82-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 13, 1998
n For
Great Dairy Recipes
Again, this week we have a
wonderful collection of recipes
from our readers. These are part of
the entries sent in for Lancaster
Farming’s annual dairy recipe
drawing.
Submissions will be printed
throughout the month of June.
On June 26, Pennsylvania Dairy
Princess Nichole Meabon will
select the winning entries through
a drawing. Winners will be noti
fied by mail and the list of winners
will be printed in the July 4 issue of
this paper. This is a change of date
necessitated by Nichole being
unable to draw the winning names
before the publishing deadline for
the July 27th issue.
STRAWBERRY
SHORTCAKE
'A cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
'A cup milk
VA cups flour
'A teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
Y> teaspoon vanilla
Cream butter and sugar. Add
one egg at a time. Beat well. Add
sifted dry ingredients alternately
with milk. Add vanilla. Pour into
greased pan. Bake at 3SO degrees
for 40 minutes.
I am almost 14 years old and we
live on a 65-head dairy farm. This
strawberry shortcake recipe is a
favorite. I have seven brothers
ages 2-18.
Steven Martin
Kutztown
Farm and rural scenes are popular requests to be painted on saw blades, slate, and
milk cans. In the background, Elva’s Art Shanty is a perfect spot for Inspiration as it
overlooks the Hursts’ farm fields. The milk can at right, a painting of Erb’s Bridge, will
go to the highest bidder at the Litltz Area Mennonlte School’s annual benefit auction
to be held June 27.
Scenes From Elva’s Art Shanty
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Fanning Staff
LITITZ (Lancaster Co.) The
“starving artist-’’ concept certainly
doesn’t apply to Elva Hurst Since
IS years of age. this self-taught
artist has had more work than she
can handle.
Elva grew up in a conservative
BECKY’S POTATO BUNS
1 package yeast
VA cup warm water
1 cup milk, scalded
Vi cup shortening
Vi cup sugar
l'/a teaspoon salt
2 eggs, well beaten
1 cup mashed potatoes
6 cups flour
1 tablespoon butter
Scald milk, then cool to luke
warm. Cream shortening, sugar,
and salt Blend in eggs and mashed
potatoes. Add to water yeast mix
ture. Add flour to make soft dough,
then turn on lightly floured board
and knead thoroughly and place in
a large bowl. Let rise until double
in bulk. This could take 2 hours.
Punch down and knead again.
Form into balk and brush with
butter. Let rise another 2 hours.
Place in greased pan. Bake at 400
degrees for 15-20 minutes or until
lightly brown. Garnish with frost
ing (optional).
This recipe is a keepsake from a
family in Missouri. The first time 1
made it was when I took a week of
vacation to visit them. At that time
they did not have a dairy. But now
they do. The lady who shared it
with me is my sister, Rebecca, mar
ried to Leonard Martin. They have
three girls and four boys.
I always look forward to those
visits, because I have a full-time
job at the Reading Hospital and
cannot take off just anytime. I have
been cleaning as part of a surgical
and medical team for many years.
Lucy Martin
Narvon
Mennonite home in Ephrata. She
attended a small Amish-
Mennonite school, where art was
considered frivolous. But that
didn’t keep her from etching
houses and bams in between
chores on the family’s dairy farm.
When she was in eighth grade, a
new teacher noticed Elva’s artistic
WAFFLES
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons sugar
6 tablespoons melted butter
2 eggs
r/icups milk
Put dry ingredients in bowl, beat
eggs, and add milk. Combine with
flour mixture. Add melted butter
and beat again. Pour into preheated
waffle maker.
This is a favorite recipe Vvef
had since I was a young teen-ager
selling waffles and ice cream at a
market stand.
It’s delicious with pancake syr
up, ice cream, and even butter and
jelly.
You can serve it for breakfast or
as a dessert. There’s a lot of cook
ing that needs to be done at our
house with 5 children. Our oldest
is Jason, almost 11, followed by
Ann Merlene, 8; Anthony, 6;
Susan, 4; and Marilyn, 1. When
waffles are on the menu I get
cheers from the children.
Keep up the good work on the
articles in the B section of Lancas
ter Farming.
Anna Ruth King The King fai. .(y from East Waterford, from left, Susan, 4;
East Waterford Ann Merlene, 8; Marilyn, 1; Jason, 11; and Anthony, 6.
(Turn to Pago B 4)
talent and encouraged her to
• become more observant such as in
noticing the shape of a deer’s ears
compared to a cow’s. But eighth
grade was also as much education
as Elva’s parents and the school
allowed.
(Turn to Pag* B 3)
With the support of her husband Ray, Elva squeezes In
time for painting among caring for the couple’s children,
Joslah, 3, and Bethany, 3 months, and other family
responsibilities.
Kfeeilsc
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