BMancastw Farming, Saturday, March 9, 1996 On Being a Farm Wife (and other hazards) Joyce Bupp 1 lost a recipe. This is a recipe used periodical ly over the past 20 or so years, and a favorite of the kids when they were hofoe. We dubbed it Apple Dapple, a sort of apple crisp, but with a buttery, cake-like topping over the fruit, rather than an oat meal or crumb topping. Actually, all I wanted was the ingredient list for the topping part, to use on a peach crisp. Which I had originally intended to top with an oatmeal-crumb topping, except when I went for the oatmeal, there was none. Obviously the morning was ra pidly taking an unorganized turn here in my kitchen. A second check and then a third through the “desserts” section of the recipe card file revealed the same stuff as before: microwave caramel com, shortcake, cherry cheese pie, and the like. I tried other sections, just in case. 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A quick flip through the snippets of paper and ragged-edged magazine pages re vealed things like a bunny-shaped coconut cake and broccoli casser oles but no Apple Dapple directions. Though reluctant to face it, I knew there was yet another possi bility. The microwave sits on a comer 28” high pressure pump for lozzle reach selector valve r bottom agitation I to be operated full agitation speed FARM EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER counter, beneath more comer cup boards overhead. In the back of and around it lies a dark, forgotten “black hole” where stray recipes (and goodness knows what else, including an occasional trespass ing mouse) accumulates behind the coffee maker and blender. I venture here on investigative ex peditions only rarely and usually only out of desperation. With a hopeful sigh, I started rooting. From behind the blender came a handful of recipe clip pings. Dust. More crinkled clip pings. A wooden paint stirrer. (A paint stirrer??) The glass cap to a spice jar. More clippings. No Ap ple Dapple. Might as well go the whole way. I moved the microwave. More recipes for broccoli casser oles. impossible pies and two for xefrigerated/frozen cucumber slaw that I’d searched for fruitlessly last July. Along with a rusted can ning jar lid, two milk jug caps, one old penny, a tiny plastic cap which covers an adjusting screw on a set of binoculars ... and a pair of contact lenses. Wrt*K*TOt* MM»y rt*GCOCwpwMwt OUuift.o* C.J. WONSIDLER 1975 Trumbauersvitle Rd. Quakertown, PA 18951 (21 SI 538-1935 (#10)767-7811 D.W.OGG m EQUIPMENT CO. 5149 Cap Stine Rd. Frederick, MD 21701 (301) 473-4250 Westminster, MO (410)848-4585 ECKROTHBROS. FARM EQUIPMENT RD #2, Box 24A New Ringgold, PA 17960 (717)043-2131 4910 Karnaville Rd. Orefield, PA 10069 (810)386-2098 307 Edgar Ave. EMoomsburg, PA 17016 (717) 784*8217 Honest. How the small, blue lenses in their slender case got there shall ever remain a mystery. A label on the back says “Bupp” —and I always get light blue ones because they’re easier to see when crawling around die floor hunting a dropped one. And still more recipes. As sorted ones for zucchini, varieties of muffins, another broccoli cas serole. Hus a couple for shoofly pie (another favorite I lost years ago) and several for bar cookies I EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.) —Ephrata Area Young Far mers monthly meeting was held recently at a supper meeting at Family Time restaurant. After the meal, Tara Toper, from Ciba, gave a helpful discussion on chemical use in weed control. Luke Bure khart, Pa Dept of Agriculture, pre sented a Him which presented the Sm how you con bftMfit frpm a n«wMf= 55-95 hp.*3oo Striw froctor whh a M driw today o» yournMKfayMPdtdtr. HERNLEY’S FARM EQUIPMENT, INC. 2096 3. Market St. Elizabethtown, PA (717)3674887 LEBANON VALLEY IMPLEMENT CO. 700 E, Linden St, Richland, PA 17087 (717)886-7818 M.M. WEAVER & SON N. Qroffdale Rd. Leola, PA 17640 (717)686-2321 impll«.inc. 400 North Antrim Way Qreencastle. PA 17225 (717) 597-2178 once had high hopes of trying. 1 finally gave it up and threw to gether a topping based on a biscuit mix. The resulting peach cobbler was OK not spectacular, but edible. Plus there’s a lot of new in spiration for meals stirring around in my head. As well as renewed hope to get that photo-album of re cipes organized, once and for all. The Apple Dapple recipe re mains unfound. But spring housecleaning is wrapped up in at least one comer of the kitchen. Farmers Learn Weed Control proper approach to handling all aspects to be award of in the use of chemicals. Andy Bowen, from DowElanco, followed with infor mation on the treatment of the three types of rootworm that have now become a problem in the area. Also, information was given on soybean weed control. Farmers received 2.2 credits for licensing. si? '^n^' 4 2 ,