Cook’s Question
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Swiss Steak With Mushroom Sauce
Slice round steaks one-inch thick. Score lightly with sharp
knife. Cut each steak into pieces to fit into jars. Brown in hot oil
and pack immediately in jars to within one inch of top. Fill jars
no more than two-thirds full of the following sauce:
6 tablespoons fat in which meat was browned
4 tablespoons flour
2 cups cold water
4 teaspoons salt
2 cups sliced mushrooms
Brown flour in fat Add cold water gradually, stirring to keep
smooth. Add salt and mushrooms. Bring to a boil. Pour over
steak in jars filled two-thirds full. Put on cap and screw band
firmly tight Process pints 75 minutes at 10 pounds pressure or
quarts for 90 minutes.
For canning meat stews, ham and beans or goulash: Cut
meat in small pieces and brown slightly. Put into pan and
add water to cover. Cook several minutes. Add vegetables
and cook until heated through. Pack into jars, including
some liquid to within one-inch of top. Add 1 teaspoon salt
to each quart. Put cap on and screw bands firmly. Process
pints 75 minutes or quarts for 90 minutes at 10 pounds
pressure.
ANSWER—Thanks to Ann Chapman, Ulster, for sending a
recipe for fruitcake, which had been requested by Violet Cass
ner, Newburg.
1% cups shortening
2 cups sugar
8 eggs
1 cup molasses
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup grape jelly or juice
Juice of one lemon or 1 orange and grated peel
% cup sour milk
I’/a teaspoons baking soda
2 pounds raisins
2 pounds candied fruit
1 cup nuts .
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon salt
7 cups flour
Combine ingredients and bake at 250 degrees for 2 hours,
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The Christinas cards arc sent, given up on buying a live tree and
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the freezer, and now the final de- be someday I’ll do the same,
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Most of my decorations are simp- would cut a small cedar tree from
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ANSWER—VioIet Cassner. Nefrbura. wanted a recipe for
pickled heads of green cabbage in which the leaves are used to
make stuffed cabbage. Thanks to Anna Joyce Martin, East
Earl, for sending a recipe. However, I don’t think this is what
Violet had in mind. She wanted one using pickled green cab
bage. If anyone has that recipe, please send it.
Stuffed Cabbage
- 1 head cabbage
1 pound ground beef
1 cup oat flakes or 40% bran cereal
V 4 cup chopped onions
% cup water
1 teaspoon garlic salt
11-ounce can condensed bisque of tomato soup
Parboil cabbage about 4 minutes, drain. Remove 10 leaves.
Use remainder as a vegetable for another meal. Mix ground
beef, cereal, onion, and garlic salt. Combine soup and water.
Measure % cup and add to meat mixture. Evenly spoon meat
mixture onto ends of cabbage leaves; fold irf sides and roil up.
Pour remaining soup mixture into a skillet Add cabbage rolls,
seam side down. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover, and sim
mer 40 minutes. Makes 10 cabbage rolls.
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we children added colored paper
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an unheated room, it lasted a long
time. And often it stood there for
weeks and weeks. Our long brown
stockings were hung in the kitchen
and we could expect an orange
and some hard candy. The gifts
that we got were given in brown
store bags as my mother didn’t be
lieve in wrapping them.
As a break in our own Christ
mas preparations, my husband
suggested a drive here in Lancas
ter County. I told him about a park
that I had read about years before
and so we drove to Narvon.
Money Rocks Park is in the
Welsh Mountains and contains
342 acres. The path off the high
way leads up to huge rocks from
which you can see four counties
on a clear day. It is said that during
the Civil War farmers hid their
money here in order that Confed
erate troops would not get it
When we visited the paths were
strewn with oak leaves. It was a
quiet woodland in comparison to
the busy highways that we drove
on to get there.
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