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ANSWER Joanne Diller, Dillsburg, wanted a candy roll
;ipe called Chacona Candy Roll. Thanks to Laurie Donald
1, Stewartstown, for sending a recipe.
Chacona Candy Roll
il to 238 degrees:
3 cups brown sugar
1 cup evaporated milk
r in:
cup chopped nuts
cup chopped dates
'hen cool enough to handle, use buttered hands to form
roll. Wrap roll in foil, chill, and slice later.
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Comer
Paper Plates Make Good
BELTS VILLE, Md. Toss on
a compost pile some used paper
plates from a cafeteria. Add old
golf tees, leaves, newspapers, and
chicken litter.
What comes fipm this mix is
fertilizer that’s ideal for growing
spinach, com, peppers and oats,
said Donald D. Kaufman of the
ANSWER L. Rapp, Easton, wanted a recipe for Mont
gomery Pie with a lemon bottom not molasses. Thanks to Eli
zabeth Seibert, Fredericksburg, for sending a recipe.
Lemon Montgomery Pie
Syrup:
Vt cup molasses
'A cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup water
Juice and rind of 1 lemon
Cake batter:
Vi cup sugar
V* cup shortening
1 egg, beaten
'A teaspoon baking soda
1 ’/«cups flour
'A cup sour milk
Mix well. Pour syrup into 9-inch unbaked pie shell. Spread
cake batter over syrup. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 to 40
minutes.
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
He’s seen the results while work
ing as a visiting scientist at the Ro
dale Insitute Research Center’s or
ganic farm in Kutztown, Pa.
Kaufman says it make sense to
build compost piles rather than
trash piles that keep filling land
fills. He and other researchers
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want to be sure that what’s com
posted will degrade and be en
vironmentally safe.
At the Rodale farm last sum
mer, the scientista tried compost
ing knives, forks and spoons made
from a starch-based plastic substi
tute. They found the utensils
wouldn’t decompose fast enough.
“But the golf tees of a starch-bas
ed plastic disappeared com
pletely,” he said.
A few items can be recycled
twice, such as newspaper used
once as bedding for Rodale’s
dairy cows and then as compost
material, said Kaufman, a micro
biologist forUSDA’s Agricultural
Research Service.
He is the latest in a string of
ARS scientists at Rodale, stretch
ing back continuously for 13
years. Before being stationed at
Rodale four days a week, Kauf
man was research leader of the
Soil-Microbial Systems Labora
tory at the ARS Beltsville, Md.,
Agricultural Research Center.
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