Bi4-lancaater Firming, Saturday, February 19, 1994
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
MOUNT JOY (Lancaster Co.)
About 125 members of District
Rhelda Royer, Lancaster; David Martin, Manhelm; Paul
Sauder, Silver Springs; and Mervin Myers, Mount Joy.
Quail Ridge Press Is Cookin’ Up Gumbo
BRANDON, MS. The Little Gumbo Book has sold
thousands of books in numerous printings to people all
over the world, and is now being reprinted for the sixth
lime. Though this new printing boasts a bright new cover
design, ardent fans of the book can be assured that the
book’s contents are unchanged. The recipes, instructions,
notes, and stories are as charming and timely as ever.
Author Gwen McKee, a native of Louisiana, admits she
has a passion for gumbo. Her purpose in writing the book
was to encourage people everywhere to enjoy this won
derfully warming, healthful dish. McKee feels that her
book dispells the myths that gumbo is expensive, that it
must contain seafood, and that it is difficult to make. “If
you can read and stir, and would like to impress your din
ner guests for less than 25 cents a bowl, then the art of
making good gumbo is right at your fingertips.”
McKee, also author of The Little New Orleans Cook
book, has taken the lime in The Little Gumbo Book to
explain important general aspects of gumbo preparation,
emphasizing such critical elements as the preparation of
roux and rice, stock and seasoning. Each recipe includes
personal notes from the author on the origin of the recipe,
making it a fun book to read. There is also a “Step-by-Step
to Great Gumbo” recipe that takes you through the whole
process with substitution suggestions, special tips, and
make-ahead/freeze preparation.
This beautifully designed, hardcover book even gives
the feeling of Creole cooking in its appearance: the New
Orleans-slyle borders, the Cajun-kitchen brick back
ground, the two-color text, and the attractive photographs
and drawings peppered throughout the book all contribute
to its special charm. The new cover design features a
drawing by New Orleans artist, Joseph A. Arrigo, of a
south Louisiana plantation, Oakley, where it seems some
one must surely be dishing up bowls of delicious gumbo
inside. The careful selection and testing of these unique,
appealing recipes has enabled The Little Gumbo Book:
Cook’s Question
(Continued from Page B 8)
ANSWER Joanne Weaver, Lancaster, wanted a recipe
for a soft, chewy oatmeal cookie with raisins, nuts, and a little
bit of spice, such as those served at Weis Markets. Thanks to
Carole Hawthorne, Mt. Airy, Md., for sending a recipe that she
said gets raves every time she serves the cookies.
Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies
1 cup seedless raisins
1 cup water
Vi cup shortening
IV4 cups sugar
2 cups quick oats
'A cup chopped nuts
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2% cups flour
Vi teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Vi teaspoon cloves
Simmer raisins and water in a saucepan over low heat until
raisins are plump, 20-30 minutes. Drain raisin liquid into mea
suring cup. Add water to make Vi cup liquid. Heat oven to 400
degrees.
Cream shortening, sugar, eggs, and vanilla. Stir in raisin
liquid. Blend flour, baking powder, soda, salt, and spices. Add
rolled oats, nuts, and raisins. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls
2-inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet; bake 8-10
minutes.
Cumberland Farms, BST Issues Concern ADC
7 (Donegal and Lititz locals) of the
Atlantic Dairy Cooperative (ADC)
gathered at their annual dinner
meeting last week here at the
Country Table Restaurant.
Robert M. Dever, secretary and
general manager of ADC.
reported, at fiscal year ending July
31. 1993, a total net income of
$594,259,302 for the cooperative,
up $11.77 million from fiscal year
1992. However, there was a drop
in net margin of about $2,13 mil
lion. The cooperative incurred
expenses in cost of sales (money
paid to farmers) rise of nearly $l4
million. Net assets were about $l4
million.
But ADC still must deal with the
more than $l.B million still owed
them by the third largest buyer of
milk, Cumberland Farms, which as
of Dec. 28, 1993 came out of
Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
ADC expects to collect from
Cumberland Farms, a Northeast
oil company which operates a total
Twenty-Seven Carefully Created Recipes That Wilt
Enable Everyone to Enjoy the Special Experience of
Gumbo, to find its own niche in the maze of cookbooks
being published. With little publicity since it’s 1986 origi
nal publication, it remains one of the most popular of all
the Quail Ridge Press cookbooks.
The book retails for $8.95, and is available in local book
and gift stores, or by calling 1-800-343-1583.
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them within the next five years,
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“We will get all of our money
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bankruptcy as long as those people
continue to operate, and we antici
pate that they will,” said Dever.
“The Cumberland Farms bank
ruptcy, though, isn’t something
that we'should ignore.”
Dever indicated that in ADC’s
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customer bankruptcies, including
one in the early 1980 s from which
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