88-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, January 18,1986
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QUESTION - Grace Ikeler, Bloomsburg, would like a
recipe for Kielbasa (one with smoke and one without)
QUESTION - Dons Grube, New Providence, would like a
recipe for a cherry pie that you pour into the pie plate and
forms its own crust
QUESTION - Mane A Cairns, Honey Brook, would like a
recipe for a sweet yeast dough that is cut, deep fried and
has an apple butter filling Can anyone help 7
QUESTION - Dwayne Roland, Westover, would like a
recipe for canning mushroom soup
QUESTION - Raymond Schreyer, Boyertown, is looking
for a good rattlesnake recipe
QUESTION - Mildred Sickler, Falls, would like a nut roll
recipe that makes four to six rolls
ANSWER - Mrs Charles Emench, Summit Station,
requested a recipe for Lepp cookies Thanks go to Hilda M
Blatt, Jonestown, for the following recipe, and to all the
other readers who shared Lepp cookie recipes.
2 cups brown sugar
‘/« cup lard
Add
1 egg 1 cup buttermilk
'/? teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder
3 cups flour
Drop on greased sheet, brush with beaten egg and
sprinkle with nuts or colored sugar. Bake at 350° F. for
about 10 minutes.
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What’s the difference between a
convenience and a necessity?
Personal opinion, it would seem.
For instance, out teenagers
seem to think that any worthwhile
life must have a red Porsche
racing through it somewhere. A
Porsche might be classy, but when
it comes to tilling up at the self
serve, I’ll settle for my lacocca K
car.
On the other hand, one of my
necessities, the microwave, might
be considered a mere convenience
to others. Given the odd eating
schedules of planting, harvest and
Farm Show seasons, M-I-C-R-O-W-
A-V-E is simply another way to
spell “sanity.”
It was with interest that 1
recently clipped a Roper Reports
survey on items once introduced as
conveniences, but now viewed as
necessities by poll respondents.
Number one was Scotch tape,
followed by a tie between no-iron
and aluminum foil. On down in
order were drip-dry fabrics, panty
hose, plastic wrap, T-shirts and
instant coffee. Obviously no one
sees an iron as a necessity any
longer-and praises be for that.
True, on any given day you’re
likely to find those items at use on
your average farm. But if a similar
survey focused only on farms, I’ll
betcha the results would tell a
different tale.
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necessity on that list would have to
be-you guessed it-baling twine.
Baling twine is one of rural
America’s greatest resources.
Legendary are the lovely, lacy,
dust-brushed works of art which
secure gaps in pens and fences rent
by heifers seeking their fortune in
the great world beyone the posts
and wire mesh.
But the renown of twine goes
light-years beyond that: from
staking tomatoes and living room
Christmas trees, to fastening bam
doors open for ventilation, to tying
a truck door shut, and once as a
belt substitute tor a toddler son
whose britches wouldn’t stay in
place as he tagged along at a cow
show.
Threatening twine’s place at the
top of the necessity list is a relative
newcomer to the farm scene; duct
tape. This wide, gray, sticky
fabric-like tape is far more widely
used on this farm than the favored
Scotch tape on the other survey.
Duct tape, as I recall, made its
appearance here a number of
years ago with some sort of bin,
used for sealing the edges between
layers of metal. This was before
duct tape could be brought
everywhere from the grocery to
the five-and-dime, and the lef
tovers on that roll became a
revered possession.
In its versatility, duct tape
hereabouts mends everything
from barn record book bindings to
trash cans to milkers. (That an
expensive milker needs such taped
assistance is another story.)
Calves bom with slightly deformed
legs, curling backwards, have
been tenderly splinted with our
favorite tape. Cracked barn
windows hang together a bit longer
and cole breezes are kept out of the
gaps between window glass layers
at the house.
Tractor seats find new life taped
back in shape, as do fork handles
with life threatening fractures or
fields of finger-splinter areas, and
swimming season innertubes with
slow air leaks.
For years, I have coveted a roll
of duct tape for my household tool
box, eliminating the need to
scrounge from ‘ bam desk to
machinery shed to heifer pens for
the prized repair material.
“Ah, I’m going to get myself a
roll of that,” I muttered recently
while shopping in a store with a
display of duct tape on sale,
oblivious to the sidelong glances of
other shoppers eyeing this female
pushing a cart and talking to
herself.
My mistake was in not hiding it
instantly the moment I got in the
door.
“That’s just what I need,”
proclaimed the farmer, spying the
precious gray roll. Back to the
baling twine.
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