88-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 12, 1987 HCook ’s Question Corner 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 - Mrs. Donna Steele, Vintondale, would like a recipe fdr a dessert called Havanna Banana. It has a tapioca base. QUESTION - Carol Fantom, Delta, would like a recipe for soft and fluffy biscuits like those served at fast food restaurants. QUESTION - Salina Peight, Belleville, would like a recipe for canning chili soup and vegetable soup without potatoes. QUESTION - Mrs. Melvin Beiler, Elverson, requests a recipe for canning vegetable soup using beef broth and she also would like a barbecue sauce recipe to can. QUESTION - Mrs. Karen Moyer of Portage requests a recipe for soft chocolate chip cookies like Archway makes. QUESTION - Mrs. Glenn Martin of Ephrata requests a recipe for orange sherbert. She would like to know if it is made in an ice cream freezer like regular ice cream. QUESTION - Mrs. Barbara J. Germer, Conestoga, requests a recipe for spice cake that has the frosting baked on the cake. The recipe had been passed on from her grandmother but Mrs. Germer lost the copy. QUESTION - Mrs. Daniel Mosemann, Lehighton, requests two recipes. She would like a recipe for corn cob jelly that is delicate like pear honey in color and tex ture. Also, she would like a recipe for jelly that uses tomatoes. She tasted some from a Mennonite family that she thinks used Hush tomatoes to make the jelly. QUESTION - Mrs. Audrey Hull, Cleona, requests a recipe for Rhubarb Ginger Jam. QUESTION - M. J. Willaw, Millerstown, requests a recipe for corn mush that uses flour and sweet corn instead of corn meal. She said her grandmother used to cook it until thick then when it was cold, she sliced it and fried it like mush made with cotn meal. QUESTION - Linda M. Marks would like more diabe tic recipes. Since several of you have requested diabe tic recipes, we will run a special selection of them in the column “Home on the Range” if enough recipes are mailed to us. QUESTION - Mrs. Corinne Hoos, Luringston Manor, N.Y., requests the recipe for “No Crust Cheese Cake” which appeared in a previous issue of this paper. She said that she made it numerous times and her whole family loved it, but now, she can not find the recipe QUESTION - Edna M. Kleinhans, Conestoga, requests a recipe for pickle relish like the Heinz brand name tastes. QUESTION - Mrs. E. Martin, Narvon, requests a recipe for Haystack Dinner, a layered meal that includes mashed potatoes, which is served in individual dishes She would also like a recipe for stewed tomatoes. QUESTION - Virginia Kalp, Stahls'town, requests a recipe for cabbage and noodles. She is not sure of the correct name for it. ANSWER - Barbara S. King, Atglen, requested a recipe for tomato butter. Thanks Rhonda A. Ruby, Smock, and Jan Reinharder, Dillsburg, for sending the following recipes. 3 quarts tomatoes 1 pound sugar A lemon Stick cinnamon Scald and remove skins from tomatoes. Place in kettle with water to cover and boil down until thick. Add sugar and lemon which was sliced rind attached. Break up cinnamon and add. Cook slowly for 45 minutes until thick and smogth. Fill jars and seal. Tomato Butter Jan Reinharder Dillsburg Tomato Butter 5 pounds peeled tomatoes, sliced 1 cup vinegar 3 cups sugar 1 small stick cinnamon % ounce ginger root % tablespoon whole cloves Combine tomatoes, vinegar and sugar in large kettle. Mix well. Tie spices in small cloth bag; add to tomato mixture. Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Pour into hot sterilized jars and seal. ANSWER - Mrs. Paul Beyer, East Greenville, cannot find dear-jell in local grocery stores. She asked if there is a substitute or another brand name for it. Thanks Joanne E. Fritz, Ickesburg, who suggests purchasing it at a bulk food store operated by the Amish or Mennonite since many grocery stores do not carry it. She also said she has a daughter who lives in the Bellville area who buys dear-jell at Peight’s Store which she believes is located in the same area as East Greenville. Thanks Lydia Stoltzfus, Paradise, who suggests that corn starch can be substituted for the dear-jell. ANSWER - Mrs. Karen Moyer requested a recipe for Molasses Cookies that tastes like Archway's. Thanks Esther Smoker, Leola, who sent the following recipe that she believes is almost identical to Archway molas ses cookies. Molasses Crinkle Cookies 1 cup lard 1 cup brown sugar, packed 1 egg Vi cup dark molasses V 2 cup nonfat dry milk solids 2 teaspoons baking soda % teaspoon salt !4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground ginger % cup wheat germ 2/4 cups flour Cream lard, sugar and egg. Add molasses and dry milk. Blend in soda, salt, spices and wheat germ. Stir in flour. Form into 1-2 inch balls. Roll in granulated sugar. Place on greased cookie sheet and sprinkle each with a few drops water. Bake at 325 degrees until brown. Don’t overbake. Wait one minute before removing baked cookies from cookie sheet. Makes 4 dozen 3-inch cookies. ANSWER - Lydia Stoltzfus, Paradise, wanted to know if it is possible to make jellies without sugar for diabetics. Thanks Joann Niebauer, Irvona, who said “Slim Set" is available in some supermarkets. Use sugar substitutes with it. Also you can use Low Methoxyl Pec tin (LMP) and diCalcium Phosphate. It can be ordered from Walnut Acres, Deptment OG, Penn Creek, PA 17862. Also thanks to Sara Jane Krall, Lebanon, who said jellies and jams can be made with Mrs. Wages Light Home-Jell Pectin. She said few stores carry it but it can be purchased by mail: Mrs. Wages - Dacus, Inc., P.O. Box 2067, Tupelo, MS 38803-2067. Enclose $1.50/box. Sara Jane included several diabetic recipes which we will use in a special issue. However, below is her recipe for a sugarless jam. Fresh Peach Spread ' 2 cups prepared fresh peaches 1 teaspoon lemon juice 3 A cups cold water Vk teaspoon granulated gelatin Artifical sweetener to substitute for 3 tablespoons of sugar % teaspoons pure orange extract. Select fresh, ripe peaches about 1 pound. Pare and pit peaches. Cut peaches in small bite-sized pieces. Measure 2 cups. Place in heavy saucepan with lemon Juice and add 1 /z cup cold water. Bring to a boil, simmer gently for about 8 minutes; stirring frequently. Mean while soak gelatin in % cup cold water. Remove cooked peaches from heat. Add gelatin, artifical sweetnere and orange extract. Mix well to blend flavors and dissolve gelatin. Turn into 2 or 3 small hot jars; cover lightly and allow to cool. Cover tightly and store in refrigerator. Use as spread on bread, toast, muffins or crackers. 7 calo- Rhonda A. Ruby Smock PA 4-H Program Receives National Grant PENNSYLVANIA Pennsyl vania is one of six states to receive a grant to implement innovative 4-H commodity marketing prog rams, according to B. Alan Snider, director of the 4-H program in Pen nsylvania. The grants were offered this year for the first time from the National 4-H Council Education Fund. The idea for the grants came from the Commodity Marketing Symposium, sponsored by the Chicago Board of Trade, held each spring in Chicago. The commodity marketing program teaches 4-H members about the free marketing system, by exchanging major commodities and concepts underlying the free enterprise system. The main objec tive of the grant program is to show, young people that commodity marketing may be studied as part of a particular 4-H project area or may be related to any project in concrete and practical ways. The funds will be used to help young people sec the connection between their 4-H project work and the role of their project in the functioning of our economy. Pennsylvania’s $5OO grant will be used to expand a public auction approach to marketing pigs and lambs as an extension of the 4-H swine and sheep breeding projects. A Youth to Youth Pig and Lamb Sale will be expanded to teach members, leaders, parents and other producers required produc tion, marketing and purchasing skills. Increased involvement in the commodity marketing prog ram will enable 4-H’ers to apply economic marketing and manage ment principles and tools to their other 4-H projects. Pennsylvania will use the grant to facilitate creative approaches for learning commodity marketing skills, expand participation and involvement, provide opportuni ties for sharing skills developed and knowledge gained and to explore career opportunities related to commodity marketing. In Pennsylvania, 4-H is adminis tered through Penn State’s College of Agriculture. Other states receiv ing the grants are: Idaho, Indiana, Nevada, South Carolina and Virginia. Basic Sewing Workshop If you have always wanted to sew, here is your chance to learn. If you sew, you can wear your own creations. This workshop is spon sored by the Delaware County Cooperative Extension Service of The Pennsylvania State Universi ty, and will be held at the Hunt Club Building at Rose Tree Park, 1521 N. Providence Road, Media. The cost is $2l and is due by Sep tember 24. Make your check pay able to Home Economics Work shops and send it to D.C.E.S. at the Rose Tree Park Address. Sessions will be held from 1:00 to 3:00 on October 1,8; 15, 22, 29 and Nov. 5. BREAKING MILK RECORDS! Lancaster Forming Carriot DHIA Roports Each Month!
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