack age of bacon, roll it like a jelly roll from one long side. This loosens and keeps the slices from sticking together. You need to do this only once. 2. If you need only few drops of lemon juice, pierce lemon with a fork, then squeeze out what you need. Wiap the lemon in aluminum foil and keep in refrig erator. 3. When baking brownies, put a small” amount of the batter in sev eral baking cups and bake as cup cakes. Frost when cool if desired. Easy to pack for children’s lunches. 4. You won’t need to sift con fectioners’ sugar if you beat the frosting with an electric mixer. This gives you a smoother, fluf fier frosting 5. Each slice of biead, % inch thick gives theSe amounts - 1 slice fresh bread about 1 cup soft bread cubes or crumbs 1 slice fresh bread about % cup toasted bread cubes. 1 slice dry bread about % cup dry bread cubes. 1 slice very dry bread about Va cup dry bread crumbs. 6 A few freezing hints. Bake bread, cake, cookies as us ual, cool thoroughly and wap m moisture vapor-proof paper or plastic bags Pies may be frozen unbaked. For two crust pies leave the top crust whole and make gashes when ready to bake. Meringue does not freeze satisfactorily so make it after taking pie from freezer Pies frozen before bak ing seem to have a little better quality. Frozen unbaked pies are preferably baked without thaw ing. Synthetic vanilla may cause off flavors in frozen cakes and bat ters. A hydrogenated shortening is preferred to butter or lard for cake batters to be frozen. True sponge cakes are not sat isfactory when frozen in batter state because of the high egg yolk content. When properly wrapped, baked sponge cakes re main in good condition for 3 or 4 months in the freezer REQUEST We have two requests today, ■BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBfIBBBBBBfIBBBBBBBBBBai Gas Stoves Water Heaters Room Heaters Many Other Gas Appliances Priced Low To Sell Our Service The feest WARD BOTTLE GAS B Ephrata, Pa. H a Town Store, 25 S. State St. Free Parking in Rear ■ ■ Office Showroom, 1 Mile N. of Ephrata on Rt. 222 a # Buy Where Your Friends Buy More and more people are making us their first choice for . . . *« ’ ★ ULTRA-LIFE MIXED POULTRY and DAIRY FEEDS ★ Fertilizer ★ Lime & Limestone Armour ★ Poultry Equipment Cramer ★ Spray Materials Baugh’s ★ Garden Seeds ★ Field Seeds ★ Sand ★ Cement ★ Roofing WEST WILLOW FARMERS ASSOCIATION WEST WILLOW Ph. Lane. EX 4-5019 FAMOUS FOR DELIVERY IN MINUTES they are for 1. Moravian Pie 2. Homemade noodles If you have a favorite recipe for either of these requests we hope you’ll send them in for these ladies. Homemade noodles are a specialty of the “country cook” who often makes noodles to use up a surplus of eggs, so some oif you should certainly have a recipe for thorn. Pies are a specialty of this lo cale, too, so we’ll be looking for your recipes. * ♦ Mrs. H. Lehman, R 2 Manheim sends us this recipe for Brown Betty. This is a nice dessert to make along with an oven din ner and especially good with pork. BROWN BETTY Mrs. H. Lehman, R 2 Manheim 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 cup whole wheat bread crumbs Vi cups seedless raisins H teaspoon salt 1 quart chopped apples 1 scant cup brown sugar Spread half the raisins over the bottom of a pudding dish. Cover raisins with half the chop-jj pad apples. Sprinkle over half the sugar and crumbs, then re peat Add salt and lemon juice to one-half cup water and pom over top of pudding Set in pan of water, cover and bake one hour Remove from pan of water and- bake without cover long enough to brown top slightly. Bake at 350 degrees. • • * k I guess the holidays are far enough in the past now so that we can think about cookies again. For you who have lunches to pack, it is almost impossible to keep enough cookies on hand Why not surprise your “lunch box earners” with some diffei ent cookies this week’ RANGER COOKIES 1 cup shortening 1 cup white sugar 1 cup brown sugar (packed) 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups flour teaspoon baking powder (Continued on page 7) Gas Clothes Dryers * B#
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