r BANANA CREAM PIE should make a hit with everyone, whether you need a dessert for “company” or for “just the family.” (Continued from page 8) Who signs her letter “from a read er of your pper every week.” CHESS PIE 1 cup sugar % cup butter Vz teaspoon cinnamon Vz teaspoon nutmeg 2 teaspoons vinegar 1 cup dates, cut fine 1 cup nuts, cut fine HEAR The Mennonite Hour Each Sunday Lancaster WLAN 12:30 P. M. Norristown WNAR 8:00 A. M. Hanover WHVR LOO P. M. COMMONWEALTH TELEPHONE COMPANY ALLAS,, PA. QUAB-K % cup grated coconut 3 eggs Beat butter, sugar, and eggs to gether until fluffy Add spices, vin egar and fruit. Turn into pastry lined pan and bake at 425 degrees for 30 minutes. Rich but delicious. This reader also sends along a recipe for a Jelly-roll Angel Food Cake which she says is good and easy to handle. JELLY ROLL ANGEL FOOD CAKE 1 cup sifted cake flour 11,2I 1 ,2 cups sugar Vi cups egg whites V/z teaspoons cream of tartar 3 A teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon salt - Sift flour and half of the suger "’itxmiwr LLE. PA. And' you can use two plentiful dairy prod ucts in the making of it milk and but ter. (USDA Photo) for times. Whip egg whites to a four times Whip egg whites to a foam; add cream of tartar and salt; whip until stiff but not dry. Add remainder of sugar a little at a time, beating it in. Add flavor ing, fold in flour and sugar. Put in jelly roll pan; have it lined with wax paper. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes Then turn out on waxed paper or sugared towel and roll as for a jelly roll Unroll when cool. Remove waxed paper and spread with Fluffy Sev en-minute Icing. Reroll Place on platter and chill at least one hour before cutting. FLUFFY SEVEN MINUTE ICING 1 egg white, unbeaten % cup sugar Vs teaspoon salt Vi cup cold water Vz tablespoon light corn syrup. Vz teaspoon vanilla Mix egg white, sugar, salt, wa ler and corn syrup in top of dou ble boiler Place over boiling wa ter in double boiler and beat con stantly with egg beater until icing will stand in peaks (seven min utes). Remove from heat, blend in vanilla. Beat until light enough to spread. The lady who sent in the above recipes would like to know if anyone has a recipe for Straw berry Fruit Cobbler or any other ways to use strawberries. She would also like to know how to can sugar peas so,they are good. From Reinholds R 1 comes this letter and recipe: We enjoy your newspaper very much, both my husband and my self. I especially like the section ‘Farm Wife and Family.” I’ve> tried several recipes and with success. I’d hk to give my recipe for a very good cake which is called' a MIDNIGHT CAKE Mrs. Clair G. Wenrich, R 1 Reinholds IVz cups all purpose flour 114 cups sugar V 2 cup cocoa 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon vinegar x k cup margarine 1 cup boiling water (scant) Mix all dry ingredients togeth er. Then add eggs, vanilla, vine gar and shortening and mix add ing boiling hot water. Bake in moderate oven 375' degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Bake in two fl inch pans. Here is another recipe for a Chess pie from a reader who had previously sent in a Rhubarb pie recipe but who does not enclose her name this time. She thought that she had forgotten the two egg volks in her recipe for the 4 A REQUEST Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 21, 1957 or t Farm Wife and Family Rhubarb pie but in checking back we find that they were included Here is her recipe for CHESS PIE 3 egg yolks IVa tablespoons flour % cup sugar Va teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla IMi cups sweet cream IVj cups seeded raisins 1 cup cut-up dates 1 cup cut-up walnuts Beat egg yolks very light and fluffy. Mix together flour, sugar, salt, vanilla Blend into the egg yolks. Then fold in cream, rais ins, dates and walnuts. Pour into pastry lined pan. Bake until a silver knife thrust into side of fill ing comes out clean. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes. Makes one 9-inch pie. Banana cream pie should make a hit with everyone, whether you need a dessert for “company” or for “just the family”. And you can' use two plentiful dairy prod ucts in the making of it milk and butter. BANANA CREAM PIE Vz cup sugar 4 tablespoons flour V< teaspoon salt 2 cups milk 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten 2 tablespoons butter or margar ine 1 teaspoon vanilla 9-mch baked pastry shell or graham cracker shell 2 bananas Mix dry ingredients with a lit tle of the milk. Add rest of milk. Cook over boiling water, stirring until thick. Cover and cook 15 minutes longer, stirring occasion ally. Add a little of the hot mix ture to egg yolks. Pour back and cook a few minutes longer Add butter or margarine and vanilla. Slice two bananas into the pie shell before adding the filling. Pour into shell, cool slightly, and cover with mennge. Bake at 350 degrees about 12 minutes. For meringe: 2 egg whites % teaspoon salt Vt cup sugar Beat egg whites with salt un til stiff. Beat in sugar slowly un- ■ft CO) til smooth and glossy From Sirs. Frank N. Baer, Sa lunga comes this nice letter: I enjoy >our paper and I want to thank the readers that sent me the Cracker recipes that I re quested earlier I made those with yeast; they kept nice and crisp for over a month I even substi tuted whole wheat flour, the kind with bran in, in part of the dough (Continued on page ten) nmauuat 4 j« The new insecticide that’s amazingly effec tive, economical, safe, easy to use, fast and clean. Kills flies, even the resistant ones, and other insects that plague the dairy farm. Ask to tee it demonstrated. SMOKETOWN Phone Lancaster EX 2-2659 9
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