88-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May IS, 1999
If you are looking for a recipe but can’t find it, send
your recipe request to Lou Ann Good, Cook’s Question
Corner, in care of Lancaster Farming, P.O. Box 609, Eph
rata, PA 17522. There’s no need to send an SASE. if we re
ceive an answer to your question, we will publish it as
soon as possible. Sometimes we receive numerous
answers to the same request, but cannot print each one.
Answers to recipe requests should be sent to the same
address.
QUESTION Brenda Houser, Middletown, would like a
recipe to make cookies that taste like the ones served at
Shady Mapel Smorgasboard. The varieties that she likes are
Chocolate Chip T ruffle, which has a chocolate batter with cho
colate chips in it and a soft chocolate center, and Peanut But
ter T ruffle, which has a peanut butter batter with chopped nuts
and a soft peanut butter filling.
QUESTION Karen Rex, New Tripoli, would like a recipe
for pumpkin whoopie pies filled with a cream cheese filling.
She remembers buying them at public auctions occasionally.
They were delicious and she is now having a crave attack.
QUESTION Ed Gottshal, Ephrata, remembers his
mother making cinnamon rolls in the 19405. He thinks that
she did not use a raised flour, but pie dough that was sprinkled
with sugar and cinnamon, and rolled up like a jelly roll then cut
into pieces. He’d like an exact recipe.
QUESTION A reader would like to know how to can
horseradish. When should the roots be dug? How long should
horseradish be cooked? She would also like recipes using
horseradish.
QUESTION An Ephrata reader would like a recipe for
cracker pudding made with ice cream. She also would like a
pancake mix recipe to store and use as needed by adding
liquid.
QUESTION —For the recipe for Pork Roll printed April 24,
ingredients such as Petma Flow, phosphate, and speed cure
were listed. Where can these items be purchased.
QUESTION Marilyn DeMeyer, Hilton, N.Y., would like
recipes for salt rising bread.
QUESTION Janet Spangler, York Springs, writes that
she and her husband are trying to eat better but are having
trouble finding recipes high in protein but low in fat and car
bohydrates. Anyone have some recipes?
QUESTION Shirley Ream, Criston, Ohio, would like a
recipe on how to can ring bologna either by waterbath or pres
sure cooker or both.
QUESTION Tricia GrossnicWe, Frederick, Md., would
like to know if any of the readers know of a recipe for a dessert
called Johnnie Bowl. Tricia remembers her grandmother
made it for New Year’s. The dessert is a pudding-like cake
with raisins wrapped in cheesecloth and boiled. The dessert is
served with a sauce.
QUESTION Connie Becker, Cato, N.Y., would like
recipes for quart-jar soup mixes that are layered and given as
gifts. She appreciates the recipes that were printed for Sand
Art Bars, Quart Jar Cookie mixes, and canned breads and
cakes. Any other food gift ideas or similar recipes not previ
ously printed would be appreciated.
QUESTION—Pam Bange, Hanover, would like recipes for
using shitake mushrooms and portabella mushrooms.
QUESTION G. Minkle, Wayne, would like a recipe for
hot pepper cabbage relish, which she had clipped from this
column several years ago.
QUESTION K. 8., York Springs, would like a recipe to
make rotisserie chicken that tastes like that made by Rutters’
Mini Market.
QUESTION Carrie Sponseller, Gettysburg, would like a
recipe for Snow Flake Cookie mix in a jar. It includes white
chocolate chips and macadamia nuts that are layered in a
quart jar.
QUESTION A reader, who has a Whisper Mill Grain
Grinder, would like some other readers’ favorite recipes using
fresh ground flour such as barley, rice, spelt, rye, etc. She
would like ideas to include a variety of grains in the family’s
diet instead of wheat wheat, and wheat.
Cook’s
Question
QUESTION Several years ago, J. Rouse dipped a
recipe from this section for maple syrup pork chops. Her fami
ly loves the recipe, but she lost it. Anyone else clip the recipe?
Send it in so we can reprint it.
QUESTION Linda Garber, New Ringgold, is looking for
recipes for vegetable cream cheese to spread on bagels.
QUESTION Ben S. Stoltzfus, Honey Brook, would like a
recipe bran muffins that tastes like the Sara Lee brand.
QUESTION Lester Horvath, Washington, N.J., would
like a redpe for hot pickled ring bologna.
QUESTION — Madeline Raub, Easton, would like to know
where to buy a round biscuit shaped like a basket with a fluted
edge. She thinks the biscuits had been made by Nabisco and
sold loose by the pound. Her mother used them at Easter to
make "bird nests' by putting icing inside and colored jelly
beans.
QUESTION Barb Fox wants to know how to make
blueberry pig.
QUESTION —Jack Hohmeier, Painter, Va., wants to know
how to actually can canned milk, not just duplicate for immedi
ate use.
QUESTION Lynn Rossi, Lititz, would like a recipe for
marinated mushrooms, which are made without cooking oil
and sold by S. Clyde Weaver, East Petersburg.
QUESTION Mrs. Dale Burkhart, Narvon, misplaced a
recipe for a seasoning mixture to rub into beef roast before
roasting. She recalls that some of the ingredients included
instant coffee granules, beef bouillion, salt and pepper.
ANSWER D. Shultz wanted to know how to store water
in containers without it going bad. A West Virgina reader
recommends baking soda tablets with lemon that can be pur
chased from Camping World, P.O. Box 90017, Bowling
Green, KY 42102-9017 or call 1-800-626-5944. The tablets
remove foul tastes from water stored in plastic tanks for
campers.
ANSWER Here are some recipes for refreshing drinks.
Thanks to Bonnie Gibble, Annville, for this one.
3 cups water
3 cups sugar 41
Combine sugar and water and cook until dear. Cool. Com
bine the following:
1 jar cherries without juice
5 or 6 bananas
12-ounce can orange juice
12-ounces water
1 can crushed pineapple with juice
Pour cooled sugar water over fruit Freeze. Stir several
times during freezing process. Serve partially frozen or
thawed.
Here are two from Rebecca Cornman, Cumberland County
Dairy Princess.
'/< cup grape juice
1 cup milk
Pour ingredients together, cover and shake. Delicious after
school snack that is loaded with calcium and eight other vita
mins and minerals.
1 scoop vanilla ice cream
% cup orange juice concentrate
1 cup milk
Place in blender and blend. This is a quick and delicious
after school snack that is loaded with calcium, vitamins, and
minerals.
ANSWER A reader wanted recipes to include a variety
of grains in the family's diet. Here is one from Bonnie Gibble,
Annville, who writes that this is great for breakfast.
Mix together;
Vz cup oil
Vz cup applesauce
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
Add:
6 cups oatmeal
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups milk
Add to egg mixture. Stir in raisins, nuts, and cinnamon to
taste. Pour into oblong pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 45
minutes.
Leftovers can be warmed up in the microwave. Add milk
and cut up peaches.
Frozen Fruit
Purple Cow
Orange Smoothly
Baked Oatmeal
(Turn to Pago B 9)
Postcards
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Window
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dial, which produced a different
scene on the same card.
Generally the Moyers only
attend sales in the area in search of
postcards, but their collection
includes postcards from all over
the world. Sets of intricately
embroidered cards from France
and Spain show how important the
cards were during the early 1900 s.
Although the Moyers know that
they could make a hefty profit on
some of their acquisitions, they say
they find it hard to sell a card
unless they have a duplicate.
The Moyers often refer to books
detailing postcards available and
describing how many are in a
scries. Some postcards ate marked
on the back identifying them as
part of a scries, but many postcards
have been {Hinted without any
written record.
Sometimes it takes a long time
to complete a series. Moyer is col
lecting Uncle Sam cards and needs
two more to complete the
installment
The semi-retired Moyers said
their hobby is an interesting pas-,
rime. The Moyers were former far
mers in the Blainsport area. Later
Moyer worked as a butcher, and in
the last 10 years has been a part
time plumber. The couple have
five children and 10
grandchildren.
The Moyers belong to the Lan
caster County Postcard Club,*
which meets monthly, and attendt|
public sales on a regular basis in l
search of cards to add to theifi
collection.
At die monthly club meetings**
postcard collectors trade, sell, and'
buy. More than 300 members
make up the Lancaster County
Postcard Club. About 60 to 80
members attend monthly. The club
is open for anyone, including out
of-state visitors. The monthly
meetings ate held at the Farm and
Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Rd.,
Lancaster, on the third Monday of
cvciy month, starting at 5:30 p.m.
A hardcover book with more
than 500 postcards picturing Lan
caster city and county scenes has
recently been printed by the Post
card Club. In addition to both full
color and black and white copies of
postcards, the 180-page book
includes a brief history of post
cards and historical facts in the
captions that accompany each pic
tured postcard.
Books can be picked up from
club members or mailed for $3O
plus $7 for postage and handling.
Make check payable to LCPC
Book Fund and send to 136 River
Bend Park, Lancaster, PA 17602.
For more information about the
book or club, call (717) 721-9273
or (717) 290-7948.
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