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Pa. 17543. There’s no need to send a SASE. If we receive
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Answers to recipe requests should be sent to the same
address.
QUESTION - Mrs. Stella Myszkowski, West Reading,
would like a recipe for Friendship Cake and would like
recipes for using the dough once it starts to ferment.
QUESTION - Mrs. Betty Biehl, Mertztown, would like a
recipe for a moist chocolate or white (or both) cake to serve
50 or more people. She would also like recipes for honey
cookies and honey cake.
QUESTION • Hattie Diehl, Mifflinburg, would like a
recipe for making homemade soap using wood ashes.
ANSWER - Mrs. Denise Angstadt, Oley, asked for a
chocolate shoo-fly pie recipe. Thanks to Mrs. Penny
Kesseman, Shippensburg, for sharing the following recipe.
Chocolate Syrup Shoo-Fly Pie
9-inch unbaked pastry shell
V* teaspoon baking soda
IVz cups boiling water
IV2 cups chocolate-flavored syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla
V/3 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
V 2 cup sugar
V* teaspoon baking soda
V* teaspoon salt
Vs cup butter or margarine
Cinnamon
Prepare pastry shell; set aside. Dissolve V* teaspoon
baking soda in boiling water; stir in chocolate syrup and
vanilla. Set aside. Combine flour, sugar, V* teaspoon
baking soda and salt; cut in butter or margarine with
pastry blender to form coarse crumbs. Set aside 1 cup
each of chocolate mixture and crumbs. Gently combine
remaining chocolate and crumbs, stirring just until crumbs
are moistened (mixture will be lumpy). Pour reserved 1
cup chocolate mixture into pastry shell; pour chocolate
crumb mixture evenly over liquid in shell. Top with
remaining 1 cup crumbs; sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake at
375° F. for 60 minutes or until set; cool completely. Makes
8 servings.
ANSWER - Andrew C. Keener, Womelsdorf, requested a
recipe for veal head soup. Thanks go to Deanna Cunfer,
Lehighton, for the following recipe, which was taken from
“The Dutch Cookbook" by Edna Eby Heller.
Calf's Head Soup
1 calf’s head or veal skin
3 potatoes
1 medium onion
Vz pound fresh sausage meat
Vz teaspoon marjoram
V* teaspoon cloves
V* teaspoon allspice
2 hard cooked eggs
Vz cup flour
2 tablespoons butter
Cook calf's head or skin in 2 quarts of salted water for
several hours until quite tender; meanwhile, dice peeled
potatoes and onion, cook 20 minutes. Shape sausage into
‘/2-inch balls and fry until brown. Make dough balls as m
recipe below. When meat is tender, remove from broth,
cool slightly, take meat off bones and cut fine. To the
broth, add meat, potatoes, sausage balls, spices, chopped
eggs and dough balls. Lastly, stir in the flour which has
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been browned in a dry pan over medium heat,
constantly, and then mixed to a smooth paste with
broth, simmer for 5 minutes. Serves 8.
Dough Balls
1 cup flour
Vz teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons lard
3 tablespoons water
Sift together the flour and salt, cut up the lard in the
flour until it is the size of peas. Toss lightly in bowl while
adding the water gradually. With floured hands, shape into
tiny balls, Vz inch in diameter. Brown in 2 tablespoons
melted butter over low heat, turning frequently. When
nicely browned, add to calf’s head soup.
ANSWER - Mrs. Betty Biehl, Mertztown, requested
cheesecakes recipes. Many readers have shared their
favorites, but this one, from Mary Elane Fritz, Boothwyn, is
just a bit different.
4 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
Vz cup brown sugar, packed
5 eggs, beaten
2 cups pumpkin
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Vi teaspoon cloves
Vz teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 9-inch spring form pan, buttered and coated with Vi
cup graham cracker crumbs.
Place cream cheese in mixing bowl and beat in sugars
until mixture is fluffy. Add beaten eggs gradually. Mix in
remaining ingredients. Pour batter into pan and place in
preheated 325°F. oven. Bake 80 minutes or until,
cheesecake is firm around edges. Turn off heat and let
cake remain in cooling oven an additional 30 minutes.
Remove from pan and cool on rack. May be topped with
whipped cream.
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years of age, single, a high school
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