Cream Of The Crop
(Continued from Pago B 6)
BROCCOLI DIP
10 ounce box chopped broccoli
(or spinach) thawed
1 small onion, chopped
1 cup mayonnaise
8 ounce sour cream
1 package Mrs. Grass’ Veget
able Soup Mix
Italian bread cut into 1 inch
squares
Stir together first five ingre
dients. Use Italian bread to dip into
mixture.
This recipe is a crowd-pleaser.
My family and I enjoy reading
Lancaster Fanning.
Ruth Schaffer
Dornsife
COCONUT PIE
(Makes its own crust!)
4 eggs, beaten
% cup sugar or 'A cup honey
'A cup flour
2 cups milk
'/< cup melted butter
l‘/i cup coconut (may use less)
I teaspoon vanilla
'A teaspoon cinnamon
(optional)
Combine all ingredients. Mix
well. Pour into one large or two
small greased pie pans. Bake at
350 degrees for 35-45 minutes. If
baked too long, you will have more
a cake-like texture. Serve warm or
cold.
Martha Newswanger
Shippensburg
EASY MACARONI AND
CHEESE
3 tablespoons butter
2'/i cups uncooked macaroni
1 teaspoon salt
Pepper according to taste
1 quart milk
4-5 slices Velveeta cheese or
more if desired
Melt butter in a 3-quart baking
dish. Pour macaroni into melted
butter. Stir until butter coats maca
roni. Sprinkle salt and pepper on
top. Cut each cheese slice in
fourths and scatter on top. Add
cold milk. Bake uncovered at 325
degiees for 114 hours or until gol
den brown and creamy.
This is often part of our Sunday
special menu. The nine of us can
finish off a 5-quart dishful in a
single meal.
I'm the 15-year-old (16 in July)
daughter of John andßosene Zim
merman. I have six younger
siblings, 2 brothers, Jerry, 13;
David, 11; and four sisters, Doris,
10; Joy, 8; Anita, 6, and Rosa, 2.
Up until a year and a half ago,
we had a dairy herd. Now, Dad
still farms and fattens steers and
heifers. Mom bakes to sell May
through December. And we all
help in the vegetable patches we
truck farm.
Charlene Zimmerman
Th
Jerry, Dorte, Joy, and Charlene are the children of John
and Roseiie Zimmerman of Thompsontown.
Marlene Freehling Is from
Armstrong County.
PINEAPPLE BUTTERMILK
DESSERT
20-ounces crushed pineapple
2 3-ounce boxes apricot Jell-0
2 cups buttermilk
8-ounces whipped cream
Put pipeapple in saucepan and
bring to a boil. Add Jell-O and stir
over heat until dissolved. Remove
from heat and cool.
Put ice cubes and water in sink
and put saucepan in sink to cool.
When Jell-0 and pineapple cool, it
will become jelled. Add butter
milk, still leaving pan in sink of
water. Mixture will thicken. Final
ly add whipped cream and pour
into 13x9-inch glass dish and chill.
Once Jell-O has chilled, cut into
squares to serve.
It's a very refreshing dessert on
a hot summer night after a hard
day's work on the farm.
I live on a 90-cow dairy farm in
Armstrong County. The farm’s
name is Star-Lite Acres. My family
farms 600 acres of ground.
My grandparents, Roy E. and
Martha Bowser, own the farm, but
my family, the Freehlings do the
farming.
I enjoy helping on the farm in my
sparetime. During the day, I work
for a local surgeon. Tm not of redd
to work and gel dirty. I love to cook
and bake.
Td like to meet a single dairy
farmer between the age 30-40
years old.
Marlene Freehling
Kittanning
PUMPKIN
CUSTARD PIE
6 egg yolks
214 cups brown sugar
2 cups cooked mashed pumpkin
2 tablespoons melted butter
'A teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons flour
Mix above ingredients together
well and add 5 cups of warm milk.
Beat 6 egg whites and fold in. Pour
in 4 regular pie crusts. Bake at 400
degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce
heat to 350 degrees for 25-30
minutes.
Susie Stoltzfus
Christiana
BAKED FRENCH TOAST
1 8-ounce loaf of bread cut in
1-inch thick pieces
6 large eggs
I'Acup milk
1A cup half and half
1 teaspoon vanilla
'A teaspoon nutmeg
'/• teaspoon cinnamon
Heavily butter 9-inch square
pan. Fill pan with bread slices. Mix
eggs, milk, half and half, vanilla,
nutmeg, and cinnamon. Pour mix
ture over bread slices. Cover and
refrigerate overnight
Topping:
A cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons com syrup
1 cup chopped nuts
Mix butter, sugar, and com syr
up. Stir in nuts. Pour on top of pre
pared bread. Bake at 350 degrees
for 40 minutes.
My name is Sadie Mae Stoltzfiis.
I love to bake and do crafts, also
sewing. / go to market three days a
week. I have a big yard and gar
den. It keeps me busy. I love the
Lancaster Farming recipes.
Sadie Mae Stoltzfiis
Bird In Hand
HEARTY
HAMBURGER SOUP
2 tablespoons butter
1 pound hamburger
'A cup onions
‘A cup peppers
114 teaspoons salt
'A teasjpoon pepper
1 cup diced potatoes
1 cup diced carrots
'A cup diced celery
2 cups tomato juice
4 cups milk
A cup flour
Melt butter in a saucepan.
Brown meat and add seasoning.
Cook until transparent. Add
remaining vegetables. Cover and
cook over low heat until veget
ables are soft.
Combine flour with enough
milk to make a smooth paste. Stir
into the soup mixture and bring to a
boil. Add remaining milk and heat
Do not boil.
Hi! My name is Lena Horst. I'm
11 years old. We live on a dairy
farm in Lancaster County. I have
to help milk our 40 cows.
This is one of our favorite soups.
Lena Horst
Ephrata
MOM’S PINK
DESSERT
VA cup sugar
1 large can fruit cocktail
‘A cup crushed pineapple
(optional)
Boil the sugar, fruit cocktail,
and pineapple together for five
minutes.
Add the following:
1 big box and 1 small box JeII-0
(strawberry is good)
2 8-ounce packages of cream
cheese
1 large container of whipped
cream topping
I'A cup (1 can) canned milk.
Mix and cool.
Dear friends at Lancaster
Farming:
This is a recipe my mom made
for Sunday School class meetings
years ago. We like it and hope you
do, too. It will serve a dozen or
more.
My husband Joe and I continue
farming as well as remodeling a
neighboring old house during the
winter and on rainy days. Along
with our work with the Sugar Val
ley Church of the Brethren, we
have been kept busy. We’re thank
ful we’re able to be busy. Best
wishes.
Doris Heggenstaller
Loganton
lancaalar Farming, Saturday, Junt 10,199547
Bonnie Ulmer and her family keep busy on their dairy
(am. la Cogan Station. qreo COOKIE
DESSERT
I cup milk
Vi cup peanut butter
1 large (8 ounces) cream cheese
1 large (12 ounces) whipped
cream topping
2 cups confectioners’ sugar
30 Oreo cookies
Break up cookies (put on bot
tom). Save for few on top. Mix all
other ingredients, then blend in
cream topping.
YUMMY CHICKEN
CASSEROLE
1 chicken, cooked and diced
2 'A cups stuffing
8-12-ounces plain yogurt or
sour cream
'A cup butter, melted
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 cup chicken broth
Combine butter and stuffing.
Line a 2-quart casserole with stuf
fing mix. Reserve 'A cup. Sprinkle
chicken over stuffing. Combine
sour cream or yogurt, broth, and
soup. Spread over chicken.
Sprinkle with remaining 'A cup
stuffing. Refrigerate overnight.
Bake at 350 degrees approximate
ly 45 minutes, uncovered.
My husband and I and our three
children own a dairy farm. We
milk 58 cows and have 100 young
calves and heifers. My husband
farms approximately 550 acres.
We raise alfalfa, corn, wheat, soy
beans, and pumpkins.
Our family loves living in the
country. Our children Seth, Sara,
and Rachel help a lot with farm
chores. We have one dog Dusty, a
Jack Russel Terrier, who is our
little baby. He loves to catch rats,
birds, and bees. He stays by our
side no matter what we do. He
rides in the tractors, wagons,
trucks, and even the wheelbarrow.
We have 10 cats. We love working
together. We are thankful each day
for health and strength to be able
to work hard on our farm.
Bonnie Ulmer
Cogan Station
Deldrewei
back cattle.
Nancy Hershey
Manheim
MAPLE WALNUT CAKE
1 cup milk
A cup butter
'A cup shortening
2 cups sugar
4 eggs, separated
1 cup chopped nuts
2 teaspoons maple flavoring
2 cups self-rising cake flour
Cream together butter, shorten
ing, and sugar. Add egg yolks.
Gradually add flour, milk, and
maple flavoring. Add nuts; fold in
egg whites. Bake at 3SO degrees
for one hour in a 13x9-inch
greased pan.
I farm in Central New Jersey
with my dad and brother. I raise
and breed lineback cattle. They
are really beautiful animals. I
hatch and raise all types of poultry
including Royal Palm turkeys. /
think farming is a wonderful way
of life. "Lancaster Farming’' is my
favorite newspaper to read.
Deidre Welisewitz
Flemington, N.J.
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