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Family Favorites
Family favorites range from
casseroles to desserts. Some are
recipes handed down through the
generations. Some are recipes
recently developed.
Although many people differ in
preferred tastes, a universal favo
rite is chocolate chip cookies.
Here are recipes you will want
to try.
SOUTHERN RAISIN PIE
cup granulated sugar
tablespoons flour
egg. well beaten
tablespoons lemon juice
teaspoons grated lemon rind
teaspoon salt
cup seeded raisins
2 cups water
Mix sugar, flour, and egg. Add
lemon juice and rind, salt, raisins,
and water. Cook over hot water for
15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Cool. Pour into pastry-lined pan
and place strips of pastry over fill
ing in lattice design. Bake at 450
degrees for 10 minutes, reduce
temperature to 350 degrees and
bake 20 minutes longer. Makes 1
9-inch pie.
PUMPKIN COOKIES
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
l'/j cups pumpkin
1 egg
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
'A teaspoon salt
1 cup raisins
1 cup butterscotch morsels
1 cup pecans or walnuts,
optional
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Cream shortening and sugar;
add 1 'A cups pumpkin and the egg.
Combine flour, baking soda, cin
namon, and salt. Mix the dry ingre
dients into the creamed mixture.
Stir in butterscotch morsels, rai
sins, and nuts. Spoon dough onto
the ungreased cookie sheets and
bake at 375 degrees for 10 to 12
minutes. Frost while still warm
with butterscotch frosting.
Combine in a saucepan:
3 tablespoons butter
4 teaspoons milk
A cup brown sugar
Stir until sugar dissolves. Stir in
1 cup confectioners’ sugar and
% teaspoon vanilla until smooth.
Makes 4 to 5 dozen.
Beth Innerst
Dallastown
Recipe Topics
If you have recipes for the topics listed below, please share
them with us. We welcome your recipes, but ask that you
include accurate measurements, a complete list of ingre
dients and clear instructions with each recipe you submit.
Send your recipes to Lou Ann Good, Lancaster Farming, P.O.
Box 609, Ephrata, PA 17522. Recipes should reach our office
one week before publishing date.
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GINGER SNAPS
1 cup shortening
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup baking molasses
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
'/i teaspoon salt
T/i teaspoons ginger
A teaspoon cloves
'A teaspoon cinnamon
Combine ingredients. Chill.
Roll into balls. Roll in sugar and
bake on ungreased cookie sheets.
Mrs. Victor Woerner
Gettysburg
CHOCOLATE CHIP
COOKIES
'/. cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup ricotta cheese
1 egg
I V* teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour
'A teaspoon salt
'A teaspoon baking soda
6 ounces chocolate chips
'A cup nuts, optional
Cream butter, add sugar. Cream
and add ricotta cheese, egg. and
vanilla. Add dry ingredients, cho
colate chips, and nuts.
Carolyn Martin
Wolmelsdorf
PHILLY CHIPPERS
1 cup butter
8 ounces cream cheese
% cup granulated sugar
V* cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
2'/>cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
A teaspoon salt
12 ounces chocolate chips
Peg Koser
Lancaster
'/> cup nuts, chopped fine
Cream butter, cheese, sugars,
egg, and vanilla. Beat until fluffy.
Combine dry ingredients, add to
creamed mixture and stir until
blended. Add chocolate chips and
nuts. Drop by teaspoonful onto
greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375
degrees for IS to 18 minutes.
Lona Heyd
MAPLE SYRUP
DROP COOKIES
1 cup maple syrup
1 egg
'A cup shortening
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups flour
'A teaspoon salt
IA cups nuts
Chocolate chips or raisins, as
desired
Combine ingredients and drop
by spoonful onto cookie sheet
Bake at 350 degrees for 10
minutes. Lona Heyd
ULTIMATE CHOCOLATE
CHIP COOKIE
V* cup butter-flavored
shortening
I'/ cups firmly packed brown
sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 egg
VA cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
% teaspoon baking soda
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup pecan pieces, optional
Heat oven to 37S degrees.
Cream shortening, brown sugar,
milk, and vanilla. Blend until
creamy. Blend in egg. Combine
flour, salt, and baking soda. Add to
creamed mixture gradually. Stir in
chips and nuts. If nuts are omitted,
use VA cups chocolate chips. Drop
by rounded tablespoon onto
ungreased cookie sheet Bake at
37S degrees for 8 to 10 minutes for
chewy cookies. Do not overbake
unless you want crisp cookies.
Cool on baking sheet for 2
minutes. Makes about 3 dozen
3-inch cookies.
A Quarryville Reader
Lois Bloom, Johnstown
(Turn to Pago B 8)
Family favorites vary from casseroles to desserts.
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.) This week’s featured recipe comes
from the “Society of Farm Women Of Pennsylvania Cookbook.”
This handsome spiral-bound cookbook is 442 pages illustrated with
dramatic pictures of the past The recipes are from Farm Women mem
bers across the state.
Lancaster Farming will give two of these cookbooks as prizes for
the annual Recipe Dairy Drawing. Many other prizes will also be
given.
To be eligible for the drawing, send a recipe using a sizable quantity
of at least one of the following dairy products such as milk, cream, sour
cream, butter, yogurt, buttermilk, cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, cream
cheese, or any other hard or soft cheese.
Print or type your recipe and be sure to give accurate measurements,
temperatures, times, and sizes of baking dishes to use. Be sure to print
your name, full address, and phone number on the recipe. Please
include a few paragraphs about yourself or your family. Although it is
not required, we’d like a picture of you or your family to include with
the recipe.
Send your entry to Lou Ann Good. Lancaster Farming Dairy Recipe
Drawing, P.O. Box 609, 1 E. Main St., Ephrata, PA 17522.
Only one recipe per family, please. Send it immediately as the dead
line is postmarked by June 1.
To order a Farm Women’s Cookbook, send $18.50 to Naomi Bupp,
Box 157, R.D.2, Glen Rock, PA 17327.
If your garden is producing an abundance of rhubarb, here is an easy
recipe using rhubarb. The recipe from the cookbook was submitted by
Grace Krout of York County Society 2.
RHUBARB CAKE
1 quart rhubarb, cut and sliced
3-ounce package strawberry Jell-0
V* cup sugar
1 package yellow cake mix
1 cup water
Grease bottom of 9x13-inch cake pan. Spread cut-up rhubarb on
bottom of pan. Sprinkle Jell-0 over the rhubarb, then spread sugar over
the mixture. Add water to cake mix and blend. Pour mixture over rhu
barb and Jell-O. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
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