Junior Coo It is coming close to Christmas and our Junior Cooks have provided us with several Interesting recipes for holiday favorites. From fruit cake to chewy cookie bars and easy ice cream, the dessert possibilities are truly many! We’ve included some more holiday specials in our Home on the Range edition. xxxx Chocolate Chip Chews Cream: x k cup shortening GOSPEL CHRISTMAS CONCERT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20th 7:30 P.M. ELIZABETHTOWN AREA HIGH SCHOOL Elizabethtown, PA FEATURING THE SENATORS QUARTET Columbus, Mississippi TAYLOR FAMILY Fruitland, Maryland CHURCHMEN & TERESA Harrisonburg, Virginia FOR TICKETS WRITE BAINBRIDGE GOSPEL PROMOTION RDI, Box 243, Bainbridge, PA 17502 or Call 717-367-3177 I I & *|P| TVi Si tv* GN w I PETERSHEIM'S STORE £ R. 1 CHRISTIANA, PA. store hours: £> Corner of White Oak & Old Dam Road, Mon. thru Fn. Bto 8 1 mile East of Nickel Mines _ o o/o ON ALL Vff GAMES & TOYS FROM NOW TILL CHRISTMAS. 1 cup brown sugar cup white sugar Add; 3 eggs (beaten) 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift then add: 1 teaspoon salt IVi cups flour teaspoon soda ■'i teaspoon baking powder Add: Mz cup nuts 1 cup chocolate chips Spread in a cookie pan bake at 350 degrees at 15-20 minutes. Cut in bars. gJEdition xxxx Date Plnwhecl Cookies 1 cup shortening 2 cups brown sugar Mi cup granulated sugar •1 eggs 4 - 4Mi cups flour 1 teaspoon alt 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cmiiumon Cream shortening and sugar together. Add eggs and beat until fluffy. Sift flour. Measure and add salt, soda and spices and sift again. Kdna Nolt Kutztown, Pa. Add sifted dry ingredients to creamed mixture and beat until smooth. Chill dough in refrigerator for several hours. Divide chilled dough in two parts. Roll to V* inch thick and spread with following filling. Filling IM: cup ground dates raisins 1 cup sugar 1 cup water % cup nuts Combine dates and sugar with water and cook until thick and stirring constantly. Remove from beat and add nuts. Cool and spread on rolled dough. Roll and chill thoroughly in refrigerator. Slice in rings V» inch thick and bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes. Easy Ice Cream 4 eggs beaten in 1% cup sugar 6 tablets junket 1 quart warm milk 1 quart milk with Vk cup instant pudding mix chocolate or vanilla FROZEN STEAK 1 tablespoon sour cream Mi teaspoon soda To make butter pecan flavor, use 2 cups of chopped pecans with Mi stick of butter and 'it cup brown sugar. Put in a shallow kettle and heat till butter and sugar is melted. Allow pecans to become crispy. Do this only when ready to add to ice cream as the mixture must be syrupy. Combine other ingredients for ice cream. (No in structions included.) Lucy Weaver Agell East Earl, Pa. xxxx Chocolate Marshmallow Cookies 2 cups cake flour Vz teaspoon baking soda Vz teaspoon salt M> cup cocoa M> cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg Ms cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Ms cup chopped nuts 36 large marshmallows (halved) Sift flour, measure and sift with soda and salt and cocoa. Cream shortening and sugar. Blend thoroughly. Add egg and beat well. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating after each addition. Add nuts and vanilla and mix. Place on greased baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Top with mar shmallow halves. Bake two additional minutes. Frost with vanilla frosting and top with coconut. Yields 6 dozen. Janet Horst Ephrata, Pa. Malinda Riehl Age 13 Kinzers, Pa. xxxx WE ALSO HAVE SHOES, BOOTS, HOUSEWARES, PAINTED GLASSWARE, WALL HUNG & MANTEL CLOCKS. PLUS MUCH MORE. COME & BROWSE AROUND. CITRUS FRUITS & VEGETABLES KINDS & SHRIMP & I */ * t I r*—t f § As | NEW PROVIDENCE^ Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Dec. 13,1975 — xxxx Fruitcake '« pound mixed lemon, orange and citron peel (candied) IMi pound crystallized fruit cherries, apricots, pineapple and plums Mi cup preserved ginger pound maraschino cherries ’« pound blanched almonds 1 teaspoon baking powder Ms teaspoon salt 1 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice 8 egg whites Put peel and crystallized fruit in thin slices. Blanch almonds by allowing to stand in boiling water for five minutes. Slip off skins and dry. Sift flour, measure and add baking powder and salt. Sift again. Add 1 cup of this mixture to sliced peel, fruit and nuts. Stir well. Cream shortening until light. Add M> cup sugar gradually and beat until fluffy. Add floured fruits and nuts, Mix well. Farm Women The new year will soon be with us and many Farm Women activities are now in the planning. We’d like to include your activities in our Farm Women's Calendar and will enter all dates in our calendar upon receipt of a Society Yearbook or proposed dates written out on a separate piece of paper. If you are planning to an nounce dates when sending in reports, please place them on a separate sheet of paper and print clearly. Please include all information such as the date, place of meeting, time of meeting and any speakers or special events taking place. We’ll be looking forward to receiving your schedule of planned programs! Address communication to Women’s Editor - Lancaster Farming - Box 266, Lititz, PA 17543. OF All □ STRASBURG WHITE OAK RP Add lemon Juice to egg whites and beat until stiff. Fold into beaten whites the remaining h cup of sugar. Fold whites Into cake mixture. Bake in a large tube pan lined with waxed paper. Bake at 250 degrees for 3 hours Heat 1 cup sugar until melted and brown. Add Vz cup hot water and cook to a smooth syrup. Cream together. *4 cup butter cup sugar 3 egg yolks 1 cup sweet milk 2V* cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder Add 2-3 of caramel syrup and flavor with vanilla. Add whites of 3 eggs well beaten. Use the remaining syrup for frosting. Bake at 350 degrees fos- 30 minutes. Activities I #^ V □ % STORE Sandra Horst Ephrata, Pa. xxxx Caramel Cake Louise Horst Eptirata, Pa. zxxx CHRis^ A i\ 47 & &