The first few recipes this' week are apple recipes to finish out our files. Following these are dishes made with ground beef. Don’t forget that next week .will be “Easy Suppers.” So far, the idea has been so well received, and we have already gotten in so many recipes that “Easy Suppers” may run two weeks. So, if you still haven’t gotten around to '.sending in your favorite /quick and simple meal recipes, you still have time. - Golden Brown Apple Dumplings 2 cups sugar 2 cups water ' V* teaspoon cinnamon spoon nui V* cup butter 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder % cup shortening Vz cup milk 6 apples To make sauce, combine sugar, water, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Cook five minutes. Add butter. Then, pare and core apples. Sift flour, salt, and baking powder. Cut in shortening. Add milk. Stir just until flour is moistened. Roll Vi inch thick. Cut six (five-inch) squares. Place an apple on each square. Sprinkle with sugar and spices. Fold comers, pinch edges. Place one inch apart in greased pans. Pour sauce over dumplings. Bake at 375 degrees for 35 minutes. Serve hot with cream. Serves six. Ella Kanagy o Mattawana, Pa. XXX Apple Fritters 1 cup flour l-% teaspoon baking powder 3 tablespoon powdered sugar V* teaspoon salt one-third cup milk 1 egg beaten well 2 medium sized apples cut fine Drop by teaspoonfuls into hot fat. Mrs. Esther Long Lenhartsville,Pa. XXX Peach or Apple Crumb Pie e 4 tablespoons tapioca IVz cups sugar Vz teaspoon salt 7 or 8 cups sliced fruit Let stand five minutes. Topping: 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup flour IVz teaspoons cinnamon (for apples) 6 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon nutmeg for peaches Bake at 400 degrees F. for 40 to 45 minutes. Makes three nine-inch pies. Eva R. Esh Quarryville, Pa. xxx Easy Apple Salad 5 apples, peeled and diced (Sprinkle with sugar if apples are tart) 1 large can pineapple (chunks or crushed) 2 cups miniature mar shmallows Vi cup nuts Vz pint whipping cream (sweetened) Mix ingredients and stir in cream. Serves 10 to 12. Mrs. John Hoover Elysburg, Pa. XXX Apple Crisp 5 to 6 apples, peeled and sliced Vz cup granulated sugar Cinnamon as desired Put a layer of apples, sugar, and cinnamon, until casserole is filled, and then add crumbs consisting of: 1 cup flour Vz cup brown sugar V* cup butter Bake at 375 degrees F. for 45 minutes. Mrs. Velma Pentz York Springs, Pa. xxx Apple Salad 8 apples 2 bananas Vz cup celery (chopped) Vz cup raisins' Vt cup coconut Vz cup walnuts (optional) Vz cup peanuts (optional) Juice of Vz lemon (optional) Dice apples, don’t pare them. Add celery, bananas, raisins, coconut, and nuts. Make following dressing and pour over apple mixture. Dressing for Apple Salad: V* cup peanut butter V* cup cream Vz cup sugar Vz cup mayonnaise Mrs. John Hoover Elysburg, Pa. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct 23,1976 Poor Man’s Steak " ‘ 1 lb. hamburger Vz cup cracker crumbs Vz cup water 1 teaspoon salt Pepper to taste Mix together and press % inch thick on cookie sheet. %to 1 cup sliced ripe olives When firm, cut into squares. Taco sauce Roll in flour and fry in pan. Cut meat into 1 x Vz x one- Put into a casserole dish and eighth inch strips. Cook pour a can of cream of strips and V 2 cup onion in mushroom soup on top. Bake large frying-pan until meat at 350 degrees F. for one is browned and onion is hour. transparent. Add tomato sauce, consomme, chili powder, salt and Wor cestershire sauce. Simmer 30 minutes. Stir-fry potatoes, mushrooms, celery, green pepper and com or green beans in cooking fat until tender. Add vegetables to meat after it has simmered 30 minutes. Heat frozen taco shells in a sandwich grill or on a griddle. Spoon in meat filling, top each with chopped onion, shredded lettuce, chopped tomato, grated cheese, sliced ripe olives and serve with taco sauce. Yield; 20 tacos. Savory Noodle Goulash Mrs. Adam Marcus Zimmerman Lititz, Pa. XXX Hamburger Barbecue 3 pounds hamburger 1 small onion 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons vinegar 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 can tomato soup 3 tablespoons Wor- cestershire sauce 1 tablespoon ground mustard Vz cup chopped celery Salt & pepper to taste Vz cup diced carrots Brown hamburger, celery, and onion in melted butter. Add other ingredients and simmer slowly for one hour. Makes 20 barbecues. Gloria Lock Fogelsville, Pa. xxx Special Beef Tacos 2 pounds beef chuck 1 cup chopped onion 2 cans (8 ounces each) tomato sauce Vz cup beef consomme or 1 bouillon cube dissolved in Vz cup hot water 2 teaspoons chili powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 cup frozen hash brown or chopped cooked potatoes 2 cans (8 ounces each) or V* pound fresh mushrooms, sliced Vz cup sliced celery or zucchini Vz cup diced green pepper Vz cup canned, or cooked, Anniversary noted Today’s modern automobile engine operates on the same basic principle as the original four-stroke cycle engine invented in 1876 by Nikolaus August Otto, who founded Gasmotoren fabrik Deutz AG in 1864 with Eugen Langen. Within 10 years over 20,000 engines had been built and Deutz was on its way, paving the way for every other Bureaucrat to Bureaucrat A bureaucrat in Washing ton received a note from his superior reading "The new regulations state that you are not to initial documents before I have seen them Therefore erase your ini tial, initial the erasure and confirm this action by a memo to me with nine car bons to the appropriate in terested parties . . com or green beans 2 tablespoons cooking fat 20 frozen taco shells 1 cup chopped onion 3 to 4 cups shredded lettuce 2 to 3 cups chopped tomato 1M cups grated Cheddar cheese % pound ground beef 2 small onions, chopped fine 5 or 6 ounces uncooked noodles % cup shredded American cheese 1 tablespoon hot fat 2 cups diced celery 2 cups tomatoes 1 teaspoon salt Dash pepper Cook ground beef in hot fat until brown. Add onions and celery and cook 10 minutes. In a separate pan, boil noodles in salted water. Add drained, hot boiled noodles gently to food in pan. Add remaining ingredients and simmer 30 minutes. Mixture can also be cooked in a two quart (eight inch) casserole and baked for 45 minutes at 350 F. Serve hot. Serves four. Sylßuoss Blain, Pa. engine manufacturer in the years to come. But the world’s oldest combustion-engine manufacturer was to become the world’s largest producer of air-cooled diesel engines, the first of which was introduced in 1944. Still the leade'r today, Deutz makes more than 150,000 diesel engmes a year. 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