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If you are looking for a recipe but can't seem to find it
anywhere, send your recipe request to Cook's Question
Corner, care of Lancaster Farming, P.O. Box 366, Lititz,
Pa. 17543. There's no need to send a SASE. If we receive
an answer to your question, we will publish it as soon as
possible.
Answers to recipe requests should be sent to the same
address.
QUESTION - Dorothy Witmer, Ephrata, would like
recipes for canning pickled cauliflower.
QUESTION ■ Betty Biehl, Mertztown, would like recipes
for good vanilla and chocolate fudge.
QUESTION - Beverly Reiner, Pitman, would like a recipe
for Chicken Monterey using deboned chicken breasts with
a type of barbecue sauce.
QUESTION - Donna Lencoski, Lat robe .would like a
recipe for "Chunkies," a type of sweet-tart pickle that has
seeds removed, allowing you to use older cucumbers.
ANSWER - Beverly Reiner, Pitman, requested a recipe
for Duchess Soup. Thanks go to Janet Baker, Piscataway,
N. J., for sharing the following recipe.
Duchess Soup
2 tablespoons quick-cooking tapioca
1 teaspoon salt >
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon minced onion ,
4 cups milk ,i
2 tablespoons butter 11
Vz cup grated American cheese '
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
Combine tapioca, salt, pepper, onion and milk in top of
double boiler. Place over rapidly boiling wa,ter and cook 12
to 15 minutes after water boils again, stirring frequently.
Add butter, cheese and parsley. Cook,until cheese is
melted. Makes 6 servings. H"
ANSWER - Rhea Rhmehart, Akron, requested recipes
for snapper soup to can. Although no one'had a recipe to
share this time, Lancaster Farming’s recipe files yielded
the following turtle soup recipes. The first is from Eva
Southard, of Glen Rock, and the second from Fran Westfall
of Spring Grove.
1 turtle
1 chicken
2Vz quarts corn
IV2 quarts finely cubed potatoes
9 hard boiled eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
Cook turtle and chicken until soft. Pick meat off the bone
and cut fine. Grind skin, heart, liver and gizzard. Boil
potatoes in broth until soft and add corn (if canned). If corn
is fresh, boil with potatoes. Add meat and chopped eggs
Bring to a boil and serve. Noodles can be added if too thin.
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Turtle meat
6 medium potatoes, diced
5 small onions, chopped
1 small can evaporated milk
Salt and pepper
Cut turtle meat into small pieces. Place in a heavy
cooking pot. Cover with water. Cook until meat is tender.
Add potatoes and onions. Cook until meat and vegetables
are done. A little canned cream may be added just before
serving. Season to taste.
Make-lt-With-tfool Contest Set For Oet.ll
NEW BLOOMFIELD - Natural
fibers have returned to the
homesewing fashion scene and
they are better than ever. This
is your opportunity, using wool, to
display your design and con
struction talents by entering the
1986 District 3, Make-It-Yourself-
With-Wool Competition.
District 3 includes Adams,
Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin,
Juniata, and Perry counties. The
MJ Mall, Carlisle, is hosting the
competition Saturday, Oct. 11 at
12:30 p.m.
Anyone 10 years or older may
enter and model the garment(s) he
or she has made from wool fabric.
Local winners in the junior and
senior divisions will vie for state
prizes on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at the
Westmoreland Mall, Legonier.
Two other divisions are pre-teen
and adult. All local participants
will receive a gift and the winners
LS FFA President Attends
STRASBURG Lampeter-
Strasburg FFA president Mike
Hall attended the American In
stitute of Cooperatives Conference
this week at the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville.
To qualify for attendance, Hall
competed with several hundred
other high school students from
Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey and Delaware at the
Pennsylvania Association of
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will be awarded prizes.
The prizes will be donated by
indivdiduals and businesses who
are involved in raising sheep,
wholesaling or retailing unfinished
or finished wool products.
Entry forms are due Friday,
Oct. 3. A form can be obtained,
along with a contest brochure,
from your local Extension office,
fabric stores or by sending a
business size, self-addressed,
stamped envelope to Mrs. Mary M.
Myers, District 3 Director, R.D. 1 -
Box 228, Elliottsburg, PA 17024.
If you are interested in spon
soring a gift or prize or have any
questions concerning this event,
contact Mrs. Myers.
The Make-It-Yourself-With-Wool
Competition nationwide contest is
sponsored by the American Sheep
Producers Council, Inc. and the
Women’s Auxiliary-National Wool
Growers Association.
AIC Conference
Farmer Cooperatives Conference
at Juniata College in July.
The purpose of the PAFC, AIC
program is to educate young
people about the importance of
cooperatives in agricultural
marketing.
Mike is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Hall of Pioneer Road,
Lancaster. He will be a senior at
Lampeter-Strasburg High School
and is active in school and com
munity activities.
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Tomato Recipes
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VEGETABLE CHOWDER
Combine in kettle:
l k cup rice, uncooked
5 cups water
1 cup chopped potatoes
% cup finely cut celery
2 teaspoons salt
3 chicken bouillon cubes
% cup chopped carrots
1 minced onion
1 cup canned tomatoes
Dash of pepper
Bring to boil and simmer 45
minutes. Add 1 cup milk when
ready to serve. Heat almost to
boiling and serve as soon as
possible.
STEWED TOMATOES
4 quarts tomatoes, peeled, cored
and cut up
1 cup chopped celery
V* cup chopped sweet green pep
pers
Mt cup chopped onion
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons salt
Combine all ingredients; cover
and cook 10 minutes. Stir oc
casionally. Pour hot tomatoes into
hot canning jars. Leave %-inch
head space. Adjust caps. Boil in
bath for 15 minutes or pressure
cook at 10 pounds of pressure for 15
minutes.
Mrs. Barbara Allsopp
Summerhill
TOMATO PASTE
8 quarts peeled, cored, chopped
tomatoes (about 4 dozen large)
\Vz cups chopped sweet red pep
pers (about 3)
2 bay leaves
1 tablespoon salt
1 clove garlic, optional
Combine first four ingredients.
Cook slowly 1 hour. Press through
a fine sieve; add garlic if desired.
Continue cooking slowly until thick
enough to round up on a spoon,
about 2Vz hours. Stir frequently to
prevent sticking. Remove garlic.
Pour into hot canning jars, leaving
V4-inch head space. Adjust caps.
Process half pints 45 minutes in
boiling water bath. Makes about 9
half pints.
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