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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, 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 —Carolyn Blevins, Warwick, Md., would like a
recipe for Black Forest Cake made from scratch.
QUESTION Denise Kahler, Oornsife, lost her favorite
recipe for pumpkin cranberry bread. It was a recipe from Lib
by’s featured in a woman’s magazine several years ago.
QUESTION Faye Defter, Mechanicsburg, is looking for
a recipe for Friendship Cake that is made from fermented fruit.
QUESTION Barbara Phillips, Hamburg, would like a
recipe for baked lima beans using dried beans that need to be
soaked overnight.
QUESTION Becky Shires, Oxford, would like a recipe
for lemon meringue cake. She had a piece at Miller's Smor
garsbord near Lancaster recently. The layer cake had a filling
between layers and pecans on the outside.
QUESTION Theresa Moore, New Park, would like a
recipe for poppy seed salad dressing.
QUESTION Ellie, no address, would like a recipe for
chocolate chip cookies made without flour.
QUESTION M.J. Howard, Columbus, N.J., would like a
recipe for the ham and bean soup that was sold at the Gordon
ville Fire Co. Builder’s Sale on October 16. She writes “it was
wonderful and I bought every container they had left.”
QUESTION Andy Andrews, Brownstown, would like a
recipe for pumpkin-flavored candy apples.
QUESTION A Lancaster County reader would like a
recipe for pepper jelly made with Karo or white corn syrup.
QUESTION D. Newsom, Cooperstown, N.Y., would like
the following recipes to replace those she lost strawberry
shortcake with a cooked frosting and a Spiedie Marinade for
meat.
QUESTION Do any readers have a recipe for home
made ice cream made with potatoes?
QUESTION A Chester County reader wants to know if
wine or brandy can be made from pears.
QUESTION LaFaye Burkholder, Fredericksburg, would
like to know how to dry sunflower seeds and also how to wash
them. Should the seeds be taken off the head to dry?
QUESTION Gwen Webster, Glen Rock, would like a
recipe for grape bars. She had purchased some at the Grape
Festival in Naples, N.Y. The bars were delicious with a gra
ham cracker crumb crust with fruit on the top.
QUESTION Aida Mothes, Renick, W.V., writes that she
was in Nonway, a quick bread that was often served in restaur
ants was a fruit or nut bread that was very moist. She would
like the recipe.
ANSWER Linda Stoltzfus, New Providence, wanted a
recipe for barbecue sauce. Thanks to Dave Dennis, Freder
icksburg, for sending a recipe.
1 cup catsup
1 large onion, finely chopped
A cup water
1 tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon packed brown sugar
A teaspoon salt
A teaspoon pepper
% cup lemon juice
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Dash tabasco sauce (optional)
Bring all ingredients except lemon juice and Worcester
shire sauce to boiling over medium heat. Add lemon juice and
Worcestershire sauce and heat until hot.
Cook's
Question
Comer
Barbecue Sauce
ANSWER G.E.Ross, Douglassville, requested some
recipes for paw paws. He thought perhaps some elderly folks
would have some paw paw recipes for the young folk to enjoy.
Thanks to Elva Bernard, Marcus Hook, who sent in recipes
that she said is from one young folk to another. She also sug
gests the cookbook, "The Wild Flavor,” by Marilyn Kluger. Ills
distributed by Houghton'Mifflin Co., Boston. The book
includes recipes of delectable wild foods to be found in field
and forest.
Use ripe paw paws only! Squeeze pulp out of skins and puree
in a food mill. Sprinkle with lemon juice (to prevent puree from
darkening) in the proportion of 1 teaspoon lemon juice per cup
of puree.
1 cup paw paw puree
'A cup shortening
Vi cup sugar
2 eggs
I V* cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Vi teaspoon baking soda
% teaspoon salt
Cream shortening, add sugar gradually, beat until fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat
in paw paw puree. Sift together remaining dry ingredients and
add in four portions, beating smqoth each time. Pour batter
into a greased, floured loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for
about 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out
clean. Cool on rack. Makes one loaf.
Serve with butter or cream cheese.
Note: To vary, add 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice and
V* cup chopped pecans.
ANSWER Lorraine Bannon, Waymart, would like a
recipe for ham loaf. Thanks to Faye Defter, Mechanicsburg,
and Dave Dennis, Fredericksburg, for sending recipes.
2 pounds smoked ham, ground
1 pound pork, ground
1 cup finely ground cracker crumbs
2 eggs
'A cup milk
Sauce:
1 cup brown sugar
'A cup vinegar
'A cup water
1 teaspoon prepared mustard
Mix all ham loaf ingredients and bake for V/% hours from
325 to 350 degrees. Heat all sauce ingredients and baste ham
loaf often during the last hour of baking.
Currant Ham Loaf
5 cups ground cooked ham
1 pound ground pork
2 eggs
1 cup cracker crumbs
1 cup tomato sauce
2 tablespoons chilli sauce or catsup
10 ounces currant jelly
Vi cup salad mustard *
Combine all but last two ingredients and form into a loaf.
(May be made ahead and frozen at this point). Bake uncov
ered 90 minutes at 350 degrees. Combine jelly and mustard
thoroughly and pour over the loaf.
ANSWER Anna Cruzan, Leesburg, N.J., wanted a
recipe for refried beans made from raw pinto beans. Thanks
to Dave Dennis. Fredericksburg, for sending a recipe.
2 cups dry pinto beans
IVi teaspoons salt
Vz teaspoon black pepper
5 tablespoons bacon fat
Ground cumin to taste, optional
IVi cups cubed Cheddar or Monterey Jack cheese,
optional
Finely chopped jalepenos (optional)
Wash beans. Soak overnight or bring beans to a boil with
six cups water, cook 2 minutes, then remove from heat, cover,
and let stand one hour before cooking further. Simmer beans
90 minutes or until tender. Add salt and pepper. Heat bacon
fat in skillet. Drain 1 cup beans, reserving liquid, and put in
skillet. Mash thoroughly, adding Vi cup of the reserved liquid.
Stir and cook several minutes. Add knd mash more beans
with more reserved liquid. Repeat with remaining beans and
liquid until the mixture is smooth. Stir in any or all of optional
ingredients and cook until cheese melts.
YAM BRAN BREAD
'A cup butter
V* cup sugar Combine butter, sugar, and egg
2 egg whites whites. Add remaining ingredients
Wi cups flour until moistened. Place in muffin
'A cup oat bran tins or a greased and floured loaf
3 tablespoons sour milk pan. Bake at 3SO degrees until
l'/i teaspoon baking powder toothpick inserted comes out
1 teaspoon baking soda clean. Yields 1 loaf or 12 muffins.
Vi teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 medium yams, baked, peeled,
and mashed
Paw Paw Puree
Paw Paw Bread
Ham Loaf
Refried Beans
Sweet
Potatoes
(Continued from Pago B 6)
SWEET POTATO AND
APPLE CASSEROLE
6 to 8 sweet potatoes
6 to 8 firm cooking apples
1 cup sugar
/* cup cornstarch
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups boiling water
'A cup butter
Parboil sweet potatoes and cut
into slices. Peel apples and slice.
Mix sugar, cornstarch, and salt in
saucepan; add boiling water and
butter. Stir over medium heat until
mixture comes to a boil.
Butter a large casserole dish.
Layer sweet potatoes and apples in
dish. Pour sauce over all and bake
at 3SO degrees for one hour.
Grace Clock
Fallston, Md.
SWEET POTATO PIE
'/> cup butter, softened
'/a cup sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
V* cup evaporated milk
2 cups mashed sweet potatoes
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
'/a teaspoon ground cinnamon
'/a teaspoon ground nutmeg
'/« teaspoon salt
1 unbaked pastry shell
In a mixing bowl, cream butter
and sugar. Add eggs; mix well.
Add milk, sweet potatoes, vanilla,
cinnamon, nutmeg and salt; mix
well. Pour into pie shell. Bake at
425 degrees for IS minutes.
Reduce heat to 350 degrees, bake
35 to 40 minutes longer or until a
knife inserted near the center com
es out clean. Cool. Store in
refrigerator. Serves 6 to 8.
Ivamae Love
East Waterford
STUFFED SWEET
POTATOES
6 medium sweet potatoes
8-ounces crushed pineapple,
drained
• '/: cup orange juice
3 tablespoons butter, melted
V* teaspoon salt
Pierce sweet potatoes with a
fork. Bake at 400 degrees for S 3 to
65 minutes or until tender. Cool
slightly. Remove pulp from pota
toes, keeping the skins intact. In a
bowl, combine the pulp with
pineapple, orange juice, butter,
and salt. Refill potato shells and
place in greased 13x9x2-inch bak
ing dish. Bake at 400 degrees for
20 minutes or until heated through.
Serves 6.
Ivamae Love
East Waterford
SWEET POTATO
CASSEROLE
3 cups cooked, mashed sweet
potatoes
2 eggs, beaten
I teaspoon vanilla
'/> cup melted butter
'/i cup milk
Mix together ingredients and
pour into a buttered baking dish.
Add the following topping; '
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup chopped nuts
/) cup flour
'A cup melted butter
Mix, place on top of sweet pota
toes and bake at 3SO degrees for 25
minutes.
Sara Jane Fulmer
West Newton