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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 - Mary Winters, Elizabethtown, would like a
recipe for walnut brittle
QUESTION - Rita Eisensmith, Mt Wolf, would like a
recipe for homemade chicken nuggets like the ones served
at McDonalds.
QUESTION - Arlene Myers, Wellsville, would like a
recipe for knepp and raisins. It is light and fluffy like
shortcake made on top of the stove, and is eaten with milk.
QUESTION - Carolyn Strait, Neshamc Station, N.J.,
would like a recipe for baked corn using cottage cheese.
QUESTION - J. Hackman, Mill Hall, would like a recipe
for glycerine soap.
QUESTION - Marcella Mitchell, Glen Mills, would like to
know how to clean a brass bed. She writes. 'lt looks like
brass. How can I tell the difference between brass and
iron. If iron, what and how can that be cleaned 7 "
QUESTION - Mrs. B. Rohrer, would like a tartar sauce
recipe that is similar to Heilman’s.
QUESTION - Leen Jones, Pen Argyl, would like to know
how to dry apples without using a dehydrator.
QUESTION - Mrs Carl Pickel, Felton, would like a recipe
for making tongue souse and souse made from pig’s feet,
QUESTION - V Martin of Springfield, Va , would like a
recipe for oleo margarine using the basic ingredients of oil,
powdered milk, water, etc
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 - Jean Entnken, West Chester, requested
recipes for Apple Cider Jelly and Brandied Apple Cider
Jelly. Thanks go to Floy Baker, Mohnton, for this recipe
she clipped from the Nov. 1985 issue of Good
Housekeeping
About 7 8-ounce jelly glasses and lids or other 8-ounce
heat-safe glasses
Paraffin
4 cups apple cider or apple juice
1 13/i-ouncel 3 /i-ounce package powdered fruit pectin
5 cups sugar
l A cup apple brandy (optional)
Prepared glasses and lids Check glasses to be sure
there are no nicks, cracks or sharp edges Wash glasses
and lids in hot soapy water, rinse well Invert lids on dish
rack or clean towel, away from draft, to dram dry To
sterilize glasses, place glasses in large saucepot or kettle
and cover with water, over high heat, heat to boiling
Reduce heat to medium, boil gently 10 minutes Leave
glasses m hot water until just before putting jelly on to
cook, then remove and invert on clean towels to dram
Melt paraffin. Place paraffin in small clean can, place
can m 2-quart saucepan filled with 1 inch water Over
medium heat, heat, uncovered, until paraffin melts, keep
warm
In 5-quart Dutch oven or saucepan, mix apple cider and
pectin; over high heat, heat to boiling, stirring frequently,
immediately stir in sugar Stirring constantly, heat until
mixture comes to a full rolling boil; boil 1 minute Remove
from heat, with metal spoon, skim foam. If you like, stir in
apple brandy
Immediately ladle jelly into glasses to within V? inch from
top Into each glass, quickly pour about 1 tablespoon hot
paraffin over jelly to make 1/8-mch-thick layer that covers
jelly completely, spreading paraffin with tip of spoon so it
touches side of glass all around Prick any air bubbles in
paraffin When cool cover glasses with lids Store opened
jelly in refrigerator to use up within 1 month Store
unopened jelly m cool, dark dry ulace to rse up within 1
vr j r Makes about seven S-ounne glasses About 40
ca'ones per tablespoon
ANSWER Connie Kre -let Manheim requested a
recipe for darnsh Thanks go to 1 A Peachy Belleville for
the following recipe
Cider Jelly
Christmas Craft Market Set For Nov, 22, 23
RICHBORO - The fifth annual
Pennsylvania Christmas Craft
Market will be held Nov. 22 and 23,
1986 at the York Interstate
Fairgrounds’ Memorial Hall in
York.
This major holiday craft market
is co-sponsored by the Penn
sylvania Designer-Craftsmen and
the York Towne Chapter of the
Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen.
The show features 150 juried
Pennsylvania Guild craftsmen
who will be presenting their
quality handcrafted wares for sale.
Easy Drop Danish
V* cup butter or margarine
Va cup sugar
2 cups flour
V? teaspoon salt
2 /s cup milk
1 egg
2 Vi teaspoons baking powder
Preserves, any flavor
Heat oven to 375° F Mix margarine or butter and
sugar Sift together dry ingredients Add to mixture
alternately with milk and eggs. (Beat milk and eggs.) Stir
just enough to moisten dry ingredients. Drop by rounded
tablespoonfuls onto lightly greased cookie sheet
Make a shallow well in center of each with back of spoon.
Fill with 1 teaspoon preserves (or more if well is larger).
Spread around a little, then drop a teaspoon of batter on
top of preserves Bake until golden, 10 to 15 minutes
While warm, drizzle with glaze
Glaze: Beat % cup powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon warm
water and V* teaspoon vanilla until smooth.
ANSWER - Mrs. Lillian Edgm, Sewell, NJ , requested a
recipe for cheese soup Thanks go to Mary L Wmgert, New
Bloomfield, for the following recipe
Cheese Soup
Vi cup butter
6 tablespoons flour
1 quart rich milk
2 cups grated American cheese
Vi cup chopped celery
l/ p cup chopped green peppers
'/? cup chopped onions
Vi cup chopped carrot
2 cups chicken stock
Melt 6 tablespoons butter Add flour, blending well
Pour in milk gradually, stirring constantly Bring to boil
Add cheese. Remove from heat but keep warm Melt
remaining butter in another pan Add chopped vegetables
Saute to a light brown Add stock. Mix well Combine two
mixtures Reheat. Serves 6
A wide variety of unique,
tiaditional and contemporary
crafts in all media, including
pottery, fabric, wood, stained
glass, theorem, fraktur, quilting,
scherenschnitte, candles, weaving,
jewelry, tin, iron, toys, basketry,
and Early American decorations
will be available for sale.
Demonstrating their crafts at their
booths will be Jay Weber, wood
turning, Marion Oyler, weaving,
and Judith Eby, spinning.
The York Chorus will entertain
visitors with Christmas songs, and
again this year there will be a door
prize raffle of a Christmas tree
chock-full of handcrafted or
naments, made by members of the
Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen.
Raffle tickets may be purchased
during the show, with the winner to
be drawn at the end of the show.
York is easy to reach via 1-83 and
US 30. The Fairgrounds are south
of US 30 through RT 74. There is
free parking adjacent to Memorial
Hall, with food and drinks
available inside Admission is $3,
children 12 and under are free.
Ritchie Wins
Berks Greenhand
Contest
Scott Ritchie, the 14-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Emery Ritchie of
Geigertown, won the Berks County
FFA Greenhand contest. The
contest was part of the 1986 Berks
County FFA Leadership Training
Conference.
Scott is a member of the Twin
Valley FFA Chapter studying
horticulture. The Greenhand
contest tests a student’s knowledge
of FFA history and ceremonies.
Second place went to Scott
Simmon of the Hamburg Chapter.
Amy Yuninger of Twin Valley
placed third. Scott Yourse of Oley
Valley was fourth, John Kleinfelter
of Conrad Weiser, fifth; Chris Blatt
of Conrad Weiser, sixth; Dean
DeTurk of Kutztown, seventh;
Dennis Cooper of Kutztown,
eigthth; Jonathan Grimes ot
Hamburg, nmeth, 1 >arr> Zeller of
Oley Valley, tenth, and Jeff Brown
of Tulpehocken twelfth.
In the chapter farmer contest for
second year FFA members, Kirk
Sattazahn of Conrad Weiser was
first, Rick Hicks of Twin Valley,
second, Jeremy Deysher of Oley
Valley, third, and Stephen Tice of
Tulpehocken, fourth.
Contest participants were
chosen to represent their
respective chapters Questions for
the contest are selected from a
all