820-LancMter Farming, Saturday, April 12, 1997
Cook’s Question
(Continued from Page B 8)
ANSWER A faithful reader wanted really good recipes
for rhubarb. Here are a few from Tabby Heindel, Ephrata.
Thanks to others who also sent in recipes. Look for more rhu
barb recipes in the May 3rd issue of this paper ‘Home On
The Range"
Rhubarb Tapioca
2 cups chopped rhubarb
24 stewed prunes
Vi cup prune juice
'A cup sugar
'A cup minute tapioca
% cup cold water
Soak tapioca in cold water for 30 minutes. To the chopped
rhubarb, add stewed prunes, prune juice and sugar. Cook
together for 5 minutes. Add tapioca and cook until mixture is
transparent. Serve hot or cold. Top with whipped cream if
desired.
Mix until crumbly:
1 cup flour, sifted
% cup uncooked oatmeal
1 cup brown sugar, packed
% cup melted butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Combine the following:
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
Press half of the crumbs into a greased 9-inch baking pan.
Add 4 cups diced rhubarb. Combine second mixture and cook
until thick and clear. Pour over rhubarb. To with remaining
crumbs. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes. Cut into
squares and serve while warm. May be served plain or with
cream.
VA cups flour
Vt teaspoon salt
'A teaspoon cinnamon
1 A cup sugar
'A cup butter
4 cups diced rhubarb
1 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoons lemon juice
Sift flour; measure and add salt, sugar, and cinnamon. Sift
again. Cut in shortening as for pastry. Mixture will be crumble.
Place half of the crumb mixture in the bottom of a greased
8-inch cake pan. Press down rather firmly. Combine rhubarb,
brown sugar, and lemon juice. Spread over top of crumb mix
ture. Add remaining crumbs and press down with a spoon.
Bake at 375 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes. Serve warm with
rich milk or cream.
Rhubarb Pudding
3 slices white bread
1 cup diced rhubarb
V» cup brown sugar
% teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon butter
For custard:
1 egg
% cup sugar
1 cup milk
Cut bread in small cubes. Place half of bread cubes in a
greased baking dish. Add rhubarb and sprinkle with sugar and
nutmeg. Top with remaining bread cubes and dot with butter.
Beat egg, add sugar and milk. Pour mixture over contents of
baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 40
minutes or until a silver knife comes out clear when inserted in
pudding. Serve warm or cold with rich milk or cream.
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ANSWER—Thanks to Lynda Bell, Lincoln University, for
answering a request for a simple, foolproof recipe for home
made soup.
2 slices bacon
V 2 cup chopped onion
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 cup milk
% cup water
1 cup diced cooked chicken
Vt cup frozen com
Place bacon in a medium saucepan and cook until crisp.
Remove bacon, dry on paper towels. Reserve drippings
(about 1 tablespoon) in saucepan. Crumble bacon, and set
aside.
Saute onion in bacon drippings until transparent. Stir in
remaining ingredients. Sprinkle in the bacon. Cook over low
heat until thoroughly heated.
ANSWER a reader wanted good recipes to make
cheese and other recipes to use up excess milk. Here are sev
eral from Linda Martin, Lititz, which are suitable for either
goat’s or cow’s milk.
Mild-Flavored Hard Cheese
Heat 2 gallons milk in a stainless steel kettle to 180 degrees
or 190 degrees. If it boils, it will still work but cheese may be
drier. Rdmove from heat and add vinegar until it separates
(approximately 'A cup.
Pour the cheese into a colander to drain the whey. Once it’s
drained, add 2'A teaspoon salt to the curds using a fork to stir.
While still hot, put the curds into some kind of mold with holes
at the bottom and sides so that it can drain. (I use the top part
of a vegetable blancher). Cut a plastic lid to fit and punch
holes for the top. For weight, fill a 5-quart plastic ice cream pail
with water. Or you can put a cheesecloth into the colander and
gather the curds tightly in the cloth and let set. Let it drip and
harden in a cold place overnight. Remove from mold and
enjoy.
For variety, add dried, ground jalapeno peppers or Cheddar
cheese powder, etc., when adding the salt.
For cottage cheese, cool curds in whey. Drain through
cloth, allowing curds to drip until dry. Place them in a bowl and
add salt, enough milk to moisten the curds.
Variation: add parsley flakes and all-purpose seasoning.
Yogurt
Heat 2 quarts milk to 185 degrees. Cool to 110 degrees.
Add yogurt starter, which is available from New England
Cheese Making Supply Co., Box 85, Main St., Ashfield, MA
01330-0085 or call (413) 628-3808 or Fax (413) 628-4061.
Cool to 110 degrees. Let set for 6-12 hours or longer, keep
ing temperature at 110 degrees.
When thick, add % cup flavored gelatine dissolved in 2
cups hot water, beat well and cool.
Or, add vanilla and sugar or thickened and sweetened fruit
juice with Clear Jel and chop the fruit and add to plain yogurt.
To help it become thicker, add 1 tablespoon unflavored
gelatine, which has been soaked in a bit of cold milk before
adding to the hot milk before cooling to 110 degrees.
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Book Report
Spending
Effects
RUTGERS, N.J. According
to the San Diego-based National
Center for Financial Education
(NCFE), today’s spending deci
sions can greatly affect tomor
row’s future financial security.
Money that is saved in your 20s
and 30s can multiply handsomely,
given both time and a decent rate
of interest.
To illustrate the relationship
between spending and asset accu
mulation, the NCFE estimates that
the “real” difference in price
between a full-sized car and a
compact car is not around $lO,OOO
(as most of us would guess) but,
rather, a cool million dollars. Say
what? Cars are expensive but not
that bad, you say. Read on.
The NCFE does the math as fol
lows: Borrowing $25,000 for a
new full-size car over 4 years will
cost about $634 a month. Borrow
ing just $15,000 for a compact car
will cost only $3Bl a month. At
age 30, begin saving the differ
ence $253 a month for 35
years.
Earning an 8 percent average
rate of return, the $253 a month
will grow to $580,352. If one were
to get monthly payments of
$4,000 from that sum from ages
65 to 90, the total from that sum
would be over $1 million. That’s
the magic of compound interest
But it isn’t retroactive.
If the $253 car loan difference
in the example above were saved
for only 25 years, it would grow to
just $240,000. paid out at $1,857 a
month, the total, would be
$557,000. It’s amazing that the
difference in saving an additional
ten years is about half a million
dollars. ‘
The monthly difference in pay
ments of $4,000' vs. $1,857 a“*
month shows how today’s lifes
tyle decisions can be worth a mil
lion dollars in future years. If ten
years could mean a difference of
$2,143 a month in retirement
income, can you imagine what 15
or 20 additional years of savings
can do?
In addition, if the choice
between cars can impact retire
ment income, imagine the possi
bilities when applied to other
spending decisions such as a
house, vacation, meals out, enter- -
tainment, clothing, and so on.
Try to develop the art of saving
today. Contact Rutgers Coopera
tive Extension to become a Money
2000 household. This will encour
age you to save. Your future is in
your hands.