—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 10, 1973
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Recipe Exchange
Home on the Range
During a recent “women-only”
conversation the topic swung to
housecleaning Being told it was
too early to spring clean yet
brought back memories from
about 10 years ago. Being a young
mother, with another soon to be
cared for, helping to farm 120
acres, milking cows, and tending
calves, it became apparent
something wasn’t going to get
done
We survived that cleaning-less
year, certainly, but one valuable
lesson of farm living became
very apparent if you’re going
to clean house, do it early before
spring work breaks
Here is a tip on cleaning ovens,
a chore which seems to head
most homemakers list as the
most detestible of all jobs. Put a
layer of newspapers on each rack
and soak thoroughly with am
monia Let stand overnight, and
the next morning the ac
cumulated oven grease and
grime on racks and walls should
be easier to wipe clean.
Before the seasonal rush
begins, could you dig out a few
recipes to share with our
readers 7 All kinds of recipes are
of interest, particularly candy or
cakes for the Easter season. Send
recipes of your choice to:
Recipes, Lancaster Farming,
Box 266, Lititz, Pa 17543. We’ll
send you a colorful potholder as
our way of saying “Thanks”.
Chocolate Candy Eggs
6 pounds confectioners sugar
l 4-oz package coconut
1 cup crushed pineapple
x >i cup chopped maraschino
cherries
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1 cup walnuts
Combine fruit and nuts and
work in all the confectioners
sugar that is needed to shape into
eggs. Shape and lay on waxed
paper to harden.
Coating
1 cake paraffin wax (V* pound)
6-oz. package chocolate bits
Melt paraffin and add
chocolate bits. Stir to blend. Keep
over hot water (not boiling) until
blended
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Salmon Croquettes
1 pound can red salmon
1 cup thick white sauce+ (using
both fish juice and milk to
make white sauce)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup fine dry bread crumbs
1 egg, beaten
Deep fat for frying
Drain salmon, discard skin and
bones. Flake and add white sauce
and lemon juice and mix
thoroughly. Cool and shape into
croquettes
Roll in bread crumbs and dip in
beaten egg Roll again in crumbs
and fry in hot fat till croquettes
are golden brown.
Drain for a minute on paper
toweling Serve with egg sauce or
any other sauce you wish.
+White Sauce
3 or 4 tablespoons butter, melted
3 tablespoons flour and Vz
teaspoon salt blended into
melted butter.
1 cup milk, added gradually to
above and blended carefully
to avoid lumps. Cook over
heat stirring until thick.
Egg Sauce
3 tablespoons butter
397-353*
3 tablespoons flour
2 cups milk
'/a teaspoon salt
Dash of pepper
Few drops Worcestershire Sauce
1 teaspoon lemon juice
4 hardcooked eggs, chopped fine
Melt butter, blend in flour and
add milk slowly, stirring con
stantly over heat. Heat until
sauce boils and thickens.
Add seasonings, then fold in
eggs and serve over hot
croquettes. Makes 2 x k cups.
3 cups cut rhubarb, fresh or
frozen
Wz cups water
IV2 cups sugar
1 box strawberry jello
1 cup strawberries, fresh or
frozen
Cook rhubarb in water 10
minutes. Add strawberries and
sugar Cook several more
minutes. Stir in jello and let stand
over night
Caramel Popcorn
7, quarts popped com
1 peanuts
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup v margarine
V 2 cup , *>ite com syrup
1 teaspoon bait
1 teaspoon vanilla
V 2 teaspoon soda
Put in pan sugar, butter, com
syrup and salt. Bring to a boil for
five minutes. Remove from heat,
stir in vanilla and soda. Pout
over corn and peanuts. Mix and
bake at 250 degrees for one hour.
Pour into flat pan, stirring oc
casionally. Cool.
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Walnut Taffy
V 4 cup molasses
IVz cups brown sugar
x h cup cold water
V 4 teaspoon vinegar
3 tablespoons butter
Mrs. Ira Davis
RD.I
Quarry ville
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Rhubarb Jello
Mrs. Henry Weachter
29 Melvin Drive
Leola
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Anna Mae Martin
R.D.I
Lititz
Boil until 290 degrees.
Put 1 cup of black walnuts into
a greased pan.
“Do not use margarine; it
gives it a better flavor with
butter.”
Mrs. Herbert D. Eyman
146 W. Franklin St.
Strasburg
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Ice Cream Cake
Vfe cup vegetable shortening
Vk cups powdered sugar
V 2 cup milk
Vfe cup cornstarch
V-k cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla
6 egg whites.
Sift flour once, measure. Add
baking powder and cornstarch.
Cream shortening and eggs
gradually. Add flour and milk
alternately. Add vanilla and fold
in egg whites. Bake 20 minutes.
Miss Lizzie Reiff
R.D.I
Bird-in-Hand
Baked Apples
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon flour
% cup oatmeal
% cup brown sugar
V* cup melted butter
V* teaspoon soda
10 sliced apples
Fill casserole with sliced ap
ples. Mix sugar, cinnamon and
flour together and pour on apples.
Then mix the rest of the
ingredients and pour on apples.
Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
Serve warm or cold with whipped
cream.
Mrs. Gideon Beiler
115 Horseshoe Rd.
Leola
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Traveler’s Tree
The traveler’s tree is a
close relative of the banana
tree in the Malagasy Repub
lic. It collects good drinking
water in a pocket at the base
■of each leaf stem.