88-Lancasier Fanning, Saturday, January 9, 1993 If you are looking for a recipe but can’t find it, send your recipe request to Lou Ann Good, Cook’s Question Corner, In care of Lancaster Farming, P.O. Box 609, Ephrata, PA 17522. There’s no need to send a SASE. If we receive an answer to your ques tion, we will publish it as soon as possible. Answers to recipe requests should be sent to the same address. QUESTION Florence Nauman, Manheim, would like a recipe for mulled cider angel food cake. If we do not receive an answer to this request, we will assume no one has the recipe and drop the request. QUESTION Jane Heckman, Effort, would like a recipe for a white cake that has sour cream in the batter. After pouring the batter in the baking pan, it is drizzled with melted chocolate chips and baked. When you eat the cake, you find swirls of thick chocolate. QUESTION Anne Good, Lititz, would like a recipe for sesame chicken soup. QUESTION Georgia Bond, Gandeeville, W. Va., would like a recipe for canning strawberries with epsom salts. QUESTION Ruth Edwards, Kennett Square, asks what effect epsom salts have on strawberries? Is it a natural laxative or what? Can someone answer her question. I know that several old recipes used epsom salts for making jam, and it seems to work as a thicken ing agent rather than a laxative, but I don’t know why. QUESTION Alice Steere, Chepachet, Rl, would like the recipe for the gravy McDonald's serves on its biscuits and gravy around the Columbus, Ohio area. QUESTION Jennifer Rake, East Stroudsburg, would like to know how and when to harvest dry soy beans and how to roast them. QUESTION Marion Steger, Groton, N.Y., would like the recipes for Aunt Effie’s Hillsborough Moist Apple Nut Layer Cake with butterscotch frosting and the Turn- Of-The Century Cake. QUESTION Linda McCuean, New Galilee, writes that her 15-year-old son eats breakfast cereal like there is no tomorrow. She would like a recipe to transform plain shredded wheat cereal into the frosted variety. QUESTION Susan Howard, Mt. Pleasant Mills, would like a recipe for lemon poppy seed muffins made with sour cream such as those served by Kathryn Flint’s Restaurant in Jim Thorpe. QUESTION An Elizabethtown reader would like a sand tart cookie recipe that uses sour cream and egg yolks. She said the recipe had appeared in this paper several years ago. Did anyone cut out the recipe so that they can send it in for us to reprint? QUESTION N. Martin requests a recipe for Double Chocolate Sour Cream Drop Cookies. It is a cookie made with white chocolate chips in the cookie dough and melted chips in the frosting. QUESTION Maybelle Page, Oxford, would like a recipe for Tar Heel Pie. She writes that several years ago she was travelling and saw the recipe printed on a post card. She writes, "Of course using no sense, I failed to purchase the post card and have'kicked myself zil lions of times since.” Readers, can you come to her rescue? QUESTION Sonja Zehr, Croghan, N.Y. would like a recipe for cinnamon (hard candy coated) apples. The unpeeled apple is put on a stick and dipped in the hot syrup. QUESTION —Jean A. Read from Catasauqua would like a recipe for Pumpkin Whoopie Pies. QUESTION Eileen Newcomer, Mount Joy, requests a recipe for Banana Whoopie Pies. QUESTION Linda Modica, Asbury, N.J., would like a recipe for the thick custard filling used in the extra large eclairs sold at an Amish stand at the Meadowbrook Market in Leola. QUESTION William Mende, Elizabethville, would like a recipe for Kielbasa that tastes like that sold by Hill shire Farms, and a recipe for a German Bratwurst (pork sausage) cured'and cold-smoked but ready-to-eat, 'and made with caraway seed, pepper, and garlic. Also want a creamy, not grainy, liverwurst recipe, a mettwurst Cook’s Question Comer Keep It Simple (Continued from Page B 7) FLORENTINE BEEF PINWHEEL VA pounds low-fat ground beef 3 A cup fresh bread crumbs 2 egg whites, slightly beaten 1 teaspoon salt % teaspoon pepper 1 package (10 ounces) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and well drained 'A cup shredded mozzarella cheese 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan recipe, and blutwurst recipe. These are German saus age recipes that William remembers from his youth of 40 years ago. ANSWER Charles Creasy, Wrightsville, wanted recipes for making turtle meat, especially turtle soup. Thanks to William Mende, Elizabethville, for sending a recipe that he modified from a recipe fround in the Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cookery. 3 pounds turtle meat Cut meat out of shell and boil in salted water. Skin and debone. Dice meat and simmer covered in broth for 30 minutes (amount of broth depends on whether you want the stew to be thick or thin). Don’t stir excessively or meat will string! Add 1 /« cup butter and season with salt and pepper. Combine VS cup heavy cream or milk and 2 beaten egg yolks. If desired, you can add a dash of hot pepper sauce. Remove stew from heat and stir cream mixture in. Return to heat but don’t boil. Remove from heat and stir in VS cup sherry or Madiera. Serve. ANSWER Georgia Bond, Gandeeville, W. Va., wanted recipes for chicken pot pie, pepper cabbage, and funnel cakes. Thanks to Maria Musser, Rothsville, and others for sending recipes. Chicken Pot Pie 1 large onion 7 carrots 5 potatoes 1 fryer chicken Salt and pepper to taste Cook chicken in salted water until tender; debone Add chopped chicken to broth from cooked chicken Peel and dice onion, carrots, and potatoes. Add to broth Cook until tender. Add: 12 ounces pasta bow ties Simmer pasta until tender. Serve hot. Pepper Cabbage Chop in blender and drain well; 8 stalks celery 1 green or 1 red pepper 1 head cabbage Mix sugar and vinegar mixture. Add to cabbage, pep pers, and celery. If it is too dry, mix another batch of vine gar and sugar. “This is easy and great tasting,” says Maria. 2 eggs 1 % cups milk, beaten together 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 'A teaspoon salt 2 to 4 cups oil in pan. heated to 365 degrees. Mix together ingredients. Pour in funnel and hold fin ger underneath opening until ready to pour. Pour batter into hot oil, swirling together. Fry until golden on both sides. Remove. Drain on paper towel and sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar. ANSWER Ella Rissler, Port Trevorton, wanted a recipe for blackberry freezer jam for dfabetics. Wilma Wenger. Womelsdorf, said that it is possible to make jellies without sugar for diabetics by using Low Methoxyl Pectin and di-calcium phosphate, which are available in natural food stores. Low Methoxyl Peetin requires the calcium to set whereas High Methoxyl Pectin requires the sugar. This method is not difficult but the procedure - is different, Wilma wrote. For more information, send a SASE to Wilma Wenger, R.D. #l, Box 110, Womels dorf. PA 19567. Sugarless Blackberry Freezer Jam 2 teaspoons unflavored gelatin Vi cup unsweetened grape juice 2 cups blackberries Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over 2 tablespoons grape juice. Place remaining ingredients in a saucepan. Stir and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in the softened gelatin and cook until dissolved. Cool. Store in refrigerator or freezer. cheese 1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning '/• teaspoon garlic powder 2 tablespoons catsup Combine ground beef, bread crumbs, egg whites, salt and pep per, mixing lightly but thoroughly. Combine spinach, cheeses, Italian seasoning and garlic powder. Place beef mixture on waxed pap er and pat into 14x10-inch rectan gle. Spread spinach mixture over beef to l A inch of edges on all sizes. Roll up, jelly-roll fashion, starting at short end of rectangle. Press beef mixture over spinach filling at both ends. Place loaf, Turtle Soup Funnel Cakes seam side down,