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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 - V. Martin of Springfield, Va., would like a
recipe for oleo margarine using the basic ingredients of oil,
powdered milk, water, etc.
QUESTION - Rose Ann Martin, Ephrata, would like to
can mashed pumpkin to use in pies, etc. Does anyone have
tips on how to do this? How long should it boil? Is a water
bathcannerO.K.?
QUESTION - Bonnie Waltz, Linden, would like a recipe
for baked corn using 1 can of bought corn. She says hers
always turns out watery.
QUESTION - Shirly A. Koontz, Bedford, would like a
recipe for popovers. She lost her recipe, which, she says,
included four ingredients - flour, oil, eggs and salt, with a
little milk. They are baked in a muffin tin for only 15
minutes and come out with a big air pocket in the center
similar to cream puffs.
QUESTION - Mrs. Lillian Edgin, Sewell, NJ. would like a
recipe for cheese soup that tastes like the soup sold by
Denny’s on Route 30. She writes that she has tried one
recipe, but the milk and cream separated.
QUESTION - E. Hoover, Ephrata, would like a recipe to
make a homemade instant pudding mix
QUESTION - Althea Fetherolf, Hamburg, would like a
recipe for fish cakes similar to the kind sold in
delicatessens. She would also like to know what Kind of fish
to use, how to prepare the fish for cakes and what holds
the cakes together.
ANSWER - Vamta Martin, Savannah, N.Y., requested a
recipe for apple fritters made with a yeast dough and fried
in deep fat. Thanks go to E M. Herr, Ephrata, and Karen
Eby, Williamsport, Md., for the following recipes.
Apple Fritters
2Vz cups mashed potatoes
I V* cups sugar
3 cups warm water
3 packages yeast
6 eggs, beaten
VA cups butter, melted
2 I A teaspoons salt
5 pounds bread flour
1 tablespoon cinnamon
Dissolve yeast in warm water with sugar. Add all other
ingredients using only half of the flour. Add 5 cups apples
and 1 to IVt cups raisins that have been cooked, cooled
and drained. Add remaining flour. Dough will be sticky. Let
rise until double in size. Roll out to x h inch thick. With
doughnut cutter or pizza cutter, cut into oblong slices. Fry
at 350° F.
Glaze while hot; lay on racks to cool and dry
Glaze
1 Vz cups confectioner’s sugar
1 'A teaspoons vanilla
1 tablespoon softened butter
Mix together and add hot water until of dipping con
sistency.
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Apple Fritters
3 A cup mashed potatoes
Vi cup shortening, melted
Vz cup white sugar
Vz teaspoon salt
Stir together while hot and add:
% cup cold water
2 eggs, beaten
1 tablespoon yeast dissolved in 'A cup warm (105-
115°F.) water
4% cups flour, approximately
Let dough rise one time. Stir in apple mixture;
4 cups chopped apples
Vz cup sugar
X A cup water
Dram and cool, add 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Mix into dough; a little more flour may be needed. Cover
and let rise until double. Then roll out and cut into 2‘/2-mch
squares. Let rise and fry as doughnuts. Glaze.
ANSWER - Gail Redheffer Stull, Willow Street, asked
how to cook fresh mushrooms so they retain their natural
color. Thanks go to Mrs. Robert L. Lohr, Gettysburg, who
shared the following advice from the 1987Hagerstown Town
and Country Almanac; “Add a teaspoon of lemon juice to
each quarter pound of butter or margarine when
sauteeing mushrooms. It will keep them firm and white
and add a marvelous flavor."
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