88-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 4,1986
Peanut butter
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CRUNCH BARS
Bars:
% cup butter
% cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
y* cup flour
teaspoon baking powdej-
V* teaspoon salt
Vi cup chopped walnuts
Cook’s
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QUESTION - Raymond Schreyer, Boyertown, is looking
for a good recipe for rattlesnake.
QUESTION - Mildred Sickler, Falls, would like a nut roll
recipe that makes 4 to 6 rolls.
QUESTION - Verna Weaver, New
recipe for light and buttery croissants.
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2% cui' s miniature marshmallows
Crear.i butter and sugar. Beat in
eggs and vanilla, flour, baking
powder, and salt. Stir in walnuts.
Spread mixture in a 13x9x2-inch
greased cake pan. Bake at 350*F.
15 to 20 minutes. Remove from
oven and evenly place mar
shmallow over top and return to
oven for 4 minutes. Allow to cool 30
minutes and spread with topping.
Topping:
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup peanut butter
1% cups rice cereal
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Melt chocuicu -pa over low
heat; stir in peanut butter and fold
in rice cereal.
Mary E. Click
Howard
PEANUT WHIRL COOKIES
% cup shortening
1 cup sugar
Vz cup peanut butter
1V« cups sifted flour
Vi teaspoon salt
Mi teaspoon soda
legg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons milk
16-ounce package chocolate chips
Cream shortening, sugar, peanut
butter, egg and vanilla. Add sifted
dry ingredients with milk. Roll out
cookie dough into rectangle Mi-inch
thick. Melt chocolate chips over
hot water and spread on rolled
cookie dough. Roll jelly roll fashion
and chill Vi hour. Slice with a sharp
knife into thin slices Ms inch thick.
Bake at 350*F. for 8 to 10 minutes.
Makes 5 or 6 dozen.
Marian Martin
Lebanon
WASHINGTON - Everett Rank,
administrator of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Agriculture’s Stabilization and
Conservation Service, said that
hundreds of farmers have been
misled into filing claims for on
losses on grain allegedly resulting
from the 1960 grain embargo to the
Soviet Union.
■nk said
USf'A’s
With a Series IV battery-powered feed cart from Weaver
line, you’ll feed your cows in less time—with less work.
Hydrostatic drive gives you fully variable speed control.
.Six unloading speeds let you put feed right where you
want it. And with the new drop-in baffle you can feed
high-moisture com as well as silage and haylage.
For a firsthand look at this time-saving feeding
system, see it on display today.
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P.O. Box 219
Chambersburg, PA 17201-0219
Phone 717 263-9111
Ryder supply
Red meat output up eight percent
HARRISBURG - Commercial
red meat production, dressed
weight basis, in Pennsylvania
during November 1965 totaled 84.6
million pounds, up eight percent
from November 1984, according to
the Pennsylvania Crop and
Livestock Reporting Service.
Beef slaughter, at 112.4 million
pounds, livev ■ 'ht, was up 17
percent from November 1984.
Total head slaughtered was 95,400
up 11 percent, and liveweight
averaged 1,178 pounds, an increase
of 55 pounds. Veal slaughter was
4.3 million pounds liveweight, 10
percent below last year. Calf
slaughter at 26,100 head was down
five percent. The average
livestock decreased nine pounds to
165 pounds.
Hog slaughter at 31j3 million
liveweight, was down nine percent
from a year earlier. Total head
slaughtered was 133,400, down nine
percent, average liveweight
decreased two pounds to 235
pounds. Lamb and mutton
slaughter was 851,000 pounds
liveweight, down 38 percent. The
number slaughtered was 8,100,
down 39 percent. However, the
Refunds denied in grain embargo
Counsel takes the position that
there is no basis for these claims,
only authorizes the purchases of
agricultural commodities, other
than grains, that were under
contract for export to the USSR
before the embargo took effect but
could not be exported because of
the embargo He said all claims
received b> USD . nave been
denied.
General
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'Weaverline
average liveweight increased two
pounds to 105 pounds.
U.S. commercial red meat
production in November totaled
3.12 billion pounds, down six
percent from November 1984.
Comparing November 1965 with
November 1964, beef production at
1.81 bill' ' • rounds was down six
percent. Me kd <t 2.81 million
head was down nin, percent, wLIe
average uveweight increased I'!
pounds to 1,102. Veal production at
42 million pounds was down two
percent from last year. Calf
slaughter at 288 thousand head was
down fou: percer* but average
liveweight icreased seven pounds
to 249.
Pork production totaled 1.24
billion pounds, down seven per
cent. Hog kill totaled 7.01 million
head, down eight percent. Average
live weigh, increased two pounds to
248 pound.. Larr.t and mutton
production at 28 aullion pounds,
was down seven percent from last
year. Slaughter totaled 476
thousand head, down 12 percent.
Liveweight averaged 116 pounds,
three pounds heavier than a year
earlier.
Rank mi! s have btui
held in pa.;; oi if. Midwest and
inaccurate literature has been
circulated filing farmers how to
file claim. Lc compensation.
According to Rank, “Anyone
who tells farmers that they are
entitled to compensation under this
statute for losses on grain
alledgedly caused jy the embargo
either has not bothered to readit or
is trying to mislead people.”