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. Not filed under “cookies.”
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Nor in “cakes.” T’wasn’t behind
the “pastries” divider, either. And
just to be sure, I riffled through
“meats,” “candies,” and “bever
ages.”'Even tried “pickles.” But
Apple Dapple was gone.
There was another possibility.
A few years ago. for Christmas,
The Farmer pve me a magnetic
page photo album for filing all
those loose recipes I had flying
around and which I kept saying 1
wanted to put in a photo-file. So,
now that’s where they are piled
on a stack, inside the front cover
of the album, handily kept atop the
microwave oven. 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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