88-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 24, 1993
If you are looking for a recipe but can't find It, tend
your recipe request to Lou Ann Good, Cook’s Question
Comer, In care of Lancaster Fanning, P.O. Box 609, Eph
rata, PA 17522. There's no need to send a BASE. If we re
ceive 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 Mae Pugh would like a recipe for chicken
rice soup like’that served at Ponderosa.
QUESTION Mrs. Kenneth Ulmer, Waymart, wants a
recipe to can a mixture of mushrooms, onions, green pep
pers, and oil in pint jars.
QUESTION Patricia Corkell, Henderson, Md., would
like a recipe for pickled garlic.
QUESTION —Sherry Craner, Bridgeton, N. J., would like a
recipe for chocolate pasta, made with wheat flour. It is used
for a dessert topped with sauteed strawberries and white
chocolate.
QUESTION Lisa Kerrigan, Bath, would like a recipe for
Kosher Dill pickles that taste like the Claussen pickles that are
stored in the refrigerator.
QUESTION Melanie Kozlowski, Kingsby, would like a
recipe for mousse such as that served at Ponderosa.
QUESTION—Jessie Mayall, Mansfield, would like a good
recipe for a potato bun that has frosting drizzle on top. Jessie
remembers when she was little, a friend’s mother always had
a big plate of these on the table.
QUESTION —Eleanor Hertzog, King of Prussia, would like
a recipe for 7-grain bread using sesame seeds, caraway
seeds, and it looks like rye bread.
QUESTION Pauline Fox, Bangor, wants a recipe for
Lobster Bisque such as that served at the Nittany Lion Inn at
State College.
QUESTION Geraldine Long, Elkton, Md., would like
recipes for cooking October beans. Also, how should they be
planted and cared for.
QUESTION Mrs. Norman Brown, Clementon, N.J.,
would like to know where to purchase dried mushrooms in
bulk.
QUESTION Marie George, Churchville, is looking for a
recipe for peach or apple long cake. It is made with raised
dough but rolled very thin.
QUESTION Marie George, Churchville, would like jam
and jelly recipes using grape juice to replace all the sugar in
the recipe.
QUESTION Joyce Diffenderfer, Manheim, would like a
recipe to make maraschino cherries from the light sweet cher
ries called Amish cherries.
QUESTION Susan Rogers, Harrisburg, would like to
know where she could send for a catalogue that advertises
plastic 8-inch pots for plants and foil paper to wrap around the
pots.
QUESTION Mary Lockard, Columbia, would like a
recipe for chocolate chip cookies made with cream cheese.
ANSWER—Bette Lawrence, Honesdale, wanted a recipe
for pineapple pie using cream cheese and sweetened con
densed milk.
Tropical Cheesecake
1 graham cracker crust
2 bananas, sliced
1 cup crushed pineapple, including juice
6 ounces cream cheese, softened
14-ounces sweetened condensed milk
'/« cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
Crushed pineapple and shredded coconut for garnish
Line bottom of crust with sliced bananas and crushed
pineapple. In small bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Gra
dually beat in condensed milk until smooth. Blend in lemon
juice and vanilla. Pour into crust. Chill 3 hours. Serve garn
ished with pineapple and coconut.
ANSWER Martha Weaver, East Earl, wanted a recipe
for graham crackers that taste like real honey grahams.
Thanks to Anne Nolt, Reinholds, for sending a recipe.
Graham Crackers
’/< cup honey
'A cup soft butter
'A cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups whole wheat flour
'A teaspoon baking powder
I 'A teaspoon baking soda
Pinch salt
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Beat together honey and
butter, add milk and vanilla. Combine dry ingredients and stir
into wet mixture until well blended. Place dough on buttered
Cook’s
Question
Comer
cookie sheets and roll out to a thickness of'/«-inch. Cut into
254 -inch squares and prick-with a fork. Bake in preheated
oven for Bto 10 minutes or until brown. Cool on rack. Store in
airtight container. Yield: approximately 3'A dozen.
ANSWER Estella Fink, Allentown, wanted a recipe for
Apricot Crumb Pie. Thanks to a reading for sending the follow
ing recipe.
Apricot Crumb Pie
1 pound dried apricots
1 quart water
A teaspoon salt
Bring to a boil, boil 30 minutes.
Thicken with Y i cup cornstarch and 1 cup cold water made
into a paste. Add 1 'A cups sugar. Cook until clear and sugar is
dissolved, cool. Pour filling into a 9-inch and an 8-inch
unbaked pie shell. Sprinkle with crumbs.
Crumbs:
1 cup flour
'A cup sugar
'A teaspoon salt
'A cup butter
Mix together ingredients to make crumbs. Bake at 425
degrees for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 375 and bake for 35
to 40 minutes.
ANSWER —Bette Lawrence, Honesdale, wanted a recipe
for strawberry rhubarb custard pie that uses tapioca. Thanks
to Deb Talada, Cheming, N.Y., for sending the following
recipe.
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
3 cups rhubarb, cut up
3 cups strawberries, cut up
'A ■% cups sugar
VA tablespoons tapioca
'A cup orange juice
Pie crust
Mix filling ingredients in a bowl and let set 15 minutes to sof
ten tapioca. Put filling in a pie shell and cover. Bake at 400
degrees for 20 minutes, turn oven temperature to 375
degrees, and bake for 30 minutes or until done.
TAKING
TIME
by Rebecca Escott
Extension Home Economist
Taking Time to Negotiate
with Adult Children
In my local newsletter, I recen
tly offered a publication, “Young
Adults Returning Home: How to
Make it Work.” As people
requested the booklet, I heard a
variety of stories children
returning from college for the
summer, a nephew being dis
charged from the Marines, a
mother moving in with her son.
Families in many stages of life
face the challenge of working out
a positive arrangement when adult
children live with older relatives.
Adult Development Specialist,
Barbara Davis, writes, “Both gen
erations may need to outgrow old
patterns of behavior to make way
for more appropriate ones at this
stage of life.”
Children may benefit from this
living arrangement in a variety of
ways including:
• Having the opportunity to
save money toward an important
goal. Even when the child contri
butes to the household expenses, it
is less expensive than living alone.
• Having an emotional support
system during a transition.
In this living situation, the
parent, aunt or other older adult
has the opportunity to:
• Get to know their child as an
adult and to build stronger family
ties.
• Address unresolved problems
and begin new relationships on a
healthy footing.
■ Gain financial and physical
assistance around the home.
As good as these sound, you
should consider the possible dis
advantages before agreeing to the
arrangement. Lack of privacy,
lifestyle differences, and
increased work around the home
can all be disadvantages for the
family. The young adult should
move toward independence. A
combined household may be too
“comfortable," and he or she may
delay this important growth.
Family members face the chal
lenge of offering support without
jeopardizing emotional separate
ness. There is a need to outgrow
behaviors that foster the relation
ship of “dependent child” and
“authority figure parent.” Davis
comments. “If your son expects
you to continue doing his persoal
laundry, he is falling back into the
dependent child role. If you tell
your daughter who she can and
cannot date, you are excerising
inappropriate authority.”
In order to keep things from
falling back into the patterns
known during childhood, set up a
family meeting to make some
important decisions. It is perfectly
healthy, and wise, to communicate
the message, “We are happy to
have you home for awhile, but
don’t expgct things to be as they
were in the past I will not be here
to cook supper every night”
As cold as it may sound. I’ve
found that having a written record
of the decisions made during this
family meeting helps settle future
conflicts.
✓ What rules will we follow
regarding guests? How many?
Overnight? How often?
✓ What financial obligations
do we each have? Part of becom
ing a responsible adult is learning
to budget for necessities. You may
want to consider asking the young
adult to contribute IS percent of
her income toward household
operation or to be responsible for
particular bills.
✓ How will household jobs
Peachy
(Continued from Pago B 6)
DUTCH PEACH KUCHEN
X A cup butler
1 cup firmly packed brown
sugar
l'/«cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
A teaspoon baking powder
'A teaspoon salt
'A teaspoon nutmeg
3 cups sliced peaches
'A cup raisins, cut up
Vanilla ice cream
Heat oven to 375 degrees.
Cream butter; add sugar and beat
until light and fluffy. Combine
flour, cinnamon, baking powder,
salt, and nutmeg; gradually add to
creamed mixture. (Mixture will be
crumbly). Set aside 1 cup. Press
remaining crumb mixture on bot
tom of 8-inch square baking pan
extending 'A -inch up sides of pan.
Combine A cup crumb mixture
with peaches; arrange peach mix
ture in shell. Combine raisins and
remaining 'A cup crumb mixture;
sprinkle on top of peaches. Bake
40 to 45 minutes. Cut in squares.
Serve warm with vanilla ice
cream.
PEACH COBBLER
IVi teaspoon cornstarch or Clear
gel
'A teaspoon ground nutmeg
'A cup brown sugar
'/j cup water
4 cups peaches, sliced
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon butter
Biscuit dough
Combine cornstarch, nutmeg,
brown sugar, and water in a sauce
pan. Cook until thick. Add sliced
peaches, lemon juice, and butter.
Cook until peaches arc hot (about 5
minutes).
Pour mixture into a 8-inch round
cake pan. Spoon biscuit dough on
lop of hot peaches in 6 mounds..
Bake in preheated oven 400
degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
Biscuit dough; Sift together 1
cup flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, l'/a
teaspoons baking powder, and
'A teaspoon salt. Cut in 'A cup but
ter until mixture resembles coarse
crumbs. Combine 'A cup milk and
1 slightly beaten egg. Add all at
once to dry crumbs and stir until
just moist. Spoon on lop of hot
fruit filling.
like laundry, grocery shopping,
menu planning, meal preparation
and clean-up be handled? Will
these jobs be rotated?
✓ Will we keep each other
informed about our schedules?
How? What responsibility, if any,
do we have to share information if
plans have changed?
✓ How will the privacy needs
of both parties be met?
This conversation will be a dif
ficult one. Yet taking the time to
make reasonable decisions now
will set the stage for a positive
experience where everyone can
grow and feel both supported and
yet valued as an independent
adult